High Council Chamber

The High Council Chamber, or Jedi Council Chamber was a circular room at the top of the High Council Tower of the Jedi Temple on Coruscant. It hosted meetings of the Jedi High Council during the rule of the Galactic Republic.

Overview
The twelve Masters of the Council would meet in the Council Chamber, seating themselves in twelve specially-designed chairs arrayed around the circumference of the room. High windows provided an impressive panoramic view of Galactic City. A small and narrow corridor ran between the inner and outer windows, where a stairwell existed; granting access to the Temple Treasury Room.



Chambers for the High Council had existed on Coruscant since before 4,000 BBY. As of 3,976 BBY, the chamber was located at the peak of a tower in the center of a broad plaza. This body was responsible for reassigning the Jedi of Taris to separate stations after the Padawan Massacre of Taris. It was also in this chamber, although several members missing, that the Jedi Exile came back to face trial after the Mandalorian Wars and the beginning of the Jedi Civil War. During this time, a large stone stood in the center of the room. It is here that the Exile stabbed her lightsaber.

In the year 1000 BBY, the council was relocated to the newly built High Council Tower, part of the Jedi Temple complex. The natural and circular motifs in the floor mosaic symbolized harmony and balance between the Jedi, the council, and the Republic. The High Council held meetings in this chamber up until the fall of the Jedi Order following the culmination of the Clone Wars. Hundreds of masters would sit on the esteemed council over the millennia. A group of younglings attempted to hide from the forces of the 501st Legion in the Council Chamber, but they were hunted down and brutally executed by Darth Vader.

During Starkiller's third mission to the Temple, the Sith assassin entered into the ruined Chamber, feeling compelled by the Force to seek it out. The malfunctioning Jedi Trials program activated and used the Council Chamber's holoprojectors to create a simulacrum of Kento Marek. Galen dueled and defeated the phantom Jedi, and left the ruined Chamber.



Reconstruction
The Temple was left in ruins, the Jedi Council Chambers leering over the surface of Coruscant for years before eventually being reduced to rubble during the Yuuzhan Vong War. Following that conflict, Luke Skywalker had the original Jedi Temple reconstructed at the time of the Second Galactic Civil War, an exact replica of the High Council Chamber rested atop the tower, now concealed within a large transparisteel pyramid. Mara Skywalker, filling the new rank of Council secretary, had a small desk near the door way in the new chambers; a design that would be removed when the Order adopted the Old Order's way of recording the meetings. When first reconstructed the windows were adorned with opulent hangings, which were later deemed too much for the austere chamber and were removed.

Appearances

 * Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 9: Flashpoint Interlude: Homecoming
 * Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
 * Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords
 * Jedi Council: Acts of War
 * Cloak of Deception
 * Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace novel
 * Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace
 * Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace comic
 * Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace junior novel
 * Star Wars: Battlefront
 * Episode I: Obi-Wan Kenobi
 * Episode I: The Phantom Menace ½
 * Rogue Planet
 * Star Wars Republic: Outlander
 * Star Wars Republic: Emissaries to Malastare
 * Star Wars Republic: The Hunt for Aurra Sing
 * Star Wars Republic: The Stark Hyperspace War
 * Jedi Quest: The School of Fear
 * Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones
 * Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones comic
 * Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones junior novel
 * Star Wars: Battlefront II
 * Star Wars Republic 61: Dead Ends
 * Star Wars: General Grievous
 * Secrets of the Jedi
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars novel
 * Star Wars Republic: The Dreadnaughts of Rendili
 * Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
 * Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith comic
 * Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith junior novel
 * The Last of the Jedi: Reckoning
 * Star Wars Rebellion: The Ahakista Gambit
 * Bloodlines
 * Bloodlines

Non-canon appearances

 * LEGO Star Wars: The Video Game
 * LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga
 * Tag & Bink: Revenge of the Clone Menace

Appearances as the New Jedi Council Chamber

 * Bloodlines
 * Exile
 * Sacrifice