The Star Wars prequels introduced the Jedi Temple on Coruscant. This location functioned as a monastery for Jedi Knights and an academy where young Padawan learners trained to master the light side of the Force. Through many movies, television shows, comics and books, Star Wars canon details this sacred place.
In the Legends continuity, however, there exists another Force training school not as widely known: the Sith Academy. This establishment was so great that it actually spread across thousands of years and consisted of a multitude of different academies. The Trayus Academy, the Sith Arts Academy, the Korriban Academy and the Temple of the Sith are four prominent ones.
Built millennia before the Mandalorian Wars on the planet Malachor V, this Sith training facility was a place where dark side teachings and energies ran strong. While the academy was eventually abandoned and left unused for many years, Jedi Knight Revan rediscovered it during the aforementioned Mandalorian Wars. He uncovered deep dark side history and knowledge, as well as the secret that ancient Sith still existed in the unknown regions of space, posing a huge threat to the galaxy. This played a part in his inevitable fall to the dark side. However, in the intermediate, it spurred him to create a new government and militia, as he feared the Galactic Republic was not strong enough to defend the galaxy from these impending menaces.
When Revan fell to the dark side, he used the Trayus Academy as a Sith base during the Jedi Civil War. Sith assassins captured Jedi and brought them to the academy, where the presence of the dark side was so strong that Revan could easily get them to turn. Later, Darth Trayus, Darth Zion and Darth Nihilus joined to reign over the Trayus Academy, and it was under their command that it became the most powerful it had ever been. Eventually, the facility was destroyed when Malachor V was obliterated by the Mass Shadow Generator.
Not much is known about the Sith Arts Academy. Mentioned first in the novel Geonosis and the Outer Rim Worlds and later in Jedi vs. Sith: The Essential Guide to the Force, this facility was established on Thule sometime before the Battle of Naboo. The Sith Arts Academy was once overseen by the fallen Jedi Drevekka Hoctu.
The Korriban Academy was arguably the most prominent Sith training facility in Legends. Established in 3996 BBY, nearly four thousand years prior to Anakin Skywalker's arrival at the Jedi Temple, the Korriban Academy was used during the Jedi Civil War and the Cold War. While it was used to train Sith, it also ran archaeological projects located in the Valley of the Sith.
During the Mandalorian Wars, Darth Revan and Darth Malak reopened the Korriban Academy. They recruited fallen Jedi who were either disillusioned with the Jedi Order, the war or the Republic. Throughout the years, the facility was destroyed and rebuilt a total of three times, overtaken by the True Sith Empire and later the Brotherhood of Darkness. Obi-Wan and Anakin once visited the abandoned Korriban Academy, where the latter's dark side tendencies were further awoken.
In 130 ABY, the Temple of the Sith was constructed from the remnants of the New Jedi Temple after the Sith conquered it. It was the beginning of Darth Krayt's New Galactic Empire. Cade Skywalker was captured and brought to the Temple of the Sith to be tortured in Krayt's attempt to turn him to the dark side. Cade refused for a while, enduring the torture, until he submitted to the Sith Lord's desire to train him. The fallen Jedi spent time here learning the ways of the Dark Side until eventually returning to the light, but not as a Jedi, as he believed the Force was leading him to his true destiny — defeating the One Sith.
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