The Geban Chronicle

Key Dates

• ~2,943 BMGExpansion halts. The Empire turns to internal control and suppression, and the elite warrior groups take over policing.
• ~2,806 BMGThe first mega-spines rise in Ngorrhal, Thazvaar, the Berinu Islands, and central Geba.
• ~2,677 BMGReze sends his nephew Ashan'Raeth Vareth to verify relay continuity beyond the inner ring. Raeth turns it into a decade long expedition with Tharyn'Breka Kael, Caledrin Solarn-Veykar, and Eira Vey, later joined by Tsev Haavu.
• ~2,666 BMGThe expedition closes. Raeth's Book of the Witness records lost provinces and Vessel emergences no doctrine predicted, Eira Vey completes The Parent Preceded The Children, and Raeth confirms Nethel's authorship of the First Doctrine, establishing him as the first known Vessel in imperial history four centuries after the exile.
• ~2,638 BMGThe Emperor's Shadow is founded as an extension of the Emperor's personal guard.
• ~2,591 BMGRaeth is long dead by the time the Prince's Directive is formally founded on the work of his journey.

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 a peaceful expedition across 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 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.