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VESSELBORN — Varenth Solarn

Varenth Solarn

Alias: Architect of the Relay System
Era: Era of Early Dominion
Affiliation: Geban Empire

Varenth Solarn was an imperial architect of the Era of Early Dominion who died during the first trials of an ultra-high-altitude relay, where he and his crew relied on primitive life-support suits to survive. The system was driven at unprecedented power, and the experiment triggered an artificial geomagnetic storm violent enough to collapse their life support. At that altitude there was no rapid evacuation. Nothing could reach them through the storm, and even without the storm, the airships of the era were incapable of operating at such heights. Once their systems failed, there was no descent and no rescue.

He established the early relay systems in Ngorrhal, the first major relay works raised outside the origin continent. Those foundations became the Relay System that would carry nearly everything meaningful on the planet, turning distance into governance, identity, coordination, and memory at continental and eventually planetary scale. Though he died in the work, his legacy became permanent through the relays themselves, and through his heirs who carried the Solarn name farther than he would have imagined.

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.