It is a *bit* over-the-top. Is it *too* over-the-top?
some thoughts to consider...
- Your basic setting is Science Fiction With Some Weird Stuff. You want to have a reasonably coherent backstory for Why Weird Stuff Happens.
-- Anything that can be explained by aliens and superscience (Lain, for example, along with the Spartans and Manticores themselves) is fine under the Generic Sci-Fi License (though in Lain's case, AI software overtech is going to require AI hardware overtech to run on, and both need to have appropriate overtech-type sources - basically an explanation of why we've got one, but don't have someone out there cranking them out in job lots.).
-- Aside from that, though, you probably want to have your Weird Stuff come from the same place, or at least a relatively simple and coherent backstory. Don't play the UF game. ("And Jedi! We should have Jedi!). It only works for them because, if you read the first story of Core carefully, Gryphon *recreates the universe*. *Twice*. Once based on the contents of the friendly neighborhood Anime FTP directory, once based on the contents of his own twisted grey matter while going mad with grief and sleep-dep. Oh, and then he carries write privs to the basic assumptions of reality around in his head with him for the rest of time.
-- *cough* *cough*
-- excuse me. Anyway, my point is, you should have a single, coherent worldview that explains all of the Weird Stuff that happens, and why it doesn't happen but so often. The characters may not *know* the backstory, but you should, and dropping enough hints every once in a while for the readers to see that it all *does* fit together (even if they can't necessarily see *how*) is a good thing.
Actually, that would be an excellent second reason for the school. They're trying to turn these superpowered kids into Something Useful, and they're also trying to figure out the conceptual underpinnings of all of this Weird Stuff. Remember, the explanation does not have to be all that detailed, but it does have to include both why it works and why it is so very rare.
Oh - and no, the Utonium sisters do *not* fit under the Generic Sci-Fi license. Those girls are strictly Superhero Comic Book Tech, which is a different kettle of fish *entirely*.
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Once you've got it worked out how these kids exist in the first place, I think it makes perfect sense for the authorities to stick them all together in the same place. Of course, if you want that place to be Concordia, you're going to have to figure out why said authorities would pick it. Is this school just the local branch? Then it's the obvious place - but if not, then I suspect that the higher-ups would pick somewhere with a gravity well, and you're going to have to deal with moving day.
So...errr... not so much rabbit food as a hutch with a locking door.
some thoughts to consider...
- Your basic setting is Science Fiction With Some Weird Stuff. You want to have a reasonably coherent backstory for Why Weird Stuff Happens.
-- Anything that can be explained by aliens and superscience (Lain, for example, along with the Spartans and Manticores themselves) is fine under the Generic Sci-Fi License (though in Lain's case, AI software overtech is going to require AI hardware overtech to run on, and both need to have appropriate overtech-type sources - basically an explanation of why we've got one, but don't have someone out there cranking them out in job lots.).
-- Aside from that, though, you probably want to have your Weird Stuff come from the same place, or at least a relatively simple and coherent backstory. Don't play the UF game. ("And Jedi! We should have Jedi!). It only works for them because, if you read the first story of Core carefully, Gryphon *recreates the universe*. *Twice*. Once based on the contents of the friendly neighborhood Anime FTP directory, once based on the contents of his own twisted grey matter while going mad with grief and sleep-dep. Oh, and then he carries write privs to the basic assumptions of reality around in his head with him for the rest of time.
-- *cough* *cough*
-- excuse me. Anyway, my point is, you should have a single, coherent worldview that explains all of the Weird Stuff that happens, and why it doesn't happen but so often. The characters may not *know* the backstory, but you should, and dropping enough hints every once in a while for the readers to see that it all *does* fit together (even if they can't necessarily see *how*) is a good thing.
Actually, that would be an excellent second reason for the school. They're trying to turn these superpowered kids into Something Useful, and they're also trying to figure out the conceptual underpinnings of all of this Weird Stuff. Remember, the explanation does not have to be all that detailed, but it does have to include both why it works and why it is so very rare.
Oh - and no, the Utonium sisters do *not* fit under the Generic Sci-Fi license. Those girls are strictly Superhero Comic Book Tech, which is a different kettle of fish *entirely*.
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Once you've got it worked out how these kids exist in the first place, I think it makes perfect sense for the authorities to stick them all together in the same place. Of course, if you want that place to be Concordia, you're going to have to figure out why said authorities would pick it. Is this school just the local branch? Then it's the obvious place - but if not, then I suspect that the higher-ups would pick somewhere with a gravity well, and you're going to have to deal with moving day.
So...errr... not so much rabbit food as a hutch with a locking door.