2514, Planetary-Scale Temple
Koronar, who called himself "Blackhole," was one of the Milky Way Galaxy's most powerful Dark Side Force users and Dark Advisor to Emperor Palpatine of the Galactic Empire.
At this moment, one of the Galactic Empire's most powerful men was meditating inside a dark temple.
This place lay on the 5,000th underground level of the Imperial Center, the capital of the Empire—Coruscant. Coruscant had been excavated downward and transformed into an immense structure of 5,073 levels, enough to be described as a hive city. The planet's population exceeded one trillion!
To sustain such an enormous population, nearly everything below around the 4,000th underground level of Coruscant consisted of colossal life-support systems. They included energy systems, water supply and drainage systems, sewage systems, air purification systems, food synthesis systems, weather-control systems, earthquake-elimination systems, and more.
Many of these systems had histories stretching back tens of thousands of years, and their routine repair and maintenance had long since been entirely entrusted to fully automated engineering robots. Some machines were unimaginably huge. Everywhere, one could see massive hydraulic components extending beyond the eye's reach, each over a thousand meters in size. Standing beneath such machinery, a person would feel so insignificant that they were not even comparable to a speck of dust within it.
And at a place like the 5,000th underground level, sunlight had long been unable to reach it. This place was already more than 1,500 kilometers below the surface.
In this dark place without daylight, filled with roaring machinery, filthy beggars, and even mutant creatures, Blackhole had built a dark temple. Just as the 5,000th underground level concealed all manner of filth, this dark temple constantly exuded an aura of coldness, decay, and destruction.
Blackhole sat inside the temple. This time, rather than controlling his puppets as