Temple of Exar Kun



The Temple of Exar Kun was a Sith Temple on Yavin IV. Shortly before his death, the Sith Lord Exar Kun transferred his life force into the temple, where his spirit resided for the next four thousand years.

The temple was rediscovered during the Battle of Yavin by a Rebel naturalist called Dr'uun Unnh. He instantly realised that it was a Sith temple and was intrigued by the fact that, while all the other temples on Yavin IV were worn and ruined, this temple showed no signs of ageing at all. Unnh was killed shortly after, when his speeder bike was hit by a crashed TIE Fighter, but details of the temple were recovered on his data pad, by a search team.

In 1 ABY, Luke Skywalker and Jan Dodonna carried out an excavation at the temple and got a spacer to help them with a number of tasks.

Skywalker later set up a Jedi Praxeum in the Great Temple on Yavin IV and the spirit of Exar Kun set about luring his pupils to his temple, where he attempted to turn them to the dark side of the force. He succeeded in turning Gantoris and Kyp Durron, but failed to turn Corran Horn, when he visited the temple.

Exar Kun's spirit was eventually vanquished by the Jedi students. Shortly after, Corran Horn launched some proton torpedoes at the temple from his X-Wing, to ensure that it would never tempt anyone to the dark side again. He succeeded in destroying the statue of Exar Kun on the outside of the temple and all the Sith writings within it.

Appearances

 * Star Wars Galaxies
 * ''I, Jedi