Infinity Gate

The Infinity Gate was an interstellar portal whose discovery on Dathomir gave the Nightsisters and Nightbrothers a means to threaten Coruscant, the seat of the Republic. The Jedi eventually defeated the orders and destroyed the Star Temple that contained the Gate, but the site’s history did not end with its destruction: thirteen years later, Jax Pavan sensed energies there that might be remnants of the portal and might disturb time itself.

Discovery and Use

The Gate’s discovery was described as serendipitous. The Nightsisters and Nightbrothers used it in an effort to destroy Coruscant before they allied themselves with the Sith in the years leading up to the Clone Wars. The account establishes the portal’s extraordinary reach and the scale of the danger it represented, but does not specify how it operated, what passed through it, or the details of the attempted attack. Its importance lies in the conjunction of an interstellar means of access and a direct threat to the Republic’s seat of power.

The two orders were made up of outcasts from existing Dathomiri tribes; many of their members were human–Zabrak hybrids. Their use of the Gate belongs to a broader history of conflict on Dathomir, but the evidence distinguishes this episode from their later Sith alliance: they had already turned the portal against Coruscant before that alliance. The Gate therefore figures not simply as a tool of the Sith, but as an independently discovered means by which the outcast orders could attempt an attack of galactic significance.

Destruction and Dathomir’s Isolation

The Jedi brought down the Nightsisters and Nightbrothers and destroyed the Star Temple on Dathomir that contained the Gate. This ended the portal’s role in the described attack, while also leaving its former setting as ruins. The account does not say whether the Gate itself was separately dismantled, destroyed, or rendered unusable; what it establishes is that the Jedi destroyed the Temple that housed it.

Dathomir had been all but quarantined since that defeat, thirteen years before Jax’s later visit. The isolation was described as unfair to the majority of the planet’s clans, who were not identified with the two outcast orders. At the same time, the narration notes that the clans were not generally friendly and that Dathomir had neither a strategic position nor natural resources the Empire might covet, nor technology it might fear. The planet’s marginality thus appears alongside the consequences of the Gate’s history: the Temple’s destruction removed the immediate danger, but the world remained isolated rather than returning to ordinary contact.

The Ruins and Residual Energies

By the time Jax considered visiting the Star Temple ruins, the Witches of Dathomir avoided them assiduously. The ruins were not treated as an ordinary abandoned structure. Their history connected them to the Gate, and Jax sensed that they might still hold residual energy. He described possible eddies in the Force and perhaps in time itself, and told the Clan Mother that he felt compelled to understand them. He did not disclose that the Sith Holocron had reacted to the ruins, so his stated explanation did not reveal the full context of his interest.

At the Temple, Jax’s suspicion that he had reached a place of unusual power sharpened. The Sith Holocron pulsed in his hand, and he felt its reverberations through the Force. The surrounding energies, he perceived, were those that had driven the Infinity Gate and had been bent to the service of the dark side. This links the vanished portal to the present-tense disturbance without establishing that the Gate itself remained intact: its energies, rather than a functioning passage, are what the scene makes perceptible.

Significance

The Infinity Gate’s story moves from discovery, to attempted assault on the Republic, to destruction of the Temple that contained it, and finally to an uncertain afterlife in the Force. Its defeat did not erase the consequences of its presence. The ruins remain a site the local Witches avoid, while Jax’s experience connects their residual energies to both the dark side and possible disturbances in time. The portal is therefore significant not only for the danger it once enabled, but also for the unresolved force of its history: the Jedi closed the crisis by destroying its setting, yet the energies associated with the Gate continue to shape what can be sensed there.