Work In Progress World Engine

[Akhuul Sautra]

OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION

• Intent: To document the hyperdrive used to transport Sautra Vokh.
• Image Source: Odysseusart (Deviantart)
• Canon Link: N/A
• Permissions: N/A
• Primary Source: Akhuul Sautra Derumium Canon Hyperdrive Info

PRODUCTION INFORMATION

• Manufacturer: Akhuul Sautra
• Affiliation: Akhuul Sautra
• Market Status: Closed-Market
• Model: N/A
• Modularity: N/A
• Production: Unique
• Material: Derumium (used as main structural parts for hyperdrive functions to create usual chemical reactions of hyperdrives)

SPECIAL FEATURES

• Derumium Based Hyperdrive- functions as a hyperdrive, but requires a force user to operate in order to navigate between jumps.
• Navigation Requirements- in order to ensure that the higher ranking androids decide where the world of Sautra Vokh navigates, force users are necessary to navigate jumps using the World Engine.

STRENGTHS

• Ability vs. Age- despite existing since the times around the beginning of the Great Hyperspace War, it is on paar with modern Class 4 hyperdrives.
• Longevity- due to the Derumium makeup of the technology's structure, it resists much ware and tear over the thousands of years since its construction.
• Navigation- the machine's navigation ability is incredibly exact for its age most likely a result of its responsiveness to force wielding navigators.

WEAKNESSES

• Speed- moves at the slow pace of a Class 4 hyperdrive.
• Size- it is a massive machine with much of the subteranean complex of tunnels and structures on Sautra Vokh being devoted to supporting its mechanisms.
• Navigation Requirements- the machine requires a force user to navigate jumps.

DESCRIPTION
Before the Great Hyperspace War began, an ancient Sith Lord called Akhuul Sautra turned his estate's world of Sautra Vokh into a fortress. However, he knew the potential threat from his rivals following the death of Marka Ragnos. Originally planning to join the less militant side of the war, but before that was possible, the two Sith Lords jockying for power, Ludo Kressh and Naga Sadau, both took their forces to Sautra Vokh in an effort to neutralize Akhuul's potential threat.

Akhuul understood the backbighting nature of his people, and prepared to either join the power struggle under the less outwardly militant side of the conflict of Ludo Kressh's supporters, or to have his rivals destroy him to neutralize the threat of the Derumium based technology by swarming Sautra Vokh in greater numbers. In preperation for the latter, the World Engine was created to give Sautra Vokh the ability to escape Sith Space and go beyond the Stygian Caldera in times of his rivals banding together. The machine was built deep in the crust of Sautra Vokh, and worked as a hyperdrive for the planet. It's testing was more of a trial by fire when the forces of Kressh and Sadau came to Sautra Vokh. Just as the enemy came into the system, Sautra Vokh was leaving. Eventually it came out of hyperspace out of the caldera, and more more jumps towards the edge of the galaxy in an effort to hide from both sides of the struggle unfolding in the galaxy.

There is not any Derumium to make another one of these machines, and because of the ancient echnology, many of the later made hyperdrives are more advanced if not on paar with the World Engine. However, it was among the first of its kind, and continues to allow Sautra Vokh to move in the shadows of the galaxy to hide from other Sith, enemies of the Sith, or common rabble of the galaxy that could alert either of those two.