Vur Tepe Vur Tepe , or the Forge was one of nine temples of the Je ' daii Order located on the verdant world of Tython . A large metal structure , the temple at Vur Tepe was located along the mouth of an active volcano along the Tythos Ridge . A place of study , students learned the ways of the Force through metallurgy and the construction of tools and weapons . After the Force Wars which ravaged Tython , the Je ' daii abandoned the temple and the world for millennia . History . When the philosophers and scholars from across the galaxy first arrived on Tython , they were brought forth from the stars on giant pyramidal constructs called the Tho Yor . These nine massive ships scattered across the planet and landed in separate locations , releasing those held within to settle the planet . The Tho Yor themselves would serve as the very foundations for these travelers ' new homes and places of study . One of these Tho Yor deposited it ' s passengers on the slopes of an active volcano along the Tythos Ridge . The Tho Yor remained aloft in the sky looking down at the volcano as the early Je ' daii Order established a massive metal and stone temple on the lip of the active caldera . A monument to the art of metallurgy , the students of Vur Tepe would craft their weapons in the fires of the volcano ; the bottom of the temple formed an interior dome which harnessed the heat from the flowing lava to power the forges . The temple itself , a rust - colored zigurrat which rested on four sheer support walls , was crowned with several barrel - shaped smokestacks that belched out smoke created in the fires of the Forge . Within the halls of Vur Tepe the Je ' daii focused on practical applications ; focusing on the ways in which the Force could be applied to create or improve physical things . The temple enjoyed a good working relationship with neighboring Anil Kesh , the Temple of Science . The technology in the temple enabled the early Force - users to imbue their katana with the Force and make the material extraordinarily strong and razor sharp . The Je ' daii Temple Master , the Je ' daii who served as steward of the facility and oversaw its functions , instructed students in the finer points of craftsmanship and encouraged new discoveries . In 25 , 793 BBY Master Tem Madog , a Cathar , was the Temple ' s overseer . Rediscovery . After the Sacking of Coruscant by the Sith Empire in 3653 BBY ended the Great Galactic War and turned the public opinion of the Galactic Republic against the Jedi Order , they departed the ruins of their Temple and returned to their recently rediscovered homeworld . There , the Jedi discovered many ruins of the ancient Je ' daii , among them the temple of Kaleth , as well as Vur Tepe itself . Over the next decade , the Padawans of the Order would travel to the remaining forges and craft their lightsabers as a final rite of passage before achieving the rank of Jedi Knight . During the Flesh Raider uprising around 3641 BBY , the apprentice of Jedi Master Orgus Din pursued Din ' s former apprentice , the Dark Jedi Bengel Morr , to the Forge , and faced the Nautolan Morr in a duel . Around the same time , the Twi ' lek Nalen Raloch was exposed to the Fount of Rajivari and went insane , attempting to destroy the Forge . Raloch was stopped by the young apprentice of Jedi Master Yuon Par . Behind the scenes . Although the Jedi Forge was first revealed in " The New Essential Chronology " , author Daniel Wallace stated in 2005 that the concept was already developed for a yet to be revealed .