Deep Trouble

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Deep Trouble is the oldest Sanct currently afloat, at 467 years of inhabited life in ASC 3051. As it hails from before the foundation of Pohjanvälke and the early days of COSAC, it is largely self-governed. However, due to its history it is also the sanct with the closest ties to Osiron.

The Secret Academy

The Secret Academy is the name of the most socially significant institution in Deep Trouble. It is, in fact, in no way secret - the name comes from the fact that while Deep Trouble was under Osiron leadership, it was. The Secret Academy employs or is directly responsible for the welfare of almost five thousand citizens, a good fourth of the citizens of the sanct.

The Secret Academy is a combined genetics laboratory, creche, boarding school, university and social experiment rolled into one; in essence, an attempt to create a better society through a true understanding of human genetics, physiology, neurology, psychology, sociology, and a large collection of interdisciplinary sciences that eventually combine each facet of humanity into more or less a single science, and apply this science to not only create a society of happier, more fulfilled people, but also eventually show the superiority of the scientific view of building societies and spread the word to the rest of Micras.

So far, evidence on the success of the Secret Academy is inconclusive. Homicide and assault rates in Deep Trouble, for instance, are above the average for Straylight. It has been suggested that this is because violence is more common than average among citizens who are not members of the Secret Academy. Studies referencing cases of violence with Academy membership tend to show that over 70% of reported cases actually involve a member and an outsider, whereas violence among members is extremely rare. Non-members tend to show no significant difference from the average sanct. On the other hand, studies on the salary, social standing, health, and reported happiness of Academy alumni show that they are measurably above the norm in these areas.

Academy curriculum

Clones

Membership requirements in the Secret Academy have slowly become stricter and stricter over centuries of advances in genetics. Within the last hundred years, technology available to the Academy has advanced enough that growing large numbers of clones has become possible. These clones are grown out of diverse genetic stock - mainly to avoid the problem of all the clones looking similar, which would make it difficult for them to be accepted as the normal people that they are. The advantages of cloning are that