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Xerik Haavu — VESSELBORN Codex

Xerik Haavu

Alias: None
Era: Era of Imperial Conquest
Affiliation: Jeyrha, Haavu Family

Xerik Haavu was a Jeyrhan polymath during the Era of Imperial Conquest, renowned for designing the Haavu Cannon Systems that secured Jeyrha’s peaceful assimilation into the empire. His innovations transformed the Haavu family into the most prominent non-imperial lineage on Geba, shifting the balance of power in the war with Thazvaar by enabling dramatic naval advancements from the new Berinu base.

Haavu's designs exemplified Jeyrha’s unmatched fusion of bio-engineering and weapons systems, creating tools that turned negotiation into strategic leverage. These systems became instrumental not only in defense but also in large-scale expansion campaigns where assimilation proved more efficient than annihilation. His work would eventually lay the foundation for covert projects developed by descendants such as Txisa Haavu-Solarn during the Fracture era, further entrenching the family’s role in the empire’s most sensitive operations.

Xerik Haavu, Haavu Cannon Systems, Jeyrha, naval warfare, Berinu, polymath, Era of Imperial Conquest, VESSELBORN, Geba, Txisa Haavu-Solarn, assimilation technology

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.