The Oracle at Pelgrin

After siccing translators on the Sith box and arranging to demodify the modified Jedi prison ship so they can put their growing list of evil-wrong-bad Dark Side prisoners on it, they decide to finally go poke the Oracle at Pelgrin.

First, Ree calls Lexi Cuthas to ask if any family members have gone missing. Lexi’s reluctant to talk about it, but admits that her sister vanished eleven years ago. Her name was Adry, and she was four at the time. One more to add to the kidnapped Jedi list.

The Oracle at Pelgrin was destroyed by the Emperor, who didn’t want anyone else getting their hands on its power. But it was later rebuilt by Dalt, for the Emperor. The crew now believes that the original might’ve been modeled on the Sith tower. The descriptions match in many ways.

So they land on Pelgrin. It’s a bleak, empty place: a planet of calm water, with not a single feature save for the spire of the Oracl. They head inside to find a spiral staircase with room radiating out from it along the walls. Inside the first door they find a room full of machinery. Oola explores, and finds that whole sections of the tower spin and pivot, the mechanisms for which dwell in this room.

Ten floors up, the next door leads to the construction staff’s quarters. Nothing special about it; it’s obviously been empty since the crews finished and left. They do find architectural drawings of the original tower with obvious modifications on them. Oola’s not sure what they do. They’re related to the Force somehow. To a normal engineer’s eye, they look fairly pointless, but they do strike her as somehow familiar. They take the drawings and head upward.

Another ten floors up, it’s an engineer’s area. There are more plans here with modifications on them. Oola thinks they’re for different settings. The original, they know, simply channeled the Force upward to the control room, allowing a Force user to harness it to power their visions. This one almost seems to have settings that function like tumblers in a lock.

At the top, there’s the meditation chamber. Oola looks at the controls while Ree goes inside. The door closes behind her, and to Ree everything seems to go dark: almost sensory-deprivation dark. The others, however, can see her through the windows.

Oola sees about getting the door open, and stumbles on the discovery that different floors align to Dark Side emotions: fear, rage, hate, and two other complex ones she’s hard-put to name. Ree sees that the chair in the meditation chamber has a hookup for a respirator.

Oola and Z see control boards lighting up and one of the weird controls Oola hasn’t placed yet begins to boot up. Kedrihm feels the Force begin to surge. Ree, in the chamber, feels kind of foggy for a moment. Oola gets the door unlocked, but Ree can’t actually see the door, so Lydia pops it open for her from the outside. Kedrihm, focusing on the building Force energies, recognizes it as Vader’s aura.

With that information, Oola realizes that the other two patterns are Vader and the Emperor. This thing was designed to tune them specifically into the Force for more powerful visions.

They’re not sure whether to show this to Dalt or not. They lock the Oracle down, quarantine the planet, and head back to Coruscant.