Starfall

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> ### Location
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> Aeios
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> Starfall students ; Starfall members
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> ### Weather
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> (Aeios)Toilsummer : Clear - Heat Wave - EM Storm
> Everfall : Rain - Fog - Energy Mist
> Superwinter : Blizzard - Hail - Aurora Shower
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> * Location Culture
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> ### Capital
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> Gaignun
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> ### Connections
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> Atheleios town (Academy HQ, Campus A)Thyreleios town (Academy Campus B)
> Agorapista town (Academy Campus C)
> Gaignun town (Starfall Parliament & HQ)
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> ### Festivals
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> Fall Festival ;
> ToilSummer World Fest ;
> SuperWinter Games Fest ;
> Lunar New Year
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The Starfall Foundation, is an Authority in Galaxy Travail. It is considered as one of the major 6 Authorities.

Its emblem is a tilted, split black hole that signs off as an "S".

## Geopolitics

The Starfall Foundation is a military state that self governs the Colony of Aeios. The Colony itself is located on the uncharted Aionios Solar System, roughly situated in the Norma Arm of the Galaxy, at the complete opposite of the humankind's Motherland Solar System.

Starfall was created in the tremors of the Fifth World War 50 years ago, triggered by the genocide of the Estrella alien race. With rampant xenophobia and racism growing across the galaxy and ever-increasing homogenisation of cultures, Starfall aims to create a harmonious place where all alien races can coexist together and prove to other Authorities that it can be done. Their Academy Program is a prime example of this ideology they push, alongside the Terminals they are setting up across the galaxy.

> *While they are headquartered on Aeios, Starfall is known to have a big list of Terminals across the galaxy, which serve as checkpoints for their operations. Their Terminals are famously known to be "demilitarised free zones", which implies that no other Authority can apply a militaristic force other than Starfall themselves on them. They vary in sizes but most of them are either man-made or docked on asteroids. Since they are free of conflicts, some civilians across other Authorities moved in to find peace, similarly to Eldridge, furthering their goal of harmonising all alien races.*
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Starfall communicates with all other major and minor Authorities without discrimination, as they act as a "middleman and mediators" between all of them, providing services to whoever ask it. They have established the "Operation Bulletin Board", which allows anyone across the galaxy regardless of Authority, to put up a mission, task, quest or favour that needs help. Starfall will deploy Soldiers in order to accomplish and help on those Operations, while creating a vast network of human connections in return. They act more like a traditional guild, which to them is the best way to promote their ideology.

### Conflict with Eldridge

Starfall is currently under tensions with Eldridge for several reasons.

**• SPX-001 Σ Situation** : Eldridge, in its plan of reinforcing the military might of the Alliance Union's Defence Force, created an Artifice project, named SPX-001 Σ, or Epsilon SP01, which turned into Seraphita Polaris. Starfall retrieved the Artifice laying dormant as the creator and leader of the project passed away and the Defence Force getting into newer technologies such as Echelons. The retrieval was not made with the consent of Eldridge, deeming the Artifice their property, and did not return it.

> *Starfall reverse-engineered the Artifice and reprogrammed it into the Seraphita known in the main story of the project, assisting the 2999 promotion of students. Eldridge is seeking to retrieve Seraphita back and multiple attempts were made prior to her awakening in A.D. 2998. Eldridge has refused to use the Bulletin Board as a sign of protest, although in the main story, they do put several missions that involve Seraphita and the other students, which calms down the tensions between the two Authorities.*
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**• Echelon Situation** : In the same vein as the Epsilon SP01 retrieval, Starfall has attempted to recuperate Echelon technology in order to manufacture their own line of mobile suits. They ultimately failed and left Starfall without mobile suits, which created a power vacuum in the Geopolitics of Messiers, as most Major Authorities have started to make their own for the Fifth World War.

Unlike other Major Authorities, Starfall is seen as a mostly neutral party that assists all of them. There have been cases where Starfall Soldiers had to fight each other because they enrolled in two opposed Authorities that engaged in conflict. It only has a semi-negative relationship with Eldridge, but is neutral with all others and do not possess strongly positive relationships with other Authorities.

## System

In the Foundation's inner system can be found four houses.

### • The Parliament House

*Executive and legislative body of the Foundation.*

It is in the Parliament House that the Ministries are located, and where the Starfall Foundation is being run internally. The ministers are voted in by the other houses and any Starfall citizen can technically apply as long as they are in one of the Houses first. The Parliament is the upper body of the Foundation, technically making the most critical decisions and while the HQ handles the armed and military side of the Foundation, the Parliament House takes care of the civilian matters, as well as the budget and plans for the Foundation as a whole. They do not communicate with outside forces.

### • The HQ House

*Administrative body of the Foundation.*

As a military state and to maintain relation between Authorities and itself, the HQ makes sure that everything works out. They handle Authority Relationships, and Operations as well for the Academy branch. They manage the armed forces of the Foundation and its military branches, the weaponry stockpile and the war plans for the Foundation. Most of the HQ members are graduated students from the Academy that chose the Administrative/Secretary branches. The Administrative branch also encompasses the healthcare system of the Foundation and the housing of its members.

### • The Academy House

*Scholar body of the Foundation.*

The Academy is the emblem of the Starfall Foundation, which is its strongest soft power item. People from across Authorities are allowed to apply for the Academy to be trained for a career path they may choose, whether it is to work in Starfall in the future or not. The main perk that Starfall likes to boast is its diversity and acceptance of everyone without any discrimination, as Starfall was built by several different alien race members banding together, the Academy wants to reflect and pass that ideology down for the future. It is the HQ that manages the Academy, as they are the main communicators with outside forces.

In the school program, the students are obligatorily trained to be soldiers ontop of their career path. This also pushes them to make "Operations", which are missions that take place in all other Authorities depending on the task they have submitted to Starfall. The Operation can be as long as a week as it can be several years long, but in the Academy the long and critical missions are usually not given to the students, but to the proper military branch.

### • The Blade House

*Military body of the Foundation.*

The heart of the Foundation can be found in the Blade House, where Soldiers are tasked out different missions by all the other Authorities. They are the ones that represent the Foundation to the other Authorities the most. They also maintain communication with people they have met outside of Starfall to create a vast network of human knowledge, and spread their ideology. They work in tandem with the HQ while they handle administrative work, the Blade provides the workforce and the practical side of the system. People in the Blade house are generally student graduates that didn't leave to go back to their home colony, as the students have mandatory military training.

## Background

Starfall in its infancy, was not called Starfall at all.

The Foundation was actually a branch of the Alliance Union, located in the Eldridge Orbital Space Station, founded in 2919. The Foundation was created alongside the Meredith Heavy Development, a R&D development company under the Defence Force branch in order to increase the defensive program of the Station. The Foundation had much more peaceful endeavours, which was to become a safe haven for the Fifth World War refugees, notably the Estrella. While only the Quartz family survived, their presence on Eldridge increased risks of attacks, while the Station was also housing multiple alien races mixing together.

   A conflict of interest arose, when Eldridge caught wind of the Foundation housing and accepting humans, which their Authorities (Tevet and Abbeh) were in direct conflict with the Station. The Foundation's main goal was to house anybody regardless of race, wishing to live in harmony, which did not align with Eldridge and the Alliance Union. The Foundation broke off from the Station due to fears of a dissolution that was already in process, and searched for a suitable planet. They eventually land on Aeios, far from all the other Authorities, and come up with a new plan in mind. In A.D. 2949, the Starfall Foundation was formally born as it's known to this day, with the main ideology of harmony and racial coexistence. A couple years down the line, Eldridge claimed independence from the Alliance Union, proposing the same ideology ironically enough, with the only exception of not accepting humankind on their station.

Resentment is present in the upper ranks of Starfall towards Eldridge, explaining the tensions and the retrieval of the Epsilon SP01 and Echelon technologies.

Just like all the other Authorities, the Starfall Foundation has agreed into the Allencia Convention, adopting the system of Term Marks to signal that every lifeform will have a lifespan of 50 years to level out ageing and life experiences, for every new born in the Foundation.

In the year 2999, Starfall is planning to create a Heavy Machinery House, in order to create mobile suit Echelons, thanks to breakthrough technologies that the students of the promo year brought on.

## Socioeconomics

### Healthcare

Healthcare is handled by the HQ House, and its budget by the Parliament House. It takes in charge most if not all medical procedures, except for cosmetic and para-pharmaceutical ones. Thanks to a proper taxing system on Starfall citizens and budgeting, most health-related costs are covered by the system itself, allowing fast and free recovery, especially for students in the Academy who have the highest rate of injuries in the Foundation, next to Blade Soldiers.

### Housing

Housing is managed by both the Parliament and HQ houses, making sure that citizens have a place to stay. There are different tiers of housing, one where housing is taken into account with the paycheck, meaning that a citizen will see less revenue but with the certainty of a flat price and no extra costs. The other system is a bit more liberal where it doesn't take a cut on the paycheck, but allows for more options depending on earnings, such as singled out houses, apartment complexes and such.

For Parliament, Blade and HQ houses citizens and workers, different dorms and barracks are at disposition for housing in the first option category. It may mean that they get to live with other citizens but in the culture it's something that is rather appreciated by many. Academy student fall under the same boat and most of them go for the first option, which means they might not earn much during their missions, but their housing situation will be guaranteed, with dorm rooms and meals included. More privileged students might opt for the second option to have their own little place, but not having a connection with other students in the dorms does come with a major downside as relationships and communications is key in Starfall culture.

## Notes on the Academy

The Academy is arguably the biggest part of Starfall, as it is the funnel that allows any person in the galaxy to enter into Starfall rather easily. It is technically possible for someone to move into Aeios and ask for a visa to work in HQ, the Parliament or the Blade houses, it is a very cumbersome and difficult process. The Academy alleviates that issue by allowing people to enter a school-like system that emulates the Foundation itself, and by the time they graduate, they will be fully operational for the position that the other houses are looking to recruit for. It also allows the youth to aim for a career.

To enter the Academy, there is an application system which relies on exams and tests. A student may be admitted when their score is equal or above 70 points of out 100 in total, where the theory/knowledge tests hold half of those points and physical tests hold the other half. Some students can enter via recommendation, if the Foundation deems it propitious.

> *In the year 2999, the application system was heavily manipulated in the sense that, the Foundation was looking into the geopolitically powerful youth. A good deal of the 2999 students were directly enrolled by the Foundation while making them believe they are taking exams and entered thanks to them. About only 7 people out of the 25 students were actually from non-important backgrounds, such as Frost, Lloyd, Aether, Akkala, Crimson, Lymée and Arden. The Elite students were picked as they were the ones with outstanding Ether Response.*
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The Academy has three campuses, from A to C, each located and integrated into a town. In Galaxy Travail, the 2999 students are in Campus A, located in the western part of the Atheleios town, close to the shoreline. Campus B is located south of Thyreleios, while Campus C can be found in the town of Agorapista. The Parliament and the main building of HQ can be found in the massive sprawling city of Gaignun.

### Classes

As for studying itself, the students have a set of mandatory theory and practical classes, with a good amount of optional ones. It allows them to aim into becoming the following : Soldiers, Secretaries, Ministers, Engineer, Manufacturer, Manager, Doctor, Physician, Elite and much more. The students have about 3 to 5 years of studies depending on the field they wanna end up into. Due to the Academy's flexible ruleset and freedoms, all students must be at least 18 terms in age. Students have a set of theory and training classes to begin with. Later on, they can have "Operation" classes depending on their performance at mid-term exams. The students can decide to either attend in-person, or do e-learning from their dorm room for the theory classes. Unfortunately, training and Operation classes must have an in-person presence. The classes happen in different periods of the day on the weekdays, they vary a lot in time-frame due to how many students are naturally night owls.

morning / afternoon / evening

*This table is not exhaustive, as it does not list all optional branch class, but only the major ones that are most often taken. Students are allowed to have extracurricular courses or hobbies, which they can attend outside of the class hours.*

### Dorms

As mentioned in socioeconomics, the students are offered dormitories, which can be found inside the Campus and in town. It is heavily discouraged to make noise after 10pm, which is the usual time when stores close down (11pm summertime). Some distributors are available across town for students that like to live at night. The dorms have individual and shared rooms, the initial choice is at the entry of the Academy and it usually does not change unless an issue arises that necessitate the relocation of certain students. The dorms in town are built and designed so the students can participate to the local life of the town of Atheleios.

A special problem that Starfall has encountered and innovated in space and home design, is that alien races have vastly different needs, and they need to be all accommodated. This is especially known for the Matterkind who have very extreme and specific lifestyles. This is why the dorms have individual rooms, that will adapt to the student's needs *(by example, a scorching hot room for a Flare Matterkind without affecting any other room in the dorm)*.

Public spaces are also available at all times, which includes the local library, the public baths, gardens, the stadium, the theatre scene and some specific accommodation spaces for certain species. These spaces are very lively at night, as students usually stay up late and enjoy hanging out at night. Some students are predisposed at being up at night and sleep during the day, due to their natural circadian rhythm. The Foundation makes sure that it can create a harmonious environment that is accommodating to everyone.

### Year 2999

As mentioned in the previous sections, the Year 2999 promo is special and is the cast of characters that are intertwined in the story.