Background: Malachor was a rocky, hellish wasteland
planet shrouded in mystery. It was the location of an
event known as the Great Scourge of Malachor, which
took place thousands of years before the conflict
between the First Order and the Resistance. During the
reign of the Galactic Empire, Jedi Master Yoda told Ezra
Bridger, a Padawan, to find Malachor to help him defeat
Darth Vader and the Inquisitors.
At some point in time, the Sith were able to
establish a presence on the planet Malachor,
constructing a massive temple beneath its surface. This
temple held a collosal kyber crystal which was used to
power the temple. Thousands of years before the
brewing war between the First Order and the
Resistance, the planet was the location of a massive
battle, in which the Jedi Order launched an all-out
assault in which the temple's weapon misfired and
petrified everyone on the planet. After these events,
Malachor was made forbidden to the Jedi, though
stories of what had happened were passed down,
forming the basis of many legends. Millennia later, the
debris of war still littered the battlefield.
Due to its infamy, Malachor was often invoked as a
curse word. While contemplating his strategy for
getting himself and his team of astromech droids off the
desert world of Abafar, Colonel Meebur Gascon
exclaimed that there was "no way in Malachor" that he
would lead his team on an assault on a
Separatistlanding field. Years later, during the reign of
the Galactic Empire, the crime lord Cikatro Vizago of the
Broken Horn Syndicate used Malachor as an epithet
while working with the smuggler Lando Calrissian.