Indoc Centers

Indoc Centers, short for "Indoctrination Centers," comprise six enormous, city-sized campuses on Earth. In Earth Standard, the equivalent word for "Indoctrination" does not carry the connotation that it does in current English parlance. Instead, it means simply to educate and pass along, in training and by action, the ideals of the Earth Republic. Indoc Centers are viewed fondly in the Republic, particularly on Earth; their doors are always open to provide housing, training, medical aid, or any other intervention and services a citizen might need, and many people have spent their childhoods or educational years at an Indoc Center, remembering the experience with affection. They are lovely facilities, showing off the natural beauties of Terran flora and fauna by providing a home for gardens, trees, and wildlife as well as encompassing patches of forest, but their architecture can be spare, strident, or even brutalist, in a way often associated with the modern Earth Republic.

The Indoc Centers were set up originally to train the individuals who would help with cleanup from the massive environmental disasters and nuclear war that decimated parts of Earth, and to act as hubs for supply, rest, and coordination for those efforts. Indoc Centers on Earth can be found in or near Munich, Shenzen, Boston, Vancouver, Sao Palo, and Douala. Each of these main campuses has built up numerous satellite campuses, centers, institutions, and supply depots, as well as sister institutions. Satellite campuses usually take names of the form "Indoc 3, Sat-Birmingham," or "I3 Sat-Birmingham." Indoc 1 is particularly known for its satellites.

## Indoc 1

Located outside Munich and the home of Munich Science Center, Indoc 1 was the first Indoc Center, originally built to train personnel to spread to every corner of the globe and clean up environmental damage and radiation. Indoc 1 is a massive campus, larger than most others, having had so many years to build up. Key to its original mission was radiation cleanup in western Russia and restoration of the Siberian tundra and permafrost. The numerous satellite facilities of Indoc 1 span much of Eastern Europe, and are centers of science, political reform, education, and environmental research. Indoc 1 is also the home of an Acculturation Center, built by the Cetians as an outreach to train and learn more about human beings.

## Indoc 2

Located outside the city of Shenzen with port access, Indoc 2 was built to train and assist with radiation and environmental damage cleanup in Eastern Asia. It has a very large housing district and early childhood education infrastructure, as a large quantity of war orphans from all around Asia and Oceania were originally housed at Indoc 2. This facility has numerous large satellite campuses all over Asia and Oceania, including I2 Sat-Jakarta and I2 Sat-Pyongyang.

## Indoc 3

Located in Massachusetts outside Boston, Indoc 3 was built at approximately the same time as Indoc 4, as a safe haven and training center for the personnel responsible for cleaning up nuclear fallout in North America. In the 2130s, it became known for a few famous military training schools, where ERSN officers often sent their children. In 2156, after the Howl incident decimated Toronto, Indoc 3 was well-positioned to provide assistance and personnel. Indoc 3 has numerous old satellites along the Eastern Seaboard, though they are less necessary and developed than the I2 satellites.

## Indoc 4

Indoc 4 is located outside Vancouver, in the ruins of an old twentieth-century suburb. It is the home of the Murphy-Meilin Cybernetics Institute, which studies and installs cutting-edge Republic cybernetics, most often on ERSN personnel. Indoc 4 was built to support the massive radioactive cleanup efforts in western North America, and to provide a safe haven for cleanup crews and their families. Over the years, as cleanup has progressed, Indoc 4 has felt confident enough to build satellites pushing into western North America.

## Indoc 5

Located outside Sao Palo, Indoc 5 was established to study and help reestablish the Amazon rainforest and correct Earth's global climate systems. In 2153, this Indoc Center was bombed by a terrorist organization associated with Martian secessionists, as a statement of defiance against Earth and the Republic.

## Indoc 6

With a focus on sub-Saharan Africa as well as to help clean up environmental degradation from climate change, and to provide services to the rest of the African continent during cleanup efforts, Indoc 6 is located just outside Douala, Cameroon. It is particularly well-known for being the base and for housing the main training facilities for Earth Defense.

## "Indoc 7"

There is a joke in the ERSN that navy personnel who do anything "too interesting" or get mixed up with SNI disappear, and they then get sent to a mysterious secret seventh Indoc Center, called Indoc 7. Some personnel believe it is located on the dark side of the moon.

## Indoc Alpha

An Indoc Center was slated to be constructed on Mars between the locations of the damaged Dome 4 and the badly damaged Dome 5 in 2156, projected to have a working campus in 2157, with the help of Gaiacore Arcological Concern. It is one of the first Indoc Centers to have most of its facilities dug underground, in addition to its arcological dome above, and will provide support, services, research facilities, and large hydroponics to the people of Mars.