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This article is about the Jedi Temple on Coruscant. You may be looking for the
Jedi Temple on Tython, the early Jedi Tower on Taris, the Jedi Temple replica on
Raxus Prime, or the New Jedi Temple and the Jedi Academy on Ossus, which
were conceived as replacements for the destroyed Temple under the Galactic
Empire, or the various secondary Jedi Temples that were established on various
planets during various conflicts, including Alaris Prime.

Jedi Temple
General information
Constructed
4000 BBY[1]
Rebuilt pre-1000 BBY
Rebuilt as New Jedi Temple circa 35 ABY[2]
Destroyed
3653 BBY[3]
19 BBY[4]
27 ABY(Destroyed in Battle of Coruscant in Yuuzhan Vong War)
Location
Coruscant[5]
Builder(s)
Four Masters[1]
Physical specifications
Height
Over 1 kilometer high[6]
Width
500 meters[7]
Chronological and political information
Era(s)
Old Republic era[1]
Rise of the Empire era[5]
Rebellion era[8]
New Republic era[8]
New Jedi Order era (New Jedi Temple)
Legacy era (New Jedi Temple controlled by the One Sith)
Affiliation
Jedi Order[5]
Galactic Republic[5]
New Republic[8]
New Jedi Order[8]
[Source]
"This was our tower of guard: our fortress watch upon the dark. This was the
Jedi Temple."
Vergere to Jacen Solo[src]
The Jedi Temple (also known as the Palace of the Jedi) was the headquarters of
the Jedi Order from the conclusion of the Great Sith War to the Great Jedi Purge
and during that time was home to its major training, bureaucratic and
dormitory facilities. Jointly operated by the Order and the Galactic Republic, the
Temple was sealed to all but the Jedi and their allies, with very few public areas.
The complex would be abandoned and largely destroyed at the time of the
Declaration of a New Order when the Order was utterly routed by the Galactic
Empire. Upon the rise of the Galactic Alliance, the Temple was rebuilt for the
reformed Order under the leadership of Luke Skywalker.

Contents[show]
HistoryEdit
The Old RepublicEdit
ProcessionalWay-Deceived
The eastern entrance into the Temple as it was in 3653 BBY.
"Our time has come. For over 300 years, we prepared. We grew stronger. While
you rested in your cradle of power, believing your people were safeprotected.
You were trusted to lead the Republic but you were deceived, as our powers
over the dark side had blinded you. You assumed no force could challenge you
and nowfinallywe have returned."
Darth Malgus during the invasion of the Jedi Temple Gnome-
speakernotesListen (file info)[src]
The Coruscant Temple's origins date back to 5000 BBY when, at the beginning
of the Great Hyperspace War, the Galactic Republic granted the Jedi land on
Coruscant over the sacred spire, which contained a Force nexus. A holy place
for the local Coruscanti, the Republic hoped by granting the Order land they
would build a massive fortress like those they had established on Ossus, Falang
Minor, and Haashimut. However, the Order did not wish to entangle themselves
with the politics of the capitol or become a symbol of war and opted to build
only a small meditative enclave. It wasn't until the Old Sith Wars saw the
devastation of Ossus and the Great Jedi Library located there that the Order
decided to re-establish its academy at the sacred spire. At the behest of the
Order's wisest thinkers, the Four Masters began the painstaking task of building
the Temple Ziggurat. Growing steadily for the next thousand years the Temple
incorporated various pieces of historical works and architecture from their past,
including tiles and stained-glass mosaics from the lost complex on Ossus.[1]

Following the construction of the four Jedi Council spires, the Jedi High Council
moved from their temporary meeting place and permanently relocated to the
High Council Chamber at the top of the northwestern tower. As the Order
became more and more tightly-linked to the Republic they protected, the Order
closed some of its satellite facilities and began moving all artifacts from Exis
Station to the Temple's Archives.[1] After the failed Jedi Conclave at Katarr, the
Temple was abandoned as the remaining Jedi Knights went into hiding as Darth
Nihilus and Darth Sion began the First Jedi Purge. Abandoned for only a brief
period, the Jedi reorganized and returned to the Temple following the defeat of
both the Sith Lords.[9]
For the next 300 years the Temple would stand as a beacon of the Jedi's light in
the galaxy, aiding the ailing Republic during the trying Great Galactic War. It
was at the climax of this conflict that a dormant Sith Empire returned to the
known galaxy and struck at the Temple during the Sacking of Coruscant in
3653 BBY. Marching up to the gates of the Temple, a raiding party of Sith led by
Darth Malgus entered the Temple and slaughtered the complex's main line of
defense in order to shut off Galactic City's security network. Once dismantled,
Malgus' assault team planted bombs within the Temple and detonated them
when the Sith fleet opened fire from the skies. The exterior of the Temple
crumbled, the four stately towers falling upon the tiled roof, an empty ruin of
its former self. However, much of the interior remained intact, symbolic of the
Order's state of affairs following the attack.[3]
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Jedi and Sith vie for control in the costly Great Galactic War as the Jedi Temple
is razed during the Sacking of Coruscant.
After the signing of the Treaty of Coruscant the Galactic Senate voted to hold
off on rebuilding the Temple indefinitely due to the lack of funds. Interim
Supreme Chancellor Paran Am-Ris informed Grand Master Zym of the vote and
was promised that the Temple would eventually be rebuilt and the Sith routed.
Soon after, Grand Master Zym was anonymously summoned to the Temple
ruins in order to receive an important message. Discovering Commander Gin
Lesl amongst the rubble, Zym assumed that she was prepared to tell him
something. However she was just as confused as the Kel Dor Jedi. It was at that
point the bounty hunter Braden revealed that he had information regarding the
Sith assault on the Envoy and the subsequent death of Master Dar'Nala.
Commander Lesl was confused as to why she had been summoned before
Braden shot her for having him arrested on Dantooine. Drawing his lightsaber
Zym demanded that Braden allow him to arrest him; Braden refused and
attacked, killing the Jedi Grand Master and leaving both bodies amongst the
ruins.[10]

Following the defeat of the Sith Empire the Order was able to rebuild the
Temple. Expanding over the next three millennia, with major additions
beginning circa 3500 BBY, seeing the completion of the Jedi Archives circa 2519
BBY, another addition in 2000 BBY, and the rebuilding of the Temple Spires in
1019 BBY.[1] It was only after the defeat of the Brotherhood of Darkness during
the New Sith Wars and the end of the Republic Dark Age that the Temple would
see its reconstruction completed with the refocusing of the Order at the Ruusan
Reformation. Consolidating most of their efforts on Coruscant, the Order closed
most of their satellite facilities and dismantled the Army of Light and began
getting away from the militaristic teachings left over from the war with the Sith.
With the Sith believed to be extinct, the Order and the Republic entered into a
time of peace and prosperity known as the Golden Age. Unbeknownst to the
Jedi, the Temple had been infiltrated by one of the last Sith following the
Reformation. Darth Zannah, apprentice to Darth Bane, scoured the Archives in
the guise of Padawan Nalia Adollu in order to find a cure for the orbalisks that
were killing her master. Discovering the Sith too late, a task force was sent to
defeat the Sith on Tython. The mission failed but was erroneously deemed a
success and the Sith managed to avoid Jedi detection for the next thousand
years.[11]
The Fall of the JediEdit
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The Temple as it stood for nearly a millennium.
"Enter our Temple unbidden, you have. Leaving it will not be easy, you will
find."
Grand Master Yoda to an invasionary party of Yinchorri warriors[src]
Following nearly a thousand years of peace, the Order was threatened by a
new darkness. The future became even more clouded than was usual, the High
Council could not predict events or sense disturbances as it once could. It was
during this time of uneasiness in the ranks of the Order that the Temple
became prone to attack.[12]

The Temple first came under siege in 44 BBY when a series of robberies
plagued the Temple. The High Council ordered Masters Qui-Gon Jinn and Tahl to
uncover the thief and present him before the Council for judgment. Ranging
from shredded tunics to missing training lightsabers, the threat became more
serious when the Healing Crystals of Fire went missing. Even more extreme,
while he wandered through the Room of a Thousand Fountains, an attempt was
made on Grand Master Yoda's life. While Yoda came away unscathed, the entire
Temple was stricken with fear as its walls were no longer a buffer against
attack.[13] When it was discovered that apprentice Bruck Chun was working in
league with the mysterious intruder, the Dark Jedi Xanatos, Masters Jinn and
Tahl began pondering on what Xanatos' true intentions were. Gathering
information from Master Yoda the two investigating Jedi deduced the Dark Jedi
was after the vertex stored in the Temple Treasury. Planning on setting a trap
while Tech Specialist Miro Daroon began cycling the sabotage Temple power
grid, Jinn and his Padawan managed to lure Xanatos and Chun to the top of the
High Council Tower. While Jinn was able to protect the Temple and recover the
Healing Crystals, Xanatos escaped to plague the Order for a time, while Chun
was defeated by Obi-Wan Kenobi and accidentally killed, having fallen off a
waterfall in the Room of a Thousand Fountains.[14] The Temple was also
referred to as the Palace of the Jedi.[15]
Eleven years later as the Force grew more and more murky The High Council
dispatched six of its members along with several other members of the Order
to put an end to the Yinchorri Uprising. Taking advantage of the absence of
High Council members, the mysterious Dark Lord of the Sith Darth Sidious
orchestrated an assault on the Temple. Hiring a terror group of Yinchorri they
silently landed on the Temple Ziggurat and entered through the Atrium off the
High Council Tower. Inside the invaders found the accommodation sector
abandoned and were eventually met with a group of Jedi led by Grand Master
Yoda. When the Yinchorri attacked, the Jedi were able to defeat them all,
suffering only the deaths of Jude Rozess and Tieren Nie-Tan.[16]
Jedi Temple dusk
The Temple Spires at sunset.
When the High Council became aware of a Sith resurgence following the
Invasion of Naboo and the appearance and subsequent death of Darth Maul,
they began to prepare themselves for an inevitable confrontation. Adding new
hangar facilities to the Council Towers during the Separatist Crisis to house the
Order's new Delta-7 Aethersprite-class light interceptor, the Council caught the
flak of the People's Inquest group. Demanding that the Council release its
financial reports, they would gain further fuel during the "Baby Ludi" custody
case when an Ord Thoden woman accused the Order of kidnapping her
daughter, Ludi Billane. Camping outside the Temple's main entrance, the
Inquest movement saw escalation when a group of University of Coruscant
students breached the Second Atrium of the public entrance during the early
morning. As two Padawans attempted to calm the riotous students who were
throwing graffiti bombs across the Atrium, Masters Koon and Mundi quickly
disposed of the marchers with a Jedi mind trick. The students were then cuffed
and handed over to Judicial officers and hauled away.[17] When the High
Council decided to transport the child in question to the Kamparas Training
Facility the protesters who had camped outside the complex for months began
a rally led by Firris Palbert. Attempting to provoke the Jedi the group yelled into
loudhailers but were only met by Judicial Cerisa Vosengoor who dismissed the
claims of Jedi tyranny.[18]

When the Clone Wars erupted across the galaxy the Temple became a major
military planning center as the Jedi took up the mantle of General within the
Grand Army of the Republic. With Jedi Command now reviewing and appraising
all battle plans and major military campaigns, the High council was in near
constant communications with the Office of the Supreme Chancellor. Chancellor
Palpatine and several Senators would make several visits to the Temple during
the war; an event that was, at most, uncommon pre-war time. The Temple
began to show signs of wear as time once devoted to polishing marble floors
and cleaning the bronzium gutters of the exterior was diverted to more urgent
tasks such as maintaining the Order's spacecraft.[19]
Darth Sidious would continue to cause problems for the Temple during the war.
Ten months into the war Count Dooku, Head of State of the Confederacy of
Independent Systems, led his Droid Army and the Dark Acolyte Trenox into the
Temple on a mission to destroy the invaluable Temple Archives. Jedi Knight
Anakin Skywalker was at the Temple when the Sith led army entered the
Archives and was able to kill Acolyte Trenox and defeat the C-B3 cortosis battle
droids that sought to destroy the Stacks. While Skywalker dealt with the droids,
Dooku was able to steal a precious holocron from the repository of knowledge
and flee the Temple unscathed.[20] The Temple Library would soon after be
attacked by Sith-employed bounty hunters Cad Bane and Cato Parasitti. Using
schematics provided by Sidious, Bane circumvented the exterior defenses and
was able to navigate the ventilation system with the help of Parasitti, who was
stationed in the Library in the guise of Master Ord Enisence. While Parasitti
would be captured by Padawan Ahsoka Tano, Bane was able to distract the
other Jedi long enough for him to break into the Holocron Vault and escape the
planet.[21]
Sometime in 20 BBY one of the hangers of the Jedi Temple was bombed. A
further investigation at the hands of Anakin Skywalker and his Padawan Ahsoka
Tano led to the arrest of Letta Turmond who planted nano-droids in to her
husband, a Temple worker blowing up the hanger.
Flaming Temple
The Jedi Temple, a smoking ruin after Operation: Knightfall.
In 19 BBY following the Battle of Coruscant and the work done by Judicial
Captain Dyne, the High Council came to be suspicious of the Office of the
Supreme Chancellor and linking Darth Sidious to influencing the Chancellor. It
was eventually discovered by Knight Anakin Skywalker, following the defeat of
General Grievous on Utapau, that Chancellor Palpatine and Darth Sidious were
one and the same. Moving to remove the Sith, Masters Mace Windu, Agen
Kolar, Kit Fisto, and Saesee Tiin, left the Temple in the care of Master Shaak Ti
and Gate Master Jurokk. Turning off all nav beacons and signal lights, arming all
of the older Padawans, and sealing all blast doors, the Temple was prepared for
a Sith attack. The duel with the Sith turned sour, however, as Jedi Knight
Skywalker betrayed his masters and aided Sidious in the murder of Master
Windu.[22] Sidious ordered that Skywalker, now Darth Vader, Dark Lord of the
Sith, raid the Temple with the assistance of the 501st Legion.[23] Marching on
the Temple steps, Vader slew the unsuspecting Gate Master Jurokk and began
the brutal slaughter of every Jedi present.[19] While many Jedi were dying
around the galaxy as part of Order 66, many of the Order's brightest died at
the Temple. Vader stormed the Archives and slew Chief Librarian Jocasta Nu as
she refused access to the Temple beacon.[22] Jedi Battlemaster Cin Drallig led
a final stand of younglings and Padawans in the Fountain Room but was unable
to defend his charges from the superior number of blaster bolts.[19]
Additionally, Three Jedi Masters attempted to retake the Archives from the
501st, but were all defeated.[23]
Although many Jedi and Temple employees died within the Temple that night,
Jedi Master Shaak Ti[24] led a retreat of a group of several Padawans and their
masters. Master Kazdan Paratus was another Jedi who escaped the Temple
safely, fleeing to Raxus Prime to live in madness having failed to save the
Temple.[24] Securing the building, Vader reported to his new master before
being sent to Mustafar to slaughter the Separatist Council stationed there.[19]
After checking the names of the dead off against the Archives roster, the
troopers dragged the bodies of the dead Jedi out onto the public steps and
heaped them on a make-shift pyre for all passersby to see. In the days
following the Temple's occupation, a group of Jedi gathered in the crowd
outside the public entrance, though only one stepped forward. This lone Jedi
attacked the troopers stationed on the steps, urging his brother and sister Jedi
to join him, only to be cut down by a hail of blaster fire.[25]
AbandonmentEdit
Jedi Temple Main Entrance Interior
The Temple's hallways after the Empire's assault.
"What might have been the wind wending into holed hallways never before
penetrated sounded like the funeral keening of spirits waiting to be avenged.
What might have been the resonance of the footfalls of Commander Appo's
stormtroopers sounded like the beat of distant war drums. What might have
been smoke from the fires that should have gone out weeks earlier seemed
more like wraiths writhing in torment."
Darth Vader's thoughts as he wanders the Temple halls[src]
Following the Declaration of a New Order and the rise of the Galactic Empire
the Sith used the Temple as a trap. Broadcasting a false signal to surviving Jedi
telling them to return to the Temple as the Clone Wars were over, the Empire
planned to execute the survivors of Order 66 as they returned to their home.
Fortunately for the remaining Jedi, Grand Master Yoda and Master Obi-Wan
Kenobi had been rescued by Senator Bail Organa and decided to return to the
Temple and deactivate the beacon. Entering through a sublevel hangar the Jedi
slew Decoy Squad Five and made their way through the Temple until they
reached the central security station where they were able to recalibrate the
beacon to warn the survivors to run and hide. While there Kenobi delved into
the security holos and confirmed his worst fear, the man behind the slaughter
was Anakin Skywalker, his former student and friend. The two Jedi separated in
order to hunt down the two Sith and kill them; neither succeeded but Vader
was critically injured, setting back Sidious's expectations for him.[19]

Vader would be sent back to the Temple by his master in order to retrieve the
Sith holocrons stored there. Vader knew this to be a test of his will, if he could
pass through the Force-imbued Temple without succumbing to the horrors
wrought there he would be commended. Vader was accompanied by Head of
Imperial Intelligence Armand Isard whose men had detected a hacker in the
Archives. Vader suspected that it was Purge fugitives Roan Shryne and Olee
Starstone. While Isard got a location for the two Jedi, Vader wasn't able to get
to them before they slipped away again.[26] The Imperials failed to detect
Padawan Ekria, who was able to slice into the database and delete all records
of herself and fellow Padawans Drake Lo'gaan and Zonder.[27]
Jedi and Sith were not the only visitors to the Temple following its
abandonment. Captain Gregar Typho, the former bodyguard of the deceased
Senator Padm Amidala, broke into the Temple in an attempt to discover the
cause of her death. While rummaging through the Temple Library Typho
encountered the bounty hunter Aurra Sing, who was searching the Temple for
details on the whereabouts of the Jedi Jax Pavan. In the resulting duel Sing was
knocked unconscious and Typho escaped unscathed and none the wiser of
Amidala's death.[28]
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Ferus Olin and Trever Flume enter the Temple to find the rumored "Jedi prison."
With the Temple largely cleared of all valuable information by the Dark Side
Adepts, the Empire maintained a small presence to maintain defenses in the
event of a Jedi intrusion. Grand Inquisitor Malorum set up his office in the
Temple, operating out of the former living quarters of the Grand Master. While
Malorum was meeting with Darth Vader in the Temple's main levels, ex-Jedi
Ferus Olin and his friend Trever Flume infiltrated his office and began searching
for information on Polis Massa on behalf of Master Obi-Wan Kenobi who had
ordered the mission. Eventually Malorum and Vader returned to the office and,
with no other choice, Olin and Flume leapt out the window and managed to
escape to Coruscant's Underworld. Shortly after Olin returned to the Temple,
this time with Master Fy-Tor-Ana accompanying him and Flume. Using Master
Ana's knowledge of the Temple's additions during the Clone Wars, the three
were able to use a maintenance hatch to infiltrate the Storage Level. While
searching for a rumored Jedi prison, the group would discover that in fact that
no prison was there, simply a large storage chamber filled with the lightsabers
of their slain brother and sister Jedi and a motion sensor that would summon
stormtroopers to their position. Fleeing through the Temple, the group
discovered that the complex was rigged to implode using a device placed in the
Temple's core by Inquisitor Malorum. Refusing to leave the Temple to be utterly
destroyed, the Jedi plus Flume raced to the Temple's reactor core and, using
Flume's talents with explosives, were able to deactivate the weapon. While
their mission seemed a success, Olin was captured by stormtroopers before he
could follow Ana and Flume to safety.[29]

While Olin managed to escape Sith custody several months later, he was
struggling with the powers of a Sith holocron that he had been given by Darth
Sidious. Returning to the Temple to uncover the truth behind the supposed
resistance leader Flame, Olin realized that the woman was really working for
the Empire. Olin attempted to contact the Resistance members that were
meeting with the traitor but was unable to prevent their slaughter. Before
escaping the Temple, Olin was confronted by the dreaded Sith Lord Darth
Vader. The confrontation between Vader led Olin to the Chambers of the High
Council before Olin was cut down in the High Council tower atrium. Believing
Olin was dead, Vader left the Temple and his body to rot; however Olin was
indeed alive and escaped the Temple for the final time.[30]
Activity at the Temple slowly dwindled to only a small group of troopers
charged with keeping out intruders. Completely secured, Emperor Palpatine
had some areas modified to encourage the idea that the ancient Order were
indeed a cruel and malevolent threat all along. Archived data was changed to
make Masters appear as corrupt as the Separatist leaders, and Sith statues
further discredited the Order. All of this propaganda was set up in anticipation
of Palpatine's guided tours through the Templean honor reserved for the
Empire's most high-ranking members and the elite-of-the-elite. Stationed at
every entrance, Shadow Troopers protected the Temple's treasures under the
command of Imperial Senate Sentinels.[31]
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Starkiller enters the ruins of the Atrium of the Tower of First Knowledge.
In 2 BBY, following years of undisturbed ruin, Darth Vader sent his secret
apprentice, Starkiller, to the Temple to complete the Jedi Trials. On Starkiller's
first mission he defeated the troopers stationed at the Temple steps and
confronted the simulacrum of Sith Lord Darth Desolous in the Jedi Trials
Chamber. Fighting the illusion, the assassin emerged victorious and left the
Temple before reinforcements arrived. Soon after, Starkiller returned and broke
into the Archives to complete the Trial of Insight before hunting down the
elusive Jedi Master Shaak Ti. In the Archives, Starkiller met blades with a
simulacrum of Darth Phobos and overcame her illusionary tricks before
defeating her. It would be several months before Starkiller would return to
finish his Trials, but this time he would do so on his own accord, not under the
commands of Lord Vader. During this mission in the Temple, Starkiller entered
the Tower of First Knowledge and defeated the troopers stationed within.
Entering into the Holocron Chamber, Starkiller was ordered by the Gatekeeper
of a large holocron to delve into the depths of the Temple and complete the
Trial of the Spirit. Within the ruins of the Temple's basement, the assassin was
able to defeat a mirror of himself and left the Temple for the third and final
time.[31]

Standing as a symbol of what happens to those who defy the Empire, the
Temple would survive past the destruction of the second Death Star, 23 years
after its initial abandonment.[32] It wasn't until the New Republic drove the
Empire from Coruscant that the Temple would be visited again. With the capitol
in the hands of the Republic, Luke Skywalker travelled to the ancient edifice in
order to learn what he could of his lost heritage. Once Skywalker decided to
revive the Order he invited one of his students, Tionne, to restore the Archives
to their former glory and to add information from the Galactic Civil War.[8]
Eventually the Temple's five towers crumbled during the catastrophe with the
Lusankya and were cleared away, their places filled with a new enclave that
served as a diplomatic way-point and a training ground for new Jedi away from
the Jedi Praxeum on Yavin 4.[33] It was here that Skywalker held his wedding
ceremony to Master Mara Jade.[34] The facility would remain in use until the
Order was forced to withdraw back into hiding when the Yuuzhan Vong invaded
the galaxy and captured Coruscant.[35]
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The Temple following the New Jedi Order's reoccupation.
During the war Masters Skywalker and Knight Tahiri Veila journeyed to a "Vong-
formed" Coruscant after receiving a dark vision. Along their travels along the
planet's surface, the Jedi team was led to the Temple's ruins by a deranged
figure known to the Coruscanti he had enslaved as Lord Nyax. Amongst the
ruins of the Temple the Jedi found Nyax's slaves hard at work destroying the old
structures encasing the Force-nexus at the heart of the sacred spire.
Determined to prevent a disaster in the Force, the Jedi engaged Nyax in a fierce
battle which saw the further destruction of the once mighty complex. Fueled by
the unlimited wellspring that was the sacred spire, all four combatants were
equally matched. Eventually Veila was able to injure Nyax having diminished
her presence in the Force long enough to get close to the Dark Jedi. Using razor
bugs to do her work, Veila pierced Nyax's armor deep enough to causing him to
lose the battle. Before he could rise again two Yorik-et fighters opened fire on
him and destroyed him. Before his death Nyax imbued his hate and despair on
the sacred spire, muddying the Force energies emanating from its peak.[36]

Within weeks of Nyax's death, the imprisoned Jedi Jacen Solo was chased to the
ruins of the Temple by Yuuzhan Vong warriors. Managing to get inside of an
area that was still standing he was able to feel the dark energies of the place.
He was rescued from certain death by his adopted teacher, the mysterious
Vergere. Leading Solo through the ruins, Vergere brought him to a dimly lit
room. From the vaulted ceiling hung glow globes which revealed dozens of
Yuuzhan Vong warriors. Solo drew upon the Force energies which were laden
with the dark side in order to destroy the hall, bringing down the ceiling of the
room and crushing the Yuuzhan Vong warriors. Broken and injured, Vergere
asked Jacen why, if the Jedi supported peace, they would knowingly build their
Temple on a dark side nexus. Withholding information of the Nyax fight, and
ignoring the events of Order 66, Vergere manipulated Solo by telling him that
there was no light or dark side and therefore the nexus held no allegiances.[37]
TempleoftheSith
The rebuilt Temple with a new outer transparisteel layer.
ReconstructionEdit
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After the Yuuzhan Vong War, the Galactic Alliance's Chief of State Cal Omas
ordered that a new Temple be erected for the Order. Using blueprints salvaged
from the ruined Archives, the Reconstruction Authority built the new Temple
almost exactly as it had stood several decades before. However the structure
did not lack its differences. A new transparisteel and duracrete pyramid was
built over the exterior, encasing the Council spires within it.[38] Many on the
reformed High Council feared the determination to preserve the past was a sign
that the Jedi could not move forward and would once again be tools of the
government, rather than a dignified tribute to their ancient Order.[2]

After years of standing watch over Coruscant, the Temple was conquered in
130 ABY and was renamed the Temple of the Sith after Darth Krayt and his new
Sith Order took control of the Galactic Empire. With the transparisteel pyramids
stripped away Krayt redesigned the Temple so that its appearance caused fear
and forced obedience. From the central stone pyramid smoke constantly
billowed filling the Precinct with a dreary smog.[39]
It was subsequently retaken by the Galactic Alliance and the New Jedi Order in
138 ABY.
Layout and architectureEdit
"Don't the Jedi have this reputation for, well, austerity?"
"They like you to think that, yes! But have big honking Temple on Coruscant!
Not come cheap!"
Gar Gastinin and Vilmarh Grahrk[src]
JediTempleHallway-ROTS
The Temple's halls were constantly filled with pairs of Jedi quietly moving about
their daily duties.
A massive structure which soared over a kilometer above the surrounding
rooftops, the Jedi Temple had the appearance of a fortress but was really a
place of meditation and gentle reflection. Located in a strategically isolated
area of Coruscant which neighbored the Senate District, the Temple rested on a
large city bloc in the Temple Precinct. Concealed within the heart of the Temple
ziggurat was the upper reaches of the Sacred spire, a towering mountain that
jutted from the crust of the planet deep below. The upper most summit of the
mountain erupted from the top of the Temple's base and formed the
foundations of its central tower, Tranquility Spire. Surrounding the tallest
tower's finned peak were four shorter towers located on the ordinal-oriented
sides of the complex. Each contained an austere Council Chamber at its
summit and served as the meeting rooms of the four Jedi Councils. The ziggurat
shape of the edifice, coupled with the five spires, was designed to symbolize a
Jedi's climb to enlightenment through the Force.[1]

The Temple, separated from the surrounding city sprawl by the sprawling
Temple Court dotted with bronzium statues of long dead Jedi heroes and
scholars, was accessed primarily by the Processional Way. This broad
promenade which bisected the Court and led to the stairs of the main entrance
was crowned by four bronzium statues. The outer statues depicted Warrior
Masters with their lightsabers ignited, while the two inner statues were
depictions of two hooded Sage Masters. Beyond these statues, a series of
monolithic pylons stood amid the entrance courtyard. Standing four across and
three back, the front pylons were adorned with reliefs depicting the Four
Masters; Jedi who helped found the Temple in ancient times. The entrance
staircase beyond these pylons led into the Temple's cavernous main hall, which
stretched beyond to the formal Great Hall. The main hall's pillars and soaring
mezzanines stretched out and around the base of the Temple, connecting with
the other three formal entrances and forming the Temple's support structure.
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Three other entrance to the Temple were located on the other cardinal-oriented
sides of the Temple: the northern public entrance was reserved for non-Jedi
visitors and consisted of several public annexes. To ensure the safety and
privacy of the Temple, five Padawans were tasked with guarding the Temple
during the day, while two Knights would oversee the watch in the evening. All
guard duties Temple-wide were overseen by the Jedi Gate Master.[40] Following
the Temple's destruction during the Yuuzhan Vong War, the Reconstruction
Authority recreated the ancient edifice almost perfectl

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