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Veykar Propulsion

Veykar Propulsion originated during the Era of Fracture, tied to advanced propulsion and hydro technologies. It collaborated with Solarn on a series of failed escape projects but emerged as a separate force aimed at surpassing Solarn’s capabilities through faster, elite-oriented propulsion systems. It holds a monopoly on Geba’s music economy, funding all major acts and operating a distinct branch responsible for controlled explosions during festivals—embedding explosive effects into entertainment culture and shaping live music performance norms.

The company was founded by Veykar'Heredrin (Heredrin Solarn-Veykar), a descendant of Architect Varenth Solarn’s daughter and of the same lineage as Caledrin Solarn-Veykar. Heredrin is renowned as Geba’s greatest investor and marketer—elevating the Veykar brand far beyond its Solarn roots. Despite a reputation for hedonism, eccentricity, and heavy substance use, and lacking personal engineering expertise, he maintained close ties to Emperor Auren and commands massive loyalty through strategic wealth distribution and media control.

Veykar Propulsion’s purpose is to produce rocket and hydro systems serving elites with high-cost technology. Its monopoly on music and entertainment funding grants it enormous soft power, influencing genre popularity and festival structure. It promotes genres like Conwave to instill extreme work ethic values, blending propaganda with entertainment.

The company is widely criticized for elitist profiteering and technological exclusivity, with propulsion advancements irrelevant to the masses. However, it maintains dominance through festival culture and music monopolization. Affiliated elements include the Veykar-Solarn Joint Initiative, formed post-Era of Fracture from failed escape projects. This venture merges relay and propulsion technologies between Veykar and Solarn bloodlines, producing hydro-solar systems for Shadow Ruler needs—high-cost, high-performance devices rooted in imperial-era ambition.

Many who grew up in poverty used Veykar as their symbolic target for success—and to varying degrees it worked. Its brand became aspirational even as it remained inaccessible. Its monopoly shaped not just festivals but the very aesthetic of ascension for every generation since global popularization.

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.