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Lost City of the Jedi

This article is about the actual city. You may be looking for the book of the same name.

Lost City of the Jedi

General information
Constructed	c. 3,996 BBY
Destroyed	5 ABY
Location information
Planet	Yavin 4
Societal
Era(s)	Old Republic era New Republic era
Affiliation	Jedi Order

[Source]

"The Lost City of the Jedi is only a legend!"

―Trioculus^[src]

The Lost City of the Jedi was a secret underground city on the moon, Yavin 4.

1 History
2 Design
- 2.1 Jedi Library
- 2.2 Weather and Climate Command Center
3 Appearances
4 Sources
- 4.1 In other languages

HistoryEdit

"Of all the explorers who have searched for the Lost City. I don’t know of any who has lived to tell the tale."

―Zorba Desilijic Tiure.^[src]

This settlement was built by the Jedi shortly after the Great Sith War, in order to help restore the moon's ecosystem following the defeat of Exar Kun. The city also had the unintended side-effect of keeping Kun's spirit largely trapped in his temple. Thousands of years ago, it was known that Yavin 4 was a cold and barren landscape until a group of Jedi Masters discovered that they could change the climate by creating a way to bring heat from the moon's core to the surface. This involved drilling deep shafts into Yavin 4 which were designed to release steam as well as heat into the atmosphere. This in turn led to the development of the Weather and Climate Command Center. Once established, the Center manipulated the moon's environmental conditions, which in turn, made the moon warmer and more tropical. Once this was done, the Jedi began seeding the continents thus allowing lush forests to grow on Yavin 4.

Upon the completion of this terraforming process, the Jedi began to make arrangements for an underground city which, in time, would become known as the Lost City of the Jedi. The settlement was created on the moon's fourth largest continent, and it was built deep underground, below the rainforest, in a huge underground cavern. Using deep shafts similar to the ones used to release the heat in the moon's core, they created tubular transports that allowed for travel between the underground city and Topworld—which was the name given to the surface. One method of entry was a round wall made of green marble which was located in the forest. Inside the underground cavern were numerous dome houses that housed Jedi Knights as well as various pieces of advanced equipment.

After its founding, droids took over the care-taking of the settlement. The facility consisted of travel tubes, computer cubes as well as droids of every possible design. This high degree of automation meant that the city was highly busy due to its droid occupants who were always modifying the computers, making new droids or repairing old ones and doing other maintenance duties such as working on the power generators, cleaning as well as maintaining the hundred domes that dominated the city. In time, the city became forgotten and was considered nothing but a legend in the centuries that followed its creation. Nonetheless, the city remained active and its droid occupants would, on occasion, journey to the surface of the moon and gather information which was used to update the history of the galaxy for the Lost City's Jedi Library.

Around the year 7 BBY, an unknown brown-robed Jedi Master brought Ken, the supposed grandson of Emperor Palpatine, to the city to keep him safe.

The last that anyone saw of the Lost City of the Jedi was when the Grand Computer was destroyed by blaster fire in 5 ABY, leaving Supreme Prophet Kadann, DJ-88, various other Prophets, and stormtroopers inside the crumbling city. Although they escaped, the city had been damaged enough that Exar Kun was now free to wander the entire moon.

DesignEdit

"This city is a sacred place, and no Imperial must ever set foot in it."

―DJ-88 to Luke Skywalker and Ken.^[src]

Jedi LibraryEdit

"It contains all the secrets of the Jedi Knights."

―High Prophet Jedgar.^[src]

Within the Lost City of the Jedi was a great library which possessed records that dated back for thousands of years. The majority of the records were located within a master computer that possessed files placed in there by the Jedi. In addition to these electronic records, there were also ancient manuscripts as well as books. Inside this repository of knowledge was information of all civilizations and the history of all planets as well as moons that had intelligent life on them.

Weather and Climate Command CenterEdit

The complex facility was developed by the Jedi thousands of years ago and placed within the Lost City. It consisted of a series of pipe shafts that tapped into the moon's core and brought heat as well as steam to the surface. This allowed a level of control over the weather patterns of the moon and allowed it to be transformed from a barren wasteland into a tropical forest planet. Through a special code, the computer was capable of being accessed, and directed to release steam, thus creating new climate changes such as bringing the rain season early.