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Vaok’Aurena — VESSELBORN Codex

Vaok’Aurena

Alias:None
Era: Modern Geba
Affiliation: Assault-class Engineered operative

Vaok’Aurena was an Assault-class Engineered operative, far older than her unlined face suggested, whose strength and endurance were relics of the brutal Warlord Eras she fought through. Loud, easy, and useful in demeanor, she carried herself without pretense, treated like any natural-born despite her obvious Engineered traits—immense size, speed, and indifference to weight—that made her invaluable in inland ops during the Energy Wars.

Paired with heavy-weapons and explosives specialist Tharyn’Deine Kel, a Frost Sentinel hybrid whose father was Assault-class, Aurena's absurd strength kept their array system mobile under load, freeing him to haul charges, tools, and detonators without sacrificing coordination. Their advance was inhumanly fast for what they carried—still slower than most teams—but methodical and unbreakable, leveling obstacles when paths stayed shut and air support failed; she often went without a vest, slinging a Garnath bolt rifle on her back while handing off ammo harnesses mid-fight.

The pair's most impactful action was the total destruction of a private syndicate relay transmitting Solarn’s movement data, pinning a line in place for months until supplies made defense impossible. Though destroying a relay on Geba was nearly taboo—resulting in withheld payment as they breached the very asset in their security contract—they weren’t prosecuted, as the tactical need cleared the way for Solarn to replace it with a new public relay, expanding enforceable borders and allowing safe citizen clearings with reliable emergency transmission.

Their operational rule stayed simple: anchor the line, feed the array, place charges, and grind a passage no enemy survives.

Vaok’Aurena, Assault-Class, Engineered, Energy Wars, Frost Sentinels, Tharyn’Deine Kel, Syndicate Relay, Geba

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.