Malachor V (Legacy of the Force)

"Many things do I see as I gaze here from the heart of Malachor. This place...channels such energies."

- Darth Traya Malachor V was a planet located on the Outer Rim. It had two moons orbiting it, Malachor V-a and Malachor V-b.

History
Few is known about Malachor before the Mandalorian Wars except that the Sith built a colony and an academy. The activation of the Mass Shadow Generator in the Battle of Malachor V (3960 BBY) caused the destruction of the planet's surface, killing everything on its surface in seconds. The Sith Triumvirate, and later Nihilus's Sith Empire established it's capital on the Trayus Academy, where a prosperous city was built.

The planet remained under Nihilus's Sith Empire until the Second Sith Civil War, when the True Sith joint forces with the Galactic Republic, and conquered Malachor V by the use of the mass shadow generator, a second and final time. After the activation two planetoids formed off the planet were formed, Malachor V-a, where the Trayus Academy was and Malachor V-b.

Under sith leadership a massive project was started to rebuild Malachor V-a which took centuries to complete. The Sith begun an ambitious project to make of Malachor V-a a military station, and of Trayus a weapon able to carbonize entire planets, something the Confederation of Independent Systems would borrow for their planned Death Star millenia later. However, the project was never finished, as a jedi expeditionary force attacked Trayus at 2791 BBY. The weapon was activated, but who and why it was activated will be never known. The weapon misfired, and all Jedi and Sith fighting in the planetoid turned to ashes in moments.

Several millenia later, in 3 BBY, the crew of the Ghost arrived to Malachor V-a, where they found Maul, former Sith Lord, who manipulated Ezra Bridger into activating the Trayus Academy and getting Darth Traya's Holocron for him. However, Maul had to flee when Darth Vader arrived to the planet, alerted of the Ghost's presence. There he fought against his former Padawan Ahsoka Tano, though sparing her at the end.