The Story So Far

This page documents some past events to catch curious newbies up to speed, fuels nostalgia for the oldies, and documents the accomplishments of characters within them. Get your characters involved in major events to get them immortalized here! Currently a work in progress. People who remember things I don't or who think things should be included that I haven't yet can feel free to bring it up in the out-of-character chat.

Disclaimer
First, despite the name, this isn't actually the full story, depending on how you want to define that. Most of this isn't lore you need to know before joining. Note also that you don't necessarily even want to read it all at once like this massive wall of text might suggest.

As evidenced by our Declaration of Independence, Cosmic Academy (the group) is heavily influenced by its past, as a breakoff from another now-defunct roleplay group with a similar premise. We seek to emulate Zen University's strengths while also avoiding its pitfalls. On that page one of the problems noted with the original group was the degree to which the creator, Donovan, consistently put a bigger focus on his own characters, letting events that impacted one of his characters a lot count as a "major event," while one that resulted in the death of four actual characters was minor. Distaste at this choice in assigning importance influenced how we treat it.

To this effect, I (Ulysses) will try to avoid documenting events in here that are, as a whole, only relevant to a small number of characters. These can be considered part of the history of those characters, and fascinating in its own right, but not necessarily part of the story of the campus at large. It'd be too hard to include everyone's little subplot points since the beginning of the group, especially since this page has only been created several years into the group's activity and is largely working from individual and collective memory for documentation. Our group defines major events as ones which inherently impact all characters involved in the roleplay and/or the world at large, typically in the form of threats either to the academy itself or by our actions in happenings beyond the academy which have some impact on the world stage.

In short: gonna try to avoid what's only important to individual characters (especially my own characters) and stick with what impacted the campus at large. Capiche? Capiche.

Pre-CA
From a chronological perspective, pretty much all the lore you see elsewhere on the wiki happened before anything in the roleplay, including the main page's world summary and details from the more niche lore pages. These were easy to modify because in Zen University, the background lore had essentially never come up. To the point that while Cosmic Academy is set on Earth 13 years in the future, the parent group was on a fully separate world, a fact that most of the roleplayers didn't even know about and which never impacted anything, kek.

What couldn't be changed so easily were events that had already occurred in the roleplay group itself. Zen University existed, characters were made, friendships begun, spars raged on savage and glorious. We had no intention of retconning the events of the roleplay itself, and to that end, the new lore and the new power system was structured in such a way that all characters from the old group would be able to be maintained in the new one with little to no modification.

But for all of those characters, there are others that didn't join us in our exodus from the original group, including the creator's. Don's characters received some special treatment due to their established importance, and I'll give them mention here because their relevance in a future event is promised. (As what amount to NPCs for plot purposes, I'm willing to give them more space here than actual members. Logic!)

Mode 2: The main way Zen University's influence is still felt in CA is that our previous headmaster was this character, a scantily-clad oppai loli whose abilities included summoning lasers in grid arrangements and control over the security system of the school itself. Her kinesis was called Network, and wasn't available to any other characters to use. In Zen University, it involved connection to a nebulous substrate of reality that was never really built on; we decided to make it a kinesis involving the control of nanobots and other technology by extension, which enabled the powers she had canonically used. But this isn't so important for Don's legacy of the group as the fact that canonically we had a headmaster that looked like a 9-year-old with unreasonably sized breasts. There are still portraits of her in some places around the school. (This wasn't my artistic decision, it was grandfathered in and I HATE IT AAHHHH)

Alt: A four-foot-tall darkness controller who in practice had practical access to half the kineses in existence, Alt was unabashedly proclaimed by the admin as the protagonist. (Yes, the singular protagonist for a group roleplay.) Cocky, perverted, and drawing additional mystic power from a cursed skull he had hidden away in his dorm in Track B, Alt made himself a lot of in-character enemies with his behaviour and sore-winner attitude in spars. In the CA storyline, he has the least significance of the three characters. His relationship to Mode 2 was unclear, but there was an obvious connection; the headmaster didn't hide that she played favourites for those who were, in one way or another, part of her own clique. Our current headmaster is much better; instead of treating almost everyone like shit, he treats absolutely everyone like shit.

Area: A mysterious man from another dimension (okay we DID retcon that part lmao), Area is an agile anime swordsman who, like Mode 2, had a vague powerset that didn't seem to have clear limits to it. Some people who fought him attested to him having strange time abilities in an era before any actual time-based power was present, while on another occasion he used his powers to make some random person fall toward him before slicing them in half once in range. In CA canon, it's quite possible that he was originally a gravity controller who managed to harness part of the force's impact on our experience of time, but now he has a much different set of abilities.

Another aspect that was different in these days, and which is worth noting: the university had three different campuses back at this point, called Tracks, each one with its own roleplaying chat. Track A is the last one now remaining. Track B was in an undisclosed location in the coast US, while Track C was secluded somewhere in the mountains.

In CA canon, the academy's past is comprised of one part of proud tradition, two parts sinister rumour, and three parts censored information in state dockets. The school's different branches, originally named Zen University, were established in the early 1960s as research hubs that were theoretically private scholarly institutions. In practice, Zen University took orders from federal agencies who had their fingers so deep in Zen University's operations from the beginning that its exact legal place would always be subject to debate, and modification when the right palms were delightfully greased. The academy's internal bureaucracy is an upside-down shadow-world structured by power grabs, interpersonal rivalries and grudges, forms printed in triplicate just in case, forged signatures leading to abductions by the secret service, and assassinations during lunch breaks. It is an unforgiving place that would be the subject of a lot more intrigue if only it weren't all so boring on the surface.

Documents relating to the academy's past still wilt away in filing cabinets scattered through Track A's main administrative building, containing mysteries of interest only to the school's accountants, policy scholars, and curious students wanting to seek what they know is dangerous to find.

Event: Annihilation
Once the original members of Cosmic Academy fully broke off from Zen University and formed our own group, we initially continued with our roleplays like nothing was different; we had already established the lore changes on the wiki, and a shift in terminology and backstory did little to change the day-to-day activities of the students at this Magic Anime Fight School™.

Then Annihilation happened.

There was really no preparation for the day that what seemed like a coordinated attack of the Eldritch hit the academy—all three campuses. Shifting monsters intruding from an outside dimension, ranging from enormous titans to skittering legions of smaller beasts launched a simultaneous hunt for the souls of kinetics, forcing a total war lasting mere hours for our right to keep our very existential selves. Canonically speaking, this was the birth of our group, an event so catastrophic to the fabric of reality that it split the timeline of Zen University, sending the original group and Cosmic Academy careening down two different destinies built from the same foundation. (We're kind of unique in that way, blending the history of the group in the real world with the events of the story.)

Total war. All characters, from background NPCs to teachers to security and students who had never fought in their lives, all had to help resist the most vicious threat the group had ever faced. Some of the characters still with us today who fought back include Damian, Baldwin, Rae, Evelynn and Claude. The corpses of the nightmares would turn to television static before vanishing from reality, leaving no consolation prize for the survivors. These were the primordial enemies of the Academy itself, and while they rarely feature as the foremost enemy of any event or even smaller missions, the Eldritch remain the "big bad" of the bigger story, the eternal threat lurking in the background that must one day be solved before it solves us.

Three campuses were attacked. One managed to keep itself mostly intact. One suffered considerably more damage, but it proved repairable. The third was completely destroyed. The others dared not even reach out to it in fear of what might answer from the temporal ruins, a stigma that remains to this day. We still don't know what's left of the fabled Track C, where travel is strictly forbidden.

The dust settled on two other Tracks, each with its own pile of bodies. All characters from the previous roleplay group who did not join us here were, canonically, killed in the assault. They died heroes, and on Track A, this was the beginning of the graveyard: a section of the garden dedicated to all staff and students who lost their lives. Through all other battles since, none came at such a loss of life, and the scars run deep in a frequent sense of paranoia among those who survived that a return is possible. That a sudden fluctuation in space could pull them away from this world, never to be seen again, to lose their life against an unrecognizable abomination who sees them as little more than a meal.

The real question was why. More specifically, why ''now. ''These beasts were always there, and a couple characters had already gotten to see some semblance of their twisted powers. But why had they attacked so suddenly, on the day they did? Rumours spread of who might be responsible. Names were named. A couple social media groups formed to feed conspiracy theories pinning the event as being the fault, intentional or not, on a few unsavoury individuals. Accusations were used as excuses to exact personal revenge for unrelated offences.

In the wake of the attack, a generic email was sent out to all staff and students, including the standard stuff about "we all feel the weight of this event, those lost won't be forgotten," blah blah blah. It included a reference to the little information we had about the attackers, that they were a separate category of monsters called the Eldritch. As a result, some staff and students who were here at the time still have no idea what the Eldritch are since they never read the email, while some did read it and thus at least have the basic concept that they're aggressive and dangerous.

In the end, someone had to pay for all this. The Eldritch defy sense, but in the world at large, disasters of this magnitude have reasons.

Someone was to blame.

The Fallout
In the wake of the attack there was little law and order on academy grounds. All was up in the air, and Don's characters were dealt with in the historical cloak that such unstable times provide.

Mode 2 was killed by Raiyu, who had already tried to assassinate her once before as revenge for unfair punishment. This time she had her guard down, and an initial bullet from a sniper rifle was enough to incapacitate her. What happened to the corpse is probably a testimony to how screwed up this entire group is: her top half got swiped by Claude for an art project, while the bottom half wound up being cooked by Damian in one of the cafe's free-use ovens. Some particularly screwed-in-the-head pals got to be cannibals. Zack canonically got to eat ass. Her spirit is now under the possession of Evelyn.

Without a headmaster, brutality was enabled even further, and the true animalistic vengeance of Man came to unfold. Alt wasn't anywhere to be seen during the attack, and the key rumours put him as the culprit, having intentionally lured them here for some sort of benefit in the pursuit of power. He returned to Track B to get his mystic skull from his dorm room, but was confronted by Kira and Cryven, the latter of whom pulled some Shadow Clone Jutsu, ganged up on Alt and curbstomped him to death. Not that either of the two vigilantes were doing it for justice; Cryven wanted personal revenge for humiliation following a spar, and Kira was just there to watch like the cuck she is.

Only Area remained, who figured that he was the next to go by association with the other two. He left while he could, and is presumably still out there somewhere. Something very different had happened to him during the attack, something nearly unheard of in world history: his kinesis had changed. Not only that, but to one previously unknown: ''Flesh. ''To this day, Area is the only one with this kinesis, and this exclusivity is maintained in honour of Donovan's will to hoard certain kineses to himself only. He's appeared once or twice since, playing bit roles and brief encounters in other people's stories, but his true desire to resurrect his fellows and control the academy with them once again has yet to be acted on.

A New Era
Mode 2's death left a huge power vacuum, and while there was a defined succession system involving specific academy employees as nominees to be put to vote by a council of senior staff, the documents detailing this had been, er, misplaced. A power struggle surged through the school's bureaucracy until one Ethan D. Anton, one of the higher level bureaucrats at Track A who rarely dealt with others in person, climbed out on top. His first order, of all things, was to rename the school from Zen University to Cosmic Academy. The reason for this change out-of-character is pretty obvious, but in-character, we still don't know why—yet given how quickly he rushed to have it done, there must be a motive.

In time, order returned, but all wouldn't be quite the same again. If nothing else, there was now a graveyard in the garden as a chilling reminder of what had come to pass, and its ranks would only fill further with future events. At least the Grave controllers get plenty of stock from it.

We had our first real between-events period, which is when it typically feels like things settle into normality. Or at least as normal as it gets here. These are the times for training, for combat between characters, for love and friendship and competitive rivalry. It's also not particularly uncommon for individual characters to have some kind of power within them go nuts, forcing others to handle it. These times are most reliant on everyday members to create the fun for each other, doing scenes with each other that can break up or merge with others and build characterization, discover powers, or just devolve into good ol'-fashioned brawls that never seem to result in permanent punishments.

Oink?
It's also during this period that piglets started turning up on Track A academy grounds. Characters who went outside would find them in obscure places in the forest, and hiding among the tall grass. Some ignored them. Others treated them kindly or even took them as pets, prompting two voices to be raised in the OOC chat, one praising the choice and the other condemning it. Other characters killed them for fun or for meat, prompting the same two voices, the first voice now condemning and the second now praising. Characters were being noted as friends or foes of the pigs, though this didn't become relevant until a time even after the mother sow came to the academy grounds, presumably looking for its children. The living ones came running. The dead did not.

Shortly after she departed with her surviving young, catastrophe struck. A volcano of unholy brimstone ripped itself up from the ground, cutting the academy off from the nearest city. Smoke poured up from the new structure, blocking out the sun. Endless squealing emitted from the mountain, shaped vaguely like a pig's head. A gateway to a hell populated by humanoid piglike demons, at the centre of which was a Devil. One of the least powerful ones out there, but a Devil nonetheless: the Swine King.

Its voice was one of the voices in the OOC chat, scolding people for mistreating the piglets. The other voice was that of Reynauld, an NPC Crusader of The Flame who quickly came to join us and help rally the resistance effort. Despite all that happened, his main legacy is that he started the bonfire, a constant outdoor fireplace in the fields out in front of the school. Originally a meeting place to discuss battle tactics and recover, it's become a mainstay of the academy and a place to go to meet others, with the expectation of wanting to be friendly with new faces and strangers encountered as well.

Event: Lord of the Flies
Our own initial offensives were fruitless. The mountain's structure wasn't easily demolished, and the horde of beasts within was too much to penetrate. We had no choice but to hunker down and await their attack first. When the attacks came, those who attacked the piglets were targeted over those who were kind to them, but even still, none of us were to be spared in the end.

Wave 1: Squealer
The first wave of demons to attack the academy was a surge of mighty pig-warriors who made up for their disorganization with sheer savagery and the power of each individual fighter. Their leader was Squealer, a much smaller pig-demon atop a war boar.

As beasts of brute force with little intelligent strategy going for them, they weren't ones to fall for intelligent strategy in turn. Tyler tried to eliminate gravity in the area to halt their assault, but they seemed almost trained for this, and lodged their axes in the ground to keep themselves put. Other defenders against the first wave include Reynauld on the frontlines, Jamal smashing them to bits in his Fenris form, Oliver picking them off from range with poisoned arrows, Damian tanking axe hits from every angle, Kyrie taking vicious backstabs, ink creatures from Claude supporting, and other characters no longer with us that I won't bother trying to remember.

It was pretty straightforward as far as combat goes, each character being treated as being in their zone against their own pigs unless they converged to work together. Unlike later invasions, the brutes often took more than one hit to actually kill! (I GOT LAZY OKAY)

Squealer himself was a field commander, but not a fighter. He died from Zack managing to summon a weapon of his patron archangel Barachiel and impaling him with the thing. Once that happened, the others turned tail to flee, many of whom being killed as they attempted to retreat. The school itself suffered little to no damage - a quite successful battle.

During the next few days, the smoke spewed by the volcano came down from the sky, revealing its true nature: not a black mist, but an enormous swarm of flies that devoured much of the flesh of fallen demons, bringing some back from each of them to be recycled into new pig demons.

Interlude: the Holy Armoury
Following the first battle, it was clear that heavy guns would be needed. Reynauld issued a call to arms, inviting several characters to come with him to a shrine that housed a number of holy weapons to be borrowed in use against the swine. Jamal was one of the characters who came along, borrowing a pair of cursed gauntlets called the Iron Fists - weapons that aren't holy, but still specialized against the unholy. One of the options for post-event rewards was being able to keep a weapon borrowed from the Armoury, and Jamal was the only one who kept his.

Wave 2: Snowball
The first wave was disorganized and ultimately a failure, but it was necessary. It was to throw us off balance, to stop us from taking a stronger offensive to them, buying them time to complete preparations for a more powerful invasion.

Snowball, a deft dualist wielding a rapier, was at the front of an organized march on the academy helmed by more of the warrior-pigs as before, but this time in reasonable formation. Behind them was a line of shamans, projecting barriers of force to defend against ranged attacks on the legion. Further back from them were five trebuchets, built from trees from the forest chopped down for their wood, and more warrior-pigs to defend against any who might target the siege weapons or their operators.

There's little question that this wave was the most brutal the academy faced, and due to the trebuchets, the one which resulted in the most damage to the academy - the attacks took out many of the dorm rooms for a number of months, legitimately leaving characters without a place to sleep. All defenders from the previous invasion were here as well, plus others such as Ashley and Aurora. While the usual idiots held the front as usual to take up the attention of the main opposing force and stop them from reaching the school grounds, Zack led some of the weirdoes who actually care about protecting the academy to the back lines to take out the trebuchet-operators. Fighting on two fronts, their numerical advantage and even their formation organization could not outweigh the individual power of the defenders, and they were ultimately routed. Also because we did the smart thing of targeting the wizards over the tanks. Usually a good move.

Snowball herself became locked in a dual with Tyler, whose armour proved to be a lifesaver against her tactics of dashing behind her foe to try a backstab. She tried to escape but he followed through a wormhole, and he ultimately incapacitated her at the cost of losing an arm. Unlike Squealer she was captured alive, but she seemed trained against interrogation attempts and only gave information explicitly allowed to be given by whatever military code was involved. (If the pigs even had one? Snowball wasn't like the others, seeming almost human, and why she was even on their side remains unanswered.)

The end of the battle saw Damian failing to come back from his battle-rage and chase other academy members around trying to flay them, Claude being even more crazy and trying to stop anyone from returning to the academy, and an equal number of pig carcasses as the last wave littering the ground, which the flies once again descended that night to consume. Of course, after a long day of battle and resisting siege, they weren't the only ones who were hungry.

Interlude: the Marshmallow Raid
Reynauld was far from a well-mannered guest on academy grounds. As a Flame crusader he was used to taking property from the peasants to restock supplies, and one time early in the event he rode into the cafe on his warhorse to swipe a bag of muffins, declaring that they were being seized for use in the Holy War.

The time had come to do some pillaging. Reynauld came to the bonfire and invited a group of brave warriors to accompany him on a quest, and took Zack, Aurora, Ted and Mikaela on a route around the mountain to reach the nearby town. Rather than do anything productive like make sure it wasn't being invaded in the same way the campus was, they found the nearest convenience store and Reynauld rode his horse through the front window. The owner, an old Chinese sand controller, immediately melted into sand to avoid harm while Reynauld shouted Pyrus Vult and liberated several bags of marshmallows as provisions for use in the Holy War. Zack grabbed a crate of chocolate cookies for s'mores, uncomfortable with the morality of the situation, but not enough to keep him from the delicious treats. Ted was a nervous wreck but just kept his head down and swiped some goodies for himself. Only Aurora raised a moral objection, but wasn't heard over Mikaela, who was shouting Pyrus Vult even louder and indulging in the glories of pillage. This action earned her the additional role of Crusader-in-Training, which is why it's still on the Roles page.

We stole so many marshmallows from this hapless businessman that the supply is still abundant, in the form of several bags of marshmallows lying around by the bonfire, still free to be impaled with sticks and roasted over the fire. Each marshmallow restores 5HP on consumption!

Wave 3: Napoleon
Napoleon couldn't be called so much the leader of the third wave as its very origin. A scrawny Necrokinetic pig-demon with ambitions to overthrow the Swine King, he came between the mountain and the academy one evening, conjured a step pyramid underneath his feet, materialized several spherical forcefields around each level of the pyramid, and began to reanimate the half-eaten corpses of the demonic corpses from the past two waves. A horde of zombies advanced on the academy from all sides. While the previous waves started counting from the top, with the number of enemies who remained, this one started from the bottom and counted upwards for the number of kills, implying true endlessness.

At some point many of the defenders, most (but not all) of the same ones from the previous wave, realized this. There was no end to this undead assault, and though the pig-demons were clearly weakened in their reanimated state, the school could not endure an eternity of them. The necromancer was the key, and he had to be killed - a fate he would quite resent. Aside from holding the barriers and raising more dead, he fired rays of spiritual energy from his hands which infused such stress in those they struck that they pushed them past the breaking point. Zack became overwhelmed and self-centred in this affliction, focused only on ending this battle and ignoring the potential of organizing the others. Ashley and Jamal actually managed to find power in that stress, harnessing increased damage by finding combative virtue in this state.

Taking down Napoleon required getting through his spiritual barriers, a notion that proved awkward given their incredible resistance to attack and the absence of teleport abilities among those who went to take him down while others held the line against the zombie hordes. People had to figure out that disabling the barriers required hitting the runes on each step of the pyramid to disable the spell, which took a few turns. Jamal just tried to smash through the barriers, bash through the steps themselves, then concluded that if he couldn't pierce through to the fucker, he'd tunnel under the fucker. Others figured out the gimmick and started striking the runes, disabling the barriers, and just as they broke down the last one, leaving Napoleon helpless for the kill, Jamal tunnelled up from inside the pyramid and CHOMP! Consumed in a single bite. Don't worry, he was indeed reported for kill stealing.

Interlude: The Plan
Days passed. No additional invasions came. Some of our heroes gathered around the bonfire to discuss.

Reynauld and Zack lead a planning session for taking the offensive to the pigs. No invasions for awhile meant that they probably had little left to throw at us, or that another attack might still be under preparation. Now would be a good time to attack. A small strike force would rush deep into the mountain to take out the Swine King directly, while the bulk of the invading force would engage the remaining swine head-on, keeping them occupied and preventing reinforcements to their leader.

It is also here, before the offensive, that Snowball finally spoke more, but only simply: she offered her magic rapier to one of the fighters in case it would help, which was taken by a character no longer with us.

The Offensive
Ulysses ran the majority of this event, but Sam took the role of running the remaining pig hordes for that part of the invasion force. As a result I don't remember much of it, since I ran the Swine King encounter.

The strike force consisted of Damian as tank, Kira and Tyler as support, and Zack, Jack and Ashley as DPS. After a unified march up the mountain, the main force engaging the pig legions, including Reynauld, Jamal and Aurora, faced them head on while the strike force took advantage of the opportunity and rushed through the labrynthine stone tunnels in search of the Swine King. They found a horrid creature whose lower body was submerged in the stone, its upper half a grotesque, massive pig-man wielding an enormous rusty cleaver.

Though it was able to make bursts of fire spew up from the ground on other targets, it focused its offensive attention on Damian, the main melee engager who wasn't very fast and dodgy like Jack. The Swine King satisfied itself with chopping open Damian's flesh and dislocating his bones, even as Tyler held it back with gravity manipulation, while Kira buffed Jack's flurries of blows and the lightning barrages from Zack and Ashley. In time, the horrid beast was slain! Jack consumed part of its life essence, but had little time for it before the mountain started to collapse! Without the Swine King's power to sustain it, the tunnels of the mountain started to cave in. Confusion. The strike team scattered, each finding their own way out - Damian managing to encounter and witness something absolutely horrifying on the way. The main force wasn't deep in, and got out just fine. The pigs rushed back inside in panic, and died off as the mountain collapsed in on itself. Even the ruins seemed to fall into themselves until all that eventually remained was a large mount of unholy rocks, a mound that still sits there today.

The flies dispersed. At last, the sun was visible once again.

We won.

Lots of pig corpses littered around. Some people tried to eat them to gain some of their unholy power. Much of them were somewhat-properly disposed of. Bacon-scented candles made of their fat are still available in the school store as souvenirs of our victory against an entire hell. Not a very powerful one, but still. Snowball was released, and we don't know where she went after that. Reynauld packed up and left, ultimately headed for Track B to take care of business there with another character. Lord of the Flies concluded, a clear victory for us. It's sometimes referred to as part of the group's peak, which I hope to disagree with not out of disrespect for the fun we had, but in anticipation of even more epic things to come!

Things were largely peaceful from here for a number of months, but in time a new threat made itself clear, one whose attention was drawn by our success in repelling the pig demons.

Event: Rise of an Empire
This section is an amalgamation of notes about the event from different sources. If you remember more details you'd like on this wiki, bring up with Ulysses:
 * The Imperial Organization conducted surveillance of the academy for a number of months, and ultimately found it an ample target for destruction. Also known as the Imperial Knights, this faction is a splinter from the Church of The Flame, having split off hundreds of years ago after an ideological debate sparked an internal war. The Imperial Organization believes that kinetics are abominations against God for their heretical use of magic which hasn't been approved by their religious idols. Namely, their Pope. They make it their mission to hunt down and basically wipe kinetics from the planet using magic sanctioned by their Pope combined with the benefits of modern technology.
 * Imperial forces arrived at Track B with 400 Units. 40 of these were tanks manned by centurions. 10 were priests who would be working on summoning a creature to end everything. The rest were legionaries and knights.
 * The basic footsoldiers found their numbers matched by NPC students who joined the fight.
 * The defenders focused on defeating the highest number of footsoldiers, failing to stop the priest summoning or the tanks attacking the school itself.
 * Ultimately the attackers were successful. Track B was destroyed, razed to the ground.
 * When the asbestos dust settled, all was ruins. Through a system of underground tunnels which connects both campuses and various other places, some of the residents of Track B migrated to Track A. Others flew there because they're stylish like that. Some just deserted, or even remained in the ruins. From this point on, Cosmic Academy has been a single-campus school with only one roleplaying chat, where it had two for the whole time up to now.
 * Track A was next. After some additional time for the Imperial Organization to evaluate how the first attack went, a force of the same strength attacked the oldest campus.
 * OCs involved in either defense – character (owner) : Evelyn (Jacob), Aonani (Anila), Veigar (Meckenzie), Sophera (Layla), Zack (Sam), Zero (Ashley), Jack (Jason), Rae (Mark)
 * Zack of all Fucking People (I'm as surprised as you) was the only one to attack the tanks, slashing through their hulls with his new sword. He has the distinction of being the only fighter to hit on the person trying to kill him, saying "Damn that's a bangable Centurion though"
 * Once again, most people focused the footsoldiers, and the school suffered as a result. In fact, this time it was nuked, and the members of the academy had to be saved by being teleported away.
 * We had to spend a few days hiding out in the wilderness to wait for Imperial patrols of the wreckage to finally leave, but in time we were able to return. Headmaster Anton reconstructed most of the school by himself, controlling the primarily-asbestos buildings back into their proper shapes, while other buildings had to be put back together by construction crews. This is also when a couple new buildings were added: the chapel and the R&D wing.
 * During that time the Imperial organization took the liberty of invading the nearby city and issuing a manhunt for each and every last remaining kinetic within it. Following this their takeover was swift and ironclad, and the entire experience has left a vast majority of the remaining non-kinetic populace resentful toward the organization.
 * At some point another mysterious group emerged alongside the Imperial Organization to dominate the city: Magnus, a megacorporation that focuses on advanced weapon manufacturing and bio-experimentation of questionable ethics and legality. Some speculate this arrangement was the result of the Imperials paying off a debt to the weapons manufacturer by ceding part of their newly-acquired territory.