Varethis Advance, Ashan’Kael Varethis, Late Conquest, Geba economy, genetic reform, decentralization, Bare Hand, Solarn Legacy Engineering, Jeyrhan Bio-Engineering, Joxi Industrial Holdings, Zhikhan Manufacturing, Haavu Works, Berinese Naval Guild, Geba Foundation of Engineering, VESSELBORN, CHRISTOPHER JAEPHETH CUBY, GEBAN CHRONICLE, BOOK OF THE WITNESS, CUBY HOLDINGS LLC
The Varethis Advance
Era: Late Conquest (~2,200–2,000 YBGM) Announced By: Emperor Ashan'Kael Varethis Effect: Permanent economic restructuring through resource unlock and manufactorial expansion
The Varethis Advance was a decisive decree issued by Emperor Ashan’Kael Varethis during the Late Conquest, granting engineering and research entities direct access to imperial reserves. Originally intended to reverse systemic collapse, the initiative redefined Geba’s economic structure, shifting the empire from conquest-driven extraction to decentralized innovation and manufactorial productivity.
This shift enabled the formal rise of seven key manufactories:
The economic shift triggered by the Advance permanently restructured Geba’s labor systems, accelerated bioengineering (eventually enabling the creation of the Engineered by Prince Varethis'Daer Venar), and laid the foundation for large-scale propulsion systems under Solarn Legacy Engineering. The move also fueled unrest as decentralization expanded—provincial uprisings increased, the gender imbalance slowly began to correct, and elite military programs like The Bare Hand were formalized to stabilize destabilized regions.
What began as an emergency restructuring would catalyze the rise of long-lived imperial manufactories and genetically advanced castes. The Varethis Advance became the seed of modern Geba’s bio-technical inheritance—fusing research, military ambition, and distributed autonomy into a new imperial framework.
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.