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Brena Propulsion Designs — VESSELBORN Codex

Brena Propulsion Designs

Jerhit Syndicate Engineering Division

Era: Modern Geba

Affiliation: Jerhit Syndicate

Founded by: Brena Jerhit

Brena Propulsion Designs is the engineering arm of the Jerhit Syndicate, founded by Brena Jerhit in Inland Thazvaar. Its core innovation is the reverse engineering of Solarn relay technology to create a private relay infrastructure serving the Inland. This is the only parallel relay network on the planet. Every relay that does not run on Solarn technology runs on Brena, and finding Brena technology outside of Inland Thazvaar or near imperial capitals means it was almost certainly acquired through illegitimate channels, as the construction cost is enormous and the engineering prints are not publicly available.

Beyond relay systems, Brena produces compact propulsion technology including jetpack suits and micro-cannons used by syndicate operatives, private warlords, and elites across relay-fractured regions. Much of the engineering knowledge behind these systems was taken from captured Berinese engineers. Kidnappings, ransom extractions, and forced prototype development are standard operations under Brena's oversight. The syndicate exploits the Solarn registry gap: inland unregistered people are moved through grey zone cargo channels and given identities built backward from nothing.

Brena Propulsion Designs is the only syndicate operation with access to the Solarn Contractor Registry, and that access runs through the company itself. Contracts that go through Brena are registered. Everything else the syndicate does is not. This makes Brena the point of entry between the Jerhit Syndicate and the legitimate economy.

Culturally, the syndicate funds anti-Shadow Rule music acts and weaponizes culture through syndicate-backed festivals. Genres like Rebelcore and Conwave glorify syndicate ideals, wealth, and pirate ascendancy. Independent acts are taxed. Narrative control is laundered through performance and sound, with the syndicate effectively controlling city rhythms and calendars across the Inland.

VESSELBORN Codex — Brena Propulsion Designs

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 greatest warriors of the mountain passes become 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. The last emperor is assassinated and the throne shatters. Civil wars consume the planet. But the answer is not collapse. The Shadow Rule forms from what the empire left behind, ends the warlord broadcasts, and holds the world together without a crown. They are the empire made quiet: continuity without ceremony.

Today, the Shadow Rulers still govern from the background while the Energy Wars decide who controls grids, relays, vehicles, and culture. Nine faiths compete for how the world understands itself. Tour racing draws audiences as large as the Yuvaar Hunting Games. Relaymen carry broadcast rigs into corridors and criminal networks to capture what the governed world is never meant to see. Contractors move through contested territory for manufactory interests. Syndicates operate trafficking networks through grey zones the empire tolerates rather than confronts. The Engineered, once created as instruments of war, now live as citizens, athletes, engineers, and parents.

Stories range from relay field defenses and inland recoveries to city governance and frontier resettlement; from airship crews racing through volcanic caverns to truth seekers embedding in syndicate operations; from arena fighters practicing an ancient faith through combat 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.