Trinity Pump Station
Healing miracle of Visitor myth-science
The Star Seekers followed the old Orad road north and came to what was left of the Cauldron of Trinity , which had once been a reservoir fed from the man-made cliff face known to locals as the the Water Wall. At the center of the now stagnant pond we saw the bronze dome of the Pump Station, a round building made of hard Precursor stone. Visitor myth-science had been used to build this station for the good of the people during the Age of Poisoned Sea and Sky, but the pump had gone silent and the healing waters of the mountain had not flowed for many years. Without these healing waters the corruption of Cataclysm was returning. Master Olivoix swore by the Seven Stars he would restore the pump and heal the land once more.
Purpose / Function
This structure was built as a purification station to neutralize and remove toxins from the local environment. It is believed that there were once many of these stations located throughout the Zone and that this particular station was intended to purify the coastal lands and waters of the northern jungles bordering the Silent Sea. The pump mechanism draws clean water from a pure subterranean aquifer. This water is treated by unseen processes within the Water Wall and released into the jungle biome where it flushes through the Radium River and Silver River tributaries.
Alterations
Ruined pillars and masonry found within the drained Cauldron reservoir reveal that the pump station was once surrounded by additional structures. These ruins bear the architectural indications of Orad design indicating that Trinity was once home to a permanent Precursor settlement.
Architecture
The circular structure of the pump station itself is about thirty feet in diameter and sits upon a dais consisting of several tiers that resemble steps rising out of the water. The outer walls of the structure are smooth and unmarked save for decorative pilaster columns spaced at twelve foot intervals around the circumference of the building. The structure is topped with a smooth, unmarked bronze dome.
The Water Wall looming above the Cauldron reservoir is an impressive megalithic structure in its own right. It is composed of what seem to be gargantuan blocks of stone and would appear to have been directly carved out of the mountainside were it not for the contrast of natural rock and Precursor stone, which has the warm appearance of sandstone. The Wall stands over 100 feet high and those who have explored it say there is no way to venture behind the waterfall spout, for the water channels are too narrow to traverse. Likewise, these explorers have never identified a way to enter the Water Wall structure itself.
History
The effects of the station were demonstrated 600 years ago when the mechanism was temporarily disabled. During this period the coastal jungles experienced pestilence and famine related to resource blight and crop failures. These conditions only improved when a band of travelers known as the Star Seekers discovered a way to reactivate the pump station.
During the recent Vril Invasion, Badlander invaders sought to destroy the pump station. Brother Ottmar of the Exploding Eye cult, the station's current caretakers, sealed the station entrance to prevent tampering. In the process, however, Ottmar inadvertently deactivated the pump mechanism. For this defiance he endured horrible torture at the hands of his Vril captors but nonetheless refused to show them how to use the station key to reopen the structure.
Alternative Names
Cauldron of Trinity
Type
Water pump / Well, Large
Parent Location
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