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Tolin Ruul — VESSELBORN Codex

Tolin Ruul

Alias: The Hinge Pilot
Era: Modern Geba
Affiliation: Hub Technician, Contractor Pilot

Tolin Ruul was a Jeyrhan-born coworker and technician working routine maintenance and labor jobs at the Geban hub alongside Varen’Nola. Driven by a practical ethic of stability, diligence, and purposeful spending, he initially questioned the value of high-risk inland opportunities, emphasizing the real dangers of the Energy Wars based on family stories from Coastal Thazvaar. Despite his reservations, Tolin joined Nola in pursuing better-paying contracts, starting with range training, coastal postings, and building legitimate experience to avoid lying on applications.

What began as basic labor evolved when they accidentally boarded the wrong airship detail during a Joxi relay expansion contract in inland Thazvaar's black zone. Amid a syndicate firefight, Tolin's composure and prior Yuvaar-inspired physical training allowed him to assist in egress, handle equipment, and support crewmates on the ground. He quickly adapted to piloting, starting in jumpseats and co-seats before leading assault runs, coordinating sector sweeps, timing Veykar rocket strikes, and executing air-to-ground array attacks

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.