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Xavier Institute
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Historical Overview

Early in the International Police Organization's planning stages, it became apparent that the rising power of the Earth Alliance's Psi Corps would have to be opposed. Working with the government of Jyurai, Chief Gryphon established the Psionics Division to counter the Corps. The Psionics Academy, which would eventually train the agents of the IPO who would be part of the AEGIS group, was founded on Jyurai in 2396.

The Academy proved a success in short order, producing agents capable of countering the Psi Corps Enforcement Division's elite investigation and combat agents, the so-called Psi Cops. Those students who washed out of AEGIS training were directed into other specializations or counseled on possible careers outside the IPO, depending on their own inclinations and desires. The system worked well for "normal" humanoid espers.

However, the next few years showed a marked rise in the incidence of so-called 'anomalous' espers, as well as 'traditional' psionics with major mental and emotional difficulties (either pre-existing, or resulting from, their abilities). The Psi Corps and the recently-emerged galactic criminal organization Big Fire showed themselves to have superior resources to the IPO for dealing with these unfortunates, and many of them ended up in their ranks... or their labs.

In 2407, fate dealt the IPO a new hand: a second crossrip incident involving the now-inaccessible plane involved in the May 24, 2402 incident. One of the displacees in this second wave was Charles Xavier, a telepath of exceptional ability even for his home universe, and one who is off the standard scale in this one. (It has been speculated that Xavier's abilities function on a completely different principle from standard local human telepathy; he may, in fact, be a psychomechanic.)

Xavier spent a large portion of his adult life in his home reality teaching young people with unusual gifts how to control them, and in many cases how to use them to serve the world and fight the odd form of racism that occured there against persons born with the potential for metahuman abilities. When presented with the idea of re-opening his school to deal with the shell-shocked, the abused, and the very, very weird, he accepted the responsibility. The new Xavier Institute opened in the spring of 2408; the first class is expected to graduate in 2412.

Description

The school is located on Jeraddo, a moon of Bajor. With Babylon 6 becoming a major nexus for trade (as well as a place well known in the galactic underground as a haven), and the moon itself having a highly regarded educational facility in the Deedlit Satori Mandeville Memorial Institute, this seemed a natural location to place the Institute.

Xavier students who are not sufficiently acculturated attend classes at DSM by remote; those who can attend in person, making the twelve-mile commute by way of Port Jeradar daily. (These are the only non-resident students permitted at DSM.) The placement of the school was approved by Vedek Bareil and Prylar Otano, who both saw the wisdom of a school for special children - in fact, a number of the monks under Prylar Otano visit the school to teach meditative techniques.

The Institute's main building itself is a replica of the original Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters, as the Professor was able to use his telepathy to give the WDF Corps of Engineers very detailed floor plans. The mansion is situated on a large parcel of wooded land ten miles from Port Jeradar, Jeraddo's largest town, not far from the Soreil Sea. The grounds include walking and biking trails as well as a private spaceport facility and athletic fields.

The mansion itself contains the cutting edge of technology throughout, complete with a full-reality simulation center in the basement. This is intended to give students simulated experience in using their powers in controlled environs without the risk of harm, not necessarily to teach them how to fight.

The new Xavier Institute is not a combat school. Its purpose is to help its students deal with their abilities, and in many cases help them re-socialize. Those who wish to go on to become fighters in the struggle against galactic oppression may do so, once they graduate from the Institute, by attending the Psionics Academy or IPO Tactical Division School of Non-Conventional Warfare. (Some of those attending classes at DSM have gotten a head start on this by joining the Institute Duelists' Society.) The others will go wherever fate and their own desires take them, as free citizens of an open galactic society.

In addition to Charles Xavier, the regular faculty of the school includes a number of IPO Psionics Academy graduates, who rotate through in two-year volunteer fellowships, and several Blue Lensmen with training in education and dealing with troubled psionics. As mentioned before, a number of Bajoran monks also visit regularly to teach meditative techniques to those that feel they require it. There is a medical and psychiatric staff, as well.

The IPO recognizes that, by concentrating powerful, unstable psionics in one place, the Institute simultaneously invites the attention of enemy organizations like the Psi Corps and Big Fire and sets up the potential for internal problems.

As such, in addition to the top-grade security equipment installed in the mansion itself and its grounds, the Institute is home to two posted AEGIS operatives, a Tactical Division Special Action Squad (the 110th Blue Blaze Irregulars), and one of the very few Experts of Justice with a permanent assignment, Ororo "Storm" Munroe. In extremis, further backup can be summoned from the Babylon 6 security force and any IPO starship which may be nearby, and the Jeraddo Duelists are certain to involve themselves in any major crisis that strikes the school.

A number of Xavier's previous students and associates visit the Institute frequently. Among the visitors most eagerly awaited by the students are Logan, for his war stories; Kurt Wagner, for his irrepressible good cheer; Piotr Rasputin, a popular comic-book artist who often serves as a visiting art therapist for some of the more damaged students; and Cain Marko, whose invulnerability lets him stand there and take it when a student needs to unleash his abilities on someone who can't be hurt (this happens quite often with some of the more abused students).

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I don't know if you've picked up the new New Mutants title yet- it might be a source of inspiration for stories in this setting. Anyway, cool.

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Oh yeah, and I just love what you've done with Cain. I always had a kind of a soft spot for him, after the barroom brawl issue of X-Men, and the comic (New Warriors, I think?) that detailed his misadventures after trying to give his buddy Black Tom Cassidy a suitable birthday gift. The idea of him coaching Little League, and serving as designated punching-bag therapy for the most-injured of Charles' students is just way too cool.

<boggle> You put in a Danger Room! =)

I wonder how someone at the skill level of, say, Utena or Kaitlyn would do on the usual "walkthrough" test (the one Kitty Griffin passed with flying colours and her eyes closed, IIRC).

>In 2407, fate dealt the IPO a new hand: a second crossrip incident
>involving the now-inaccessible plane involved in the May 17,
>2402 incident.

I think this may be a stalinization candidate. I just double-checked the archive, and the date for this was May 24, 2402

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So can we assume that somewhere there is the Banzai Institute for Biomechanical Engineering and Strategic Studies? And what about the good Dr. Banzai himself? I would think him and Dr. X. would hit it off quite well.

Michael

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I guess that why he could do that is that keeping a copy of the designs in his mind is a side effect of the many times the original mansion got vaped along with the blueprints necessitating another secure storage location.

>The grounds include ... a private spaceport facility

Of cause as the X-Jet/Blackbirds need a home and it's in the plans.
Which leads to the question does the Xavier group now whip around in new spacegoing versions of their old distinctive custom craft, or in an Off the Shelf vessel via the IPO Yards?

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J