JIGA

> "Therefore. We, the students of the *Japanese beeinflusste die Duestsche Akademie, or JIGA,* must and will have to defeat the *JSF's* representative in order to change the landscape of Japan's Panzerkraft, for good." *- Rommel*
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## Additional Information

###  Classification:

School-Carrier

The **Japanese Influenced Germania Academy** ( 日本の影響を受けたドイツのアカデミー ) is one of the schools in Panzer aber Alternativ. Commonly shortened as **JIGA** ( ジガ ), the school mainly uses German-made products, from vehicles towards equipment.

## Overview

Considered as a *Nihonjin Gakkō* (lit means "School for Japanese People"), it was formerly located in Lüneburg, Lower Saxony, Germany. The school was renamed two times before it finally became JIGA after its transition from land-based educational institution into a school capable for "Maritime Expansion".

Similar to their associated school, Kuromorimine Girls Academy, the school has strong ties with the Japanese Government, thus this school became a diplomatic bridge between these two governments, often in a form of exchanging programs and activities that promotes the interest of both nations.

Contrary to popular belief, JIGA is **not** the sister school of Kuromorimine Girls Academy, in fact, JIGA came from foreign origin.

Today, the school's port is located in the port of Naruto City, Tokushima Prefecture.

## Background

JIGA is filled to the brim with its history and culture, both the past and the present depiction of the school itself. JIGA was formerly known as the **Lüneburg Gymnasium**, and the **Niederlassung Fernost** before that. The former was a fully pledge educational institution while the latter is a War School and an affiliated school of the **Hinterland War Group Academ**y, a myriad of Military Institutions clustered together within the Lüneburg Heath area.

### History

Origins of the Academy dates back during the midst of the Cold War. It is around the time where West Germany accepted foreign and exchanged students from abroad to study in their finest schools about warfare, specifically the field of Armored doctrine.

JIGA or formerly was known as Hinterland War Group Academy: Far East Branch (German: *Akademie der Hinterlandkriegsgruppe: Niederlassung Fernost*) is a branch school under the Hinterland War Group Academy, a large educational institution around the Lüneburg Heath that serves as Germany's forefront of training exceptional officers in preparation for the impending conflict against the newly established Communist coalition, the Warsaw Pact.

Contrary to popular belief, the Hinterland War Group Academy is not a single Institution, but rather it's a collection of Schools that each offers a specialized curriculum.

Here's a List of Institutions under the Hinterland War Group Academy, complete with their descriptions.

* **Munster Kreigsakademie** - The Main body of the Hinterland War Group, considered as a War College and comparable to the Bundeswehr Command and Staff College in Hamburg.
* **Fallingbostel Kriegsschule** - The Secondary body of the Academy, this school acts as a War Academy.
* **ADH's Zweige der Kriegsschulen** - A collection of small War Schools for accommodating foreign and exchanged officers and trainees.
	+ **ADH's Niederlassung Fernost** - Located in Lüneburg, this small War School is for the students that came from Asia, specifically from the Far East as half of its population were Japanese around the time of its peak.
	+ **ADH's Westliche Niederlassung** - Located in Bergen, this War School is for students who came from the Western Hemisphere, notably Americans. Originally this School was reserved to both the British and Canadian students, but with the established of the ADH's Europäische Niederlassung, they ultimately gave this school to the hands of the Americans.
	+ **ADH's Europäische Niederlassung** - Originally called the **Soltau Niederlassung**, the school is located in Soltau, this War School was at first meant to accommodate both Canadian and British students only but with the recent tension against the Warsaw Pact, the decision of expanding its students was enacted, not only they expand the territory of the School but also they can now accommodate almost all of the members of NATO in Europe, thus they became the Europäische Niederlassung as a result.

Eventually, after the end of the Cold War, the Hinterland War Group Academy was deemed to be unnecessary to stay afloat and this led to the decision of the Government to shut it down. This Academy enjoyed its time being defunct for a couple of years in dilapidated state, but eventually this school was again revived, but serving under a different purpose.

Around the time where Germany became a powerhouse in the Recrelympics, members of the German Recrelympics Committee (GRC) came forward to the Government and offered a proposal to *'strengthen Germany's Recrelympic Teams'* by transforming the dilapidated Academy into a heavily Recrelympics-oriented Institution, and after a couple of set backs between the GRC and the German Government, they finally approved the proposal and soon established the Hinterland Recrelympics Learning Collection, complete with its branches schools.

Not only they revived the 5 original schools, but they also combined the main body and the secondary to create the Heidekreis Academy, while the Branches Schools became independent Schools.

Here's a List of Academies that affiliated themselves with the Hinterland Recrelympics Learning Collection, complete with their descriptions.

* **Heidekreis University** - The main body of the Collection. They offer a wide variety of curriculums and they practices all the major sports of Recrelympics.
* **Lüneburg Gymnasium** - The successor of the Niederlassung Fernost. They are widely known as the representative of both the Hinterland and Lower Saxony itself in the PS-9 after its eventful achievements that its Student President achieved during his career.
* **Bergen's New World High School** - A prestigious School for the elites, located in Bergen. The school is known for its rich and affluent students, which mostly came from the Western Hemisphere.
* **Soltau Academy** - The largest School out of the four, they are famously known for a diverse set of students across Europe and even Asia.

During its process of transformation, one of the GRC's members, the Leopold Family, took interest of one of the schools within the Collection and soon became that school's primary sponsor, further exceeding that to the sponsors of the Heidekreis University and even caused that school to became the representative of Hinterland and even Lower Saxony in terms of participating Recrelympics-related activities, that school was none other than the Lüneburg Gymnasium, the predecessor of JIGA.

After the start of the 21th Century, Germany has interest to follow the trend of strengthening diplomat relations in different countries through building Schools, but this time, they set their eyes on Japan, a nation that they have an amicable relations with since the 19th Century. And with the ambitious proposal of Otto Leopold, President of the IRC and the primary sponsor of Lüneburg, he proposed to the JRC that they should transform the Gymnasium into a School-Ship at the expense of it becoming a *Nihonjin gakkō* as a result.

With the plans of turning the Gymnasium into a School-Ship, the Leopold awarded the contract to Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft and built the School-Ship under an impressive short amount of time of only 4 years. The designs and name of the School-Carrier was based from the *"Peter Strasser".* The Ship was commissioned at the Port of Kiel on April 1 2009, while the school was opened on the 3rd of October on the same year.

As a result of the school becoming a *Nihonjin gakkō*, the school was renamed to the Japanese Influenced Germania Academy. Weirdly enough, even though the school is now at the hands of the Japanese, it still retained its primary sponsor, the reason behind this is that they want the school to stay afloat during its process of transforming the *Nihonjin gakkō* into a legitimate Japanese School that the MEXT officially approved.

### Location

The School was formerly located in Lüneburg, Lower Saxony. Lüneburg is a town located on the same district that shares its name. Currently, the school is now situated on Naruto City, with its port acting as their official place for embarkation and disembarkation.

Though by sheer coincidence, Naruto City's twin-sister is Lüneburg, Germany, though this wasn't the reason why JIGA picked the City as its home port, instead they picked it by its history with Germany, specially this City was the location of the Bandō prisoner-of-war camp, a war-camp for German soldiers during World War 1.

### School-Ship

JIGA's School-Ship was based on the designs of the German Aircraft Carrier, the Peter Strasser. The commission for it was awarded to the Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft to build the vessel at the port of Kiel. It took them staggering 4 years to build the ship, normally the size of that vessel normally requires an average of 10-13 years to construct.

Through the classification from the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, they categorized that JIGA's School-Ship was to be classified as a **School-Carrier**.

## Culture

The culture of JIGA has been shaped by its history and theme. Originally the school was just made up to few buildings, but after its fruitful transformation, the school became a hub of German culture that attracts not only potential students but also tourists alike, thus making the school a perfect ingredient for the German Government to deepen their relationship with the Japanese Government.

Packed with heterogenous architecture, a myriad of festivals, delicious cuisines and interesting courses. The culture of JIGA, similar to its fellow country-themed schools, are a staple on how nations cooperated with the Japanese Government through promoting education, activities, and long lasting peace.

### Architecture

The school's architecture is teeming with resemblances of its country origin and theme. Being a school from Lower Saxony, the architecture of it was heavily inspired by its original location. The school's layout across its surface deck follows the principal of Lüneburg's motto, *"Mons, Pons, Fons"* meaning "Hill, bridge, spring", thus the layout of the school is a mixture of green rolling hills, a plethora of bridges, and an abundance of springs scattered around the surface. Though apart from following its themed layout, the main architecture style that JIGA emphasizes is **historicism**.

Examples of these recreated buildings are listed below with their purpose after their construction on the Surface Deck.

* New Town Hall (German: *Neues Rathaus*) from Hanover - JIGA's Faculty Building
* Lüneburg's Town Hall (German: *Lüneburger Rathaus*) from Lüneburg - JIGA's Student Council Building
* German Tank Museum (German: *Deutsches Panzermuseum Munster*) from Munster - One of JIGA's main attraction to tourist, it aims is the documentation of JIGA's history and their Inventory of its Recrelympics Teams since they first established in the 1950s
* Leine Palace (German: *Leinescholss*) from Hanover - JIGA's Student Council's Dormitory Building
* Dankwarderode Castle (German: *Burg Dankwarderode*) from Brunswick - JIGA's main Recrelympics Building
* State Museum for Art and Cultural History (German: *Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte*) from Oldenburg - JIGA's Art Club Building
* Lüneburg Water Tower (German: *Wasserturm Lüneburg*) from Lüneburg - JIGA's Observation Tower and Air Traffic Control Tower
* Richmond Castle (German: *Schloss Richmond*) from Brunswick - JIGA's public garden

In regards of their dormitory, instead of going to a modern and simple styled architecture, they much prefer the amalgamation of old and new, and thus they used the **Low Saxon Houses** (German: *Niedersachsenhaus*) as their blueprint to these dormitory buildings. As a result, each building offers 24 dormitory rooms, 1 big kitchen, 1 man-made hot spring, and 1 laundry room. Each room can be decorated to its inhabitant's preference, though a simple room offers a bed, a long table, a small kitchen area, and a bathroom.

(For additional reference of the Dormitory, check this modern replica of the **House**)

The Commercial Buildings across the Surface Deck were also built with the emphasis of Baroque Architecture, Renaissance style, and Classical style. An example of these buildings is the Wedekindhaus-esque building inside the town's square, the main appeal of this building other than its extravagant features is its purpose, acting as both a residence house and a konbini store in the area.

The Industrial Buildings meanwhile were developed through Industrial styled Architecture, though some buildings were given special exceptions such as the Automobile Sector as they followed a more modern approach towards its development, and this is best seen near the location of the Automobile Park (German: *Autopark*), a famous tourist attraction for car enthusiasts.

### Uniform

The Student's Uniform of JIGA mostly uses of the four colors: Black, Light Blue, Dark Gray, and Light Gray. The boys are required to wear light gray Blazer, a light blue button-down shirt, dark gray trousers, and black matching shoes and necktie. The girls meanwhile also wore the same uniform, albeit the trousers is replaced with a skirt.

To every students' uniform, there's the emblem of JIGA emblazoned on their breast pocket on their left side of the Blazer.

### JIGA's Airlines - Lufttransnehmen

The Air Transport Company (German: *Lufttransportunternehmen*), commonly shortened to **Lufttransnehmen**, is JIGA's primary airline. It serves as both the School-Ship and its Recrelympics' Flag carrier, often the employees of this company are mostly students-in-training, these includes the job of the mechanic, cabin crew, air traffic controller, assistant, the pilot, and many more.

The name is derived from the German word of *Luft* meaning "air", *transport* for the literal "transport", and *unternehmen* meaning "company".

### Spionagedienst

The Espionage Service (German: *Spionagedienst*), abbreviated as the **SD**, is the Recrelympics Intelligence Agency of JIGA. It's services includes information gathering, intelligence analysis, public monitor, and diffuser of fake news. The agency is often working in secrecy with only few outsiders knowing its existence.

It operates within the School-Ship acting as an Organization for Internal Affairs, while it operates like a fully fledge Intelligence Agency over-vessel/outside their ship. Though the latter is sometimes with the collaboration of Kuromorimine's Intelligence Agency, the *Anzwehr* during its countless hidden agendas and operations.

### Lüneburg Neunte Orchester

The great pride of JIGA's Beethoven Club, the Lüneburg Ninth Orchestra (German: *Lüneburg Neunte Orchester*) is the name of its musicians who vowed to continue the tradition of playing Beethoven's Symphony No. 9, that is often performed numerous times at the end of every year, and at the first weekend of the month of June.

Originally the club was only 17 members, but later it went to 20, and to 63, and finally it reached its peak at 74 club members.

## Recrelympics

Similar to Kuromorimine Girls Academy, JIGA is a powerhouse in the Recrelympics stage. Their main inventory and tactics are all centered around that the Germans used during its long history with warfare. Their Recrelympics Team is called the "**Sportsmacht**", this Team comprises of the Infantry **Boden Heer**, the Armored **Panzerwaffe**, the Aerial **Fliegende Korps**, and the **Naval Schulemarines***.*

JIGA's Sportsmacht is still as powerful as before, as the Lüneburg Gymnasium was able to transfer all of its assets to its successor, thus making the School efficient as before.

Each teams has their own respective primary color for their uniforms: In Infantry-Craft, they wore gray-green uniforms; In Panzerwaffe, they wore clad-black uniforms; In Aerial-Aces, they wore blue-gray and beige colored uniforms; And in Aquatic-Warfare, they wore blue uniforms.

### Infantry-Craft

The Infantry-Craft's team of JIGA is called the Ground Army (German: *Boden Heer*). Under the Boden Heer is its Elite Unit, the "SI.800 Munster Hunters" (German: *Münster Jäger*) , a unit consists of the best of the best infantries across the entire team, ferocity and consistency is their main forte.

### Panzerkraft

The Panzerkraft's team of JIGA is called the Tank Force (German: *Panzerwaffe*). This team mainly operates German tanks, including experimental and prototypes that were approved by both the JSF's Approval Committee and the International Panzerkraft Federation.

The Panzerwaffe is the main team and majority of its club members are a part of it, though under the Panzerwaffe is both the Lehr Panzer Division and the Vorhut Sensha-dō Geschwader (VSG), the latter is the primary Senshadō team of JIGA while the former is an all-elite Panzer division that was first meant for training newcomers to the sport, but later turned into a team that was meant to show their exemplar talent on the field.

### Aerial-Aces

The Aerial-Aces' team of JIGA is the Flying Corps (German: *Fligende Korps*). Often the members of this came from the Lufttransnehmen and are just there to continue their fascination for the flying vehicles that JIGA has to offer to them. With a large amount of planes on their inventory, its activities are diverse, from doing Aerobatics to simulated dogfights called Sentōki-dō.

### Aquatic-Warfare

The Aquatic-Warfare's team of JIGA is the School Marines (German: *Schulemarines*), these members came from the either the Naval General Courses or the Naval-associated clubs. The primary goal of this team apart from participating the simulated Naval battles is Naval training; from maintenance of the ship, stirring the vessel, learning how to operate it, and many more.

Aspiring Sailors are often the members of this particular Recrelympics Team. Lunenburg's Naval Prefix is LNS (Lunenburg's Navy Ships).

## Inventory

Rumors has it that JIGA's inventory is ranked the 3rd among the 16 official schools that affiliated themselves with the newly established Japanese Recrelympic Committee, only behind Red Square High and Yankee Academy. The following list are all the equipment that the school uses, both in Recrelympics and non-combat.

### Combat Vehicles

* Panzerkampfwagen 38(t)
* Panzerkampfwagen I
* Panzerkampfwagen II
* Panzerkampfwagen III
* Panzerkampfwagen IV
* Panzerkampfwagen V
* Panzerkampfwagen VI
* Sturmgeschütz III
* Sturmgeschütz IV
* Jagdpanzer 38(t)
* Jagdpanzer IV
* Jagdpanther
* VK 16.02 Leopard
* Heuschrecke 10
* Maus

### Non-Combat Vehicles

* Kleines Kettenkraftrad HK 101 or Kattenkrad
* BMW R75
* Volkswagen Kübelwagen
* Mercedes-Benz W31
* Krupp Protze
* Sd.Kfz. 251 or Hanomags

### Air Fleet

* Messerschmitt Me 323
* Focke-Achgelis Fa 223 Drache
* Junkers Ju 52
* Dornier Do 31
* Ar 232

### Ships

* LNS Gneisenau (based from battleship Gneisenau)
* LNS Deutschland (based from Dreadnaught Deutschland)
* Marinefährprahm
* Pionierlandungsboot 41/43

## Known Members

The following list below are the known members of JIGA, both the current and former students of it.

### Eirian Braun Haiiro

He's also known as "Arian Braun Wittmann" there, Eirian is a former student and commander of the school. A skilled yet ruthless person, a total opposite of his superior.

### Miamoto "Rommel" Wittmann

The current Führer of the school. Miamoto is perceived to be a lazy yet responsible student if the topic is under his list of interests. Miamoto is a Wittmann and the eldest out of the two siblings.

### Agni

The loader of Eirian during Chapter 2 of the story.

### Akane

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A student of the school. It is possible that she knows personally knows Eirian.

### Gunther Fujimura

A former advisor yet the current assistant of Ami Chouno to Ōarai's Co-ed Sensha-dō Team.

## Trivia

* JIGA's design is an amalgamation between the German 7th Armored Division, the Leuphana University, the 3 different style of the German Iron Cross, and the Imperial Japanese kamon.
	+ Even its background color is based on the predominant color of Lüneburg's coat of arms.
* The S symbol from the Vorhut Sensha-dō Geschwader is a runic alphabet from the elder futhark, an old runic language that was used by the Germanic people.
	+ The S stands for "sowilō", meaning "Sun".
* The Münster Jäger's design is a nod to the Brandenburgers, a special elite unit within the German Army.
	+ When translated in English, it means "Munster Hunters", the aforementioned translation is a pun to the Monster Hunters series.
* The Lufttransnehmen is a nod of Germany's Airliner, the Lufthansa.
* JIGA's Intelligence Agency is a pun to the real life Sicherheitsdienst (English: Security Service), the intelligence agency of the SS and the Nazi Party.
* Naruto City, JIGA's current location, is associated with city of Lüneburg through a twin-town relationship.

## Gallery

 JIGA's FlagJIGA's EmblemJIGA's Panzerwaffe EmblemJIGA's VSG EmblemJIGA's Recrelympics InsigniaJIGA's SI.800 InsigniaJIGA's Airline Service