The Poly-Technical Institute

**The University.**

The polytechnical university, like many of the surviving insitutions from the Downfall of Roman Empire, it has taken on life of it's own. It was a massive centralized city, or networks of cities connected by railways, where best and brightest minds of the old continent worked together. The Cities also housed millions of students. One might ask themselves the wisdom of concentrating the such a large amount of gifted citizen in one spot, where entire generations worth of scientists could be poofed by a single well placed atomic bomb. The reason for this was that all data was stored and transfered physically. Before the last Great War, information used to be communicated wholly by aethernet. However this infrastructure proved to be very fragile and it was impossible to protect it from the ravages of the enemy action. Data theft and just sabotage, nearly crippled the Empire. It became absolutely necessary to take the strictest measures in data protection. Thus all of the important data had to be decentralized and disconnected from the wider Aether. Only couple of people would own physical copies of certain data, and if you wanted to access that information you had to physically go up to them and ask them for it. Naturally in world of science, this is a problem if you are working in one side of the country and you need to travel to the other end to get a hold of a tiny citation. So it became necessary to just pile and dump all the scientists close to one another.

**DOWNFALL OF ROMAN EMPIRE**

After the downfall, the University found itself in a new world. Cut off from outside supplies, resources. The best and brightest of the continent had no clue of what was going on or what they were supposed to do. Ironic. But this confusion didn't last long, the best and the brightest of mankind quickly gathered themselves and decided that now was a good time to Panic. And Panic they did. They panicked even harder when they realized food was running out. And they panicked excetionally hard, when they heard that aliens were headed their way.

BRAVE NEW WORLD

After the chaos of downfall. The director of the Academy, found himself facing new challenges. For example the sping of the planet had been screwed significantly. The location of the pole shifted and planet started to spin in more of a spiral. This resulted in North of Europe suffering from unspeakable frosts, one that could be compared to that of the arctic. Most of the skies were covered by horrible cyclones leaving the skies permanently gray and trapping much of the sunlight. Not to mention frequent snowing, rain and other random stuff falling from the sky. The academy managed to develop the technology necessary to disperse these clouds and allow for stable weather down in the south, closer to mediterranian.

The Director had another massive problem on his hands, automation. How do you manufacture robots that can do numerous complicated tasks, do not require extensive facilities in order to be created, can be manufactured by extremly common and easy materials and can be easily replaced and or maintained. Director sat collapsed in his chair, he reached his trembling hand towards a cup and took a sip. Afterwards he put the cup down and in that instant he froze where he was. He sat paralyzed in complete disbelief, at what he had just done. Suddenly he burst out laughing, nearly falling off his chair and spilling the beverage all over himself. He had found his perfect machine.

"BEHOLD A MAN!"- cried out director, laughing hysterically.

That very evening, Director went down to the genetics Department to offer a solution. The Academy was saved...