The Detention Center was a series of secure chambers located in the southwest quarter of the Jedi Temple on Coruscant. Established millennia before the Clone Wars to house captured Sith and their creatures, the Center would later be used to hold insolent members of the Jedi Order from minor to major infractions.[1] While the chambers would be destroyed during the Great Jedi Purge at the rise of the Galactic Empire, the Center would be reconstructed in the new Jedi Temple circa 35 ABY.[2]
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Located in the southwest quarter of the Temple, the Detention Center was a large area established on the level above the Room of a Thousand Fountains and below the Halls of Healing. Made up of several different specialized facilities and blocks, the Detention Center was a huge complex. The exterior chambers were lit with a harsh orange light and were used to house Sith, Dark Jedi , and their Sithspawn. Designed to withstand the powers of the dark side of the Force, most of the chamber was reinforced with Force- and lightsaber-resistant metals as well as being encased in ray shield cover.
Less secure rooms, simple holding chambers were built to hold non-Force-sensitives, as well as Jedi apprentices that had broken Temple rules and needed to be held until a ranking Jedi could issue a just punishment. The laundry shafts in the Temple were designed to capture any living beings that entered the chute and deposit them within a holding room in the Center.[2]
The Asylum Block of the Temple Detention Center was a comfortable two-story transparisteel cube located in its own blue-lit atrium, completely encased in a barrier field. The entire structure was surrounded by olbio trees which were home to the Force-negating ysalamari, a feature that cost the Order quite a large sum of credits. Upon approach, a small golden access point would form in the barrier field, admitting Jedi into the facility after a retinal scan was performed. A path between two rows of olbio trees led to a control room that contained equipment and security controls used to maintain the entire facility. A commissary was located within the block, access to which was attainable only if a patient was escorted by a healer. A turbolift ran the height of the Block, granting access to the second story catwalk. Each of the cells were designed with comfort in mind, aside from the lack of privacy afforded by the transparisteel walls; though the room's refreshers were located behind a privacy curtain. Equipped with bolted-down flowform seating and holograhic entertainment centers in the main living area and a small bed in each resting chamber, the cells were more or less apartments whose tenants could not leave. Each room's door was magnetically sealed, making it impervious to any tricks that a Force-impaired captive might employ. Electronic speakers were installed on the catwalk-side of the cells so that anything the patients might say would be broadcast to the healer standing watch.[11]
Layout
Located in the southwest quarter of the Temple, the Detention Center was a large area established on the level above the Room of a Thousand Fountains and below the Halls of Healing. Made up of several different specialized facilities and blocks, the Detention Center was a huge complex. The exterior chambers were lit with a harsh orange light and were used to house Sith, Dark Jedi , and their Sithspawn. Designed to withstand the powers of the dark side of the Force, most of the chamber was reinforced with Force- and lightsaber-resistant metals as well as being encased in ray shield cover.
Less secure rooms, simple holding chambers were built to hold non-Force-sensitives, as well as Jedi apprentices that had broken Temple rules and needed to be held until a ranking Jedi could issue a just punishment. The laundry shafts in the Temple were designed to capture any living beings that entered the chute and deposit them within a holding room in the Center.[2]
The Asylum Block of the Temple Detention Center was a comfortable two-story transparisteel cube located in its own blue-lit atrium, completely encased in a barrier field. The entire structure was surrounded by olbio trees which were home to the Force-negating ysalamari, a feature that cost the Order quite a large sum of credits. Upon approach, a small golden access point would form in the barrier field, admitting Jedi into the facility after a retinal scan was performed. A path between two rows of olbio trees led to a control room that contained equipment and security controls used to maintain the entire facility. A commissary was located within the block, access to which was attainable only if a patient was escorted by a healer. A turbolift ran the height of the Block, granting access to the second story catwalk. Each of the cells were designed with comfort in mind, aside from the lack of privacy afforded by the transparisteel walls; though the room's refreshers were located behind a privacy curtain. Equipped with bolted-down flowform seating and holograhic entertainment centers in the main living area and a small bed in each resting chamber, the cells were more or less apartments whose tenants could not leave. Each room's door was magnetically sealed, making it impervious to any tricks that a Force-impaired captive might employ. Electronic speakers were installed on the catwalk-side of the cells so that anything the patients might say would be broadcast to the healer standing watch.[11]
