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The 1 Infinite Loop government established Shiro Academy in 1783 to serve as its general staff school. But each branch of the 1 Infinite Loop armed forces abandoned the academy over the next 150 years out of a desire to operate its own separate war college. As a result, the 1 Infinite Loop government transformed the academy into a public research university in 1953, allowing only the small Looplite Space Force to continue using the Cupertino campus.
Despite its mostly civilian status, Shiro Academy bore the brunt of 2003 Pax bombardment of Cupertino as a result, and relocated to Garneldo, the capitol of the Tilden Isle territory of the Federated Alliance, to continue operation during the reconstruction of the original campus. The 1 Infinite Loop government reopened the Cupertino campus in 2010 but decided not to close the Free Pacifican campus out of a desire to increase revenue without raising tuition.
Shiro Academy thus continues to operate a second school far from its original home at Tilden University. Constructed during the 1980s to become the school of the children of elite Free Pacificans that’d become rich from the technological boom, Tilden University collapsed in the early 1990s, when the tech bubble burst. From 1992 until 2005, when Shiro Academy negotiated to rent the large majority of the campus, only 1% of the campus was actually utilized. Nowadays, Tilden University only uses three buildings, while the rest of the 50+ structures are maintained by Shiro Academy.
A combination school, Shiro Academy has programs for elite high school students, regular college students, regular graduate university students, and military cadets. Regardless of program, those enrolled at Shiro usually live in the same dormitories, and often take courses taught by the same world-renowned professors.
The dormitory that serves as the setting for this story is commonly known as the Wachin Dormitory. A five story structure, Wachin Dormitory is the Southernmost residence hall on the Shiro Academy campus, the closest to the Pacific Ocean, and it faces South towards the ocean. The dormitory features a bath house, located in the courtyard formed by the “L” shaped dormitory, and a parking lot on the North-Western side of the building. A circular driveway is located on the North-Eastern side of the building.
((Please note that the above image is of the fifth floor, where our characters are all going to happen to live. The first floor features a lobby instead of the kitchenette, bathrooms, and communal area. To make up for this, the first floor also features a small computer lab where several rooms would be located, and a small lounge in the place of several other rooms.))
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This is the Main Campus for Shiro Academy. It is located in the Free Pacific States on Tilden Island. This is where most characters will be based, be they students or faculty. Most will probably be interacting in the dorms.
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By the turn of the decade, Shiro had become so famous and prestigious that it would be in a position to start establishing joint research organisations, satellite campuses and international branch campuses with other establishments. With this in mind, in January 2010, a new major international branch campus, jointly run between Shiro Academy and the University of North Dannistaan, located in Nordu Dannistra City, the state capital of North Dannistaan. The new “Shiro-UND Satellite Campus”, commonly referred to as “Little Shiro”, primarily focuses on IT Research and Humanities, specialising in Politics. Little Shiro occupies a small corner of the north western end of the University of North Dannistaan’s campus and due to it’s previous use as a secure teaching facility for military personnel, is surrounded by a high security wall. The only entrance for vehicles is a gate to the south that is guarded 24/7.
The Little Shiro complex itself consists of one main building, constructed in 1995, where all the administration offices, lecture halls and laboratories are located. To the north west is an extension, added in 2006, commonly nicknamed “The Circle”, where the Student’s Union and Student Activity Centre is based, along side several ancillary classrooms and the main 2000 seat auditorium of the complex. To the north east is the Computer Science laboratories and classrooms, along with main datacentre of the complex. To the south west is the Department of Humanities and it’s offices and classrooms. Finally to the south east is the Halls of Residence, otherwise known as the Dorms, with the capacity for 3000 students. Unlike other dorms in the UND campus, the Little Shiro dorm is segregated by gender with males in the west wing and females in the east wing. All buildings are connected to the main building via a system of sky walks or in the case of The Circle an extension that acts as a secondary lobby and entrance.
A set of ponds, in actuality a large lake, was constructed in 2009 as an attempt to provide a social public space in the northern parkland of the facility. A pier was added on the southern side of the lake. Also on the southern side of the lake is a shared space where vehicles and pedestrians may wander freely. Access roads run through the complex and connect the shared spaces and the parking lots together.
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This is “Little Shiro”, a Satellite Campus run jointly between Shiro and the University of North Dannistaan, in Nordu Dannistra City. It is an alternative setting where some characters may be located instead. There are priority internal communication links between the two campuses (Leased lines and high speed internet).