An ostensibly philanthropic operation run by Harkyn Izunia, the Socratic School caters to individuals who are “gifted” with extraordinary power or abilities. In truth, the School is an extension of The Kratos Institute, meant to further the organization’s plans should anything befall its proprietors.
The Socratic School offers genuine academic classes, as well as classes tailored for helping students gain control of their abilities, but it also features rigorous indoctrination and obedience toward its headmaster. Additionally, some students are implanted with a sleeper phrase not unlike those used by the Kratos Institute, an assurance of control should something go awry. Students arrive at the school via enrollment, recruitment, and of course, good old fashioned kidnapping.
The Socratic School offers free tuition, room and board, healthcare, and for those who graduate — continued employment. Students of all ages are welcome, as learning has no time limit. Students are not allowed to leave without permission before graduation.
Graduation is offered to a student when they have both learned all they can learn from the School, as well as when their loyalty to Harkyn is rather unquestionable.
Located in a remote part of Xak Tural, the Socratic School’s “campus” is in truth a single, massive building which houses an extensive complex both within and beneath. The campus is shaped like a large circular ring. The inner sides are all connected by a large central courtyard, covered by an artificial sky not unlike that found beneath Labyrinthos. The building is 3 stories tall and features a multi-level basement.
Different subjects have dedicated classrooms within different sections of the building, and one quadrant is dedicated entirely to administrative offices. Faculty and staff offices tend to be in the same section of the building as their classrooms. Physical education classes are performed within the courtyard, a dedicated space on the first floor, or in special circumstances a training room in the basement. The dormitory is housed on the second and third floors in a quadrant of its own, above the administrative quadrant. It is these residential quadrants that also house the commissary and cafeteria.
Students at the Socratic School are able to obtain needed supplies, weapons, clothes, and other items of want from the school commissary. The commissary accepts commissary credits, which are given to students for attending class regularly, completing assignments, and at administration’s discretion. There is no upper limit to the number of commissary credits that can be attained, nor is there any time limit in which they must be spent. In fact, commissary credits are retained after graduation, in the case a graduate should decide to visit.
Food items that are less necessary for survival can also be obtained here beyond the cafeteria’s daily limit — things such as candy and other snacks.
In the space beneath the complex proper lies a set of long hallways, each one lined with shuttered rooms more akin to prison cells than dorms. It is within this basement that troublemakers, problem students, and delinquents are relocated for more effective re-education. It is within these underground spaces that the Socratic School operates in a manner more akin to its predecessor, reveling in the unethical and inhumane treatment of living test subjects.
Levels of the basement below the first are those which house the operating rooms, cloning pods, and all other manner of nefarious device and spaces. These levels also house the facility’s generators, as well as the storage of dangerous materials and objects. The basement is kept under close surveillance, and is visited regularly by administrators and staff members alike.
Most students will see the basement at least once, even if they’re perfectly behaved. Whether or not they remember it is an entirely different question.
Counter to what one may expect from a nefarious school with ulterior motives, the Socratic School conducts extensive background checks on any potential employees. Not only does the Socratic School still want to ensure a quality education for its students, but they want to make sure that their staff’s goals either align with their own, or don’t run counter to them. Even an apathetic teacher is better than a hostile one intent on dismantling things from within, after all.
Employees are given a place on campus to stay, a salary, access to the cafeteria and on campus health services, as well as campus aethernet access.