Population: ~900 million
Gender Ratio: 1:1 (Balanced)
Culture: Tribal warfare, linguistic unification, early military formations
Key Figures: Emperor Vaer’karesh (Founder of the Empire)
Military Focus: Localized warlord conflicts, the five nations of the continent are united to form a single empire, formation of centralized armies, attempts to sail east are halted

Defining Traits

• Vaer’karesh unites the first empire, enforcing the Geban language and identity through conquest.
• The first standing armies emerge, transitioning from warlord-led skirmishes to organized imperial rule.
• The Varen (VAR) is adopted as the Empire's currency standard.
• Queen Nethelys Zahmira II of the Thavaari Dominion ignores the Empire's attempts for dipolmacy.
• All attempts to establish contact with Thazvaar or map their seas are ceased due to their hyper defensiveness.
• Early relay systems are established in Ngorrhal, the first outside of the origin continent.
• The empire, now centuries old, intervenes in a massive civil war taking place in the Ngorrhal mountain passes. They side with the people of the Western and Northern Passes against those of the Northeastern Passes.
• Vessels are not understood or recognized, as all previous understanding of them was systemically erased during the formation of the Empire.
• The people of Ngorrhal fully assimilate into the empire in exchange for their survival, becoming the second most populous people in the Geban capital.

Population: ~2 billion
Gender Ratio: 5:1 (Male Deficit Begins)
Culture: Empire expands aggressively, foreign cultures are eradicated
Key Emperors: Emperor Venar'Tal Kareth, Prince Venar’Nethel, Imperator Veris'Kal Therak
Military Focus: Total war, forced assimilation, elite warrior formations

Defining Traits

• The Empire absorbs or exterminates all opposing civilizations within reach.
• War with Thazvaar is formally declared by Emperor Vaer'Terund Venar, great-grandfather of Venar'Tolarg, following the catastrophic failure of diplomatic negotiations.
• Emperor Venar'Tolarg is killed during a major military campaign in Northern Thazvaar and his body is never returned. A very young Prince Venar'Tal is named Emperor.
• The Eyes of Venar'Tal is established as the Empire’s air and naval dominance force under Emperor Venar'Tal Kareth.
• The people of the Ngorrhali passes are officially named ‘Frost Sentinel’, erasing their ancestral names forever. Their greatest warriors become elite soldiers within the empire's military. Many of their martial techniques are adopted empire-wide.
• Jeyrhan Polymath Xerik Haavu designs the Haavu Cannon Systems for the Empire, securing Jeyrha’s peaceful assimilation and transforming the Haavu family into the most prominent non-imperial family on Geba.
• Berinu reaches out to Empire for assistance in combating Thazvaari criminal organizations who were violently controlling their resources and actively seizing their government.
• The Empire directly liberates Berinu and they willfully assimilate to retain autonomy.
• The Berinu Islands become home to the largest Imperial naval base, dramatically shifting the direction of the war with Thazvaar.
• Jeyrhan researchers Kazo Reyjuul and Huyasa Sers lead a fifty-two-person civilian survey that maps keystone life across Geba, Ngorrhal, Kela, Ukhaalstaag, Thazvaar, and Manalheim.
• Emperor Tal moves to northern Berinu to personally fight in the final days of the war.
• Emperor Venar'Tal Kareth publicly executes King Hies of the Thazvaari Dominion and takes Queen Nethelys Zahmira VIII as his wife.
• Mainland of Thazvaar successfully invaded at significant life and resource cost to the empire, first Imperator appointed to maintain regional stability.
• Emperor Venar'Tal Kareth is named greatest conqueror to ever live.
• Veris'Kal Therak is named Imperator of Thazvaar.
• Conquered males are systematically executed, worsening the gender imbalance.
• The southern continent of Jeyrha is peacefully assimilated into the empire.
• Prince Nethel is exiled by Emperor Tal to save him after learning of conspiracy to have him assassinated. The First Doctrine of Blood Royal is written by Prince Nethel during his exile and merging with the Velcrith. Prince Nethel will later be recognized as the first known Vessel in Imperial history, but many centuries later.
• Elite Military Units Established:
  • The Emperor’s Wrath – Extermination squads ensuring dominance.
  • The Shield of Geba – The Emperor’s personal guards.
  • The Frost Sentinels – Elite and physically massive warriors, adapted to extreme terrains.
  • The Sky Hammers – Aerial superiority troops.

Population: ~12 billion
Gender Ratio: 15:1 (Severe Male Shortage)
Culture: Peak empire, bureaucratic stagnation begins
Key Emperors: Emperor Ashan'Eze Narath, Emperor Ashan'Reze Karath, Imperator Kanesh'Tar Zeren, Prince Ashan’Raeth Vareth
Military Focus: War economy, extreme centralization, suppression of dissent

Defining Traits

• Expansion halts as the empire shifts toward internal control and suppression.
• Elite warrior groups take over policing roles, enforcing order.
• Resurgents return in distant lands.
• The Frost Sentinels thrive in remaining border conflicts, but Sky Hammers face decline as air dominance becomes unsustainable due to lack of technological advancements needed to cover greater distance and air piracy growing in distant regions.
• Prince Raeth, along with companions Eira Vey, Tharyn’Breka Kael, and Caledrin Solarn-Veykar, begins and completes peaceful expedition of the empire—forever changing false assumptions of the empire's completeness. Book of The Witness and The Account of Two Becomings are both completed during this period.
• Prince Raeth canonizes the understanding of Vessels through observing and recording the merging process of both Seraveth and Velcrith Vessels.
• Eira Vey completes The Parent Preceded The Children, tracing the planet’s origins from a brown dwarf to a world shaped by cosmic intervention.
• The Empire begins planetary centralization and relay enforcement. Long-range relay infrastructure is constructed in distant regions.
• Elite Organizations Established:
  • The Prince’s Directive – Inspired by Prince Raeth’s travels, formalized later for post-conquest assimilation and order maintenance.
  • The Emperor’s Shadow – Covert operatives specializing in assassination, espionage, and political manipulation.

Population: ~40 billion
Gender Ratio: 70:1 (Near Total Male Collapse)
Culture: First reforms attempt to slow decline
Key Emperors: Emperor Ashan'Vaer Kel'varenath (The Luminous Emperor)
Military Focus: Restoration of honor and stability, gender crisis response

Defining Traits

• The Luminous Emperor issues the Emperor’s Insemination Edict, mandating reproduction for 80% of women aged 21–40.
• Lira's Forgiveness is established, offering rehabilitation and loyalty for criminals and defeated enemies after expeditions to remote lands.
• Princess Lira becomes the first known Seraveth Vessel of the imperial line.
• The city of Lira is constructed to honor Ashan’Lira Siraieth, becoming the center of art and pre-doctrinal ethics.
• Lira attracts physicians and engineers seeking quiet advancement in their fields.
• Diplomatic policies attempt stabilization but cannot halt internal fractures.
• Women are now the dominant demographic on the planet.
• The center of advanced medicine moves from Jeyrha to the Geba(continent).

Population: ~56 billion
Gender Ratio: 50:1 (Beginning of Recovery)
Culture: Genetic advancements, war fatigue, decentralization
Key Emperors: Emperor Ashan'Kael Varethis, Emperor Varethis'Auren Kel'varesh
Military Focus: Bio-engineering, diplomacy, technological resurgence

Defining Traits

• Autonomous colonies established in Kela. This is seen as a chance to live without scrutiny for ex-warlords, criminals, and outcasts empire-wide.
• The Bare Hand–Infiltrators and saboteurs destabilizing enemy nations from within–is formally established by Imperator Kenez’Feraaz of Thazvaar.
• Berinese-Thazvaari war begins in northern Berinu after ethnic Thazvaari is elected to office in the Berinese capital of Binol, causing millennia old ethnic tensions to explode.
• Emperor Ashan'Kael Varethis shifts focus to science and genetics.
• His son, Emperor Varethis'Auren Kel'varesh, seeks technological wonders, star exploration, and genetic perfection.
• Prince Varethis'Daer Venar, a Velcrith Vessel, secretly invents the Engineered, using the DNA of the Frost Sentinels as the template for the first generation.
• Attempted civil uprisings empire-wide.

Population: ~56 billion
Gender Ratio: 50:1
Culture: Civil war erupts, the empire weakens but does not fully collapse
Key Figures: Emperor Varethis'Auren Kel'varesh, Prince Varethis'Daer Venar
Military Focus: Factions break apart, engineered warriors rise, elite unit dissolution

Defining Traits

• The Engineered, originally created by Prince Daer Venar, evolve beyond his protection.
• Prince Daer Venar and Txisa Haavu-Solarn complete the first Recursion Bomb prototypes in western Ngorrhal.
• Auren recognizes the Engineered as people, not just weapons, and enacts the Reform:
• The Engineered are granted citizenship.
• They are allowed to own land, form families, and pursue education.
• They are no longer forced into battle, though many still choose to serve.
• The 8-Year Rule: Engineered raised by the empire must serve 8 years in the military after training. After this, they may choose to continue serving or integrate into society.
• The Tactician-Class is formalized within the Assault-Class, selecting those who fail to match the sheer physical dominance of their peers but excel in tactical analysis, adaptability, and battlefield intuition. They undergo specialized training to refine their strategic abilities.
• This rule does not apply to natural-born Engineered or hybrids, who are free from birth.
• Emperor Varethis'Auren Kel'varesh is assassinated, triggering civil wars planet-wide.
• The Emperor’s Shadow dissolves into the Underworld, forming the foundation of the Shadow Rulers.
• The Shield of Geba’s descendants serve as guards of the Shadow Rulers, being the only ones who ever see their faces.
• Prince Daer, heartbroken, disappears after finding and erasing those responsible for his brother's assassination, along with their entire lineages.
• Auren’s surviving wives and children safely escape to the northern territories of Kela, escorted and guarded by a group of Engineered.

Population: ~63 billion
Gender Ratio: 50:1
Culture: The empire fades, covert governance takes control, restored currency after collapse
Key Figures: Multiple Shadow Rulers (Unknown Identities)
Military Focus: Assassination, espionage, silent rule from the shadows

Defining Traits

• New currency denominations are instated as the global currency, built upon the ancient Varen (VAR) standard:

•	1 Auren (AUR)	= 100,000 VAR
•	1 Daer (DAR)	= 10,000 VAR
•	1 Vaer (VR)	= 5,000 VAR
•	1 Ashan (ASH)	= 1,000 VAR
•	1 Kelvael (KLV)	= 100 VAR
•	10 Tal (TAL)	= 1 VAR
•	100 Zehn (ZEH)	= 1 VAR

• The Frost Sentinels disappear as an organized force, but their DNA continues to serve as the genetic foundation for Engineered warriors.
• The Underworld solidifies into an empire of hidden rulers, controlling society through secrecy.
• The Shadow Rulers rule from different regions of Geba, coordinating their power through various systems to maintain stability after the empire’s collapse.

Population: 67 billion (fluctuated due to war and mass killings)
Gender Ratio: 30:1 (Highly unstable due to wartime mass death)
Culture: Fragmented warlord states, extreme societal collapse, rise of broadcasted war crimes
Key Figures: Various infamous warlords (names erased from history), elite military strike teams
Military Focus: Total lawlessness, private armies, live-streamed psychological warfare

Defining Traits

• The collapse of centralized control led to the rise of warlords—rogue military leaders, criminal syndicates, and extremists who seized entire regions.
• Public executions, live-streamed massacres, and extreme humiliation became core tactics of psychological warfare.
• Seraveth and Velcrith Vessels are targeted and killed by warlord factions to maintain narrative control of He Who Allows.
• Zairen Vaul is born
• Captured warlords were stripped of dignity before execution, often forced to confess their failures before being defiled in front of their own soldiers.
• Live music performances took place on battlefields, with some artists continuing to sing even as they were executed.
• Captured soldiers were turned into art pieces—dismembered and arranged grotesquely, their remains broadcasted to break enemy morale.
• Female warlords weaponized the gender imbalance, treating captured men as cattle, trophies, or tools of humiliation.
• Shadows operatives fight under all banners to ensure the eventual return of stability.
• The Recursion Bomb is deployed.
• The last warlords were captured and erased from history 17 years before the modern era.
• All names, lineages, and records of warlord factions were systematically purged, ensuring they left no lasting legacy.

Population: 71 billion
Gender Ratio: 25:1 (Stabilized Compared to Past Eras)
Culture: Settling the clearings are now the primary focus, true power is hidden, many figures of the end of the warlord era are now legendary with some becoming celebrities.
Key Figures: Kal’vashir’s Farmstead, Shadow Rulers, Head Shadow Ruler (Distant Descendant of Emperor Auren), Zairen Vaul
Military Focus: Fragmented warfare, covert governance, historical nostalgia

Defining Traits

• The current Head Shadow Ruler is a direct descendant of Emperor Auren, ensuring that the imperial bloodline still secretly holds power.
• Multiple Shadow Rulers govern different regions of Geba, maintaining the true hidden empire.
• Artificial reproduction is now rare, used primarily for the creation of Engineered individuals.
• The Shadow Rulers remain unseen, controlling the world from the Geban underworld.
• The writings of Prince Raeth are resurrected.
• Zairen Vaul establishes The Church of the Infinite Maw