The Berinese Naval Engineering Guild is a maritime engineering organization within the Geban Empire's structure, founded in Berinu during the Era of Imperial Conquest following liberation and assimilation into the Empire. The guild specializes in maritime technology drawn from generations of coastal operations and naval tradition, producing gear and weapons that support coastal conflicts and imperial operations while relying on energy supplied by Sentinel and Joxi.
The guild originated from collectives of Berinese sailors and former pirates who, after assimilation, transitioned into imperial naval service and restructured themselves through formal guild systems. While maintaining respect for their maritime history, the guild’s main focus is on practical, affordable contributions to naval capability and the needs of coastal civilians. However, the lack of independent energy control has kept them in a respected but secondary role, as their operations depend on larger energy providers.
Berinese Naval Engineering Guild, Berinu, maritime engineering, coastal operations, naval weapons, Sentinel energy, Joxi energy, imperial navy, guild structure, former pirates, sailors, Geban Empire, Era of Imperial Conquest, coastal conflicts, civilian alignment, secondary role
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.