Astronavigation Data: Malachor system, Chorlian

sector, Outer Rim Territories

Orbital Metrics: 271 days per year/31 hours per
day
Government: Dictatorship
Population: 0
Languages: Old tongue
Terrain: Caverns, crevasses, gorges, jagged rock
spires, poison gas vents, sheer cliffs
Major Cities: None
Areas of Interest: Malachor Sith temple, Malachor
super weapon Due to its infamy, Malachor was often invoked
as a curse word. While contemplating his strategy
Major Exports: None for getting himself and his team of astromech
Major Imports: None droids off the desert world of Abafar, Colonel
Meebur Gascon exclaimed that there was "no way
Background: Malachor was a rocky, hellish
in Malachor" that he would lead his team on an
wasteland planet shrouded in mystery. It was the
assault on a Separatist landing field. Years later,
location of an event known as the Great Scourge of
during the reign of the Galactic Empire, the crime
Malachor, which took place thousands of years
lord Cikatro Vizago of the Broken Horn Syndicate
before the conflict between the First Order and the
used Malachor as an epithet while working with
Resistance. During the reign of the Galactic Empire,
the smuggler Lando Calrissian.
Jedi Master Yoda told Ezra Bridger, a Padawan, to
find Malachor to help him defeat Darth Vader and
the Inquisitors.
At some point in time, the Sith were able to
Roughly 2.5 years before the Battle of Yavin,
establish a presence on the planet Malachor, Rebels Kanan Jarrus, Ezra Bridger, and
constructing a massive temple beneath its surface. Ahsoka Tano went to Malachor in search of
This temple held a collosal kyber crystal which was information that would allow them to defeat
used to power the temple. Thousands of years the Sith and Imperial Inquisitors.
before the brewing war between the First Order
and the Resistance, the planet was the location of a There, they found former Sith Lord Maul,
massive battle, in which the Jedi Order launched an Imperial Inquisitors, and Darth Vader
all-out assault in which the temple's weapon himself, all in search of a Sith holocron and
misfired and petrified everyone on the planet. the ancient Sith superweapon it could
After these events, Malachor was made forbidden power.
to the Jedi, though stories of what had happened
were passed down, forming the basis of many As a result of the ensuing battle, the
legends. Millennia later, the debris of war still superweapon imploded and was destroyed.
littered the battlefield.