Half-blood Academy (Worldbuilding)

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Name:
Colossus Foundation

"Industry,Innovation, Impact, Immediately"
Foundation Motto

Industry:
The various industries that Colossus Foundation works in. The ones with asterisks are the main industries. The Personal Defense sector only hires to specific people and is known to only Demi-gods, several monsters it has encountered, and a select few who keep the foundation's secrets.

Personal Defense
Systems
Programming*
Shipbuilding*
Shipping*
Supernatural Warfare

Employment:
The employment list of the Foundation's workforce. Note, the foundation's workforce only consists of old demi-gods/demi-titans or mortals that are able to see through the mist and have had an extensive background check. The Misc. contractors are mostly second-fifth generation demi-gods/titans.
700 full time
328 misc. contractors

Revenue: How much is made on an annual basis
46.1 million USD

Operating income: Includes paychecks, maintenance, purchases and equipment
45.8 million USD

Total profit: How much money is left over
300,000 USD

Total Funds: How much money is saved up
432,000 USD

Military

The Colossus Foundation Military is funded separately from the civilian sector and operates mostly off anti-terrorism contracts issued from the United States and other countries as well as some limited funding from Olympus and occasionally other pantheons if such work is required. Colossus is part of a community of similar entities globally known as The Shinjuku Coalition which consist of groups from the United States, the United Kingdom, Brazil, Norway, Sweden, Finland, France, Germany, Spain, Russia, China, Taiwan, South Korea, Vietnam, the Philippines, Indonesia, Australia, Japan, India, Egypt and surprisingly, Malta.

Navy

"Anywhere, anytime, for any reason why."

Strength:

1 flagship
3 Heavy Cruisers
3 Destroyers
3 Frigates
2 Carriers
1 SpecWar Ship
7 Corvettes
3 Landing Craft
120 personnel
5000 autonomous constructs

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Army:

Front and center stage

1300 personnel
4700 autonomous constructs

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Name:

The Shinjuku Coalition

History:

The Shinjuku Coalition a multi-national coalition of Paramilitary organizations composed of Demi-gods, Legacies, and those mortals who are able to see past the shroud. Originally, it was not the coalition but simply an agreement stipulated by the Shinjuku Non-Aggression pact, created in 1972 between Japan's Akarikaze, Malta's Order of the Knights Hospitaller, China's Holy Imperial Army, Russia's Four Circles and the United Kingdom's Hellsing. Over time, the Shinjuku Non-Aggression Pact was extended to Capstone United, the premier Supernatural Warfare (SupWar) group in the United States and various other organizations as well.

Before 1945, monster hunting was almost solely the territory of the various half-blood camps around the globe as up until that point, the campers had been sufficient to deal with any monster outbreak as despite the increasing numbers, the monsters were too fearful of the gods intervening to actually do anything. That is, until the Greek pantheon made a deal to not interfere with the affairs of mortals and then strong armed the other pantheons into doing the same thing. With no more fear of the God's intervention, monsters began making determined strikes against lone demi-gods before they were introduced to the camps and also legacies as well.

There had been SupWar groups around since the early renaissance such as the Order of the Knights Hospitaller and Hellsing, but up until that point, they had been dealing with their own conflicts with other groups as well as the supernatural enemy that they faced. This changed when out of the ashes of WWII came Akarikaze. Japan operated a bit differently from the other Pantheons, mainly because instead of summer camps, the Japanese set up a small network of academies that functioned similar to boarding schools where children were enrolled in from birth. This made it easier to keep an eye on vulnerable individuals and allow those with experience to properly teach the children to not randomly toss fireballs at their comrades. Because of the connected network, it was very easy to coordinate mutual defense efforts until by a stroke of luck, the academy staff teamed up with a Private Military Corporation made up of Alumni known as Akarikaze.

Initially, this went unknown to the west but Akarikaze rose up to prominance in 1971 when they single-handedly drove back a monster incursion numbering at least 120000 with enchanted firearms and regular mortal weapons courtesy of the JDSF. After a series of negotiations, representatives from the most powerful SupWar groups gathered at the Shinjuku Summit where they signed the ubiquitous Shinjuku Non-Aggression Pact. As other groups arose to combat the ever growing monster hordes, an offer to sign the pact was extended and in 1993 with the inclusion of Australia's Shark LLC, the Non-Aggression pact was reformed into the Coalition.

Duties:

The Shinjuku is a multi-national coalition of Paramilitary organizations composed of Demi-gods, Legacies, and those mortals who are able to see past the shroud that is sponsored by the UN as well as multiple pantheons to battle the various monster outbreaks all over the globe. Shinjuku forces use technology to proactively battle and drive back the monsters. It currently blockades all underworld entrances excluding the one in San Francisco.

It also operates the worldwide network of half-blood academies around the world with a full university campus as well.

Because of the operating cost of much of the equipment however, Shinjuku is only able to respond effectively to widespread threats and large disasters, meaning that smaller scale monster incursions are dealt with by individual members rather than the full Shinjuku battle wagon. This effectively keeps the Camps in blissful ignorance of the bigger horrors of the world at large.

Notes:

Colossus Foundation is the youngest member but is the fifth most powerful. The top five slots are Akarikaze, the Holy Imperial Army, the Order of the Knights Hospitaller, Capstone United, and Colossus Foundation. Britain's Hellsing follows up in sixth and Russia's Four Circles are seventh due to effectively having no navy.

According to the numbers provided by the latest Shinjuku Force Readiness Review, it is estimated that the Coalition could field the following forces:
Navy:
24,000 personnel
42+ auxiliary craft
35+ small craft (Hovercraft, Corvettes, Patrol/Missile/Torpedo Boats, and cutters)
19 frigates
27 destroyers
9 Amphibious Assault Ships
3 cruisers
6 carriers
3 battlecruisers
1 battleship (Yamato)

Aviation:
18,000 personnel
220+ fixed wing aircraft (combat)
110+ rotary wing aircraft (combat)
350+ Auxiliary aircraft

Land:
100,000+ army personnel
20,000+ marines
420+ tanks
120+ Infantry Fighting Vehicles
100+ Armored Fighting Vehicles
60+ self-propelled artillery guns
20+ towed artillery guns and heavy mortars
30+ Self propelled Anti-air guns

Note that many of the numbers are lopsided due to lack of purely secretarial staff. Some numbers including disposable munitions are excluded due to time constraints and are unable to be effectively counted. The navy has more ships but fewer personnel than a traditional sized force because of increased automation provided by Pantheon magic. The number is also significantly lowered by moving shipboard marines into the Land Warfare category.

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Subject: Half-blood Academies and Academy Cities

There are seven Half-blood Academies around the world that train and educate Demi-gods and legacies to be functional, happy, healthy, and productive members of society. These Academies are protected by forces under the Shinjuku Coalition and the Academy itself is funded by a combination of grants from the UN and Shinjuku at the same time. The Academies are sort of like elementary school, middle school, high school, and west point all rolled into one and students are encouraged to seek out higher education from mortal universities as they would have no problem mixing in regular people. Academy Central possesses its own university though.

Pantheological communities are often highly concentrated into cities centered around the academies are actually pretty cookie cutter with the exception of the several in Japan where the whole thing started. These cities are located in remote areas and can be accessed freely though they are not well known outside of those already initiated into the Pantheological community.

Academy Central: Japan
Academy Europe: Germany
Academy America: United States
Academy South: Brazil
Academy China: China
Academy Russia: Russia
Academy Africa: Egypt

The Academy Student Patrol and Excursion Combat Team (ASPECT) essentially acts as an internal disciplinary committee to keep kids capable of throwing fireballs from doing things like killing people or otherwise doing stupid things as well as act as truant officers and occasionally if necessary, the city militia's special combat forces.

The Student Council President is actually a very important person as the student council president actually sets policy for the academy and effects thousands of people at least and is also the commander in chief for all ASPECTs in the city during a period of crisis. The each day, the council treasurer of Academy America handles about 20 million dollars concerning the budgets of various clubs as well as the upkeep, training, and readiness of ASPECT recruits.

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Approximate Tech Level of the world:
The tech level of different factions differs wildly from faction to faction but there are usually other factors as well to consider when assessing the strength of any one faction. This also does not mean that any one is more important than any other.

Olympus:
Pre-enlightenment age technology

To be honest if it weren't for the Gods being, well, Gods, and jam packed with overpowered magic users, Olympus and everything in it would have been steamrolled a long time ago. Olympus's aggregate tech level is extremely primitive and Mythical creatures like Satyrs are for some reason, completely unable to manipulate any technology past the industrial age. The gods themselves, notably the forge god, occasionally make use of technology when interacting with humans but on Olympus, they forgo technology for outright magic.

Highest Technology: A magically imbued and blessed T-26 Light Infantry Tank donated by Russia's Four Circles organization. It has an upgraded power train that can drive the little speedster around at around 60-70 miles per hour and can fire either Zeus's lightning bolts or the more cost effective Coalition Arms 30mm "Ghostblaster" Spec APFSDSLRP (Armor-Piercing, Fin Stabilized, Discarding Sabot, Long Rod Penetrator) rounds. The hull was blessed by all of the gods consecutively and thus, is able to withstand a direct hit from a cruise missile though two is cutting it a bit close. A specialized team of demi-gods is kept on Olympus to keep the thing running and man it. The tank has been pulled out of storage ever since Olympus was breached by enemy forces during Kronos's near resurrection.

Monster factions:
Pre-enlightenment - enlightenment age technology

Monster factions make massive use of Schizo-tech. There is a varying tech level across the spectrum but they are all pre-industrial at best and downright cavemen at worst and the only reason they have not been stomped is because of their ability to absolutely zerg like crazy since not only are they just reborn in the underworld, they also reproduce like flies. There are actually no monster factions located on earth but the lower underworld is jam packed with constantly warring bands, tribes and city states. Earth is thankfully not flooded by monsters because The Shinjuku Coalition maintains a blockade at all Underworld gates except the San Francisco Gate which is held by Olympus.

EXALT/Angel Hospital/Zulu Army:
depression - cold war era

The Shinjuku Coalition:
Cold War - Information age

The Shinjuku maintains just about the approximate technology level as a modern military. While it can't play a numbers game like the other factions (other than EXALT/Angel Hospital/Zulu Army), it makes up for the disparity with advanced technology including guided missiles, automatic weapons, and various other technologies. Specialized ammunitions to combat monsters is provided to infantry or less commonly, field artillery, by Coalition Arms Corporation LLC. It maintains blockades on all Underworld portals and hunts down larger concentrations of monsters so that the camps are not disturbed.

Highest Technology: The raised and refurbished battleship Yamato propelled by two nuclear reactors to drive four steam turbines and an electrical generator capable of sustaining the ship indefinitely. As of the 2012 refit, it is equipped with the latest Aegis integrated combat system that Japan could afford. It is a whopping 840 feet long and armed with 128 RIM-162 Evolved Sea Sparrow missiles, 40 RGM-84 Harpoon missiles, 6 35mm Oerlikon Millennium Naval Revolvers, 10 5 inch guns and 9 18 inch guns capable of smashing through 16.5 inches of Rolled Homogeneous Steel armor at 30 kilometers. It's sensor suite is the Prolific AN/SPY-1. It's special weapon is the reinforced bow section that allows Yamato to smash cruisers much less the 5th rates or boats that it normally fights.
Academy Central:
Post-industrial

Highest Technology: Yamamoto Super-computing cluster.
Academy Cities:
Information age

Demi-god camps:
Schizo-tech

Highest Technology: Argo 2, a bronze hulled airborne galley raised, propelled, and powered by magic with a control system ripped from a Learjet and a Wii system. It is 200 feet long and armed with two quick firing ballistae capable of punching through concrete as well as the ram ubiquitous on all greek triremes. Its sensor systems though, are still the mark 1 eyeball and telescope. It's special weapon is the flamethrower built into the figurehead.