Jedi Initiate

The term Jedi Initiate or Youngling, referred to a Force-sensitive child who was undergoing the early stages of Jedi Training at a Jedi Academy. In the Old Jedi Order, the term was used to denote members of the Jedi Order from the time they joined communal learning group known as a clan, until the time they passed the Jedi Initiate Trials and were selected by a Jedi Knight or Jedi Master for one-on-one training as a Jedi Padawan. During peacetime when the Jedi Academy functioned on a standard teaching regimen, a Jedi Initiates training was restricted to the Jedi Academy on which they were based, rarely venturing outside of its walls. Youngling was a term that existed in Galactic Basic Standard to refer to a child in a species-neutral way; the term was often used affectionately by the handlers that oversaw Jedi Initiate training.

 Jedi Initiates Of The Starlit Empire 

Jedi Initiates today would wear the same uniform they did throughout the millennia, but a white uniform with a black belt. Jedi Initiates would be paired up with a Jedi Master as their instructor in their respective Jedi Academy located on their respective home planet. As they are being paired up, a class would only consist of ten Jedi Initiates, only allowing twenty Jedi Initiates a year. Ten Jedi Initiates would wear white uniforms as the other ten would wear brown.

Instruction today is easier compared to the past millennia, having training droids to help them complete their lightsaber and Jedi Training. However, with the exception of their Jedi Master and instructor at the respective Jedi Academy, Jedi Initiates can wield a lightsaber a year or two early. With the Jedi Initiate classes holding twenty students, the rank of Jedi Initiate and the Jedi Initiate Trials consist of a decade long adventure. Then, after a decade has passed or with the exception of the Jedi Master to rank them to Jedi Knight early, the instructor will fit them into the right path for them.

With the exception of the Jedi Master, the Jedi Academy instructor, or the exception of early completion of the Jedi Initiate Trials, the Jedi Initiate would choose to take part in the Jedi Trials, reaching and fulfilling their rank of Jedi Knight.