Grand Colonial Academy of Science
Archivist's Excerpt from: Orphan Heights: An Official History, CVI 42.4
The Grand Colonial Academy of Science of Orphan Heights is considered among the greatest achievements of the settlement, if not the greatest, by the Grand Colonial Academy of Science. The curious thing is that it seemed to be a given that the Academy be erected from the initial founding of the settlement, something one would not normally imagine on such a remote venture.
Records indicate that the Academy was meant to reflect aspects of the Royal Academy in the Old Country, and was established due to a persistent desire and intent within the founders to maintain as much of the history of Anglish culture as possible, given that the world had ended, and all. However, seeing as it hadn't, and seeing as they bloody well knew it, other factors must weigh in. What those are, are speculation.
The Academy's most distinguished founder, faculty, and general legend of Orphan Heights, Cornelius Hickter, and Hickter's Law has established the presuppositional foundation of the entire Academy's directive going forward.
The Academy itself is considered the highest aspiration of anyone in Orphan Heights, far above even political office or athletics or any other vocation. Admittance into the Academy is no easy feat, and admittance as faculty, even less so. Its hallowed halls are stuff of legend, as it is here that the "Ark of Humanity's Survival" memorializes, preserved, and advances all endeavours of the mind.
That's what the sign outside Hickter Hall says, anyway.
To be involved with the Academy in almost any way is automatic, though unwritten, admittance into Orphan's high society, its blue-blood elite, and its aristocracy, however peerage-based and founded on Anglan's earlier noble dynastic structure, is here likewise affected by one's contributions to and from the Academy, a fact that was routinely repeated to all the failing school children in Orphan, which the teachers believed was the surest way to motivate them.
Structure
As with many universities, the Grand Colonial Academy of Science is divided into a number of departments that are partially self-governing, though all are under the university's board and its Chairman of the Board of the Grand Colonial Academy of Science, an office once held by Cornelius Hickter.
Technological Level
There is no scientific advancement on or within earth that eclipses the developments of the Academy, beyond the ancient world of the Progenitors themselves. From Lectral Incandescents to the Phonometric Orchestra, the inventions of the Academy are the pinnacle of human ingenuity, genius, and (obviously) humility.
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