Royal Baron

The Royal Baron Academy

The **Royal Baron Academy** (ロイヤル・バロン・アカデミー) is one of the schools in PaA. It is the byproduct of the long history of the amicable relationship between the United Kingdom and Japan.

## Overview

The Royal Baron Academy is an international school situated in the central part of Tokyo. It is one of the prestigious schools within Honshu that the Embassy of the United Kingdom highly advocated to the citizens of Japan to enroll with. Students of the RB Academy are known for their well-behaved and noble-esque behavior.

Contrary to popular belief, the Academy is actually a Co-Ed system, the source of this misconception is in its name, "Royal Baron", though the namesake of the school actually came from its sponsors rather than its way of segregating gender. The name of their sponsors has the same name as the Academy itself, the "Secret Order of the Royal Barons".

## Background

Apart from its unique position as being a diplomat tool between the United Kingdom and Japan, the Academy is easily known for its rich history that sets back during the 1960s. The Academy was the fruitful product of the joint UK-Japan's education program, the "Program Miura Anjin", it is a project to accommodate the ever-increasing numbers of students from two specific schools in both nations.

### History

Royal Baron is a product of the British's efforts to commemorate their friendly relations with Japan after the San Francisco Peace Treaty in 1951. During the mid of the 1960s, with the recent construction of the British Council in Japan in 1953, the Cabinet during that time allowed the British to built an authentic British School in Tokyo, the heart of Japan, in exchanged, the Japanese would also built a School inside London, the capital of the United Kingdom as an "International cultural and educational opportunity".

The British, with the help of the Japanese Ministry of Education created the first Japanese-British in Tokyo, named the "Adams High School" in the year of 1965, the same year as the Japanese School in London was created. The Japanese School in London was operated by the Japanese Ministry of Education while the Adams High School was operated by the British Council. Around the start of the 1990s, and with the successful results of the "Diplomat School Program" of the United States, the Government of the United Kingdom, the British Council, the Foreign Office, the National Diet, and the Japanese Ministry of Education joined together with the help of the Red Seal Company to build a dedicated British-Japanese School on the Seas, the program was called "Program Miura Anjin", where the purpose of the program was to built a School-Carrier to dedicate the numbers of Japanese-British inhabitants in Japan as the Adams High School (which became the now known British School in Tokyo) was not sufficient to accommodate the expanding amount of students.

Under the construction of the Red Seal Company, a shipbuilding company in Japan, and with the blueprints provided by the Foreign Office, the School-Carrier was to be called the "Victorious". And in the year of 1989, after 8 years of construction, the new school of Royal Baron was established. The name Royal Baron originated by a group in London who sponsored the program, who called themselves the "Royal Barons".

The Ship was commissioned in the Miura Peninsula, specifically in the Military Naval base of Yokosuka Naval Base on 14 May 1989. Meanwhile the School was opened on 22 November on the same year.

Today, the School-Carrier's base is located in the Port of Tokyo, though this School-Carrier occasionally travels to the United Kingdom once a year, since they cited that the School was still a "Diplomat School". The Academy is still cooperating with the British Council, the MEXT, and even the Red Seal Company, though the School is considered to be a Private School with the sponsors of it are the Royal Barons and the alumni of the Academy.

Both the Royal Baron's predecessors' continued to be operated till this day.

### Location

The location of the school's official port in is the port of Tokyo.

### School-Ship

The School-Ship of Royal Baron Academy is based on the designs of its ship's namesake, the Aircraft Carrier HMS Victorious (R38). The contract for the commission of the School-Carrier was given to Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering, Ltd (VSEL), and the Red Seal Company, the latter was responsible for constructing the ship while the former provided them with the necessary materials, equipment, and the blueprint of the construction. The School-Ship was constructed in the Miura Peninsula, the region where the Red Seal Company's Shipyards are located, specifically the vessel was constructed in the Military Naval base of Yokosuka Naval Base.

It took them 8 years to complete the construction, and after their commission on May 14, 1989, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, categorized the ship as a **School-Carrier**.

## Culture

Also known as the "Second London" or "Secundus Londinium", the culture of Royal Baron concerns the architecture, clothing, and courses within the Victorious, the School-Carrier of Royal Baron Academy. As one of the leading schools that emphasizes in exchanging culture and advocating ever-lasting peace between the United Kingdom and Japan, the school has a lot attractions and things that can certainly appeal the eyes of both its inhabitants and its potential tourists.

The school's surface deck, nicknamed the "Londinium", has 32 Boroughs and was divided by 4 sections, thus, the Royal Baron offers a myriad of unique and cultural icons that one can see in the United Kingdom.

### Architecture

Londinium is filled to the brim with rich architecture styles from a variety of historical periods that evolved and shaped their number one reference, the great city of London. Its architecture style echoes the flavorful London, recreating its iconic symbols and buildings and made it as their selling points in attracting visitors and students alike. Londinium's architecture mainly follows Revivalism, and a mixed of Georgian and Victorian architecture.

The goal for this way of set up is to let the Japanese feel the real and stimulate the feeling of one is in London, and thus they highly advocated this mindset, creating an exact copy of many famous buildings, such as the Big Ben, Buckingham Palace, London Bridge, Tower Bridge, and many more.

Example of these replica buildings are listed below, together with their new purpose for the inhabitants of Royal Baron Academy.

The Students of Royal Baron Academy are offered to lived in Georgian styled Terraced houses, these houses are positioned closely in walking distance to either the Imperial Building or the Nautical Building. Mostly all of the dormitory houses are known for their "two-up two-down" configuration, meaning that they have two rooms on the ground floor and two bedrooms upstairs. Each bedroom can offer 6 students, and thus a single terraced house can accommodate 12 students.

Apart from the terraced houses, Royal Baron also offers to their students to lived in the 23 Hall of Residences around both the Imperial Building and the Nautical Building. Each Hall of Residences can accommodate over 300 students, though these Residences primarily were accommodating the first-year students as these dormitories are much closer since they're right beside the schools. With 75 rooms, each room can accommodate 4 students, it also offers a bathroom and a kitchen.

(To further see the common appearance of their dormitory, check this image out.)

Dormitories are mostly segregated by gender, but this doesn't apply to other houses as those houses are privately owned, thus, the regulations aren't always being followed, but both the MI5 and the borough police maintains an eye on these houses to their watchlist deter any potential controversies that might hurt the school's reputation.

Apart from the replica buildings that the school can offer to students, they also placed a lot of iconic and cultural symbols from London, an example of these is the myriad amount of Red telephone boxes across Londinium. And one notable aspect of Londinium is there famous underground rapid transit, called the "Londinium Railway", the name is a nod to London Railway, the predecessor of the London Underground. Apart from being transit system, this underground railway connects half of Victorious' many decks, from Londinium, they can even reach the Below Deck through a multitude of railings. The Railway is also used for transporting goods from ship's well deck.

### Uniform

The uniforms of Royal Baron currently exists in 6 categories ranging from the school uniform towards the full dress uniforms that elites and the Student Council are required to wear during certain occasions. The school uniform of Royal Baron primarily uses 5 colors: Royal Blue, Dark Blue, Red, Black, and White. Meanwhile the uniforms of the Recrelympic teams of Royal Baron are all unique and easily differentiate one's affiliation with the other.

In terms of their school uniform, the boys wear a royal blue blazer with white t-shirt underneath, accompanied by a red necktie, and dark blue trousers with white socks and black shoes. Girls meanwhile wear the same royal blue blazer, white t-shirt, and red necktie, but their dark blue trousers are replaced with knee-length skirts and white stockings, similar to that in the designs that the students of St. Gloriana wear.

One unique feature to distinct the years among the countless students of Royal Baron Academy are on there blazers, the color and the material that the 6 "pearl" buttons embedded on their uniform. Brass buttons are for the first-year students, silver buttons are for the second-year students, and the gold buttons are for third-year students.

Members of the "Order of the Freebarons and Freebaroness" are entitled to wear their medal ribbon of gray and gold right above the breast pocket of their blazer. The medal ribbon represents their entitlement of being members of the prestigious society.

### Order of the Freebarons and Freebaroness

The **Order of the Freebarons and Baroness**, also known as "Freebarons" or "Freebaroness", is an elite society that students across the Academy aims to be a part with. The Freebarons are elite students who are exceptional on their academics, behavior, talent, and career. The process of becoming a member of the Freebarons requires strict requirements that one must achieve under a period of time, this process is called the *Baronhood*. Their headquarters is the Baronetcy's Hall, located in the central borough of Londinium.

The Freebarons often associate themselves with St. Gloriana's Tea Garden, often these two held meetings and participate in Tea parties together. Because of this amicable relation between the two societies, they begin to treat the other as honorary members. It has been rumored that Darjeeling from St. Gloriana is an honorary Baroness due to her frequent meetings with Yuichi "Monty" Yamamoto, one of the Fellow of the Baronetcy of the Freebarons.

All members of the Freebarons are often the Commanders and Vice-Commanders of the Royal Baron's Recrelympic Teams. An example of this is the aforementioned Yuichi, he's a second-year student that attained the degree of Fellow of the Baronetcy, the second degree out of the three, and it is under the Master Baron, the leader of the Freebarons.

In the Freebarons, they are divided into three major degrees—entered Loyalist, Fellow of the Baronetcy, and Master Baron/Baroness.

### The MI6 and the MI5

*"The Secret Information Service - Royal Baron's Intelligence Service - also known as the MI6. Our Spies work secretly around Japan to ensure the safety of Royal Baron's classified information as well to make them prosperous in times of Recrelympic matches." - SIS.rb.jp*

The **Secret Information Service** (**SIS**), commonly known as **MI6**, is the Recrelympics intelligence service of the Royal Baron, tasked to operate covert overvessel collection and analysis via a myriad of means in support of the RB's dominance in Recrelympic Matches. SIS is a member of the Department of Minister's Intelligence (DMI), the Logistical Surveillance and Analysis Gathering Club of the School.

Formerly the Service was called the **Security and Surveillance Bureau** (SSB), tasked mainly for Public Monitoring within their School-Carrier until the Safety Services, also known as the MI5, took their place as RB's official Public Monitoring Club along their School Security forces, the Borough Police.

*"MI5's objective is to keep the school and carrier safe. For more than many years we worked to protect our fellow students and inhabitants from danger whether it be from terrorism, acts of public disorder, and/or fake news and information." - MI5.rb.jp*

The **Safety Security**, mostly known by its nickname, the **MI5**, is Royal Baron's domestic surveillance and counter-intelligence service, they also act as the Public Monitors in the school. It is the domestic equivalent of the MI6, and a partner of Royal Baron's Security Forces, the Borough Police.

Members of the MI5 are peacekeepers and public monitors that advocates peace throughout both the schools in Londinium through many means to instill discipline and peace to their fellow schoolmates. They often wore their black peaked caps for the boys, and black bowler hands for the girls during their patrolling duties to distinct them from normal students.

The "MI6" means Minister's Intelligence, Section 6. The 6 in this context refers to its Headquarters' location among the 32 club buildings around their School, their building is called the "**Vauxhall Building**". This context also applies to MI5 in which their location is located on the 5th building among the 32 that is around the School, their building is called the "**Themes Office**".

## Recrelympics

Apart from their unique and distinct themed school, the Academy is notoriously known for their Recrelympics team. Its members are well known throughout Japan as the best of the best, their inventory are more or less similar to the schools in the UK in terms of their Recrelympics capabilities. And since the school often makes its dock in the UK, they get their frequent chances for a stable flow of receiving goods and supplies from British Industries there.

Their principal Recrelympics Team is called the "**Royal Army**", this army is composed of the armored "**Royal Sensha-dō Regiment**", the infantry "**Royal Rifles**", the pilots of the "**Royal Flying Corps**", and the seafaring "**Royal Blue Navy**".

### Infantry-Craft

The Infantry-Craft of Royal Baron Academy is called the Royal Rifles, nicknamed the "Grasshoppers" due to their distinct green battledresses that is reminiscence of the uniforms that the members of the 95th Rifle Brigade used.

Parallel to this is the Royal Commandos, RB's own special forces in Infantry-Craft. This unit is prominently known for their use of the Denison smock, the 2nd pattern in particular, as well as the iconic red berets. Commandos are well known for their guerilla and shock tactics, mostly the members of this unit were given the freedom to customized their uniforms, and picked their load-up as some were seen wearing kilts, and some are carrying bows, claymore, and even a bagpipe and umbrella in matches.

### Panzerkraft

The Royal Sensha-dō Regiment (**RSR**) is RB's only armored Panzerkraft's team, specifically this team is made for Sensha-dō matches, as members of this armored club is mostly comprises of a "50/50 and 60/40" configuration in tanks, the basic requirement for amalgamating both gender in Sensha-dō matches in Japan.

Members of the RSR are all mandated to wear black overalls that accompanied with matching color beret and belt. The Tank Commanders of this regiment are all required to also use walking sticks that are made from ash plant for ceremonies and battlefield uses.

### Aerial-Aces

The Royal Flying Corps is RB's main Aeronautical club in the Academy. Primarily uses WW2 era aircrafts, their air fleet is ranked third among all the 16 Co-ed schools in Japan that participated during the 63rd National Tournament, only behind Red Square and Yankee High.

Pilots wear their blue/khaki battle dress jackets and trousers. They are also required to wear their inflatable vests with a parachute on its back as compulsory to safety regulations from the ACJ (Aces' Board of Japan). Though not mandatory, they can wear their Irvin Flying Jackets that were made specifically for them to use, though their flying helmets and their leather gloves are always in used.

### Aquatic-Warfare

The Royal Blue Navy is one of the few major Nautical clubs that both the General Courses and the Nautical Courses can offer to its students. They're mainly assigned to duties that relates with Ship-to-Ship Logistical Supply, and of course, their first mission, simulated naval skirmishes.

Sailors wear their cotton navy blue battle dresses, complete with a cap. But they're also allowed to wear their Nautical's Sailor Suits, if they're students of the Nautical Courses that is.

## Known Members

The list below are all the known members that affiliates themselves with the Academy.

### Yamamoto Yuichi

A 3rd year student and current Field Marshal of RB's RSR. Yuichi is a member of the Freebarons and attained the degree of Fellow of the Baronetcy, and an honorary member of St. Gloriana's Tea Garden. Yuichi also owns a Panzer-Ace nickname, and according to the Panzer Aces Datebase of the JSF, his nickname is "Monty", a reference of Bernard Montgomery.

## Trivia

* Royal Baron Academy's emblem is heavily based on the designs of the British Army of the Rhine (BOAR) with the uses of a Baron's coronet and a pair of Curtanas.
	+ The designs of the Royal Sensha-dō Regiment is a mixture between the BOAR and the Royal Tank Regiment.
* Even their motto, the RSR also copied it.They also have their (country) theme songs as well, and these are
	1. *My Boy Willie*
	2. *RTR (Royal Tank Regiment) Slow March*
* For some reason, the Leader of JIGA, Rommel, calls Yuichi "Mr. Layton Holmes", referencing two famous characters, the first one "Layton" is a reference to Professor Hershel Layton, the eponymous protagonist of the *Professor Layton Series*, and the other one "Holmes" is a reference to Detective Sherlock Holmes, a famous detective from the works of Conan Doyle.
	+ Coincidentally enough, Professor Layton, Detective Holmes, and Yuichi came from the UK and once lived/studied in London at some point.
* Royal Baron is a part of the "Big Three".