Ben was born from Luke and Mara Jade Skywalker, two of the New Jedi Order's founding and most respected members, and also two the greatest heroes known throughout the Galaxy. For the first few years of his life he was separated from his parents and forced to live aboard the traveling Jedi Praxeum that was housed inside the bright red Star Destroyer "Errant Venture". During the Vong wars when the Jedi were still being hunted the young students were forced into hiding aboard the ship. While Luke and Mara were out fighting in the raging war they were forced to leave their only child behind where he would be safe.

Ben was raised for the first few years of his life by Jedi teachers, like Tionne Sulosar, or Master Streen. After the war ended Ben’s father rebuilt the Jedi Temple in the quickly evolving ruins of Coruscant. Ben witnessed as the planet was repopulated and massive cities were once again built throughout the now jungle covered planet. Ben and his parents then took up residences within the temple.

Growing up Ben didn't know many people who were Non-Force sensitive and sometimes finds it hard to comprehend the idea that some people cannot access the Force as he can. He has spent his whole life surrounded by Jedi and has been training to become a Jedi himself for over twenty years.

Another young man, T'blar Qortes, joined the Jedi Temple when Ben was five and the two made quick friends. It was eight years later that the two became apprentices under Jedi Council members.

That was when Ben and T'blar met Yaini Voluris and Romis Fa'ele. The four soon became inseparable, and for the next four years they were best of friends. Yaini and Ben became extremely close and the begins of romance flickered between them. T'blar became jealous of his best friend Ben and was soon striving to best him in everyway, in order to impress Yaini.

It was this showboating that eventually led the four apprentices into a confrontation with a Sith Adept on Ithor, where Romis lost his life. T'blar's jealousy eventually lead to his fall to the darkside and his own death as well.

Ben had tried to save his friend from the darkside, and disobeyed direct orders from his father to do so. Ben was ultimately forced to kill T’Blar, who could not be turned from the darkside. It was shortly after this encounter that Darth Ebb and his apprentice Darth Raze were thought to be killed in a large battle that Ben himself witnessed.

Two years later Darth Ebb and his followers resurfaced, and a large scale galactic war broke out between the Republic and the Sith. Ben Skywalker was present during the now famous debacle at Seventh Hell, a mission that saw the deaths of many Republic soldier and Jedi, an utter defeat. The pain and loss that Ben suffered through the next few months of the war greatly shaped who he would become. Rather then enlisting into the Republic Military as the Jedi were ordered to, Ben decided, against the will of the Jed Council, to fight the war in his own way. With a small group of Jedi, including Yaini Voluris, Ben traveled the Galaxy assisting planets who were suffering from the affects of the war, and fighting the Sith in accordance to the Jedi Codes rather than Republic laws.

Because Ben and the rest of his Jedi group did not enlist, they were not sanctioned by any army and were classified as civilians. The Republic, who was nervous about not being able to control the group of Jedi in the first place, labeled them criminals for interfering in the Republic’s war effort.

Ben’s small group of Jedi suddenly became a group of rebel outlaws.