The Geban are the baseline natural-born humans native to Geba, forming the ethnic core and driving force of the Geban Empire. Adapted to the planet's high gravity, they thrive across biomes from jungles to polar shelves, with polyphasic sleep cycles enabling long work shifts and strong resilience to harsh conditions. From Geba's central continent, they unified warring factions under Emperor Vaer’karesh, standardizing language, currency, and rule while erasing older histories to craft a narrative of unchallenged dominance. As conquerors, they expanded into Ngorrhhal, Thazvaar, Jeyrha, Berinu, Kela, and Ukhaalstaag, viewing groups like the isolationist Thazvaari or primitive Ukhaalstaag cliff-dwellers as inferior holdouts. They pragmatically ally with Jeyrhan bio-engineers and Berinese naval experts, while holding deep respect for Ngorrhali Frost Sentinels as elite warriors who bolster the capital's ranks. Geban culture stresses structure, loyalty to He Who Allows, and conquest, staffing key roles in the Emperor’s Shadow, Eyes of Venar’Tal, Emperor’s Wrath, and shadowy rulers. They integrate Engineered classes as survival tools, while some seek to harness the understandings granted by encounters with Seraveth and Velcrith—as canonized by figures like Ashan’Raeth Vareth—and others deny their existence entirely.
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.