From the Grand Master's Chamber
Yoda was feeling his age more than ever. War consumed the galaxy, the Sith had returned after a thousand years of hiding, clearly proving the Jedis neglience and arrogance in believing that they had been eradicated, the Mandalorians have returned and are recovering their warrior culture and more proof of shortsightedness and failures of the Jedi Order is revealed constantly.
The Mandalorian Supercommandos. Innocent of the claims leveled at them and slain by the Jedi, playing directly into the hands of the Death Watch. The Jedi could only hope that Jango was honest with his declared intentions and would not hold a grudge.
The Huk-Kalee War. Where two Jedi were tricked into aiding a slaving empire in the extermination of the Kaleesh.
Count Dookus descent to the Dark Side. The most painfull loss amongst the Lost Twenty, although after the loss of both Komari Vosa and Qui-Gon Jinn it should have been obvious that the threat of him falling to the Dark Side existed.
The Return of the Sith. The most catastrophic of all those crisises...
The worst part being that all those situations were only the most recent and pressing as many minor issues were being uncovered. For all the good the Jedi do, their failures in recent times weigh all the more and the fact that the Force is clouded, rendering the future utterly uncerntain, simply puts the entire Order even more ill at ease.
Then there is the issue of Lady Ciaran. A true mystery. A young woman who has risen from nowhere to become one of the galaxies most influential socialite and businesswoman with a perchant to get herself involved in the matters of the Jedi constantly for good and ill. Her actions have revealed various failures of the Order, but also aided them in the aftermath... and prevented them from running into the trap of believing that they were in any way qualified to lead armies just yet.
It is obvious that she is hiding things as her influence is enormous, her connections extend to the criminal underworld and her knowledge of the Force is greater than she admits, but with the war raging on and the threat of the Sith the Council has no chance to investigate further, forcing them to accept her as an uneasy ally for the time being.
Truly, these are dark times.