New Je’daii Order Temple Vur Tepe Rebuild

REBUILDING THE JE'DAII ORDER

"series of one shots about rebuilding the nine great temples of Tython."

Vur Tepe: The Forge

IC: Temple Master Terrogate

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160-161 ABY: Tythos Ridge, Tython.

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“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….. until her.

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"Whatever Anil Kesh can imagine Vur Tepe can make real."

―A popular saying by members of the Je'daii Order.

Terrogate looks back over his shoulder to the troop of Keshiri metalworkers, smiths and engineers emerging from the large freighter less than a hundred meters away and parked next to his small, over four thousand year old ship Roar-1. He wasVer Tepe standing on the edge of the Thyos mountain ridge, on top of what was once the famous Vur Tepe Forge looking down to the open tubular chasm below. Deep down the open shaft of the once active volcano lay the very last remnants of the rusted zigurrat with what was several barrel-shaped smoke stacks. It was mind blowing to know they had first belched out smoke created in the fires of the Forge nearly thirty thousand years ago. The volcano below that created the heat and smoke used in the forge looks like it had not been active for well over a millennia. Terrogate sighs, the rebuild of the Forge temple would in theory be much easier than the Stav Kesh City Temple that Yeg Sunar had started several months ago. Especially with the much more advanced taskforce of the Keshiri and the temple's structure being mainly constructed of metal that can be mass fabricated in the majority of civilized planets in the Galaxy. And not the Sandstone that needed to be quarried slowly and stone mason hand chiseled into shape like the Martial Arts temple.

Terrogate had taken months to decide and arrange the new structure of the planned forge and the iron works of Planet Kesh had already begun production of the structure. It was to be transported in stages to the location ready for the mass of Keshiri workers to begin construction. But his betrothed, the Grand Temple Master of the New Je’daii Order, had given him just one instruction before he had started the project. “It needs to harness the natural heat of the planet just as the original had.”  And now he was standing on the site looking at the pile of scrap metal, well over a kilometer down into the planet's core and sitting on a very solid, very cool and thick rock base. The Cathar Temple Master was now unsure how, and even \*if that request was even possible.

Terrogate then made his way back down the rock face and met the workers from Planet kesh. They had agreed to spend their time in Windhelm with the Cathar and travel to the site instead of building a tent city out in the open of the wilds of Tython. After a full day of project planning Terrogate says goodbye and leaves the site as the Keshiri head to Windhelm in the large freighter they had arrived in. The lead forman was excited to spend some time with the famous Yeg Sunar and go over the forge plans with him.

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3 months and dozens of visits later Terrogate arrives for what he hopes will be the final time of the build. The Keshiri lead Foreman joins him, well.. The replacement one anyway. The first had accidentally fallen down the frustratingly still dormant volcano early into the project and died. His body still lay down there, decomposing among the rusting scrap metal along with at least five other workers. It had been a dangerous build and in total 12 had died through workplace accidents. One worker had even been carried off by Hook Hawks that had flown over one dreadful day. Their beautiful song had memorised the purple skinned metal worker and he was then attacked from all sides by the raptor type predator birds en mass. Terrogate had then needed to arrange armed security for the rest of the build but luckily for them the majority of the planets wild beasts came out in the night when they had already left the site.

The new Forge was magnificent, constructed perfectly. Somewhat ironically the image of the Hook Hawk had been the basis for the new design.

The structure that was once square and rust looking sat atop the volcanic tube now was built into the bedrock of the volcano's mouth itself and extended into the open space above the deep caldera. It then outstretched a further 20 meters with an incredibly detailed massive Hook Hawk head. The utter magnitude of the building was a monument to the art of metallurgy itself.

Outside the Forge was an open air landing platform with a wide direct paved path to the forges store houses and a side path leading to the entrance. Ideal for any metal delivery or outgoing work and also anything large that may need to come inside for repair.

The original Temple was constructed so that the bottom of the temple formed an interior dome which harnessed the heat from the flowing lava to power the forges. On the new design this was similar in design except it was the entire head and neck of the Hook Hawk that acted in an internally comes, and motor driven vortex drawing in the heat and the wind that constantly rushed along the planet's surface quickening the superheated captured thermal power turning the forge into a state of the art metal works. Capable of getting to temperatures able to melt almost any known kind of metal in the galaxy.

The internals of the Vur Tepe Forge had been stocked with the finest tools and equipment. Both traditional and more technological required for forging. Everything from sand box molds to high tech sensors and robotics, laser cutting cabinets attached to data desks for custom design parts such as specialty servo motors and actuators as well as high tech programming equipment for installing and programming droid AI and various other microchips. From jewellery, to armour, to light sabers to the technology in the temple that once enabled the early Force-users to imbue their katanas with the Force, making the material extraordinarily strong and razor sharp was now once again possible to create.

It not only had forge capabilities but Terrogate had installed functional workshops able to produce and maintain droids and light machinery such as speeders, science vessels and light single fighters. Anything that needed to be repaired, serviced, or constructed by metal was able to be serviced or produced at the Vur Tepe Forge. To him the old Je’daii saying was not just a forgotten legacy. It was now alive and breathing once more.

The workshop had been magnificent but in addition the Temple itself had been built into the earth. A multitude of study and practice rooms, sleeping quarters, a mess hall and a huge main dining hall had been built with a long rectangular open hearth in the middle keeping it warm and welcoming as ale and food was being prepared. Ironwork was not for the weak of heart. It made strong and hardy those who toiled in it's forges, and the Cathar knew what they wanted in their down time. After all, he was at a time one of them. He looked down at his hands, the calluses and scars were visible even through his fur from his forge days and also his many battles but the one he always looked at was the thick horizontal scar line on his wrist running over his veins, reminding him of his most sacred oath.

Terrogate smiled and turned his thoughts back to his betrotheds third now reconstructed building from the Tho Yor sites even though this particular one had long since vanished. The legendary Je’daii Forge. He had worked for many years at the Ironworks forge in his days in Tollere during the reign of the empire and he thinks to himself how impressed his head of house and owner if the Ironworks Forge Lord Solus would have been of his creation. He missed the Sith Lord and many of his fallen Tollere iron born, and he thought of them often.

The Cathar secretly desired to start using the forge soon, especially as he had recently found in his studies of the temple that the famous Temple Master in 25,793BBY Master Tem Madog was in fact also a Cathar. His heart swelled with pride for his people's heritage, and he wondered, had the depictions of the triangle he had seen on Cathar during the war really been the mountain God? Or where they the Tho Yor? Coming to take the first Je’daii to this very planet. This very piece of dirt he stood on.

His mind raced but was quickly brought back to reality by the voice of the Foreman “But, we still can't get the lava to flow..”  said the Kesiri. “What?” said Terrogate. He hadn't been paying attention for a while now as the Foreman spoke outlining the grand Forge Temple. “I said, no matter what we tried we can't get the lava to flow without risking the damage to the building's structure. So explosives are out if the question, and it's too far down to send in a team… I'm afraid we will have to leave it for now” the Foreman said nervously. Clearly intimidated as he was not only speaking to a near 7foot Cathar warrior, but also his planet's rightful ruler. “It's okay” said Terrogate deep in thought. “Well, done. Please congratulate your team and advise them I've allowed for an extra bonus for them now the job is completed. You may go, and if any would like to stay on, I know the future Temple Master would be glad to have ready and willing forge workers at his or her disposal. And the Windhelm is always available to any who would like to first return home and bring their families back.”

“Thank You my lord. You are most kind.” I know there will be some who will accept the offer. But what about the lava from the volcano?” he asks. “Leave that to me..i'll need to come up with something” says the Cathar Temple Master and dismisses the Foreman for the last time.

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Almost a galactic year later…

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Terrogate lands once more at the Vur Tepe Forge on it's platform. He had visited several times in the past year to try and get the volcano to flow. The New Je'daii order was almost launched and the Grand Master had ordered that Talismans need to be created for its members. He was getting desperate.. And almost out of options. But as chance had it, a potential, but seemingly just as potentially dangerous a solution had shown itself. Was it through luck? No… Terrogate didn't believe in luck after everything he had seen, not anymore. It was the will of the Force itself. Terrogate moves to the rear of his ship ROAR-1 and opens a secret panel revealing a stasis chamber. The very one that he himself had been in, for nearly four thousand years he floated aimlessly through space. And now it was time again for the stasis chamber to come to his aid.

He presses the security code and opens the hatch removing the item. A scepter, one with a blue crystal mounted suits top. A Darkside Nexus taken from none other than the Dark Lord Skyllan after he and Mab had killed him in their Batorine Basement for his crimes against her. Leaving his cargo bay door open the Cathar warrior walks out of the ship and almost instantly he feels the wind pick up against his skin. As if the Planet itself had felt and was reacting to the immense shift in the balance of the force on its surface. In moments dark clouds form overhead and start to swirl above him. Terrogate walks out to the volcano's mouth and looks down, he feels for the first time in the dozens of times he had stood here over almost two years something he had not yet felt.. Heat!!

Heavy drops of rain start falling on his head and the Cathar laughs looking up to the sky as the heavens open up above him. The wind starts howling and Terrogate lifts the Darkside object high above his head. Around him lighting crashes down from the blackened sky and into the very planet itself. The Warriors keen nose picks up the stench of sulphur and ash rising from below. Terrogate holds one hand over his eyes to shield from the harsh wind driven rain now assaulting the entire plane and with the other he points the sceptre down into the gaping volcanic mouth. In seconds a surge of lightning from the raging storm explodes downward into the enormous hole and a loud rumble is immediately heard. The remains of the original temple sitting deep in the volcanic tube starts to shift, quickly warping and buckling as the earth then gives way beneath it to a sea of red thick melted mama flow of a now very much active volcano below! “YES!!” The Cathar yells ecstatically into the thick air of the storm and quickly makes his way back to his ship holding the scepter. Once inside he feels the brunt of the imbalance, the violent wind beats hard against the small cruiser and it starts to shift and move. The warrior rushes for the stasis chamber and quickly locks the Scepter away, securing it once more and cutting off it's force energies. Terrogate waits almost an hour for the storm to calm to a semi safe flying environment and then he climbs into the pilots seat, activates the thrusters and takes off for Stav Kesh. As he rises high above the storm he makes a call back to Darth Bathor, the New Je’daii’s leader and his betrothed. << It worked, the Vur Tepe forge is now finally operational. I'll see you back at home. I love you. END TRANSMISSION >>