Forging took a lot of time, patience, precision, strength, endurance and more.
Ves had witnessed Ketis at work in the advanced forge that he had installed in his workshop. He even utilized it himself in the rare occasions he wanted to produce an item in the old school way instead of letting his modern first-class superfab pump out a product with ease.
There were many differences between utilizing a forge and a superfab.
In modern times, large-scale industrial production machines remained dominant for many good reasons. They could produce gigantic objects, they could be automated to a high degree, they cut down on the error rate, they could exert a lot more precision at the smallest scale, they could work with all kinds of non-metallic materials including certain varieties of organic ones and they could shape items that could never be made in an old-fashioned forge.
Despite all of these technological advantages, forges had their merits as well.
