Jedi Temple of Luke Skywalker

The training temple of Jedi Master Luke Skywalker comprised a structure shaped like a jar, in addition to several wooden huts. It was erected on Ossus, a site known only to the Jedi Order. Ben Solo obliterated these buildings in a fit of rage following his conflict with Skywalker, unleashing a lightning storm that consumed the temple in flames and resulted in the death of many of Skywalker's Jedi apprentices. The temple also featured a designated area for the storage of starships, including vessels such as the Verity and the Grimtaash.

In the aftermath of the Battle of Endor, Luke Skywalker stood as the last remaining Jedi Knight in the galaxy. Skywalker desired to have his twin sister, Leia Organa, become his initial pupil in the ways of the Force. He commenced her training on the moon of Ajan Kloss. Organa proceeded to construct her own lightsaber and even surpassed Luke in some sparring matches. During her final training session, Organa experienced a vision foretelling the death of her unborn son, Ben Solo, should she continue down the Jedi path. This vision prompted her decision to cease her training, as well as her desire to continue serving the galaxy in ways that isolation in training would not allow.

During the New Republic Era, Luke Skywalker embarked on a journey throughout the galaxy to delve into the history of the original Jedi Order. Before initiating a new era for the Jedi, he sought to comprehend the fragmented history of the Jedi Order and uncover answers to his inquiries. He dedicated years to amassing and scrutinizing their ancient relics and texts, a pursuit complicated by the Galactic Empire's purge of the Jedi Order and its historical records.

Within an observatory on Pillio where Darth Sidious had accumulated such relics, Skywalker discovered a compass containing a supraluminite lodestone attuned to hyperspace vectors. He opted to take it with him rather than permit Inferno Squad agent Del Meeko to destroy it alongside the observatory as part of the Emperor's contingency plan, Operation: Cinder. Lieutenant Shara Bey of the Rebel Alliance aided Skywalker in retrieving two small uneti trees from Vetine, the sole remnants of the Great Tree that once flourished within the training ground of the Jedi Temple on Coruscant. Following the Battle of Jakku, Skywalker remained dedicated to his extensive quest. He received assistance in his endeavors from the scholar and explorer Lor San Tekka. With San Tekka's support, coupled with pivotal insights gleaned from his own investigations into the distribution of uneti saplings, Skywalker deduced the location of the First Jedi Temple on Ahch-To. However, he chose not to disclose this discovery.

Around 9 ABY, Luke Skywalker brought Grogu to Ossus, where he instructed the foundling in the ways of the Force. He also deployed numerous ant droids to commence the construction of a circular, stone edifice. During the construction phase, Din Djarin arrived to deliver a set of Beskar chainmail armor that he had commissioned for Grogu, and was guided to the temple's construction site by R2-D2. After observing the ant droids in action, the Mandalorian dozed off on a bench crafted for him by the droids. Djarin awoke to find Ahsoka Tano watching over him. Following their reunion, Djarin inquired about the purpose of the construction, to which she replied that it would be "a great school", with Grogu as its inaugural student. Djarin then requested to see Grogu, and she escorted him to witness the foundling training with Master Skywalker beneath a tree on a hill, but cautioned that seeing him would impede Grogu's training. Djarin ultimately decided against visiting the child, instead entrusting Tano with his gift to give to him.

Skywalker persisted in training Grogu in the wooded areas surrounding the temple, and the child exhibited significant progress in his abilities. Some time later, within the now completed temple structure, after contemplating whether the foundling genuinely desired to become a Jedi, Skywalker presented Grogu with a choice. He could accept the chainmail armor that Djarin had brought for him and abandon his training, returning to the Mandalorian, or he could take Jedi Master Yoda's former lightsaber, remaining on the path of the Jedi with Skywalker and relinquishing his attachment to Djarin. Grogu ultimately chose to take the chain mail armor, depart Ossus, and rejoin Djarin as a Mandalorian foundling once more.

Leia Organa, who had ascended to the position of senator in the New Republic, discerned that her son was in peril from the enigmatic dark side wielder Snoke. Ben Solo possessed a strong connection to the Force, but lacked training, and his destructive outbursts prompted numerous hushed discussions between Organa and his father, Han Solo. In 15 ABY, when Solo reached the age of ten, Organa entrusted her son to his uncle in the hopes of safeguarding him in the light side as a Jedi.

Luke Skywalker and Ben Solo embarked on a shared journey to gather Jedi history and artifacts, with Solo displaying a particular interest in ancient weaponry while dismissing other items as mere old junk. The items that Skywalker discovered were secured within his temple, a decision that Solo privately contested in his clandestine telepathic exchanges with Snoke. During one particular expedition, Lor San Tekka guided them to the former Jedi outpost on Elphrona, where they unearthed a treasure trove of Jedi relics and encountered the Knights of Ren for the first time. Among the items that Skywalker found on his quest were eight books and scrolls comprising a collection of sacred texts, a Jedi Crusader pendant, Jedi holocrons, and the contents of a cache concealed by Jocasta Nu, the former Chief Librarian of the Jedi Archives.

During his travels, Skywalker amassed disciples who would become his students alongside Solo when he established his training temple. At the temple, Skywalker imparted his teachings to Solo and several other apprentices, including Hennix, Tai and Voe. In his lessons on the nature of the Force, he elucidated how the Force permeated everything and that all things were equal within it. Although some, like Solo, might find it easier to channel the Force through them, that did not render any being inherently stronger than another. Skywalker instructed them in Jedi techniques and traditions such as telekinesis, meditation, and the use and construction of lightsabers.

As Solo and his initial classmates matured and became Padawans, younger children continued to be brought into Skywalker's temple to become new younglings. A Twi'lek named Enyo was entrusted with assisting in their training. At one juncture, following a series of visions and an aiding visit from Lor San Tekka, Skywalker placed the young Solo in charge of the temple while he departed to commence his Quest for Exegol. At times during Solo's training, Skywalker detected a growing darkness within his nephew, but remained confident that he could contain it and steer Solo towards the path of the light. Solo, however, suspected that his uncle harbored jealousy towards his power, and asserted that he was more powerful than his uncle realized after Skywalker's return from the Quest for Exegol. He concealed secrets from his uncle and from his fellow Padawans until it was too late.

One night in 28 ABY, Skywalker's concerns for Solo intensified to the point where he resolved to enter his nephew's room and confront him. While peering into the mind of his sleeping nephew, Skywalker sensed an encroaching darkness and the machinations of Snoke. Instinctively, Skywalker activated his lightsaber. However, it was a fleeting impulse, and Skywalker was soon overcome by shame and regret. Awakening to find his uncle looming over him with lightsaber drawn, Solo believed that he intended to kill him and engaged Skywalker in combat, demolishing his own dwelling with the Force in the process.

Presuming his uncle dead, Solo departed the ruins of his room, bewildered and consumed by despair and rage at the perceived betrayal. Driven by his fear and anger, Solo obliterated the temple and many of its students with a powerful lightning storm from the sky that engulfed the temple in flames and resulted in the deaths of the Jedi within. Despite having instigated the destruction, he was shocked by the outcome. Hennix, Tai, and Voe returned in their starship Verity while the temple still burned. Sensing only Solo's presence, they confronted their fellow pupil, who informed them that Skywalker had attempted to murder him. Skeptical of Solo's account and wary of his perceived arrogance, they attempted to apprehend him, but he escaped in his starship and sought out Snoke on a space station. Hennix, Tai, and Voe resolved to locate Solo in order to ascertain what had transpired. In the ensuing confrontations, Solo inadvertently killed Hennix, the leader of the Knights of Ren known as "Ren" killed Tai, and Solo killed Voe.

Sometime after its destruction, a distraught Skywalker emerged from the ruins of Solo's hut, approached R2-D2, and collapsed to his knees, watching the temple he had built burn, knowing that Solo had destroyed the Temple and caused the deaths of his fellow pupils.

The destruction of Luke Skywalker's Jedi temple would have substantial repercussions for both Skywalker and Ben Solo. Skywalker incorrectly assumed that Solo had massacred those who refused to embrace the dark side and had recruited the remainder to depart with him. Overwhelmed by grief and despair at his failure to rebuild the Jedi Order, Skywalker retreated to the planet Ahch-To in the Unknown Regions, the location of the first Jedi Temple, bringing the remaining Jedi relics with him. Skywalker came to believe that the Jedi legacy was one of failure and severed his connection to the Force.

Having succumbed to the dark side, Solo adopted the persona of Kylo Ren and became Supreme Leader Snoke's apprentice, as well as a First Order warlord and master of the Knights of Ren. Prior to the Battle of Takodana, the young Force-sensitive scavenger named Rey experienced a vision that included glimpses of Skywalker and his astromech droid R2-D2 observing the burning temple in the background.

Ren and Rey shared a unique connection through the Force. As their connection manifested into a powerful bond capable of bridging their minds across the galaxy, Ren recounted his version of the night he destroyed the temple, revealing to Rey his conviction that Skywalker had attempted to murder him, thereby contradicting Skywalker's earlier account to Rey. When Rey confronted Skywalker, he divulged further details of the encounter that preceded the temple's destruction, along with his beliefs regarding the events that transpired in the aftermath. This prompted Rey to hope that Ren could be redeemed and returned to the light side.

Following the Battle of Crait, the newly appointed Supreme Leader Kylo Ren briefly revisited the ruins of the temple, seeking to find the ghost of his uncle and former master. Discovering nothing but ruins, he commanded General Hux to obliterate the remains with an orbital bombardment.

The charred ruins of Luke Skywalker's Jedi temple were briefly depicted in the 2015 film Star Wars: Episode VII The Force Awakens, during Rey's vision. Although the location was not explicitly identified in the movie itself, the novelization by Alan Dean Foster and junior novelization by Michael Kogge both described that building as a temple. In the 2017 film Star Wars: Episode VIII The Last Jedi, Skywalker referred to it as a training temple.

While it is most frequently called a temple outside of the narrative and frequently within the narrative in-universe, various out-of-universe sources allude to it as an "academy," such as the Star Wars: Card Trader card "The Fall of Luke's Jedi Academy," a 2020 reference book Star Wars: The Lightsaber Collection, and one in-universe source "Chapter 6: From the Desert Comes a Stranger," directed by Dave Filoni.

During the initial stages of development for The Force Awakens, one of the numerous concepts that George Lucas conceived for the Star Wars sequel trilogy involved Luke training his new disciple Kira (later renamed Rey in the finalized version of the film) at a Jedi temple situated on the planet that ultimately became Ahch-To. Artwork from this period is featured in The Art of Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Skywalker's Jedi temple and the Luke/Rey storyline ultimately found their way into the flashback sequences of The Last Jedi.

In Star Wars Legends, Luke Skywalker trained his new generation of Jedi at a Jedi academy known as the Jedi Praxeum on Yavin 4. After its destruction by the Yuuzhan Vong Skywalker reestablished the academy on Ossus, the same location it was initially established in canon.

On October 1, 2021 on Disney+ the non-canon LEGO Star Wars Terrifying Tales presented the temple in the segment titled "The Lost Boy." The LEGO depiction positioned the temple near a populated town that was close enough for Ben Solo to reach by walking, instead of being in a secret location. The segment also depicted the Knights of Ren at the temple during Solo's initiation into their speeder bike gang, and Solo preventing Trudgen from setting the temple ablaze with a torch.