With the help of Lor San Tekka, he finally put together the many clues and learned the location of the temple, a discovery that he and San Tekka kept secret. Through studying the compass, he uncovered a path to Ahch-To, the site of Temple island and the first Jedi Temple. 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. Luke Skywalker made use of the Jedi star compass he had discovered in the Emperor's storehouse on Pillio. Īs an ally of Jedi Knight Luke Skywalker and his sister, Princess Leia Organa, San Tekka helped the last Jedi recover secret Jedi lore that the Empire had tried to erase. This helped the New Republic greatly, as the Empire destroyed many documents that would have been useful for galactic reconstruction. Following the defeat of the Empire at the Battle of Endor, San Tekka aided the fledgling New Republic by providing bureaucrats with information regarding worlds across the galaxy. San Tekka was a seasoned traveler and explorer on the remote fringes of the galaxy. San Tekka had a map that could lead to Jedi Master Luke Skywalker, who went into exile after the destruction of his Jedi Order. He uncovered much of the history of the Jedi Knights that the Empire attempted to bury, leading many individuals to seek him out for his knowledge of Jedi lore. San Tekka was a member of the Church of the Force during Imperial rule, following the underground faith that believed in the Jedi ideals despite not being Force-sensitive himself. After the rise of the Galactic Empire and the destruction of the Jedi, San Tekka never believed the Emperor when he branded the Jedi traitors. As a young man, he came to have a high regard for the Jedi Order and knew about the actions of the Jedi Knights during the Clone Wars. Lor San Tekka was born in the waning years of the Galactic Republic. He left long ago." ―A Crèche elder and Poe Dameron, on the whereabouts of Lor San Tekka
I just need to talk to him, and then I'm out of your hair, I promise. He was here, unless there's another giant egg shrine around somewhere. San Tekka's sacrifice was not in vain the map was given to the Resistance, and a young Force-user named Rey followed it to Ahch-To and found the exiled Jedi Master. When San Tekka refused to comply, Ren killed him. San Tekka gave the map fragment to Resistance Commander Poe Dameron and was soon captured by Kylo Ren, who demanded to know where the map was. He was sought by the Resistance, led by Skywalker's sister, General Leia Organa, as well as the resurgent Imperial force known as the First Order. San Tekka, who retired to a spiritual village on the planet Jakku, discovered a fragment of a map that could lead to Ahch-To. At some point, San Tekka lived with the Crèche and learned about their spiritual culture.Īfter Skywalker's new generation of Jedi was destroyed by his nephew and apprentice, Kylo Ren, Skywalker went into exile and sought out the first Jedi Temple on Ahch-To. Lor San Tekka also helped Luke Skywalker, the last known Jedi Knight at the time, seek out Jedi lore that the Empire had attempted to destroy. San Tekka found Jedi lore that the Empire attempted to suppress, and his knowledge of the galaxy and its history was useful to the New Republic after it prevailed over the Empire during the Battle of Endor and began a period of galactic reconstruction.
He became a believer in the ideals of the Jedi Order during the Clone Wars, despite not being Force-sensitive, and followed the underground faith of his church during the dark times of the Galactic Empire's rule over the galaxy. Lor San Tekka was a human male explorer and member of the Church of the Force who was born in the waning years of the Galactic Republic. Without the Jedi, there can be no balance in the Force." ―Lor San Tekka to Commander Poe Dameron " I have traveled too far and seen too much to ignore the despair in the galaxy.