Star Wars: The New Jedi Order (or
New Jedi Order or
NJO) is a series of nineteen
science fiction novels, published from 1999 to 2003, set in the
Star Wars expanded universe. The series revolves around the
Yuuzhan Vong invasion of
the galaxy 21–26 years after the events depicted in
Return of the Jedi. The New Jedi Order was the restored and reformed
Jedi organization, in the wake of the Great Jedi Purge and subsequent fall of the
Galactic Empire. The Jedi Knights, reduced in number to only a handful, were slowly restored, primarily under the leadership of
Luke Skywalker. Additional stories, generally published as e-book novellas (some published as recently as 2006) and comic books (as recent as 2010/2011), take the total number of published NJO-related stories to twenty-six.