Celestial The Celestials , also known as the Architects , were an ancient civilization who were present long before the dawn of the galactic community and even the Rakata n Infinite Empire . Believed to be responsible for a number of large artifacts and anomalous planetary formations and species placements throughout the galaxy , what little was known of the Celestials came from xenoarchaeology . The Jedi and the Sith alike theorized that the balance between the light and dark sides of the Force was actually under the guidance of the Celestials . History . Origin . What little was known of the Celestials owed to the permanence of their cosmological constructions . They were considered one of the earliest and most potent cultures of their time that were identified by the colossal objects they had left behind . Their identities were considered largely a mystery due to lack of information on them . Evidence of their works led many to determine that the galaxy was once visited by these stunningly powerful alien architects . Even their appearance was something of a mystery : the Celestials were said to have malleable form , and another theory held that they were a group of discorporate entities who had perhaps merged themselves with the Force thousands of generations earlier and continued to guide the fate of the galaxy ever since . Doctor Insmot Bowen , a pre - Republic specialist , identified a common motif of sinuous patterns - perhaps serpents , tentacles or vines - in the art of ancient civilizations thought to have had contact with the Celestials , ranging from the Ophidian grotesques of Coruscant to similar patterns found on Caulus Tertius and Shatuun . Some held that the Celestials were a higher order of intermediaries whose powers were beyond the understanding of mortal beings . The origin of the Celestials was unknown : Thuruht , the oldest of the Killik hives , claimed to remember seeing the Ones , a group of Force wielders apparently related to the Celestials , coalescing out of a geyser on an unnamed tropical planet more than a million years before the events of the Clone Wars . It should be noted that the collective memory of a Killik hive does not make distinctions between fact and fiction like the human mind — any individual memory joined to that of the collective , be it mythology , incontestable fact , or the plot of a holodrama , is history to the Killiks . Nevertheless , by 100 , 000 BBY , this spectacularly powerful species had dominated the stars and had made contact with a number of other species in various states of advancement . These included the Gree , Kwa , Sharu , Columi , Killik s , Humans , and Taung . The Columi retreated from the stars in fear of the Celestials , while the Sharu sought refuge in primitivism : a brief expansion period by the Sharu saw their race push Coreward as far as Aargau . This was believed to have attracted the notice of the Celestials . Their presence was believed to have frightened the Sharu into adopting a forced culture of primitivism , and it was further speculated that the frightened Sharu buried their cities beneath immense plastic pyramid s and drained their intellects in a last - ditch effort at escaping Celestial attention . Similar pyramid designs would later be identified among the Kwa . The Celestials are known to have conscripted the insectoid Killik s of Alderaan to serve as laborers , and the Killiks were seeded up and down the Perlemian . According to the Killiks , a connection was present between the Celestials and the group of Force wielders known as The Ones ; it was believed that the Force wielders were descendants of the Celestials . Similarly , the Gree , Kwa , and the Rakata acted as servant races to the Celestials alongside the Killiks . Together , they worked to build astonishing technological projects that ranged from the assembly of star systems to the engineering of hyperspace anomalies . Architects . The Celestials were known to have created a number of projects that took place near Corellia , Kessel , and other sites in the eastern galactic disc . Notable achievements of this race included assembling the Corellian system , the Vultar system , the Hapes Cluster , the Kathol Rift , and the Maw black - hole cluster . The Corellian system was highly anomalous : chemical composition of the Corellian planets matched no known model of the formation of stars or planetary discs . Mathematical analysis of the system ' s planetary orbits indicated they had decayed into near - ellipses from perfectly circular orbits , something that was extremely rare . A further 17 star systems had been identified with similar signatures by 1 BBY . Thus it was generally accepted by researchers that the Corellian system had been assembled at some point from pre - existing planets that were brought together by a combination of buried planetary repulsors and hyperspace tractor engines like Centerpoint Station or the Cosmic Turbine . It was believed that the Architects were responsible for seeding the Core Worlds with life and in particular with Humans , though some claimed this was the result of the Rakatan empire . These Architects were held to be responsible for populating the worlds in the Corellian system with Drall , Selonian s , and Humans . While the Drall and Selonia ns were believed to be native to their worlds , it was possible that the Human Corellians were transplanted to their world by the Celestials . Killiks were believed to have had a hand in the construction of Centerpoint Station , which they called Qolaraloq . In addition , they witnessed the creation of other Celestial wonders such as the Maw and the Vultar system . Killik slaves were also present on Sinkhole Station where they created a pressure seal that was adapted from their own construction techniques that used technology of the station . A suspected Celestial sensory operations complex on Kessel contained planetwide underground machinery tended to by the Bogey s and contained a type of gigantic astronomical observatory detailing the location of gravity wells across the entire galaxy . Pre - Republic specialists believed the Celestials were responsible for the hyperspace disturbance beyond the edge of the galaxy , possibly as a defense against outside interference . They were also believed to be responsible for the chain of hyperspace anomalies west of the Core that bisected the galaxy and prevented travel into the Unknown Regions . The ancient creature known as the Mnggal - Mnggal claimed to have witnessed the golden age of the Celestials . Speculation holds that the Celestials had crafted the hyperspace anomalies that bisected the galaxy in order to separate and isolate the influence of the predatory creature . Other academic speculation held that this barrier had been created to contain the Rakata . Such was the scale of the Celestials ' achievements that Doctor Insmot Bowen was prepared to contemplate the possibility of the entire universe being a Celestial construct . Disappearance . Around 35 , 000 BBY , the domain of the Celestials was usurped when the Rakata slave race revolted . Stealing technology from the Kwa , another Celestial client race , they waged a war against the other servant races . Some hypotheses over the hyperspace turbulence in the Unknown Regions claimed that it was created to serve as a barrier between the Celestials and the upstart Rakata . Despite the Celestials ' efforts , the Rakata broke through the barrier and waged a war of extermination upon them . The ancient grimoires of the Gree Enclave , which referred to the Celestials as the " Ancient Masters , " recorded that they were undone by curses unleashed by the Rakata , or the " Soul Hunters , " which they called the " Gray Swallowing " and the " Hollowers of Beings , " and further referred to them as the " Faceless Mouths " and " Eaters of Worlds . " Information discovered from the Thuruht hive in 44 ABY suggested that the Celestials ' decline may have been associated with the rise of the being Abeloth : The Killiks believed that the Force was the dominion of the Celestials and then their power was usurped when the " Bringer of Chaos " emerged . It is known that the Son and the Daughter , two of the Ones that the Killiks claimed were what the Celestials became , approached the Killiks to gain their assistance in the construction of the Maw cluster of black holes . Using Centerpoint Station , the Killiks moved numerous black holes to form a prison for Abeloth , lest she throw the galaxy into chaos and disorder . The Son and the Daughter joined the hive mind and lent the hives their knowledge and their enormous power in the Force . It is believed that after they completed their labors , the siblings left the hive mind and somehow removed the Force powers that they had shared with the hive . The eventual fate of the Celestials was unclear . They may have been trapped inside the galaxy by their barrier and destroyed by the Rakatan revolt , or they may have escaped through the barrier . Insmot Bowen suggested that they may have withdrawn from this dimension completely . The Dark Lord of the Sith Darth Plagueis mused on the possibility that the Celestials were the ones who , according to Jedi and Sith legend , merged into the Force to control its path . By 30 , 000 BBY , the Celestials were nowhere to be found , and the Rakatan Infinite Empire had taken center stage . Similarly , the Killiks vanished from the galaxy and migrated beyond the veil of the Unknown Regions , which was an act presumed to be attributed to the Celestials . After the construction of Centerpoint Station , it was claimed by the Killiks that the Celestials had grown angry with their Kind and had emptied them from their homeworld of Alderaan . It was theorized that the Celestials drove the Killiks into the Unknown Regions after they devoured their own homeworld and attempted to lay claim to another planet . The Mnggal - Mnggal similarly claimed that it had witnessed the sudden withdrawal of the Celestials from the galaxy in this era . Legacy . Despite their achievements , little evidence remained of where the Architects came from and what was their eventual fate . Many of their extraordinary works and machines were known to have survived the ages with some races claiming the engineering marvel that was Centerpoint Station was a product of their own civilization . The barren Tion Cluster world of Foran Tutha became famous following the discovery of the Foran Tutha star probe . Scholars debated for centuries on whether the fragments of this ancient starship were a remnant of Celestial , Rakata , or an example of early Core technology . This argument continued for five centuries with the true origin of the probe being unknown . Other traces of the Celestials that remained ranged from the anomalous like the Quintarad star group and the Aur Diamonds , to the ruined like the Penegelen Shards and the Ianane Ring , to the obviously artificial like the Ciratu Spheres and the Diatian Clockwork . In the years of Darth Plagueis , some believed that the Celestials were a higher order of Force beings that guided the events of the galaxy , though many Sith Lords dismissed this theory as such a theoretical line of thinking as to have no bearing on their desire to make the galaxy subservient to their will , since it meant that this was only in the realm of the enlightened elite . At some point after the Yuuzhan Vong War , the Jedi Jacen Solo traveled the galaxy to learn from various Force sects . On these travels , he met with the Mind Walkers of Sinkhole Station who offered him to enter into the Pool of Knowledge , but he refused as he did not want to become like the Celestials and hold all the knowledge of the universe . In 35 ABY , the Unu Joiner Raynar Thul stated that the Celestials had emptied Oroboro on Alderaan , around ten thousand Killik generations ago , approximately twenty thousand years in Human time . He also claimed that the Killik Colony had built Centerpoint Station and shortly after the construction of Qolaraloq , the Celestials had become angry with them over an unspecified matter . Later , in 41 . 5 ABY , Jaden Korr encountered debris from a large structure the creation of which he attributed to either the Celestials or the Rakata . Two years later , ancient machinery was discovered on Kessel which prompted Han Solo to wonder if it was a creation of the Celestials . The lowest levels of the planet had massive amounts of this technology , and almost destroyed the entire planet . Afterwards , Grand Master Luke Skywalker and his son Ben Skywalker discovered Sinkhole Station within the Maw Cluster . Ben Skywalker theorized that the Celestials may have constructed Centerpoint Station and created the Maw in order to contain Abeloth , who was believed to have some connection to the Celestials . Sinkhole Station , a similar structure to Centerpoint , also had possible ties to the Celestials . Once there , they discovered the body of a dead Killik slave who was involved in the station ' s construction . The Mind Walkers would tell a transcended Luke Skywalker that they had invited Jacen Solo to bathe in the Pool of Knowledge , but that he declined , stating it would make him too much like the Celestials . After traveling to the Celestial Palace , the Thuruht hive explained what they knew from their hive mind of the Celestials . This led to Raynar Thul wondering whether Abeloth was a member of this mysterious race , though the Thuruht did not know the answer to that question . The Killiks debated on whether Abeloth was the Bringer of Chaos because of the Celestials desires or because she took such a role after defying the wishes of the Celestials . Ultimately , the Thuruht concluded that the true nature of the Celestials could not be comprehended or grasped by a mortal mind nor could one discern their will . Behind the scenes . The term " Celestial " was created by writer Troy Denning for his 2005 novel " " , though the concept of a highly advanced " precursor " race that greatly influenced the early galaxy , a recurring motif in science fiction , is much older , most notably figuring in " The Corellian Trilogy " with the debut of Centerpoint Station , revealed to be the Celestials ' masterwork . They would play a key backstory role in Denning and his colleagues ' work on " The Dark Nest Trilogy " , " Legacy of the Force " , and " " . Prior to " The Joiner King " , Centerpoint ' s builders had been given the name " Architects " in 1999 ' s " The Essential Chronology " . " Hyperspace aliens " is a fanon nickname of the otherwise undescribed aliens who , according to " " , gave Humans hyperspace technology . According to " The New Essential Chronology " , the Rakata developed the technology , whence the Corellians adopted it , although the book refers to the Architects separately from the Rakata , signifying they were only a part of the Architects ' " myth . " " The Essential Atlas " equated the Architects with the Celestials and identified several star clusters and astronomical phenomena that were a result of their manipulation . In " Darth Plagueis " , the eponymous Dark Lord of the Sith muses on the possible fate of the Celestials , equating them with the Force wielders of Mortis . The Star Wars Blog article " Galactic Architecture 101 and the History of Centerpoint Station " concretely identifies the Mortis denizens as Celestials . " The New Essential Guide to Alien Species " stated that the Rakata are the Architects and built Centerpoint Station , but this can be attributed to the fact that this guide came out before much of the information on the Celestials did . According to Jason Fry ' s endnotes for " The Essential Guide to Warfare " , a piece of cut content would have involved a transcript where Dr . Insmot Bowen of the Obroan Institute explained that the barrier west of the Core was a remnant of Celestial technology . In addition , he explained that a war was fought between the Celestials and the Rakata . In Part 1 of , one of the revealed cut concepts , a debriefing that was originally supposed to act as the prologue of the book , dealt with the Celestials , including the Celestial - Rakata War .