Prior to the Clone Wars, the Jedi Order consisted of about 10,000 Jedi.
When Order 66 was issued, that number was severely reduced, with only a handful of Jedi
surviving.
So what did they do afterwards?
In Canon, we only know of 5 Jedi that survived, with them being Ahsoka, Kanan, Luminara Unduli,
Obi wan, and Yoda.
We know Obi-wan and Yoda self exiled themselves, with Obi Wan being tasked with protecting
Luke Skywalker on Tatooine, while Yoda stayed hidden on Dagobah, where he occasionally advised
surviving and forthcoming Jedi through the force.
They both learned how to retain their identities after death through the help of Qui gon Jinn,
who taught them, through the force, how to become force ghosts.
Luminara Unduli was instead captured rather than killed when order 66 was enacted.
She was taken to a prison on Stygeon Prime, where she was tortured and tested on by the
Grand Inquisitor, until she was later killed by him.
Her body and the rumors of her still being lived were used to lure other surviving Jedi
to a trap, to which they were killed when caught.
Kanan was actually named Caleb Dume when he was a Jedi Padawan.
He survived after his master sacrificed herself, leaving him alone.
The following years, he changed his name to Kanan Jarrus as a way to avoid authorities,
and he let go of his Jedi past, keeping his Lightsaber broken apart and hidden.
He took on many jobs, such as a cargo transporter, but usually quit after a few months as a way
to keep on the move.
He eventually met Hera and joined her fight against the empire.
They later created the Ghost crew and became well-known rebels in the Outer rim.
Kanan later began to teach Ezra Bridger to become a Jedi, and he himself later became
a Jedi Knight.
He also was blinded after his fight against Darth Maul.
Ahsoka Tano was a Jedi padawan who left the Jedi order.
Despite this, she later returned to help the Republic during its invasion of Mandalore,
to which she confronted Maul.
When Order 66 was issued, she escaped with the help of Captain Rex.
They later faked their deaths, with Ahsoka burying her original lightsabers.
She was later hunted by an Inquisitor, known as the Sixth Brother.
She killed him, took his red lightsaber crystals, purified the crystals with the light side,
and they became white as a result.
She eventually met with Bail Organa and joined the Rebel Alliance, taking the codename Fulcrum,
to which she was tasked in recruiting and connecting active rebel cells.
Later, she fought Darth Vader and found out that he used to be her old master, Anakin
Skywalker.
After their duel, we don’t exactly know what her fate was, but we assume she was injured
and fled into the Sith Temple.
We can also technically include Anakin Skywalker and The Grand Inquisitor, who used to be a
Jedi Temple Guard.
They both turned to the dark side and joined the empire, and later hunted down remaining
Jedi.
In Legends, there were about 200 Jedi that survived order 66, that’s 2% of the Jedi
Order.
Because there were so many of them, we won’t be going over all of their stories and what
they did individually.
Instead, we will go over the general actions of these surviving Jedi.
One group of Jedi got together shortly after order 66 and tried to lure Darth Vader into
a trap, by announcing that Obi-Wan was with them.
This plan worked, and the 8 Jedi ambushed Vader as he came into contact with them.
Unfortunately for them, Vader was able to kill them all with the help of the 501st legion.
After this victory, the Empire began to spread propaganda that Vader had hunted down and
killed 50 Jedi all at once by himself.
Although this was far from the truth of what actually happened, it did spark fear across
the galaxy and showed them how powerful Vader really was.
This propaganda was probably one of the main reasons all the other remaining Jedi didn’t
come together and try to overthrow the empire directly.
That, and also because they were scattered across an entire galaxy, and they had no real
way of contacting each other without tapping into the force, which would have led them
to other Jedi, but in return, would have revealed them to the Sith too.
Making them easy targets to hunt down.
Other surviving Jedi were instead captured rather than killed.
Some of those imprisoned were tortured to death and even experimented on.
Others were even brought before Palpatine and were forced to kill each other for his
own entertainment.
A few were even thrown into arenas where they fought off hordes of warriors and creatures
in front of cheering crowds.
Surprisingly, many Jedi actually joined the new Empire and turned to the dark side, serving
their sith masters as dark side adepts.
They filled the roles of Inquisitors, Emperor's hands, shadow guards, and many other positions.
They mainly were tasked in tracking down Jedi, and either converting them to the dark side
or killing them if they refused to join the empire.
Other surviving Jedi let go of their past and abandoned their Jedi teachings completely.
They tried to avoid galactic affairs and to just live out their lives as normal people.
They of course still had to keep an eye behind their backs, afraid of being caught and killed
by the empire.
Those that kept to the teachings of the Jedi but were too afraid to fight the empire, went
into exile.
Many younglings and padawans who survived the initial attack were taken and protected
by older Jedi and people who supported them.
More powerful Jedi, like Shaak Ti and Yoda, exiled themselves onto remote planets.
When rebellions started to appear across the galaxy against the Empire, some Jedi came
out of hiding and began to fight along with them.
Later, after the Rebel Alliance was formed, many of these same Jedi joined the new galactic
rebellion and helped lead them into some of the early battles.
Now most of these surviving Jedi were actually hunted down and killed by Darth Vader himself.
And no Jedi was safe from his wrath, not even the young padawans.
Once, Vader even destroyed an entire shuttle filled with padawans, killing them all, just
to mock and taunt a Jedi knight who was protecting them.
Afterwards, Vader left the Jedi knight alone, who later killed himself, not being able to
take the weight of failing to protect his students.
After 19 years of the Jedi purge, only about 60 to 70 Jedi were still alive, many of whom
had given up the Jedi ways or had fallen to the dark side.
The few that still remained as Jedi, would later join Luke Skywalker’s new Jedi Order,
where they were tasked in training the future Jedi younglings and padawans.