The Malachor superweapon was an ancient Sith superweapon[4] constructed by the year 3966 BBY[1] by the ancient Sith Lord Darth Tanis.[3] It required a giant kyber crystal to be powered, and it was housed in a temple on Malachor.[4] It had the power to petrify living beings. During the Great Scourge of Malachor, the weapon fired, petrifying the warriors battling there.[2] In 3 BBY,[5] The former Sith Lord Maul tricked the young Padawan Ezra Bridger and his friends into activating the superweapon by making them believe that putting a Sith holocron, which was found inside the temple, on top of the structure would reveal the secrets of defeating the Sith. The Inquisitors attempted to stop the Jedi and Maul from using the holocron, but were killed during their encounter.[2]
When Ezra put the holocron in the weapon's obelisk, it activated and began firing a huge beam of energy into the sky. Shortly afterwards, Darth Vader arrived to take the Sith temple's power for Emperor Palpatine. Before he could kill Bridger, the former Jedi Ahsoka Tano intervened and battled the Sith Lord outside the temple's obelisk. While the two dueled, Bridger and his master Kanan Jarrus—who was blinded by Maul, but was able to defeat the dark sider by pushing him off the temple's cliff—prevented the machine from completing its firing cycle by removing the holocron from the obelisk, causing the whole temple to collapse. Bridger and his master Kanan Jarrus managed to escape before the temple exploded. Vader and Tano survived the explosion and parted company. The apparent loss of Tano on top of Maul's betrayal affected Bridger, causing him to drift closer to the dark side.[2]
Appearances[]
- Darth Maul (2017) 2 (In flashback(s))
- Age of Republic - Darth Maul 1
- Darth Vader (2017) 25 (Vision to Darth Vader)
- Star Wars Rebels — "Twilight of the Apprentice" (First appearance)
- Maul: A Star Wars Rebels Cinestory Comic
- Star Wars Rebels — "A World Between Worlds"
Sources[]
- Star Wars Helmet Collection 28 (Databank A-Z: Queen Jamillia–Jedi Temples)
- Star Wars: The Visual Encyclopedia (First identified as Malachor superweapon)
- Star Wars Helmet Collection 37 (Databank A-Z: Luggabeast–Malakili)
- Star Wars Helmet Collection 38 (Databank A-Z: Baze Malbus–Darth Maul)
- Star Wars: Absolutely Everything You Need to Know, Updated and Expanded
- Star Wars: The Dark Side
- Star Wars: How Not to Get Eaten by Ewoks and Other Galactic Survival Skills
- Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker: The Visual Dictionary
- Star Wars: X-Wing Second Edition — Hotshots and Aces Reinforcements Pack (Card: Fifth Brother) (Picture only)
- Star Wars: The Secrets of the Sith
- The Force in the Databank (backup link) (Picture only)
Notes and references[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker: The Visual Dictionary states that Sith accounts describing the Malachor superweapon were made four-thousand years before the Starkiller Incident, which Star Wars: Galactic Atlas dates to 34 ABY. From this it can deduced that the accounts were made in 3966 BBY.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Star Wars Rebels — "Twilight of the Apprentice"
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker: The Visual Dictionary
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Star Wars: The Visual Encyclopedia
- ↑ Star Wars Super Graphic: A Visual Guide to a Galaxy Far, Far Away states that Ahsoka Tano fought Darth Vader on Malachor three years before the events of Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope, which Star Wars: Galactic Atlas dates to 0 BBY. Therefore, the Mission to Malachor took place in 3 BBY.