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:
• Jeyrhan Bio-Engineering Consortium
• Joxi Industrial Holdings
• Geban Foundation of Engineering
• Berinese Naval Engineering Guild
• Solarn Legacy Engineering
• Haavu Works and Weapons Systems
• Zhikhan Manufacturing Collective
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.