The Era of Early Dominion

~6,000 to ~3,500 Years Before Modern Geba

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 Thazvaari Dominion ignores the Empire's attempts for diplomacy.
  • 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 by Architect Varenth Solarn, 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.

The Era of Imperial Conquest

~3,500 to ~3,000 Years Before Modern Geba

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 Era of Absolute Expansion

~3,000 to ~2,500 Years Before Modern Geba

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 The 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.
  • Several engineering and research groups formalize during this era, undertaking vast cooperative projects to extend relay range, refine weapon systems, and finally resolve the long-standing crisis of unsustainable flight—achieving stable, fuel-efficient propulsion capable of carrying heavier loads across immense distances.
  • The Empire begins large-scale planetary centralization and relay enforcement. Long-range relay infrastructure is constructed in distant regions.
  • Elite Organizations Established:

The Era of Early Stagnation

~2,500 to ~2,200 Years Before Modern Geba

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 21–60.
  • 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).

The Era of Late Conquest

~2,200 to ~2,000 Years Before Modern Geba

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

The Era of Fracture

~2,000 to ~1,500 Years Before Modern Geba

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 Veykar-Solarn Joint Initiative pioneered cutting-edge propulsion and rocket technologies, yet their efforts to escape Geba’s gravity ended in failure.
    • 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.

The Era of Shadow Rule

~1,500 to Modern Geba

Population: ~63 billion
Gender Ratio: 50:1
Culture: The empire fades, covert governance takes control, restored currency after collapse
Key Figures: 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 Yuvaar Hunting Games are broadcast globally for the first time.
  • The Shadow Rulers rule from different regions of Geba, coordinating their power through various systems to maintain stability after the empire’s collapse.
  • The Energy Wars begin, enabling manufacturers to create new markets for commoners.
  • The global economy expands exponentially, but small skirmishes begin to take place near contested energy sources.
  • Warlords begin claiming small imperial territories.
  • With order restored, The Shadow Rulers stop coordinating, transfer control to a decentralized system, and focus on oversight.

The Warlord Eras

~500 to ~17 Years Before Modern Geba

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 uncontrolled 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 on public relays to break enemy morale.
  • Female warlords weaponized the gender imbalance, treating captured men as cattle, trophies, or tools of humiliation.
  • Several ancient relays are destroyed.
  • 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 unable to escape to inland Thazvaar were systematically purged, ensuring they left no lasting legacy.

The Era of Modern Geba

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.
  • The Shadow Rulers govern different regions of Geba, maintaining the true hidden empire.
  • Veykar Propulsion attempts 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, marking the final public attempt to leave Geba.
  • 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