Born on a remote planet, Yoda originally did not know that he was Force-sensitive at all. He left his homeplanet with a Human friend, who also did not know he was Force-sensitive, on an old, barely space-worthy ship enroute to the Core Worlds to seek employment. However, long before they could reach their destination, the ship was struck by an asteroid causing it to become severely disabled beyond their abilities to repair. They spent several days drifting dead in space during which time both their life support systems and rations came close to being exhausted, and there was still no response to their distress signal. It seemed like they would soon meet their deaths until their sensors picked up a star system not too far away. They had just enough power to make it there, and did so before crash landing on a swampy planet covered with a dense fog, Dagobah.

They spent a few days there before being found by a strange being: Hysalrian Jedi Master N'Kata Del Gormo, who revealed to them both that they were Force-sensitive. Master Gormo took them to his home where he trained them in the ways of the Force. Yoda and his friend spent the next twelve years on Dagobah and, not long after their training was complete, a Galactic Republic starship picked up their distress signal and rescued the two friends, who were now Jedi themselves. It is possible that this "rescue" was in fact planned by Master Gormo, as the timing would seem to fit a bit too nicely, but this has never been confirmed.

HEAD - ROTS Yoda (Jedi vs. Sith) 2005 BODY - SAGA JEMPA (Jedi Padawans) 2003