Man, is Yuku having a total spaz. I've been trying for a while to get this posted, but I keep getting 500 Internal Server Errors.
I can see the Starfleet analogy quite well, however, it's still a military organization, at the end of the day. As much as Starfleet wants to say they're not, they are a military organization. I was considering a comment of "Best Case Scenario: IST Academy is Starfleet Academy." However, it's still a military academy. Maybe a bit lower-impact, but I can't help but see that discipline and order would be a main tenant of the academy. Any metahuman student could probably use a disciplined, structured life to give them meaning and direction, even if it's not going into the IST.
I can see it being broken down, by the group of three, in that the "up to 13" school would be mostly educational, and less structured, and they start getting into the military-like structure in the 13-18 branch. The actual 18-and-older branch would probably be rigorously military. It doesn't make much sense for a military organization to have a non-military academy to prepare new team members. At that point, there should be two "schools" one run by the U.N., providing education and training to the students who show little desire to be in the IST, and the IST Academy for those that do*.
And, I'm sorry, but the idea of it being like Hogwarts is anethma to me. That would ensure the school lasts about a month before over-active students brought it down in a flaming disaster.
I was thinking of putting AA in the same role as Ezekiel. Zeke's got a couple thousand years experience on her, but, at the end of the day, they both "get it."
*-For students with catastrophic powers (Ember, Pink, Rad Vixen, Suzi) enrollment into the IST Academy's military-school branch would be, practically, mandtory. Though, in some cases (Pink) that would go . . . poorly.
I can see the Starfleet analogy quite well, however, it's still a military organization, at the end of the day. As much as Starfleet wants to say they're not, they are a military organization. I was considering a comment of "Best Case Scenario: IST Academy is Starfleet Academy." However, it's still a military academy. Maybe a bit lower-impact, but I can't help but see that discipline and order would be a main tenant of the academy. Any metahuman student could probably use a disciplined, structured life to give them meaning and direction, even if it's not going into the IST.
I can see it being broken down, by the group of three, in that the "up to 13" school would be mostly educational, and less structured, and they start getting into the military-like structure in the 13-18 branch. The actual 18-and-older branch would probably be rigorously military. It doesn't make much sense for a military organization to have a non-military academy to prepare new team members. At that point, there should be two "schools" one run by the U.N., providing education and training to the students who show little desire to be in the IST, and the IST Academy for those that do*.
And, I'm sorry, but the idea of it being like Hogwarts is anethma to me. That would ensure the school lasts about a month before over-active students brought it down in a flaming disaster.
I was thinking of putting AA in the same role as Ezekiel. Zeke's got a couple thousand years experience on her, but, at the end of the day, they both "get it."
*-For students with catastrophic powers (Ember, Pink, Rad Vixen, Suzi) enrollment into the IST Academy's military-school branch would be, practically, mandtory. Though, in some cases (Pink) that would go . . . poorly.