IST Academy

[Mark Skarr]

That's far too much of an oversimplification, IMHO. Our world is not that homogeneous (no matter how hard Hollywood has tried to make it so), and the IST world only diverged from ours seven decades ago.

But, GURPS goes with the oversimplification. Read page 23. Word of Kromm has even said that our world can be broken down into two: Eastern and Western, on multiple occasions. GM’s are specifically instructed to keep it to a minimum. For Fantasy games “Human” covering ALL human cultures, no matter how diverse, is valid.

Which they might have - it isn't up to the UN where a country decides to put its capital.

While that’s true, Kiev isn’t likely to be as large in the IST world as Odessa. And, if the entire infrastructure is already in Odessa (which it would be, due to the Embassy) it would be easier to put it there. Just because it happened in our world, doesn’t mean it happened in theirs. It makes more sense, from both an infrastructure and political standpoint to have the capital in Odessa.

I was thinking they all were. They're Academies, not public schools, after all.

Bob liked the idea of splitting them up by ages. Keep in mind, that, being academies, they’re NOT universities. They’re military-formatted.

I thought we had agreed that not all of the students were metahumans ...?

We have. However, that still doesn’t mean that there will be that large of a student body. Not everyone in the U.N. will send their kids there, and not every metahuman on the planet will attend. One- to two-thousand students is a large number. Being a military school, there will be a lot of metahumans who don’t attend the school.

There's more to Creativity, Action, Service than just ethics, though.

There’s also less to it. From my research it’s more about serving than the questions of why. And that, for a metahuman, is the most important thing to understand. You consider ethical implications of your actions, but you’re never required to think about why, for you, that is the wrong thing to do. Just from a societal standpoint.

Metahuman ethics would be an entirely new field (which is what Ezekiel was teaching).