Temple of the Ancients

The Temple of the Ancients, also called the Temple of the Elders, was a temple on the Unknown World that was said to hold the secrets of the Star Forge. The temple's doors were blocked by a mysterious forcefield that only Rakata could bring down by performing a special ritual. And even then, the forcefield wouldn't stay down for long.

During the Mandalorian Wars, Darth Revan and his crew (The Wookiee Zaalbar, the young Twi'Lek girl Mission Vao, the pilot Carth Onasi, the exile Jedi Jolee Bindo, the Jedi Knight Juhani, the droids HK-47 and T3-M4, and the mercenary Canderous Ordo) crash-landed on the Unknown World while on their way to infiltrate the Star Forge. The reason for their crash-landing was a strange tractor beam that brought them down to the Unknown World.

When they got down there, their ship was damaged beyond repair and they saw many other starcrafts had fallen victim to this tractor beam.

Revan met with The One, leader of the Rakata (a race living on the Unknown World), who made him a deal. The One would help him enter the Temple of the Ancients if Revan brought back an ancient tome from the Elders, another tribe living on the Unknown World. Revan did as The One asked and The One sent his Rakata priests to perform the ritual.

The priests had only started their ritual when Juhani and Jolee Bindo rushed up to them and told them they had sensed great danger in the temple, and they couldn't let Revan face it alone. At first the priests refused but Revan used The Force to persuade the priests, and they let the three in.

Inside they discovered an ancient computer terminal which gave them the secrets to the Star Forge and the way to disable the tractor beam that brought them down to the Unknown World in the first place.