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Varen'Nola — VESSELBORN Codex

Varen'Nola

Alias:None
Era: Modern Geba
Affiliation: Hub Laborer, Close-Quarters Scatterman

Nola was an imperial-born hub worker from the Geban capital, dissatisfied with routine maintenance and relay labor that offered stability but no real advancement or excitement. Driven by a desire for better pay and motion beyond the safe center, she pursued inland opportunities during the Energy Wars, starting with range training, coastal security postings, and building legitimate experience to avoid falsifying applications.

What began as basic labor transformed when she and Tolin accidentally boarded the wrong airship detail for a Joxi relay restoration contract in inland Thazvaar's black zone. Amid syndicate firefights, Nola's initial unpreparedness—slow reflexes, unathletic build, and inexperience—nearly cost her, but survival drills and team support honed her into a capable ground security specialist. She adapted to close-quarters combat with a scattergun, clearing rooms, enduring treks, and making her first kills, growing physically stronger and mentally resilient over roughly 400 days of ops that reshaped her from a hesitant civilian into someone who could hold lines under fire.

Nola's imperial roots fueled her ambition: dreaming big, embracing risk over myth, and rejecting the smallness of capital life. Though not Engineered or a natural fighter, she excelled in frontier volatility, partnering with veterans like Tyrun’Bogan Vaer who knocked the hesitation out of her. After the relay's destruction and op completion, she returned to hub life with substantial hazard pay, serving as a model of transformation in a system that rewards those who push beyond safety into the grind of real progress.

Varen'Nola, Geba, Energy Wars, Hub Worker, Tolin Ruul, Relay Ops, Inland Thazvaar, Ground Combat, VESSELBORN Codex

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.