Yoda

"Size matters not. Look at me; judge me by my size, do you? And well you should not."

- Yoda

Yoda was a male Jedi Master of an unknown species who served as Grand Master of the Jedi Order on Coruscant.

Early life
"Now you're telling me Skywalker wants to bring back the Jedi? Listen, we dug up old reports&mdash;real, verified stuff&mdash;and those monks couldn't be trusted as far as a Jawa can spit. Hell, their Grand Master was banging some crusty librarian on the side, and preaching his celibate doctrine to all the little Padawans. Hypocrites, every one of them."

- Axel Josen, Infostarwars: Episode #79-D/43 Luke Skywalker: Changeling Conspirator?

Born some nine hundred years before the Battle of Endor as a male member of an unknown species, Yoda joined the Jedi Order, training under a Jedi Master who taught him wisdom. He never revealed his homeworld, but his travels took him to worlds as varied as Hysalria, Grentarik, and Ruusan.

Yoda began training Jedi of his own when he was around one hundred years of age, and would spend eight hundred years training new generations of Jedi Knights. He served as a wise and patient mentor to almost every Jedi initiate who passed through the Jedi Temple on Coruscant.

Although he preached the non-attachment tenets central to the Jedi Code, Yoda took lovers during his long lifespan, including the Jedi Master Yaddle, a member of his own species. Many other female Jedi in the Temple on Coruscant also learned what Yoda meant by the adage "size matters not" through intimate experience. He came to know both love and loss, and accumulated the passions of the dark side of the Force, which festered as a dark shadow inside his luminous being. Some suggested that Yoda encountered Maz Kanata, a similarly-diminutive, long-lived being, and that the Grand Master took her as his consort before the dark times. Other reports, suggested by ribald publications like the Galactic Enquirer, linked Yoda with Jocasta Nu in a scandalous sex affair in the Jedi Temple. He rarely spoke about his love life.

He took Dooku as his Padawan, and trained Obi-Wan Kenobi with lightsaber instruction. As Grand Master of the Order, Yoda was the ranking Master, with Mace Windu as his second, and served on the Jedi High Council.

The Naboo crisis
Yoda encountered the Queen of Naboo Padmé Amidala when she petitioned the High Council for aid during the Trade Federation occupation of her homeworld. The Jedi Master was intrigued by the strong-willed monarch, especially when she offered the Council a glimpse of her nubile body beneath her royal robes as incentive for their assistance, performing a striptease.

Yoda counseled against the training of Anakin Skywalker during the Naboo crisis, having misgivings towards the boy's dark future, but eventually relented. When the Naboo crisis was resolved, Yoda journeyed to Naboo with his fellow Councilors to join celebrations of liberation. In the wake of the Battle of Naboo, he participated in a bukkake with Queen Amidala in the Theed Royal Palace. Yoda and his fellow Jedi showered the Queen's headdress and makeup in their salty jizz.

Separatist Crisis
Yoda's former Padawan, Dooku, instigated a Separatist Crisis in the Galactic Republic, which threatened the peace and the role of Yoda's Jedi as guardians of justice. Yoda was forced to acknowledge the ascent of the dark side,

Skywalker later became romantically involved with Amidala, for whom Yoda held warm feelings. Yoda led the newly-formed Grand Army of the Republic into battle against the Confederacy of Independent Systems on Geonosis, and confronted his old Padawan, Dooku, though the Sith Lord escaped.

The Clone Wars
"Spend his nights in your quarters, Selon does, hmm? In your bed he sleeps, does he not? If sleep you can call it."

- Yoda, to Aayla Secura

Having joined the Clone Wars, Yoda fought on battlefronts from Rugosa to Coruscant itself. He remarked upon the close relationship between Aayla Secura and her Padawan Selon, suggesting that the pair did more than sleep in Secura's bed. Conversely, Yoda assigned Ahsoka Tano to Anakin as his Padawan, hoping to teach Skywalker the folly of his attachments.

Qui-Gon Jinn's spirit communed with Yoda, helping him secure the power of immortality and guiding him to the Wellspring of Life on a venture into the Deep Core. Yoda visited the Force Priestesses, though he received no Force visions of lust and passion as other visitors like Jinn and Luke Skywalker reported.

Downfall of the Jedi
Anakin fell to the dark side of the Force under the influence of the Sith Lord Darth Sidious. Yoda coordinated with Tarfful and fought in the Battle of Kashyyyk at Kachirho alongside Luminara Unduli and Wookiee warriors. He was present on Kashyyyk when Order 66 was executed. He beheaded Commander Gree, having felt a great disturbance in the Force as many Jedi were killed and defiled across the galaxy. Tarfful and Chewbacca helped him evade clone troopers as the Clone Wars came to an end. Escaping Order 66, Yoda battled Sidious in the Chancellor's working office in the Senate Building, their duel spilling out into the Galactic Senate Chamber above. The great duel damaged numerous Senate pods, but Yoda was unable to defeat Sidious and was forced into exile on the swamp planet of Dagobah, going into hiding in order to survive the Jedi Purge.

Years in exile
Yoda resided in exile on Dagobah to await the coming-of-age of Anakin's daughter Leia Organa, whom Yoda believed was a potential chosen one to destroy the Sith where he had been unable. He communed with Qui-Gon's spirit, who helped him to secure victory over the Sith. Yoda spoke through the Force to some of the Jedi who escaped Order 66, and even took them on as long-distance apprentices. He advised Ezra Bridger, Kanan Jarrus, and Ahsoka to undertake a mission to Malachor where a conflagration broke out between Jedi and Sith, and led to a confrontation between Ahsoka and Darth Vader.

The Jedi exile was excited by the prospect of mentoring the fiery young woman, but Yoda ultimately trained Leia's twin brother Luke Skywalker instead. Yoda spoke of the world in the Deep Core said to be the birthplace of the midi-chlorians, and attempted to teach Luke to sacrifice his friends in order to honor what they fought for, shunning adventure and excitement to become a true Jedi. However, Skywalker left his teachings incomplete to attempt to rescue his friends on Bespin, where he learned the truth about his parentage. After the shocking revelation, Luke returned to Dagobah to find Yoda dying of old age. Yoda informed the young Jedi to pass on his teachings before his death, merging into the netherworld of the Force.

Postmortem and legacy
Having transitioned into the light of the Force, Yoda manifested as a spirit to watch over Luke and Leia as they celebrated the defeat of Darth Vader and Sidious. Luke saw Yoda on Endor, standing next to Obi-Wan and the spirit of his father Anakin.

Axel Josen later reported on the rumored scandalous sex affair between Yoda and Jocasta Nu in Infostarwars: Episode #79-D/43 Luke Skywalker: Changeling Conspirator?, claiming that his report was verified and calling Yoda and his Jedi hypocrites for preaching celibacy while conducting affairs.

Following the fall of Ben Solo and the destruction of Luke Skywalker's Jedi temple, Skywalker believed he finally understood Yoda's teachings back on Dagobah concerning the sacrifice of his friends to honor what they fought for. While in exile on Ahch-To, Luke interpreted that wisdom to mean turning his back on the galaxy in order to save it. Yoda's spirit appeared to Luke, in order to help the exile overcome a spiritual crisis. Luke finally heeded Yoda's wisdom to project himself to Crait to confront Kylo Ren.

Yoda again manifested during the Battle of Exegol, inspiring Rey to battle the resurrected Sidious.

Physical appearance and biology
Yoda was a diminutive male of an unknown species. He had green skin and large eyes, and possessed highly-sensitive ears. His clawed hands and feet were three-fingered.

He wore a simple robe of humility and carried a gimer stick.

Personality and traits
"Master Yoda would preach the virtues of meditation or reciting the tenets of the Seven Venerable Masters in the Room of a Thousand Fountains."

- Obi-Wan Kenobi

A patient and wise mentor, Yoda was a being of infinite insight and wisdom. Although he preached the non-attachment tenets central to the Jedi Code, Yoda took lovers in his long life, and many females learned what he meant by the adage "size matters not" through intimate experience. He was excited by the prospect of mentoring fiery young women, but rarely spoke about his love life. He knew love and loss, and his passions accumulated to create a dark shadow within his luminous being.

The Jedi Master preferred negotiation and meditation to battle, and rarely drew his shoto-style lightsaber. However, Yoda was a skilled duelist whose speed and agility meant that few could best him in single combat, save for a Dark Lord of the Sith.