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Forz — VESSELBORN Codex

Forz

Relayman

Class: Assault-Class Engineered

Origin: Born in Karesh, Geba to two Assault-Class parents. Family migrated to Nethelys, Kharan's Gulf, Coastal Thazvaar

Age: 53

Height: 7'9"

Weight: 688 lbs

Profession: Relayman

The Conflict

As a youth Forz fought against the Church of the Infinite Maw during the Infinite Maw Conflict. During the fighting he killed two Assault-Class Engineered on the opposite side, and in the aftermath of it he saw the situation for what it was: Engineered being sent to kill other Engineered because natural-borns could never match them, in a war that was not theirs, for pay that was not worth what it asked of them, simply because the assignment gave them a purpose that the Engineered reform had already proven they did not need. He had killed two of his own kind for someone else's war. He fled back to Thazvaar and never returned to that kind of work.

The Transition

In his years after the conflict Forz did corridor and expeditionary mercenary work across multiple continents, and his physiology allowed him to perform feats that were impressive even by Engineered standards. He wanted someone to record what he could do so the rest of the planet could see it. No natural-born relayman could keep up with him. They could not carry the equipment fast enough, could not survive the environments he moved through, and could not be in the places he was when the moments happened. He picked up broadcast equipment himself and discovered that he could capture footage that nobody else on the planet was capable of capturing, because he could haul extremely heavy and powerful rigs into locations that would kill anyone else attempting to carry them there. The energy he had once put into fighting went into filming, and the results were footage from angles and positions that no natural-born relayman could reach.

The Game Clearing

His most famous broadcast is the only footage captured from inside an active Game clearing. He broke in under extreme fire, carrying equipment that would have required a vehicle for anyone else, and recorded the structure of the clearing, the containment design, and the false promise of escape that defines the final round. He nearly died extracting the footage, and that he survived at all is a product of what he is. At fifty-three years old he is remarkably old for an Assault-Class given the impulsivity that defines the class and the mortality rate it produces, and he remains active in the field.

VESSELBORN Codex — Forz

About Vesselborn

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.