Tanstaafl wrote:JeffEngel wrote:<snip>
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It's possible Sandaria may need a spiritual retreat to process this, and it's possible that the Cave is going to have to be the site for it. But we've got our own estimates of Aivah's judgment and integrity backing up the expectation that Sandaria will make it through. That should be good enough.
I have advocated before to extend the cave with an orphanage (‘Boys Town’ anyone?) or a ‘Raffles Hotel, Luna city’. Having it as a retreat for initiates to the inner circle who need some time and space to get used to the new reality is a good starting point.
The twenty years between this war and the return is a nice period to raise a cadre of 24th century people to have as teachers and soldiers. And having a place to vet new recruits without having to kill them if they can’t accept ‘the writ is a lie’ in a few hours makes it much easier to expand the inner circle.
Indeed. The place really would then be a seijin training camp - oh, you wouldn't have PICA's spilling out of it, but mere mortals with concealed Federation technology and a lot of familiarity using it would still amount to seijins.
The spiritual retreat part would get a lot of help from being co-located with the place where people are training and learning - it's something to
do while you wrap your head around this, and it would help in the wrapping itself. I bet that St. Zherneau's has worked somewhat like this for some time, but with the work that can be done in the Cave and the magnificent privacy, it could work better there.
