Canonical:
Även om jag inte känner till några kanonbevis för att templen är avsiktligt belägna på punkter som är starkare i Kraften, är det uppenbart att ett tempels plats kan få enorma konsekvenser. Jedi-templet på Coruscant byggdes ovanpå en gammal Sith-helgedom, och detta faktum spelade en roll i Jedi-orderns fall. Efter att Palpatine förstörde Jedi och blev kejsare, vände han det koruskiska tempelet i sitt kungliga palats och använde Sith-helgedomen som hans "lair":
The two of them [Sidious and his droid, 11-4D] were in Sidious’s lair, a small rock-walled enclosure beneath the deepest of the Palace’s several sublevels that had once been an ancient Sith shrine. That the Jedi had raised their Temple over the shrine had for a thousand years been one of the most closely guarded secrets of those Sith Lords who had perpetuated and implemented the revenge strategy of the Jedi Order’s founders. Even the most powerful of Dark Side Adepts believed that shrines of the sort existed only on Sith worlds remote from Coruscant, and even the most powerful of the Jedi believed that the power inherent in the shrine had been neutralized and successfully capped. In truth, that power had seeped upward and outward since its entombment, infiltrating the hallways and rooms above, and weakening the Jedi Order much as the Sith Masters themselves had secretly infiltrated the corridors of political power and toppled the Republic.
Save for Sidious, no sentient being in close to five thousand years had set foot in the shrine. The room’s excavation and restoration had been carried out by machines under the supervision of 11-4D. Even Vader was unaware of the shrine’s existence. But it was here that they would one day work together the way Sidious and Plagueis had to coax from the dark side its final secrets. ...Success would grant them the power to harness the full powers of the dark side, and allow them to rule for ten thousand years.
- Star Wars: Tarkin
Författaren till Tarkin , James Luceno, fortsätter:
The Jedi tried to cap the power of this shrine, but there's leakage. It’s not just Sidious; it's the power of history, it's the residue of what's left of the dark side there.
- James Luceno
Anm: Enligt Wookieepedia (hänvisar till " The Untold Clone Wars Panel Liveblog , en mer löst beskriven men liknande koncept uppfattades av George Lucas och Clone Wars skaparen Dave Filoni för Clone Wars TV-show , men serien avbröts innan den kunde introduceras:
The idea of the Jedi Temple being built atop ancient temples would have been explored in the television series Star Wars: The Clone Wars, but the show was cancelled before such episodes could have been produced or released. Series director Dave Filoni and creator George Lucas decided that the Jedi Temple had been built over ruins from ancient worshippers of the Force, possibly including the Sith.
I den kanoniska romanen Star Wars - Journey to the Force Awakens: Jedi-vapen hittar Luke ett förstört Jedi-tempel på Devaron, på en plats där kraften är ganska stark:
“This place is strong with the Force,” Ben Kenobi said in Luke’s head. “It was the will of the Force that guided you to this place. Here you will learn to open yourself to the Force, guiding its possibilities and obeying its commands. And passing its tests. May the Force be with you, Luke.”
“Ben!” Luke called, but the voice of his old teacher was silent.
Luke sat down on the rim of the fountain, in one of the long shadows the statues cast across the glen. He could feel the power around him — power and a sense of peace. This was the place the Force had shown him, and where it had brought him.
Noncanonical:
Från Wookieepedias avsnittet "Bakom kulisserna" på sidan för "Sith Shrine" :
The concept of the Jedi Temple being built over a wellspring of dark side energy was previously introduced in the continuity of Star Wars Legends.
Denna mening är länkad, via en citat, till Wookieepedia-sidan för Legendens roman New Jedi Order: traitor
"The dark side?"
"It's... it's too strong for me here. I warned you. I warned you what could happen..." She raised her hand once more, reaching for his leg; he took a hasty step back to avoid her touch, and she let her arm fall limp to the floor.
"You see..." she whispered, "...but you do not see. Jacen... why would the Jedi Council... build its Temple upon... a nexus of the dark side?"
- Star Wars: The New Jedi Order: Traitor
Tanken att Jedi-templet på Coruscant låg på en nexus av Force är tydligen common i Legends (noncanonical) material , men jag är inte medveten om några kanonversioner av konceptet, förutom den tidigare nämnda Tarkin . I typiska Wookieepedia-mode hävdar sidan på "Force Nexus" att tanken om våldshändelser förekommer i varje prequeltrilogins film, liksom The Empire Strikes Back 1 , men säger inte var eller i vilken form ideen visas och hela sidan innehåller bara en direkt inline-citat - till den icke-kanoniska boken Den nya Jedi-ordern: Enemy Lines II: Rebel Stand .
1 ESB-utseendet ska nästan säkert vara den "mörka sidan grottan" på Dagobah