The Nightsisters' Attack on Coruscant Through the Infinity Gate was a pre-Clone Wars assault that made Dathomir a direct threat to the Republic’s capital. The attempt depended on the Infinity Gate, an interstellar portal discovered on Dathomir, and ended when the Jedi defeated the attackers and destroyed the Star Temple containing it. The attack’s aftermath extended beyond the defeat itself: Dathomir was all but quarantined, affecting a world whose many clans had not been responsible for the assault.

Attack and Participants

The attack was carried out by the Nightsisters and Nightbrothers, described as two openly evil orders whose members were outcasts from existing tribes. Many were human–Zabrak hybrids. They used the Infinity Gate, a portal whose discovery is characterized as serendipitous, in an effort to destroy Coruscant while it was still the seat of the Republic. The account establishes the objective and the means, but does not detail the assault’s sequence, its casualties, or how the attackers sought to use the portal against the planet.

The attack preceded the orders’ alliance with the Sith in the years leading up to the Clone Wars. That distinction places their attempted destruction of Coruscant before the later political alignment: the portal attack was already a threat in its own right, not simply an operation described as part of their Sith alliance.

Jedi Response and the Gate’s Destruction

The Jedi brought the attackers down and destroyed the Star Temple on Dathomir that contained the Infinity Gate. Their response therefore targeted both the orders and the structure that made the interstellar attack possible. With the Temple destroyed, the account presents the Gate as removed from the conflict; it gives no further details about the device or its fate beyond its containment in the ruined site.

The event is recalled in the context of Dathomir’s Force-using Witches, whose practices differed from the more regimented existence of the Jedi Order. That difference does not erase the specific history of the Nightsisters and Nightbrothers: they were outcasts, and the account distinguishes their actions from those of Dathomir’s other clans.

Quarantine and Historical Significance

Dathomir had been all but quarantined since the Jedi destroyed the Star Temple, a measure in place for thirteen years by the time of the account. The restriction was characterized as unfair to the majority of the clans, who were not identified as participants in the attack. Dathomir was also described as having little strategic position, no natural resources the Empire might covet, and no technology it might fear. The account thus frames the continuing isolation not as an obvious response to the planet’s general strategic value, but as a burden attached to the danger once posed by the portal and the orders who used it.

The episode gives the Infinity Gate a concrete political consequence: a discovery on Dathomir enabled an assault on the Republic’s center, and the Jedi’s countermeasure reshaped the world’s relationship with the wider galaxy. It also supplies historical context for the distinction between the Witches’ Force traditions and the Nightsisters’ particular record of violence, without presenting all Dathomiri clans as responsible for that history.