The Stellar Temple Ruins are the remains of a Dathomir temple destroyed by the Jedi after the Nightsisters and Nightbrothers used the Infinity Gate it contained in an attempt to destroy Coruscant. Thirteen years later, the site is still a devastated field of stone, slag, and residual power, claimed by the Singing Mountain Clan and avoided by its own people. When Jax Pavan ventures there, the ruins become more than the trace of a defeated attack: their strange energies suggest that the catastrophe may have left disturbances in both the Force and time.

History and Destruction

Before the temple was destroyed, the Nightsisters and Nightbrothers—outcast groups that included many human–Zabrak hybrids—had discovered the interstellar portal called the Infinity Gate. They used it in an effort to destroy Coruscant, then the seat of the Republic. In the years leading up to the Clone Wars, these orders also allied themselves with the Sith. The Jedi defeated them and destroyed the temple that housed the Gate, ending the threat at the cost of the structure and the landscape around it.

The destruction left a broad, devastated high plain rather than an intact monument. The remnants include rocky debris and slag, while deep vents opened in the native rock during the cataclysm release steam and smoke across the scorched ground. The shards scattered over the plain are material traces of the Nightsisters’ weapon and the Jedi’s response to it: the ruin records both the attempted assault and the force used to stop it. Its history is therefore present not as a preserved building but as a broken terrain whose physical damage marks the scale of the old conflict.

Dathomir had been all but quarantined since the temple’s destruction. The isolation affected the planet broadly, although the majority of its clans had not been responsible for the attack; the world’s lack of strategic position, coveted natural resources, or feared technology also gave the Empire little reason to intervene. The ruins thus belong to a history that shaped the whole planet’s standing while remaining bound to the actions of particular outcast orders.

Setting and Access

The temple once stood on a devastated high plain within the Infinity Plain. Dathomir itself remained largely uninhabited, with existing populations concentrated along the broad coastal region of one of its three continents. Several Witch clans occupied the wider landscape, and new groups sometimes formed from outcasts, former slaves, or renegades. The ruins lay within territory claimed by the Singing Mountain Clan, making a visit an encounter not only with a dangerous site but with the people whose land surrounded it.

Jax considers whether other clans might receive an outsider more readily. He has heard of at least two groups whose members rejected the matriarchal hierarchy of the female-dominated clans and sought a more egalitarian society, but doubts that either can grant him access to the ruins. Reaching the site therefore means risking the Singing Mountain Clan’s ire. The temple is not simply an abandoned destination open to exploration: its location gives local authority and the history of the catastrophe continuing force in the present.

The clan’s caution has a specific object. Its Clan Mother says that her people avoid the temple ruins assiduously. Jax tells her that he senses residual energy there, possibly left by the Infinity Gate, and eddies in the Force that may extend into time itself. He does not disclose that the Sith Holocron he carries has reacted to the site. His decision to withhold that detail makes his approach to the ruins a partial disclosure: he explains the phenomenon he hopes to investigate without revealing the object that first helped draw his attention to it.

Jax Pavan’s Visit

From low orbit, Jax sees the vast ruin dominating the Infinity Plain. The Sith Holocron tucked inside his surcoat resonates with the decaying energies of the place, giving him a warning that the field of slag and rock still holds power. The response does not identify the source or explain its effects, but it turns the ruin’s lingering presence into something he can perceive before he reaches the ground. For Jax, the site is at once a historical wreck and an active disturbance.

On the plain, the visible destruction gives way to uncertain signs of what lies beneath it. Jax finds himself kneeling on an artificial structure: a flat, level piece of bedrock that might have been a temple floor, an altar, or a control matrix. Nearby black stone shards bear markings. One glistening chip, about the length of his hand, has symbols on it and contours too regular to be natural. The uncertain alternatives matter: the debris does not immediately disclose whether he has found a ritual, architectural, or mechanical feature, but it gives him reason to suspect that he is close to the temple’s heart.

The episode leaves the site’s temporal disturbance unresolved. Jax wonders whether the energies are unstable and whether time itself is unstable there, but the evidence available to him is suspicion rather than an explanation. The Clan Mother’s warnings, the Holocron’s resonance, and the marked fragments converge without settling into a single account of what happened or what remains. The ruins exert their force through this gap between tangible evidence and uncertain interpretation.

Significance

The Stellar Temple Ruins join political history to a landscape that has not returned to ordinary use. The attempted destruction of Coruscant, the Jedi’s demolition of the temple and Gate, the resulting quarantine, and the Singing Mountain Clan’s continuing avoidance all make the site consequential beyond its physical remains. Yet the setting’s importance for Jax is also investigative: he seeks to understand residual energy and possible eddies in time, while keeping the Holocron’s reaction to himself.

The ruin’s fragments resist a clean separation between past catastrophe and present danger. The temple is gone, but the plain still contains its shards, its exposed rock, and energies that affect Jax’s perceptions and the Holocron he carries. By bringing him from an immense field of wreckage to a marked chip in his hand, the scene narrows the mystery from planetary history to material evidence without resolving it. The site’s decisive narrative role is to make destruction feel unfinished: what the Jedi destroyed has vanished as a functioning temple, but its consequences remain active enough to draw Jax toward the place and leave the nature of its power in question.