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Ioe Jerhit — VESSELBORN Codex

Ioe Jerhit

The Kela Guardian

Era: Modern Geba

Affiliation: Independent Mercenary Groups (Founder)

The Rejection

Ioe Jerhit is the younger brother of Brena Jerhit and twin to Iera Jerhit. He rejected the criminal life of the Jerhit Syndicate and the Geban underworld entirely. He left Inland Thazvaar and invested his inherited fortune into establishing small mercenary groups based in Kela, dedicated to escorting settlers and researchers through hostile regions and protecting them from predators, pirates, and syndicate raiders. His operations specialized in hunting wanted criminals across Geba, particularly tracking fugitives to remote areas where no other force would follow.

The Uncharted

Following a failed expedition to The Uncharted, Ioe adopted controversial tactics. He kidnapped skilled engineers and forcibly relocated them to Kela to develop technologies for surviving the Uncharted's extreme conditions. Despite their captivity, these engineers were exceptionally well paid and protected, housed in fortified compounds with security that no other employer on the planet could match. Ioe coerced many to his cause by relocating their families to private clearings and providing them with resources and comfort that ensured loyalty through obligation rather than threat. For those without families or those unconvinced by wealth, he appealed to their ambition, arguing that the Uncharted represented Geba's true final frontier, where survival technologies could unlock possibilities that no manufactory or imperial program had ever attempted.

His methods echoed the syndicate coercion he had rejected, and the line between protector and captor was one he crossed deliberately and without apology. He knew what he was doing. He believed the destination justified the route.

VESSELBORN Codex — Ioe Jerhit

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 greatest warriors of the mountain passes become 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. The last emperor is assassinated and the throne shatters. Civil wars consume the planet. But the answer is not collapse. The Shadow Rule forms from what the empire left behind, ends the warlord broadcasts, and holds the world together without a crown. They are the empire made quiet: continuity without ceremony.

Today, the Shadow Rulers still govern from the background while the Energy Wars decide who controls grids, relays, vehicles, and culture. Nine faiths compete for how the world understands itself. Tour racing draws audiences as large as the Yuvaar Hunting Games. Relaymen carry broadcast rigs into corridors and criminal networks to capture what the governed world is never meant to see. Contractors move through contested territory for manufactory interests. Syndicates operate trafficking networks through grey zones the empire tolerates rather than confronts. The Engineered, once created as instruments of war, now live as citizens, athletes, engineers, and parents.

Stories range from relay field defenses and inland recoveries to city governance and frontier resettlement; from airship crews racing through volcanic caverns to truth seekers embedding in syndicate operations; from arena fighters practicing an ancient faith through combat 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.