Grand Sop Army Academy

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## Summary

The **GSAA**, fully known as the **Grand Sop Army Academy & Headquarters of Karrots**, is a hoppist military location of high significance. **Sop** founded the site before his official marriage, and built it with the help of the newly established **Grand Sop Army**, which was under 1,000 hops strong. In an **orbit**, the number of active duty hoppists grew many orders of magnitude, allowing for a major overhaul of the universal hoppist military. Historically, over half of all hops that ever lived have attempted to join the GSAA via suggestion, or testing. Most are allowed in and trained in very basic hoppist ideals here, unless they connect to the **Hoppist Network Recruit Program** abroad. The base is a group of several large above and below ground structures, which include:

* An above ground fire range
* Vehicle proving grounds
* Several barracks, armories & classrooms
* Unusual Situations Rooms (deep space/water simulation, virtual drone training, etc)
* Recreational & Veteran Hall
* Ceremony Hall
* Hoppist Network Broadcast Studio

## History

For most of hoppist history, individual hops would learn from long lines of family or communities on how to defend themselves or make things that would defend them. Sop's founding of the GSA began after his rise to power toppled the previous religious, political and social ways across Karrots. Through leadership and strength, he used the guidance of Gop to assure goodwill to the universe, and teach hops how to protect themselves and others, in the hope to one day stop entropy and claim a coexisting relationship with nature.

To begin, the hops needed to win battles to ensure this. Taking his own lineage and training into account, he and trusted advisors created physical regimens to make all hoppists capable of fighting each other. Then, as time passed, he added formal weapons and vehicle training to the system. As the **Hoppist Rank Ladder** was established, Hopficers could use the **Initiate Trials** to recruit and train warriors without Sop's guidance. Today, most of the military is trained exclusively on Karrots, and beings with hop-like fluffy bodies can use altered training to better serve with hops in the military.

### Branches Trained (Current)

* Grand Sop Army Gravity Forces: responsible for ground combat and in environments where gravity is a factor
* Grand Outer Space Naval Force: responsible for in-atmosphere and out-of-atmosphere combat, or in liquid environments
* Hoppist Military Science Bureau: invents and develops weaponry and armor, and general science (excluding mechanics, techs and engineers)

### Branches Trained (Retired/Defunct)

* **Knights of Sop:** the most faithful and elite Hoppists, deployed in dire circumstances, or to guard Temples of Sop across the universe. (Now trained by Hop personally, off-world, on a rotation of 3 different allied worlds)
* Special Vehicles Units (Focused on stealth, recon and experimental vehicle training. This was disavowed after the Hop Civil War)
* Mechanics Unions (now partnered with **Royal Ampbersamd** for vehicular & mechanical training)