- Date
- c. 700 BBY
- Continuity
- Legends
- Location
- Tatooine
Around 700 BBY, members of the B'omarr Order established a monastery on Tatooine. The religious community practiced a severe form of ascetic withdrawal, including the later preservation of members' brains within specialized containers. The site would eventually be repurposed for other rulers, most famously Jabba the Hutt, but its early significance was religious rather than criminal.
A monastery in the desert
B'omarr monks sought distance from ordinary distractions and established a community on a remote world. Their buildings supported meditation and a distinctive religious discipline. Tatooine's later association with Hutt power should not obscure the site's monastic origin.
Body and mind in the Order
The B'omarr tradition emphasized detachment from physical concerns, and some members underwent surgical removal of the brain to continue existence in a nutrient-filled container. Mechanical spider-like carriers later allowed movement. The ritual made bodily transformation part of religious practice.
Later secular appropriation
The monastery's structures eventually passed into other hands and became associated with Jabba's palace. Some B'omarr monks remained connected to the site even after its functions changed. The coexistence of an older sacred use and a later political economy is part of the complex's history.
Anthropological assessment
The B'omarr illustrate an ascetic religious tradition whose members reorganized the relationship between personhood and physical embodiment. The later reuse of their building also shows how sacred architecture can persist through changes in power.
Interactive history lab
Was the B'omarr monastery founded by Jabba the Hutt?
No. The B'omarr established the site centuries before Jabba used it as his palace.
Compare the event, its institutions, and an anthropological interpretation.
Sources and evidence
The Essential Atlas; Jabba's Palace lore and B'omarr Order history. Read the associated continuity reference. This article distinguishes its documented date and setting from later contextual analysis.
Legends · 700 BBY · Research review
Historical sequence, material evidence and political authority
B'omarr monastery on Tatooine: the historical record
The B'omarr Order established a Tatooine religious community long before Jabba's palace occupied the same structure. Monks pursued detachment from physical sensation, including the preservation of brains in life-support vessels. Official imagery of a B'omarr spider body shows a later form of the tradition rather than its first construction.
Anthropological assessment
The monastery demonstrates that one building can pass through radically different political and ritual uses. The Order's views on mind and body cannot be reduced to an engineering curiosity: their technology served a specific religious understanding of discipline and personhood.
Continuity and illustration verification
This entry is in the Legends continuity. Its event date comes from Legends chronology and may be approximate; the image above is a contextual published depiction or later-era illustration. The original text and bibliography remain available below.
Evaluate the historical evidence
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