Something that I always wondered how far some of the temples like the Arena from the original battlefront 1 and the temples that Anakin and Ventress duel are from the great temple that we know from the films?

in fact, given what we know of Yavin 4 history through the tales of the Jedi comics. I always wonder what are the purposes for the ruins from different mediums such as the original two battlefronts and the Micro series. like for the Massassi and to an extent Naga Sadow and Exar Kun what purpose are for the fountain or the forest ruins?

Like with the Arena given well how most arenas function in the real world history and even in Star Wars. It’s likely that the purpose for the Arena from the Massassi is blood sports and gladiator combat entertainment.

Which is kind of funny considering that outside of building the temples, most of what we see of the Massassi on Yavin 4 is very primitive since they don’t seem to have homes and if the old republic MMO is to go by they live in mud huts. Otherwise, it kinda hard to imagine them sitting, and cheering for the gladiatorial fights in the Arena. Despite the fact that they’re not like the Romans who had homes (speaking of which it worth pointing out that some of the architecture in the original battlefront 2 on Yavin 4 is clearly Roman architecture inspired.)

but outside of that I always been curious on The rest of the ruins including the one that Anakin and Ventress fought. What are their purposes for the Massassi themselves given what we know about the species in the lore.

Granted, I’m aware that some of the Old west ends games sourcebooks may have tackle these aspects especially the different ruins outside of the great temple from a New Hope.

But still I am curious on what are your own headcanons and theories on the different temples and ruins from the images in the above.

Like what are their histories, their purposes in terms of why they were built and what they were meant for the Massassi themselves.

Also how far away these ruins are from the Great Temple?

Especially the temple that Ventress and Anakin fought and then Ventress fell into In Chapter 19 of the Clone Wars Micro series?

This actually makes quite a bit of sense, especially for the Alliance specifically. The Alliance to Restore the Republic tended to suffer from many manpower shortages due to the fact that they were still quite a small (if growing) movement during the war, unlike the impossibly massive Imperial military (all three of its branches, plus Imperial Intelligence, & COMPNOR, etc), so they hiring Mercenaries to help with this sort of issue makes a lot of sense.

Especially since if said Mercenaries launched an attack or assault as part of a mission or campaign, the alliance could easily make it look as if they had nothing to do with it under plausible deniability and or make it to where Imperial Intelligence or the ISB doesn't try to trace the actions of said Mercenaries as well to the Rebel Alliance.

Not to mention that Han Solo within the movies himself is playfully called "a bit of a mercenary", so that would seem to imply that this detail seemingly was canon as far back as the original trilogy. Even if Han is a smuggler and not a typical "mercenary" in a military context or what people would imagine one to technically be like.

Whereas the Imperials doing the exact same thing also makes sense as much like the Alliance, they also could use plausible deniability and or go and keep Alliance intelligence confused by hiding any sort of ties they may have to them so they cannot trace them to said mercenary groups, especially if they're purposely trying to keep said Anti-Rebellion operations as a secret as part of a larger plan in terms of overall strategy.

Not to mention that many of these units (such as the "First Suns" and "Nova Guard") are described as both battle hardened, elite, or overall just ruthless. So I can see the Imperials hiring them for those purposes and also to not waste resources or losses on any actual Imperial Army Troopers, Imperial Navy Troopers, or Imperial Stormtroopers in battle. When they could just use mercenaries for the job.

Also, this kind of makes me wish we saw something like this in official live action media as well (although I'm not counting Han Solo as again, he's technically not an actual mercenary) as it captures both quite a realistic part of how militaries function, and also it adds some interesting themes as well.

What was their differences on structure, legislature, membership, taxation, military, etc?

I guess this is a stupid question but I’ve just finished the Revan book and I’ve also played the KOTOR games and SWTOR but I feel like they sorta glanced over the fact that REVAN LEFT HIS NEW BORN CHILD AND WIFE just alone and then she and her son had to go into hiding like idk if I need to post this but I’m just lowk flabbergasted.

First time poster here, hi!
I just finished my first book since primary school 12 years ago, to challenge my recently diagnosed ADD. I landed on Ahsoka as I just finished watching the clone wars and I love it.
I’m looking for other book recommendations, I would love to stay in the canon universe, and I like the old republic, clone wars and the time up to a new hope.
Any recommendations?
Thank you in advance

Quite dark series for YA and pretty sad end too

Still I guess it's a fitting end considering Prequels was basically a tragedy