Malachor

"He said to find Malachor. Who's Malachor?''" "''Malachor isn't a person. It's a place."

- Ezra Bridger and Ahsoka Tano, about Yoda's guidance

Malachor was a planet in the galaxy. The Great Scourge of Malachor took place there thousands of years before the conflict between the First Order and the Resistance. During the reign of the Galactic Empire, Jedi Master Yoda told Ezra Bridger, a Padawan, to find Malachor to help him defeat Darth Vader and the Inquisitors.

History
"Find Malachor."

- Yoda, to Ezra Bridger

Thousands of years before the brewing war between the First Order and the Resistance, the Great Scourge of Malachor took place on the world of Malachor. An ancient lightsaber design with a crossguard blade dated back to this time. The design of this lightsaber would go on to inspire the lightsaber used by Kylo Ren.

The name Malachor was used in expressions during the time of the Clone Wars. While contemplating his strategy for getting himself and his team of astromech droids off of the desert world of Abafar, Colonel Meebur Gascon exclaimed that there was "no way in Malachor" that he would lead his team on an assault on a Separatist landing field. Years later, during the reign of the Galactic Empire, the crime lord Cikatro Vizago of the Broken Horn Syndicate used Malachor as an epithet while working with the smuggler Lando Calrissian.

During their rebellion against the Empire, three rebels&mdash;the Jedi Kanan Jarrus and Ezra Bridger, along with Commander Ahsoka Tano, a former Jedi&mdash;traveled to the Jedi Temple on Lothal to seek the spectral guidance of Jedi Master Yoda in the hopes of defeating the Sith Lord Darth Vader and his Inquisitors. Yoda told Bridger that, if he and the others wanted to fight, they had to find Malachor.

Behind the scenes
"There is a place in the galaxy where the dark side of the Force runs strong. It is something of the Sith, but it was fueled by war. It corrupts all that walks on its surface&mdash;drowns them in the power of the dark side. It corrupts all life, and it feeds on death."

- Darth Traya speaks of Malachor V in Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords

In Star Wars Legends, Malachor V was a planet that was first referenced in the 2003 video game Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic. The game revealed that it was the location of the Battle of Malachor V, the final battle between the Galactic Republic, led by Revan, and the Mandalorian Neo-Crusaders during the Mandalorian Wars. The world went on to appear as the final location in the sequel, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords, revealing that it was a shattered and ruined world consumed by the energies of the Mass Shadow Generator. This event led to victory for the Republic, destroying many Mandalorian and even Republic forces in the process. In The Sith Lords, Malachor V housed the Trayus Academy, an ancient Sith academy used by the Sith Triumvirate of Darth Traya, Darth Nihilus, and Darth Sion in the aftermath of the Jedi Civil War. The Jedi Exile, Meetra Surik, traveled to the Trayus Academy, where she defeated Sion and Traya during the game's final levels.

The name Malachor was later mentioned for the first time in the canon of Star Wars creator George Lucas when it was spoken as an expletive by Meebur Gascon in "Missing in Action," an episode of the animated television series Star Wars: The Clone Wars. The canonical references to the planet continued into Star Wars Rebels, with Yoda telling Ezra Bridger to find Malachor in his quest to stop Darth Vader and the Inquisitors. The 2015 reference book Star Wars: The Force Awakens: The Visual Dictionary also made reference to Malachor when it stated that the ancient design of Kylo Ren's lightsaber dates back thousands of years to the Great Scourge of Malachor.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: Commander
 * Star Wars: Commander
 * Star Wars: Commander
 * Star Wars: Commander