The Emperor’s Wrath was the most feared offensive unit in the Geban Empire’s military hierarchy, created during the Era of Imperial Conquest under the Emperor’s Directive. They represented the Empire’s final solution—deployed when diplomacy had already failed. Specializing in total annihilation and direct shock warfare, the Wrath conducted scorched-earth campaigns across resisting territories.
Comprised of the Empire’s strongest and fastest warriors of the pre-Engineered era, they executed high-speed mobile strikes, precision exterminations, and region-wide suppression without negotiation. Known for unrelenting discipline and brutal efficiency, their presence alone implied that no diplomatic option remained. Their operations were often supported by elite units like the Frost Sentinels, whose high-altitude endurance and siege tactics complemented Wrath’s rapid incursions.
After the Fracture, the Wrath fragmented into war factions and border defense groups. During the Shadow Rule era, former Wrath operatives were integrated into covert forces and assassination squads, continuing their annihilation doctrines through clandestine purges.
In the Warlord Eras, rogue elements of the Wrath formed private armies under emergent leaders, while others were co-opted by Shadow Operatives for destabilization campaigns. In the modern era, no intact unit exists, but groups like the New Emperor's Wrath carry on their tactics, training, and culture into modern conflics.
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.