Dantooine Jedi Academy (Jedi Renaissance)

"As on Coruscant, Force-sensitive children are taken to Dantooine as well, though it is done rarely, and only with those they believe are destined to become Jedi Knights&mdash;it is the secret nature of the place. If you are not chosen by a master when you have come of age, however&hellip; then the path of the Jedi is denied you."

- Mical

The Enclave on was one of the Jedi Order's most important academies in the wake of the, housing many of the Order's most promising students and serving as a redoubt for the Jedi High Council. Housing the Order's secret academy in the wake of so much war and conflict in the galaxy, the High Council maintained half of their membership here, while the other half remained on Coruscant to avoid mass assassination attempts. Remaining securely hidden for decades, the academy finally fell during the when  attacked Dantooine and destroyed the structure. Following the Clone Wars several millennia later, the Order rebuilt the enclave and converted it into a research facility for the Jedi Agricultural Corps.

Founding
Seeking a suitable place to establish a training center for his students, Jedi Master Vodo-Siosk Baas settled on the Khoonda Plains of with the permission of the Galactic Senate. While the Republic oversaw colonization efforts on the world, Master Baas agreed to serve as the Watchman for the system to alleviate the Republic's military obligations. Establishing a small enclave with above-ground facilities as well as an extensive below-ground academy, Baas began taking on students who were selected for their deep connection to the Force and advanced abilities. Strategically placed near the opening of an extensive cave systems filled with naturally occurring crystals essential to the construction of lightsabers, the Enclave was not the first time Jedi had been present on the world. Indeed, in the centuries before the Jedi had established their seat of power on Ossus, members of the Order had erected a temple on the grassy world after their expedition away from Tython.

Fully equipped to run independently of the main academy on Ossus, Baas administered the Enclave and oversaw the training of young and several of his peers. As a Jedi Shadow, Baas saw that the Enclave was fully stocked with weapons, armor and other tools used in the pursuit of Sith artifacts and dark side practitioners. Baas' small classes would meet out in the Ancient Grove just southeast of the Enclave and engage in lightsaber practice amid the grassy plains. Alongside Kun, the Cathar Padawans and  were considered to have the most potential among their peers and thus received the greatest amount of attention from Master Baas. Despite Baas' attentiveness, he failed to detect the darkness growing inside Kun. Attacking his master and disarming, he left Dantooine and later declared himself Dark Lord of the Sith. As war broke out between Kun's armies and the Republic, Baas departed Dantooine never to return as he was cut down on Coruscant by his former student.

Redoubt of the Council
"Even the Sith would think twice before attacking Dantooine. There are many Jedi here, including several of the most powerful Masters of the Order. There is great strength within this place."

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In the wake of Master Baas' slaying and the destruction of Ossus, an administrative council was convened to oversee the curriculum on Dantooine as part of the High Council's effort to maintain a greater control over their satellite facilities. To ensure that the High Council was protected from a massive attack on their new headquarters on Coruscant, the Dantooine Council was to be comprised of a rotation of four members of the High Council, with an occasional presence of other instructors. One of the highest priorities of the Dantooine Council was oversee the eradication of dark side teachings in the galaxy and to prevent more Jedi to follow down the path of Exar Kun. In conjunction with this mission, the Council commenced with a plan to hunt down Kun's beasts which still roamed the galaxy. Known as terentateks, these beasts plagued many Republic worlds, devouring those who crossed their path. Announcing a Great Hunt, the Council assigned large hunting parties to track down the monstrosities and purge them from the galaxy. As the Hunt's success was widely reported, the Council declared an end to the Hunt but secretly dispatched Knights, , and to wipe out the last remnants of the beasts that remained on. Despite the Council's belief that more Jedi were needed for the task, they dispatched only three Knights in order to respect the High Council's decision to keep as many Jedi off of the Sith homeworld as possible. Eventually word was received that all three Knights were killed on Korriban, failing their mission and leaving the terentatek alive and in hiding.

As the decades passed the Enclave prospered under the Council's care, coming to house nearly a hundred senior Initiates selected for their accelerated abilities. When five of the Enclave's brightest students were selected to travel to to train under the Masters of the Council there, the Council was pleased to see five masterless students swept up at once but were reluctant to send off Initiate Zayne Carrick. Carrick, despite the praise shared with the Taris Masters, was not destined for greatness in the eyes of many on the Dantooine Council; this made certain Masters on the Council wary of letting him go off to train under untested Masters they did not know well. The Council's fears were realized when the Taris Council reported back to the High Council that Carrick had murdered his colleagues in cold-blood on the night of their knighting ceremony. Devastated at the loss of five potential Knights, the Dantooine Council traveled to Coruscant to reassign the Taris Masters and close their academy. Inadvertently, Carrick's adventures helped lead to a Mandalorian conflict throughout the Ojoster sector. Eventually the Council learned that Carrick was framed by his wayward Masters, and the entire Carrick family was welcomed to take refuge on Dantooine and serve in the Enclave's civilian workforce.

As the Mandalorian conflict erupted across the Outer Rim, the High Council on Coruscant refused to engage and caused a splintering among some high-ranking Jedi Knights. Life went on as usual at the Enclave, despite the departure of some Jedi to follow the Revanchist group into war. When the Mandalorians were beaten Jedi Knights Revan and Alec disappeared suddenly, allowing a brief return to normalcy at the Enclave. Becoming more active with the local community, citizens set up shops near to the Enclave and would seek shelter from the Jedi when raiders and kath hounds harried them. Aside from training advanced Initiates and Padawans, the Jedi at the Enclave served as local peacekeepers and were often tasked with investigating the crimes of raiders who took refuge on Dantooine after the war. In particular, the Jedi specialized in solving kidnappings, murders, and family disputes. Despite this, the Dantooine Council remained willing to overlook the Mandalorian presence, only acting when an actual crime was reported. This complacency disturbed some of the locals; they looked to the Jedi for support but were faced with a lack of action until they were victimized. When the Jedi heroes Revan and Malak returned from their mysterious sojourn, they returned as Dark Lords of the Sith. The Enclave's host of Jedi Knights rushed back to the front lines to defend the Republic as many of Revan's old allies mutinied against their generals and proclaimed themselves for the Sith. More shockingly, Jedi from the Enclave abandoned their teachings and joined Darth Revan, proclaiming themselves acolytes of the Sith Order.

Under the leadership of Grand Master Vrook Lamar, the Enclave Council captured Revan at the height of the civil war and reprogrammed his mind. Once back on Dantooine, Revan underwent reconditioning at the Enclave's academy where he relearned the Jedi ways without any knowledge of his previous identity and legacy. During his training, Revan ventured out into the nearby Ancient Grove where he met with the failed Padawan. The Cathar woman had given into her anger and hatred and was a menace to nearby farmers; Revan returned her to the Order and when he left Dantooine, he took her with him. It was not long after Revan left that the Enclave began to receive an onslaught of Force-sensitives, including former Jedi who had fallen to the dark side, seeking retraining. The Enclave welcomed former Sith acolytes, and even a Sith Master, to their training headquarters and began the long, arduous process of rehabilitating such dark individuals. Not only were Force-sensitives instructed by Revan to seek out help on Dantooine; Revan met with non-Forceful beings in his travels and encouraged them to embark on a pilgrimage to the agrarian world and start a new life in the shadow of the Enclave.

Destruction and abandonment
In the final days of the Enclave, the building itself came to house many artifacts in its vast subterranean storehouse. Unbeknownst to the rest of the High Council, Master Atris had begun stealing holocrons and artifacts from the Enclave during her rotations on Dantooine. Smuggling them offworld, Atriss began hoarding these stolen relics within a secret academy on that she was building in case Dantooine was ever compromised. Along with the many Jedi trainees and fully trained Knights, half of the Council continued to use the Enclave as a secondary base. While Revan continued his search for a weapon to defeat Darth Malak and the Sith, Darth Malak launched an assault on Dantooine and ordered an orbital bombardment of the Khoonda region. While most of the Council had escaped the Enclave and Atris had smuggled the most valuable artifacts offworld, many Jedi trainees and Knights perished in the attack of 3,921 BrS. With the ground level buildings left in ruins, some Jedi and staff were trapped within the sublevels where they died of starvation or succumbed to their wounds. With any survivors fleeing offworld in hiding elsewhere on the world, scavengers and raiders swept into the ruins and began looting the Enclave's ruins, trying to sell off anything of value. Sith warriors descended on the stone heap as well, securing holocrons which detailed the locations of other academies as well.

With only the sublevels intact, the Jedi Order abandoned the Enclave for the short-term, as the ruins still echoed with the deaths of so many students. Meanwhile, Revan successfully killed Darth Malak and sent his forces fleeing into the Unknown Regions. With the Sith driven into hiding, Dantooine was once more free of the oppressive rule of the Sith. Despite their liberation, the locals held great disdain for the Jedi, blaming their plight on the Enclave's leaders. Forming their own government, the leaders of the newly formed city of Khoonda used the Enclave ruins as a leveraging tool in order to take control of the region. Allowing scavengers access to the Enclave and letting settlers establish a small settlement in the east courtyard of the Enclave complex, the city government controlled the salvage industry through the levying of taxes and fees. Helping to create a stable economy in their fledgling society, the upper levels were quickly raided and business dried up as the only salvage remaining was located in the laigrek-infested sublevels. Aside profiteers, others sought the ruins of the Enclave during its abandonment. Master Atris, wishing to gain more of the enclave's treasures, dispatched the Echani Handmaiden Brianna Voddher to search for a variety of valuable relics and take them back to Telos. Additionally Mical Herath, a diplomat of the Galactic Senate, was sent to find traces of surviving Jedi Masters in the wake of the devastation on Katarr. While searching through the Enclave's Archives and fighting off looters, Herath was discovered by Jedi who asked him to join her quest to seek out and find the surviving members of the High Council. Before leaving the Archives, Herath concluded that the extensive thieving in the library had been done by Jedi try to protect their ancient knowledge; indeed, Handmaiden Voddher had succeeded in retrieving some of the most valuable Archives relics.

Return of the Jedi
"Do you actually believe a Jedi would return here? After all they've done to us&hellip; they wouldn't dare."

- A bitter settler on Dantooine, discusses the shame of the Jedi.

With most of the Order in hiding, Grand Master Vrook Lamar sought out the Enclave's ruins to hide his presence from the Sith Triumvirate actively hunting Jedi since the end of the Order's civil war with Revan. Despite his presence in the Force being blocked by the dark side that permeated the ruins, Jedi Surik sought him out. During her search, the locals were not afraid to express their bitterness with the Jedi. Despite this, the locals were quick to support Surik after she drove a vicious band of mercenaries offworld, and in thanks, partially rebuilt the Enclave. Returning sometime later, Surik was able to enter the Enclave where the remains of the High Council had gathered. Confronting Grand Master Lamar, Zez-Kai Ell and Amus Kavar, Surik had brought the Jedi Masters together in order to call them to task and demand they join her in destroying the Sith Triumvirs. The High Council had other plans: passing judgment on her for her long ago connection with Revan and her involvement in the Mandalorian Wars, the Masters attempted to severe Surik's connection to the Force in the cavernous ruins of the old lecture hall beneath the Council chambers. Surik had not come alone however; Jedi Master Kreia had actually manipulated Surik into gathering the Jedi Master, as she was the alter ego of Chief Triumvir Darth Traya. Intervening before Surik's connection to the Force was severed, Darth Traya let Surik slip into unconsciousness before reflecting the Masters' attack back on themselves, cutting them off from the Force. Unable to live without their Force-sensitivity, the three Masters died in anguish. As Atris' Handmaiden's stormed the Enclave in search of Traya, the Sith Master fled, allowing them to capture Surik and effectively lead her back to Atris' secret academy on Telos IV.

In the wake of Darth Traya's further desecration of the Enclave site, Jedi chronicler

Following the deaths of the Jedi Masters, Jedi historian Deesra Luur Jada returned to the Enclave to survey the ruins. Discovering the bodies of the Council members, Jada determined that the Enclave could never be rebuilt, and abandoned the site to history. Despite the historian's claim, the Order reestablished operations at the site nearly a century later, but the Enclave was permanently abandoned by the time of the Great Galactic War.

Cold War
"I need your help, Lieutenant. Can you come to the ruins of the old Jedi Enclave?"

- Fortris Gall to Harron Tavus

While operations had restarted on Dantooine, the Enclave was abandoned indefinitely following the return of the Sith Empire, the original organization not seen since the Great Hyperspace War. Following a costly war with the Republic and the Jedi, the controversial Treaty of Coruscant was signed and a protracted Cold War began. During the weeks proceeding the signing of the treaty, disgruntled Jedi Knight Fortis Gall summoned Republic Lieutenant Harron Tavus to the ruins of the Enclave to inform him of his treasonous acts. Indeed, Jedi Gall was working with a group of rebellious Jedi hoping to overturn the ruling of the Galactic Senate and the Jedi High Council in order to restart the war with the Empire. After agreeing to meet with others who thought like Gall, Jedi Master Dar'Nala and the Wookiee mercenary Dalborra met with Tavus in the ruined Council Chambers. During the meeting, the Jedi managed to convince Tavus to join them in a meeting with Sith representatives in the nearby Crystal Caves,

Joined by Jedi Satele Shan, Master Dar'Nala, Jedi Gall, Lieutenant Tavus, and Dalborra entered the caves to meet with Darth Angral and Darth Baras. The negotiations broke down quickly and a skirmish broke out between both sides. During the fighting Shan realized that Master Dar'Nala had succumbed to the dark side of the Force in her attempts to destroy the Sith and, before Shan could take her quietly, Dalborra punched the Togruta Jedi in the face, killing her. With the leader of the opposition dead, the other Jedi retreated and left the caves and the Enclave behind.

Rise of the Empire
"Long ago, the Enclave was a sacred place for all Jedi&hellip;Now it stands in ruins."

- Falon Grey

The Enclave remained abandoned for the next several millennia, through war and peace time as the Jedi Order thrived on Coruscant and the Sith appeared defeated after the New Sith Wars concluded. However, war returned to the galaxy and the Republic fell at the end of the Clone Wars and with it, the Jedi Order. As the Galactic Empire took control of the galaxy, the Rebel Alliance set up a base near the ruins of the Enclave as they prepared to destroy the Empire and restore the Republic. The clone X2 and surviving Jedi Knight Falon Grey led a squadron of Alliance soldiers into the Enclave's hangar during an Imperial attack on the world. As X2 blocked the entrance as the troops fled into the ruins, his brother, X1 led the Imperial assault group into the building and killed all the troops as well as Jedi Grey. Leaving X2 for dead the Imperials withdrew from the Enclave, leaving it once more filled with corpses.

Not long after the skirmish, the Galactic Civil War consumed the galaxy and the Imperial forces clashed with rebel insurgents throughout the Empire. On Dantooine the Enclave's ruins were legendary to the locals citizens, known as "The Place of Fallen Rocks", with rumors circulating that all who entered them never returned. Detecting these rumors, the Empire propagated the idea while Darth Vader visited the Enclave in search of his son, Luke Skywalker. Vader believed that Skywalker, a Force-sensitive without a teacher, might search the Enclave for Jedi knowledge still hidden at the site. While exploring the ruin Vader discovered a mystifying cloning facility of unknown origin; Vader came to believe that the technology was a remnant of that which the ancient Jedi conducted cloning research. The chamber, completely staffed by droids, had indeed been discovered by explorers Mammon Hoole and Zak and Tash Arranda immediately before Vader's arrival. During the exploration of the Enclave, the active cloning droids successfully cloned Vader, the Arrandas and Hoole, though they suffered many defects rendering them violent. Attacking nearby settlements, the clones were eventually defeated and the cloning facility as well as the Enclave left abandoned for the final time.

Exterior
Fields of Banir

A prominent feature on Dantooine, the Jedi Enclave's facade was fashioned from local stone and masonry and made distinctive by large fin-like stone structures that encircled the complex's main buildings. Made up of three large above ground buildings and containing a ground floor and subterranean level, all areas of the Enclave were accessible from its main, central courtyard building which acted like a hub for navigating the compound.

The Enclave's northeast face looked over the Khoonda plains, an area in which most foot-traffic to and from the Enclave took place. A small courtyard was established to connect the north and east wings of the building, stretching like spokes from the central building. During the academy's heyday the courtyard was typically crowded with Jedi, settlers, and refugees from the surrounding regions, all gathering in the hopes of gaining an audience with the Jedi Council. From the courtyard the ancient Rakatan Ruins left from the Infinite Empire was slightly visable and still strong with the dark side; kath hounds near these ruins were more dangerous, and people were told by the Council to avoid the area.

To the south of the central building was the Enclave's landing platform, a long, oval-shaped building with high walls and no ceiling. Like the central building the bay's exterior stone work was ornamented by six large fins which were spaced evenly around the exterior. Several surveillance droids monitored the landing pad; in this area, Aratech opened both a general supply store and a droid facility.

Interior
The main entrance to the Enclave was accessible from the east courtyard, the main approach to the complex from the Khoonda plains. The eastern "spoke" of the academy building housed the main hallway leading into the Enclave's central courtyard building. The main above ground structure of the complex, the central building consisted of an open-air courtyard, the hub of all activity in the Enclave. At the center of the courtyard stood a large circular planter containing a large tree; benches were spaced around the area and meditation was encouraged. Located on the north wing were the visitors' quarters, used by local non-Jedi in need of a place to rest and recuperate.

Along the western wing were entry points to the main training dojo and a general gathering chamber which served as an audience chamber used by the Council to meet with locals. The large below ground chamber's floors were clear and lines of high-backed chairs ringed the curving walls of the chamber, occasionally broken by large trees set in niches in the wall. Directly above the room was the formal meeting chamber of the Jedi Council. The small rotunda's windowed walls overlooked the grassy plains outside while a ring of four chairs were positioned within.

Following Malak's attack during the Civil War the facade of the Enclave was ruined and crumbling stone littered path ways. Inside the main building grass grew up through the ruined floors and collapsed areas allowed water to pool in the sublevel. The Council Chamber suffered a direct hit during the attack and had been obliterated, revealing the lower level gathering chamber to natural light. The chamber's floor was overgrown with weeds and all furnishing had long been stolen.

Sublevel
Similar to the eastern wing, the west wing's entryway was barred by blast doors; yet while appearing outwardly the same, the entry hall descended under the Enclave's main floor and into the sublevel. Underneath the central courtyard building was a large garden chamber; large basins held flowering bushes that hung down over the stone edge of their containers. Situated on a raised dais, the garden chamber was filled with natural sunlight filtered in from above and a stone bench sat at the room's center. Scattered about the sublevel were several common rooms furnished with a few benches; there were also two large round classrooms and a room with a number of computer terminals. One of the common rooms led to a storage area, and another led to a droid bay which housed a number of GE3-series protocol droids; the Enclave's head technician, Dergar Chester, left notes about their overheating inconvenience.

While many classrooms and training chambers were found in the sublevels, the largest room was the Jedi Archives which was located underneath the landing platform. Access to the Archives was restricted to only Jedi Masters, a policy which differed from the ruined library on Ossus and the main Archives on Coruscant. Like the Archives at the Jedi Temple on the capital world, the large chamber held its collection of holobooks on large stacks along its walls. The two story chamber housed duel levels of shelves and a large open area for study. At the end of the hall stood a stone statue under a unique light fixture. Not far from the Archives chamber was was a room hosting the Enclave mainframe computer and a cluster of power conductors. In a separate chamber the Order housed rare artifacts, including armor and weapons, many of them recovered from Ossus.



Following the Sith invasion the sublevels were deemed off limits by the Khoonda Militia, the new stewards of the Enclave after the Jedi were destroyed following the Jedi Civil War. As the Enclave crumbled, beasts called laigreks began nesting in the lower levels, harrying and sometimes killing any who encroached on their eggs. A unique feature of the lower level was the inexplicable presence of a cloning facility. Ancient by the time of the Galactic Civil War, the cloning tanks resembled the more modern Spaarti cloning cylinders and they were capable of producing mature clones in a short period of time. The facility, which was completely manned by droids would scan the minds of the subjects to be cloned and implant their memories into the cloned brains. Despite the seemingly advanced technology, it was indeed flawed and produced a mild psychosis in the clones. Whether or not the cloning facility was built by the Jedi Order or by a later occupying organization is lost to history.

Behind the scenes
A Jedi Master by the name of Tar'eelok was to be encountered by Revan in the Enclave while she trained her Padawan Garum, according to game files from Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic; the player would have had the chance of discussing a number of things with her, including the properties of Cortosis mineral, the Mandalorian raiders, the ancient grove, the Jedi Code and the Masters of the Council.

Shuma The Hutt was also supposed to have a place in the Enclave and a conversation with Revan, but the character was cut.

In Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, while being interrogated by Saul Karath on the location of the enclave, Revan was quoted as saying, "Alderaan. They're on Alderaan." This is a reference to A New Hope, when Princess Leia revealed Dantooine as a fake location of a Rebel base when being interrogated by Grand Moff Tarkin, in order to protect Alderaan.

Cut content in Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords included a character named Kaevee, a Jedi Padawan who remained in the sublevel after the bombardment by the Sith. Kaevee had learned to control the laigreks that swarmed the sublevel and referred to them as her "pets".