Star Wars Confirms How Luke Found The Jedi Temple on Ahch-To

The original Star Wars filmed spawned a franchise so enormous that it's basically impossible to keep up with every facet of it and still lead a normal life, though many do their absolute best.

One of the coolest parts of the wider lore these days is the earlier portion of history in the galaxy far, far away, from the Old Republic to the High Republic, a time which the films rarely touch upon in detail.

That said, The Last Jedi introduces us to Ahch-To on the big screen, an oceanic planet that served as the staging ground for the foundation of the Jedi Order, more than a thousand generations before the fall of the Galactic Republic.

Though the planet had been looked after by an alien race simply known as the Caretakers, the location of the planet had been lost for a very long time before Luke Skywalker managed to track it down, and the first Jedi Temple found there.

But how did he do it? Well, it turns out there's now an answer for that, some eight years after the film's original release.

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Luke Skywalker's Star Compass Was Originally Found on Naboo

As first reported by ComicBook.com, Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures season three confirms that the Star Compass Luke uses was originally aboard a starship known as the Twilight Explorer.

That ship crashed into Naboo's enormous ocean trenches before being rediscovered during the High Republic era, following which the Star Compass was retrieved from its ancient hull.

Though the Jedi held it for a long time, they never really managed to unlock its secrets, before the compass taken from the Jedi Temple by Palpatine's forces after Order 66, before being stored in one of his secret observatories. It was there that Luke managed to nab it, taking years to unravel all of its secrets successfully.

Luke Skywalker uses the device, which functions similarly to a Sith Wayfinder, to track down the first Jedi Temple, abandoning the galaxy to pursue it after several notable failures on his part.

That new revelation confirms the technology to be exceptionally ancient, with The Bad Batch first showing viewers a similar artifact which they claim predated the very old Jedi Order entirely.

Fingers crossed new Star Wars properties give us more of a look at this early period in the galaxy's history, as there are plenty of rich and untapped narrative veins for writers to jump into.