The Jeyrhan Bio-Engineering Consortium is a sustainability-driven research group originating in Jeyrha during the Era of Imperial Conquest. It emerged through peaceful assimilation into the Geban Empire and became a key contributor to bio-engineering innovation, deriving techniques from early expeditions led by Kazo Reyjuul and Huyasa Sers. The group’s rise was intertwined with Jeyrhan oligarchic families, most notably through Quixa Uivuu—a leader who rose from poverty via strategic alliances, including powerful ties to the Haavu family.
Though publicly framed as an independent scientific body, the Consortium receives covert funding from Imperia Research under the Shadow Rule, specifically to support long-term terraforming efforts across Thazvaar. The stated goal: to one day convert the inland desert into fertile land, promoting imperial settlement and eco-stabilization using adaptive flora, bio-synthetic fauna, and atmosphere-conditioning spores.
The Consortium officially denies Imperia’s existence, instead insisting its mission centers on tangible, grassroots technologies for workers, farmers, and cleared-zone settlers. Its reputation is built on pragmatic eco-friendly systems, environmental stability, and wide accessibility—positioning itself as a champion of cultural goodwill and post-collapse resilience.
Across the war economy, the Jeyrhan Consortium acts as a rare neutral utility: respected but not powerful, funded but not feared. Its core ethic remains unchanged—delivering environmental innovations that aid recovery, stabilize food systems, and uplift the civilian fabric of post-Warlord Geba.
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.