The Berinu Islands are a strategic archipelago south of Berinu, willingly assimilated into the Geban Empire after liberation from Thazvaari criminal control. Originally the planet’s largest naval base, they evolved into the central hub of secure transport and trade, linking every major capital by air and sea—any route from west to east across the Geban Sea must pass through here. The islands host the Yuvaar Games due to their rich population of massive fauna. All high-profile criminals and ex-warlords spared execution are detained in fortified underwater facilities. Coral reefs, volcanic spires, terraced lowlands, and nutrient-rich deltas thrive under a warm, humid subtropical climate with frequent cyclones, storms, and tidal surges. Low-lying terrain with volcanic foothills supports defense and agriculture, though vulnerable to erosion and flooding.
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.