Temple of Nul

"Do you think the secrets buried in that fortress will stay hidden forever?"

The Temple of Nul was a Sith Temple that belonged to the ancient Sith Lord Darth Nul on the^[3] planet^[1] Elom that was later in ruins by the time of the third Galactic War^[4].

History

"The more we examine the powerful device at the center of these ruins, the more concerned I become. There is a dark energy that radiates from it, one that I recognize all too well. I fear how being so close to it affects Sa'har. But I must put my uneasiness aside, for now. My focus must be finding and destroying the holocron of Nul left here. All of her designs--her plans--could be within."

―Denolm Orr^[2]

The temple was built as a fortress that was spread out across the planet, which contained many of Nul's creations. The most notable ones were stored in the main temple, which rested on a high peak which housed a machine protecting a holocron that contained the locations of "unworthy" Force-sensitive children deemed useless by both the Sith and the Jedi.^[3]

After Darth Malgus's theft of an artifact on Dantooine, both the Empire and Republic learned of the artifact's original creator: Darth Nul, a Sith Lord whose records were seemingly erased from the galaxy, which prompted both superpowers to send teams to various ruined Sith and Jedi sites including Elom which was a base used by Nul.^[5]

It was visited by Jedi Master Denolm Orr and his Padawan Sa'har Kateen to retrieve a holocron, which later resulted in Denolm's death at the hands of Darth Malgus, who took the holocron and left Sa'har to escape on her own.^[3] After Malgus escaped the temple's destruction, he came face-to-face with the Alliance Commander, who defeated and imprisoned him. But Sa'har, who had also survived, found the holocron that Malgus left for her to find and escaped the planet with it.^[4]