The Geban Chronicle

Key Dates

• MG 0The calendar resets and counting begins forward.
• MG 3The wind stills, the sky turns violet, and the Entity appears to Zairen and Vohk'tirrel. It is never seen again.
• MG 6Zairen Vaul founds the Church of the Infinite Maw through presence and example, and it grows unwatched while reconstruction goes to the atrocity sites.
• MG 12The four factions take shape: the Liminorans, Zairen's Counsel, the Sect of the Infinite, and the Ghosts of Thazahd.
• MG 18The Church recovers the writings of Prince Raeth and Eira Vey from cities destroyed in the Warlord Eras, and assembles the fragments pointing to eight theorized Recursion Bomb caches.
• MG 20After nine days of pressure drop and pattern silence, the Ghosts destroy the State of Midreach Lira and the Infinite Maw Conflict begins.
• MG 21The conflict ends in under two years with no ceasefire. Three mega relay spines and dozens of smaller relays are held, four caches are found and three bombs taken, and the advance stops over the question of deploying one.
• MG 24Zairen publicly discredits Velk'Phareon Daer, who remains the Church's most trusted theorist regardless.
• MG 26Zairen begins publicly examining his own lineage and survival instincts.
• MG 28Two years later, Phareon develops the Doctrine of Adaptive Evolution.
• MG 30Vohk'tirrel leaves the Maw's Crown to lead a private company of trackers in search of Zairen's unknown father. The outcome is unrecorded.
• MG 33Veykar Propulsion attempts planetary escape with The Auren V3, reaching 196,001 kmph before failure.
• MG 38Therik'Deia Betruga's centralization broadcast begins running on the relay.
• MG 41Three years later, Phareon publishes On the Discourse of Togetherness.
• MG 44Phareon's On the Populations of Geba spreads across the relay. Vinscel releases Crime on Geba after six decades of embedding.
• MG 45The present day. The Energy Wars persist across the inland, and the imperial line remains hidden at the head of the Shadow Rule.

Defining Traits

• The current Head Shadow Ruler is a direct descendant of Emperor Auren, ensuring the imperial line of Emperor Vaer'karesh continues.
• The Shadow Rulers govern different regions of Geba from the underworld, maintaining the true hidden empire.
• Settling the clearings becomes the primary focus of civilian life across the planet.
• Zairen Vaul establishes The Church of the Infinite Maw.
• The Church begins searching for lost history involving Vessels, uncovering the writings of Prince Raeth and Eira Vey in cities destroyed during the Warlord Eras.
• The Infinite Maw Conflict begins with coordinated strikes on major capitals and the destruction of Midreach Lira.
• Fragments of Prince Daer's journals are purchased by Yelidra Veykar.
• The Church seizes three mega relay spines and dozens of smaller relays, then retreats into isolation.
• The Infinite Maw Conflict is declared over; the seized territories remain under Maw control.
• 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.
• Velk'Phareon Daer's On the Populations of Geba is spread across the relay and fuels heated ideological debate across the planet.
• Relayman Vinscel releases Crime on Geba, bringing awareness to civilian populations of the realities beyond relay coverage that most of the governed world did not know existed.
• The Energy Wars persist across inland regions and contested corridors.