From the most powerful influential Jedi to the most wanted in the galaxy…

Jedi Master Yoda is amongst the oldest, most stoic and most powerful known Jedi Masters in the Star Wars universe. Series creator George Lucas opted to have many details of the character’s life history remain unknown. Yoda’s race and home world have not been named in any official media, canonical or otherwise, and he is merely said to be of a «species unknown» by the Star Wars Databank. Yoda’s characteristic speech patterns have been analyzed and discussed by academic syntacticians, who found it somewhat inconsistent, but could extrapolate that it has object–subject–verb word order^[14] making it an anastrophe.

The films and Expanded Universe reveal that he had a hand in training almost every Jedi Master in the galaxy, including Count Dooku, who is identified in Attack of the Clones as Yoda’s old Padawan learner; Mace Windu; Obi-Wan Kenobi (partially, before Qui-Gon Jinn takes over as Obi-Wan’s master);^{[citation needed]} Ki-Adi-Mundi, Kit Fisto and eventually Luke Skywalker. During the animated series Star Wars: Clone Wars, set between Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith, he mentions that he trained another one of the leaders on the Jedi Council, Master Oppo Rancisis. In the Star Wars prequel films, he instructs several younglings in the Jedi Temple before they are assigned to a master. This was displayed in a scene in Attack of the Clones. In The Empire Strikes Back he mentioned that he had been training Jedi «for 800 years», which means he must have been a Master Jedi for quite some time before that.