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Ahch-To was a secluded, oceanic planet with island outcroppings.
From space, Ahch-To appeared to be a world of nothing but deep blue oceans orbiting twin stars. Dotting the oceans, however, were rocky island archipelagos covered with green trees and grass, where birds such as porgs would congregate. Moss, grass, and ferns also grew across the islands' rugged cliffs. The first Jedi Temple was built on one such island, known as Temple island. By the time of the conflict between the First Order and the Resistance, Temple island was dotted with Jedi ruins.
The planet was the homeworld of a large variety of creatures, such as the mysterious Lanai and the large thala-siren.
History[]
Ahch-To was the birthplace of the Jedi Order. Before the Great Jedi Purge and the Age of the Empire, Jedi scholars argued that a number of locations could be considered the birthplace of the Order. The scholars argued that Ahch-To, Tython, Coruscant, Jedha, and Ossus could all be considered candidate worlds for the Order's birth and the location of the first Jedi temple. Despite much deliberation, however, the location of the first Jedi temple was a mystery by the time the Galactic Civil War came to a close.
Luke Skywalker made use of the Jedi star compass he had discovered in the Emperor's Observatory on Pillio. With a plasma-encased supraluminite lodestone at its center, the compass functioned much like the ancient wayfinders and was attuned to specific points in hyperspace. Through studying the compass, uncovered a path to Ahch-To the site of Temple island and the first Jedi temple. With the help of Lor San Tekka, Skywalker finally put together the many clues and learned the location of the temple, keeping this information to himself.
30 years after the Battle of Endor, Ahch-To served as the secret refuge of Luke Skywalker following the Jedi massacre, he vanished in his X-wing starfighter of the T-65B line and went in search of the first Jedi temple. He entered into a self-imposed exile on Ahch-To, landed his X-wing starfighter in a shallow inlet, residing on an island with stone ruins, and cut himself from the Force.. After finding all the pieces of a map that led to him, Rey, Chewbacca and R2-D2 traveled to this planet in the Millennium Falcon. They landed on a desolate island in the middle of an ocean. Here, Rey climbed a rocky stairway up to a monastery and found Luke staring out over the ocean. He turned to face her, and she stretched out her hand to offer him his old lightsaber back.
Rey had many revelations of the Force on the planet and eventually left to face Kylo Ren, Luke refusing to go with her. Luke eventually sacrificed himself for the dying Resistance by using a force projection of himself to send to Crait. The action was so strenuous that he became one with the force following the event.
One year later, following her confrontation against Ren and the revelation that the resurrected Darth Sidious was her grandfather, fearing that she would fall to the dark side of the Force, Rey fled to Ahch-To in Kylo Ren's TIE whisper and intended to live out the rest of her days there in self-imposed exile as Skywalker had previously done. However, Skywalker's spirit appeared to her and encouraged Rey to not give up like he did and to realize that her blood would not define her legacy nor her actions. Since she purposely crashed the TIE fighter, he lifted his old X-wing out of the water for her to fly to Exegol.
Appearances[]
Star Wars: Episode VII The Force Awakens- Star Wars: The Force Awakens novelization
- Star Wars: The Force Awakens: A Junior Novel
- The Force Awakens: Rey's Story
- The Force Awakens Golden Book
- The Force Awakens Read-Along Storybook and CD
- Star Wars: The Force Awakens Graphic Novel Adaptation
- The Force Awakens, Part VI
- Star Wars: Episode VIII The Last Jedi
- Star Wars: The Last Jedi: Expanded Edition
- Star Wars: The Last Jedi: A Junior Novel
- The Last Jedi Adaptation 1
- The Last Jedi Adaptation 4
- The Last Jedi: Rey's Journey
- Chewie and the Porgs
- "Tales from Wild Space: The Best Pet"—Star Wars Adventures 5
- Porg Problems
