Star Temple

The Star Temple is a ruined structure on Dathomir whose history joins an attempted attack on Coruscant to energies that remain perceptible after its destruction. The Jedi destroyed the Temple and the Infinity Gate it contained, but when Jax Pavan reaches the site thirteen years later, its shattered stone and metal still register as a source of disturbance in The Force. The ruins are not merely evidence of a defeated threat: they preserve traces of the power that made the Gate possible.

History and Destruction

Before the Temple was destroyed, the Nightsisters and Nightbrothers used the serendipitous discovery of the Infinity Gate, an interstellar portal, in an effort to destroy Coruscant, then the seat of the Republic. These two orders were described as unabashedly evil, and they later allied themselves with the Sith. Their attack made the Temple’s portal a danger extending far beyond Dathomir: a route discovered on a remote world had become an instrument aimed at the Republic’s center.

The Jedi brought down the attackers and destroyed the Star Temple that housed the Gate. The destruction did not end at the site itself. Dathomir had been all but quarantined ever since—thirteen years by the time of Jax’s visit. The account emphasizes that this isolation affected the planet’s clans broadly, although most had not been responsible for the threat. Dathomir’s lack of strategic position, desirable natural resources, or technology the Empire feared also helps explain why it remained quarantined rather than becoming a more immediate imperial concern.

The Ruins on Dathomir

When Jax reaches the plateau, the former Temple is no longer presented as an intact building. Shards of native rock and twisted metal project from the tortured ground. Each is as long as the Aethersprite and as thick around as a Toprawan cedar; their crowns incline toward one another like saber points saluting a coming battle. The image turns the wreckage into a broken outline of confrontation, while its scale makes clear that the destruction left more than scattered rubble.

A large fissure lies east of this formation. Its opening is wide enough, Jax judges, to swallow a ship twice the size of the Delta-7, and a cascade of black rock hangs over its edge, frozen like a glass waterfall. The site’s visible damage gives no clear account of how the structure was arranged or how the Gate operated. Instead, the remains offer fragments: immense projections, a gash in the ground, and rock arrested in a fall. Jax senses energies in the area but can only dimly discern their contours, so the landscape’s physical disarray precedes any firm explanation of what happened there.

Jax Pavan’s Encounter

As the light begins to fade, Jax turns toward the plateau’s central features and heads for them, drawn by the energies he has sensed in The Force. He identifies the area as the source of a displacement he had felt, but has no clear plan for what to do when he reaches it. The setting imposes a practical limit on his investigation: the Dathomiri sun is lowering behind the mountaintops, mist is rising from the valleys, and he estimates that darkness is less than two hours away.

Later, Jax realizes that he is kneeling on an artificial, reasonably level slab of bedrock. He cannot tell whether it once formed part of the Temple’s floor, an altar, or a control matrix. Nearby, he finds glistening black-stone chips bearing symbols or drawings. One is about the length of his hand, and its regular contours show him that it is not a natural fragment. These details bring the lost structure into closer view without resolving its original function: even the surface beneath him remains an uncertain piece of a place whose purpose has been broken apart.

Lingering Energies and Significance

The black-stone fragment and the artificial slab lead Jax to suspect that he has reached very near the heart of the Star Temple. From there, he considers whether the energies are unstable and whether time itself might be unstable at the site; these are questions raised by his experience, not conclusions he can establish. The Temple’s connection to the displacement is perceptible, but its effects remain difficult for him to interpret.

A nearby Sith Holocron pulses with light across its facets and engraved surfaces. When Jax picks it up, the pulsation deepens and its reverberations become tangible to him through The Force. He also senses that the Star Temple teems with energy: the same energies that drove the Infinity Gate and were bent to the service of the dark side. The scene therefore connects the Temple’s ancient history to a present encounter without claiming that the destroyed Gate has been restored or that the Holocron and Temple are one mechanism. The ruins remain consequential precisely because destruction has not made them inert. Their broken material traces and continuing energies leave Jax close to the site’s heart, yet unable to say what its disturbance will mean.