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Geban Empire – Vesselborn Codex

Geban Empire

The Geban Empire is the dominant planetary regime of Geba, founded during the Early Dominion era by Emperor Vaer’Karesh to unify fractured continents through conquest, assimilation, and infrastructure. It enforced a planetary standard of Geban language, Varen currency, and Solarn relay integration—imposing continuity across eras of overt rule, civil collapse, and covert governance under the Shadow Rulers.

Centralized rule originated in imperial courts with governing branches like The Guard for defense and The Emperor’s Directive for expansion. Through elite units such as Emperor’s Embrace for diplomacy and Eyes of Venar’Tal for air-sea projection, the Empire projected influence across Geba’s surface. Assimilation campaigns included the conquest of the Thazvaari Dominion, where coastal zones were stabilized but inland resistance endured, and Ngorrhal, where the Frost Sentinels were integrated into elite ranks. Berinu was transformed into a naval stronghold, while Jeyrha offered peaceful entry in exchange for scientific partnership.

The Fracture era began after the assassination of Emperor Varethis’Auren Kel’varesh, triggering civil wars and the dissolution of formal imperial systems. Remnants reorganized under clandestine forces like Emperor’s Shadow, forming the foundation of what would become the Shadow Rule.

In the Shadow Rule era, power transitioned into hidden structures preserving stability without public rule. Military and diplomatic organs were absorbed into Underworld operations, reshaping governance into layered secrecy. During the Warlord Eras, imperial survivors operated within or against rogue states, while elite units acted undercover to preserve remnants of order. The Recursion Bomb events erased entire lineages and archives, cementing the break with classical imperial history.

In modern Geba, the Empire persists as hidden infrastructure beneath surface chaos. Shadow Rulers, believed to be descended from Auren’s line, manage financial and medical centers such as Prince Auren’s District. Militaries, clearings, and cultural projects still draw inspiration from imperial ideals, even as the structure itself remains veiled.

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.