Temple of the Ancients

The Temple of the Ancients, also called the Temple of the Elders, was a temple on Rakata Prime that was said to hold the secrets of the Star Forge. The temple's doors were blocked by a mysterious force field that only Rakata could bring down by performing a special ritual, and even then, the force field would not stay down for long.

During the Jedi Civil War, Revan and his crew (Zaalbar, Mission Vao, Carth Onasi, Jolee Bindo, Juhani, HK-47, T3-M4, and Canderous Ordo) crash-landed on Rakata Prime 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 Rakata Prime. Their ship was damaged beyond repair and they saw many other starcrafts had fallen victim to this tractor beam.

Revan met with The One, a leader of the Rakata (the race inhabiting Rakata Prime), 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 Rakata Prime. Revan, however, sided with the Elders. The Elders then allowed Revan access to the Temple.

The priests had only started their ritual when Juhani and 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.

In addition to a number of Dark Jedi and Sith who had been sent to the temple by Darth Malak, 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 Rakata Prime in the first place.