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Jedi train younglings starting at around 6 or 7 years old, and Anakin was denied training because he was too old when Qui-Gon brought him before the council when he was 9 years old.

In swtor, the Knight and Consular classes are both prodigy force users who excelled in their tests and would have had zero reason at all to be held back in classes or older than their peers. The start of the game for each of them is taking their trials to become a formal padawan with a teacher assigned to them, which usually happens at around the age of 11 to 14. The literal youngest knight in the history of the order was 14, but that's Knight, not padawan. 11-14 is typical for padawans.

Thus, we can deduce that the Knight and Consular player characters are just about 14 or 16 or so during the main storyline of swtor. This is all using standard star wars canon for how the jedi order operates, and it doesn't actually matter that David Hayter (the voice actor for the knight (who is also Solid Snake)) sounds old, the character he is portraying is canonically about 14-16 years old.

>but it's a time of war, and they're desperate for recruits, and so they would have relaxed the age requirements out of practical necessity
Sure, that is the headcanon that we must use to explain how our characters sound old. But even with that being said, you're still a prodigy youngling who is just now preparing for their padawan trials, meaning you're still super young even if they did change the rules a little bit. So you're, what, like 17 or 18 instead of 14?

Fun bonus fact: One of the romances is a 35 year old Sith lord, whom you meet in the later story content that takes place about 5 years after the base game storyline, meaning she could be up to 15 years older than you.