Coruscant: Jedi Temple

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The Jedi Temple is a building in the fictional Star Wars universe. It is a massive structure standing 1km high above the buildings of Galactic City, Coruscant, in an area where the Temple is largely unobstructed to sight.

Architecture

From the outside, the Jedi Temple appears as a high-raised ziggurat building in a stepped design, with five spires built on top, one taller spire surrounded by four smaller ones. These spires symbolize a Jedi's climb to enlightenment. Its design suggests that of a fortress, but for more than forty generations, it has stood as a symbol of peace and justice.

- The tallest Central Spire is known as the Temple Spire, and is traditionally the most important, since it holds the ancient texts of the Founding Jedi, and those scrolls saved from Ossus. The official status of Knighthood and Master are given in this spire.
- The first of the four smaller spires is Jedi Council Spire where the twelve members of the High Council sit and debate the various facets of the Republic. This is the most important tower because the High Council has overall decision-making powers over the whole Jedi Order, and, thus, quite a bit of influence in the Galactic Republic. The Jedi Council Spire stands southwest to the Temple Spire.
- The second tower is that used by the Council of First Knowledge. This council takes care of matters requiring the wisdom of past Jedi Masters or Council members, and gives advice to the High Council, or most any Jedi who requests it. This spire stands northwest to the Temple Spire. - The third spire is the Council of Reconciliation Tower, which seeks to find peaceful settlements to political disputes at home on Coruscant or offworld in the Republic. This spire stands southeast to the Temple Spire.
- The fourth and last spire is the Reassignment Council Tower, which handles the organization of work for young Jedi who have not been chosen by Jedi Masters to be apprentices. This spire stands northeast to the Temple Spire.
Each of these five spires carries high-gain communication transmitters, used to contact field Jedi or other offworlders as required by any of the four Councils. This is part of the reason why the Jedi Temple's towers stand so high over any other buildings, where there is little or no interference with the antennas.

Use

The Temple itself is the home to the Jedi, where they live for the first years of their apprenticeship, and where they learn of the ways of the Force and train in the traditions of the Jedi Order.
The Jedi Archives are housed inside the Temple.
The Temple also provides independent transport for any Jedi who needs it. The recently constructed Temple Hangars house Delta-7 and Eta-2 Jedi Starfighters, capable of transporting Jedi anywhere in the galaxy.
The rest of the inner Temple mainly consists of dormitories, meditation, and training areas. There are many different areas, including areas where Jedi Masters train Younglings and where Jedi learn and develop their skills with the lightsaber, or areas that simply provide meditation space.
The Temple's network of communication systems is controlled in the computer room; it holds the Jedi beacon that allows speedy contact between the Temple and Jedi without having to use the HoloNet.
The Temple is surrounded by an extensive Precinct, which also offers docking space for larger spaceships, and contains other buildings built after the construction of the Temple.

The Jedi Archives, staffed by Jocasta Nu during the final days of the Old Republic, were located in the quarter of the Temple crowned with the Tower of First Knowledge. It contained vast wells of Jedi lore and history. An ancient section of the Temple was later converted into a museum of Temple history.

The meditative walkway, a cavernous hallway surrounding the base of the Temple was decorated with an arcade of stained-glass windows and statues relating the events of the Hyperspace Wars. It was also dotted with podiums holding the Jedi Code on tablets.

Other known features included the Jedi Medical Corps Infirmary, Sith containment cells, rotunda chapels, a holographic training rooms, Jedi Agricultural Corps Research Labs, communication centers, banquet halls, lightsaber crafting areas, and the Chamber of Conclave. During the Clone Wars the temple also housed military-style briefing chambers and war rooms, to fulfill the Jedi's needs as the generals of the Army of the Republic.
The area around the Temple came to be known as the Temple Precinct, which grew to offer docking space for larger spaceships, and contained other buildings built after the construction of the Temple.

History

Thousands of years before there was a Temple, the Jedi Order was run out by several Enclaves throughout the galaxy, as depicted in Knights of the Old Republic and The Sith Lords. Various locations included Dantooine, Coruscant and other planets. The Enclave on Coruscant might well have become the Temple itself; this is suspected due to comments referring to the Room of a Thousand Fountains being within both the Temple and Enclave. The Enclaves were subsequently bombed during the many wars with the Sith.

During the Jedi Purge in 19 BBY, the Temple was attacked by the 501st Legion of Clone troopers, led by the newly anointed Lord Vader carrying out Order 66 of the new Galactic Emperor. The Jedi inside were cut down and slaughtered. The Temple itself was set alight, statues cast down and destroyed and the building riddled with laser marks and signs of the previous attack during the purge. It was later found to be abandoned, but curiously was not completely destroyed (it is seen in the DVD edition of Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi).