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Veykar Propulsion — VESSELBORN Codex

Veykar Propulsion

Propulsion, Entertainment, and Cultural Economy

Alias: Veykar

Era: Era of Fracture through Modern Geba

Founded by: Heredrin Solarn-Veykar

Modern Heir: Yelidra Veykar

Veykar Propulsion is a manufactory founded during the Era of Fracture by Heredrin Solarn-Veykar, a descendant of Architect Varenth Solarn and of the same lineage as Caledrin Solarn-Veykar. Heredrin was not an engineer. He was an investor and marketer who transformed the failed planetary escape projects of the Fracture era into a propulsion industry, and then expanded that industry into the dominant force in the planet's music and entertainment economy.

Propulsion

Veykar produces rocket systems. The Veykar-Solarn Joint Initiative, which originally combined Solarn relay technology with Veykar propulsion expertise, engineered some of the fastest airships in the planet's history before the initiative dissolved and was absorbed into Veykar. The technology that came out of that collaboration is now used exclusively for rockets. In the modern era, Veykar Propulsion attempted planetary escape with the cutting-edge airship The Auren V3, achieving a record-breaking speed of 196,001 kmph before failure. The launch was staged as a global spectacle, broadcast across every major relay, and marked the final public attempt to leave Geba.

Veykar's propulsion technology is not available to the general population. Like Solarn, Veykar strictly employs higher-tier contractors and engineers. Nothing below Tier 4 of the Solarn Contractor Registry receives a Veykar contract unless connected to someone already in their system or possessing skills they specifically need.

Music and Entertainment

Veykar controls the planet's music and entertainment economy. It funds acts, operates the infrastructure behind major performances, and runs a branch responsible for controlled explosions and pyrotechnic effects during festivals, embedding these into live entertainment culture across the planet. Veykar does not simply sponsor entertainment. It shapes what entertainment looks like, how festivals are structured, and which genres receive the funding and visibility to reach global audiences.

Heredrin built this from nothing. He financed ice runs across Ngorrhal, river sprints through Berinu straits, and deep-corridor scrambles off Kela's coast, using these performances to bridge continents and reshape how people experienced spectacle. He maintained a close association with Emperor Auren. Historical reels depict them together at launches that were celebrated more for their spectacle than their technical outcomes.

Veykar promotes genres like Conwave and shapes festival culture across the planet. The Veykar brand became aspirational even to those who could never afford its products. Many who grew up in poverty used Veykar as their symbolic target for success, and for some it worked. The brand represents not just propulsion or entertainment but the aesthetic of ascension itself.

Modern Era

Yelidra Veykar is the modern heir of the Veykar lineage. She continues the brand's presence across propulsion, entertainment, and cultural influence. She turned the Yuvaar Hunting Games into the planet's highest-paid sport. Fragments of Prince Daer's journals were purchased by Yelidra, and she resides in Kharan's Gulf among the wealthiest elites on the planet.

VESSELBORN Codex - Veykar Propulsion

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.