Dark Temple

The Dark Temple was an expansive Sith structure on the planet Dromund Kaas. Built by the followers of the Sith Lord Pharshol during the Old Sith Empire, the building contained the spirits of Pharshol, his rival Vacuus, and many others for thousands of years, and Sith Lords such as Aloysius Kallig and Ergast were buried in or near the structure, though it fell into obscurity along with the rest of Dromund Kaas until after the Great Hyperspace War between the Empire and the Galactic Republic. The Sith Emperor who reconstituted the Empire on Dromund Kaas in 4980 BBY took the Dark Temple as his own, ordering a massive expansion of the structure and using it as the site of his experiments into the dark side of the Force. The Emperor also entombed many of his enemies in the Dark Temple for several centuries before ordering the building to be sealed, and the Dark Temple contained vengeful spirits and powerful artifacts for almost a thousand years until it was opened during the period of unrest known as the Cold War. Roused by the fury of Lord Kallig, the spirits of the Dark Temple took control of the explorers and archaeology teams sent into the Temple, and the Imperial Military and the Sith struggled to keep the threats posed by the building's secrets contained in the months following the Temple's opening. The Dark Temple was later cleared of the possessed workers and Sith spirits by the Imperial Guard and the Emperor himself, and the Guard defended the Temple in vain against an assault by the crew of the Jedi Knight known as the Hero of Tython in 3640 BBY. The Knight and the astromech droid T7-O1 battled the Emperor in a final confrontation within the Temple, and the Emperor brought down a large part of the Temple as his essence was forced to leave his dying host body.

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