#superweapon

I keep seeing people asking, “Why is Malachor so dark?” “Why does everything seem to go as wrong as it possibly can on this planet?”

Well strap yourselves in because I’m going to explain it.

First thing y’all need to understand is that there was a massive war about 4000 years before the prequel trilogy. Two wars in fact, back-to-back. Malachor’s whole issue starts at the end of the first one, the Mandalorian War. In fact, the planet is the exact place where the war ended definitively. Malachor V was the final battlefield, the location of Revan’s final trap.

The Mass Shadow Generator.

This was another one of those super weapons that the Sith ate so fond of. Though it is to my knowledge the only one commissioned and fired by a Jedi. It turned the already high gravity of Malachor V into a weapon that dragged hundreds of ships from both the Mandalorian and Republic fleets down into the surface of the planet. This resulted in everyone and everything on those ships dying, including dozens of Jedi.

And if you’re thinking that the Death Star was just as bad, I’m not done. The Death Star was a fairly quick death, the planet was gone. Malachor V is still there. The fact that so many died at once combined with the planet still being there created what was essentially a massive gaping wound in the force. This wound would scar, generating what is essentially a field of pain, betrayal, and negativity that covers the entire system that even affects Force-blind people.

That scene from Pitch Red where Martin and Mabel watch Federation One test-fire the OCULUS.

Spaceguard Turret Network ‘Stonehenge’