Alias: Founder of Saojuul Labor Era: Imperial Conquest (~3,500–3,000 Years Before Modern Geba) Affiliation: Jeyrhan Bio-Engineering Consortium (patron: Quixa Uivuu)
Bo Saojuul was born to poor Jeyrhan laborers and struggled in formal bio-engineering studies, but he produced practical, low-cost machines that solved day-to-day work needs. Backed and financed by Consortium leader Quixa Uivuu, he established Saojuul Labor around modular, multi-fuel power packs, bolt-on tool heads, simple pumps, and standard frames—gear designed to be easy to repair and cheap to operate.
Saojuul Labor became the empire’s fast track into paid work: you signed a contract at noon and were outfitted by evening with tools sturdy enough for frames, pipe, storage, and field builds. The line’s ethos—affordability, maintainability, and mass employment with fair wages—contrasted with rivals that trapped workers in debt cycles. Saojuul parts (e.g., the widely carried “Saojuul spanner”) remained common across hubs and clearings, cementing Bo Saojuul’s legacy as the Consortium’s most accessible engine of labor.
Vesselborn is the story of Geba — a world that has carried an empire for six thousand years.
It begins with Vaer’karesh, who unites five nations into the first empire and fixes a common language and law. Across the ages, the empire fights and finally breaks Thazvaar, welcomes Jeyrha through engineering and diplomacy, and liberates Berinu by choice. In Ngorrhal, the people of the mountain passes lose their ancestral name and are permanently renamed the Frost Sentinels, whose strength helps secure imperial rule. The Haavu cannon systems cement that dominance.
At its height, the empire spans continents and raises relay towers that bind cities, coasts, and passes into one network. Assassinations and civil wars follow — the Fracture — but the answer is not a vacuum. The Shadow Rule forms from imperial networks and manufactures peace, ending the warlord broadcasts and taking the world back from collapse. They are the empire made quiet: continuity without ceremony.
Today, the Shadow Rulers still govern from the background while the Energy Wars — covert struggles over power grids and relays in uncivilized regions — decide who controls energy, transport, and culture.
Stories range from relay-field defenses and inland recoveries to city governance and frontier resettlement; from rail lines and air programs that stitch regions together to festivals and work crews where culture and politics collide; from Frost Sentinel memory to families choosing the safety of hub clearings or the risk beyond the grid.
This is Geba. It began in silence. It has not yet ended.