At the point when the Empire rose up out of the fiery remains of the Clone Wars, Emperor Palpatine made sure that they modified history in their favor. As indicated by him, the Jedi were the reason the galaxy fell into confusion. Rather than peacekeepers, they were shown as instigators and even worse. Other than murdering the rest of the Jedi in a purge, the Empire likewise eradicated traces of the order wherever they could by pulverizing Jedi Temples. However, The Empire didn’t wreck everything. In fact, one temple is still around in the decades after Return of the Jedi, and it’s there that we witnessed Luke Skywalker towards the end of The Force Awakens.
We’ll come back to Ahch-To in The Last Jedi, apparently to watch Luke and Rey prepare and have vital dialogs about the eventual fate of the Jedi Order. Han had told Rey and Finn that individuals thought Luke went looking for the very first Jedi temple. Furthermore, Episode VIII director and writer Rian Johnson affirmed to Vanity Fair that it was valid. As indicated by Vanity Fair, he “has been living in this village among an indigenous race of caretaker creatures.”
Johnson had called it a little Jedi village. The thought of a temple with overseers is something we’ve seen before on Jedha in Rogue One. The Temple of the Whills on the planet wasn’t specific to Jedi, however watchmen like Baze and Chirrut guarded over the disciples.
Johnson’s declarations affirm Luke was searching for the first temple, yet doesn’t specify whether Ahch-To is that place. In fact, the book Star Wars: Complete Locations reveals to us Jedi scholars have different views about the location of the first Jedi Order temple. They had made cases for the temples on Coruscant, Jedha, Ossus, Tython, and Ahch-To. In case you’re Luke and hunting down direction about what to do after your earnest attempts have brought about misery and decimation, it is only sensible that you’d want to find the place where everything started.
The very first Jedi temple could offer some knowledge into essential whys and hows, or possibly Luke is planning to discover the answers to inquiries concerning the history and aim of the Jedi Order originators. I believe he’s a man hunting down answers. It’s understandable why he is backpedaling to the beginning stage.
Our encounters with Jedi temples in the motion pictures, TV shows, and the past have unquestionably been illuminating. There’s the undeniable area on Coruscant, which we saw more than once in the prequel trilogy and in Star Wars: The Clone Wars.
The temple was built over a Sith shrine and a characteristic tower that pulled in Force-users and not just the Jedi back then. This temple was expansive and a place of spiritual development and study, a place to learn and consummate physical abilities, and a beehive of knowledge. Consider it the Jedi Headquarters.
Another temple was situated on Ilum. That area, home to kyber precious stones, was in the end destroyed by the Empire. We had seen Ahsoka take a group of Padawans there to discover the precious stone for their lightsabers. If you jump forward to Star Wars Rebels, we viewed Kanan and Ezra visit Lothal’s Jedi Temple since they required help finding their way. The temples dabbed around the galaxy were stations and places for Jedi to reach when they were on missions or before they were more focussed on Coruscant.
Hop into the days after A New Hope, and we saw Luke as he was pulled to Devaron’s Temple of Eedit; he utilized the regular vergence in the Force there to step up his training. After that experience, we saw Luke hunting down other Jedi Temples in the Star Wars comic with the goal of picking up learning. He knows and has encountered what the temples bring to the table, which is likely one reason he hunts for the first temple years after he’s lost his inclination.
In The Last Jedi trailer, Luke stated, “I only know one truth. It’s time for the Jedi to end.”
Perhaps what he’s learned at the first temple and learnt from the overseers prompted that sentence. He went there to maybe interface with the past of the Jedi Order. He’s swung to the temples in his past for a lift and to increase more prominent seeing, so why not currently?
