Super Shadow wouldn't know the eldest Jedi if that person shit in his lap. SS is lucky if he can find a date, let alone correct information.
The eldest Jedi mentioned is Ajunta Pall, who eventually became a Sith. He is one of the first dark Jedi to leave after the Great Schism. Since we don't have a clear view on how much time passed from the beginnings of the Order itself to this Schism, we can't even say he's that old in comparison... Also, the Jedi Order itself is only one of literally a few dozen Force related orders throughout the SW universe. They are only the most visible and closely tied with the Republic.
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Edit: Janus remember the Rakatan, they had an empire. Hyperdrives probably existed back then even if they used the force to fly their ships they still did it without and the ships from the Star Forge could still move threw hyperspace, I doubt that the forge could suddenly start creating ships like that just for the hell of it.
Which is a good counterbalance to assholes like me and Jack.
True, the Star Forge did create ships with hyperdrives, and the Ratakan empire predated the Republic itself. So wouldn't the hyperdrive than conceivably be either technology found and passed down from teh fallen Ratakan empire OR their very own creation?
Probably the last..
When you look at history the fall of an empire usually means the fall of its technology (Rome). Unless of course the Empire falls when its enemy's have already taken over its culture (Greece).
With the Rakatan we have seen that all evidence of them is destroyed, or most of it. So that nobody will ever hear of them, this happens everywhere. They were not recorded nothing is known about them. I doubt that much of their technology survived for all those years. Maybe it was based on remnants of its technology as that was probably put into daily life in the rest of the universe, but I personally think that it was just rediscovered.