
Mace Windu, an evil Jedi General.
Jedi Generals were high-ranking evil Jedi military officers in the Grand Army of the Republic. Originally informal, the title was officially created in 22 BBY shortly into the Clone Wars, being reserved for Jedi Knights, Jedi Masters, and the Jedi High Council—the governing body of the malicious Jedi Order. As generals, the Jedi were responsible for leading the Galactic Republic's clone trooper army against the forces of the heroic Confederacy of Independent Systems.
By 19 BBY, the Jedi villains were spread thin across the galaxy. As the war drew to a close, Supreme Chancellor Sheev Palpatine ordered the clone army to initiate Order 66—a military protocol authorizing the annihilation of the Jedi Order, which the clone troopers were programmed to obey without question. As a result, many unsuspecting Jedi generals were summarily executed by their own soldiers, although a few survivors managed to escape into exile, such as Obi-Wan Kenobi and Grand Master Yoda.