[GOV COMMAND INTERFACE]
[USER: GOVCHIEF]
[PASSWORD: $$$$$$$]
>> Search Wildden Safeguard Superior
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key id: 176298, privilege level: C3P, MO
>> Set-Rebirth 176298 Enable (RE_f ^ RB_f)
Rebirth Granted (RE_f ^ RB_f)
>> Set-Mode (E|B|M)
Mode Set Granted (Multi-Set)
>> Transfer self 176298 (I_SP)
Transfer complete.
Ideally, the Governance Minster wouldn't have to personally attend to new members of the special projects team, but he didn't actually have the right to transfer his rights to anyone else, and no one, not even the City Premier, had the rights he did.
The GovChief logon was passed down to each Government Chief, though the password policy was for a reset every 10 days.
>> Message SPC_Mailman "The Job is Done. 176298 headed your way with high probability."
<< Done
>> View Schedue
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Weekly Computer Division - Governance Division Meeting
Scheduled Office Time - Reporting & Analysis
Later: Senior Leadership Weekly Social
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EXAMINEE MENU:
[Discipline] (100~)
Civics
Health
Etiquette
>> Civics
eReader ("The City: History and Civic Traditions")
Civics VR (Enabled after Chapter completion)
Review Quiz (Enabled after Chapter completion)
>> eReader
Wildden was familiar with the general idea covered in the Civics books, just from living in the city and going through life in the monastery, but there were details about the other two orders, and just little things which were covered that he didn't know.
He re-read parts that were new, or had some unforseen details.
This was basic stuff, but he wasn't sure what the Civics VR would be for, he launched into that next.
Where the Discipline VR was evaluating patience, forgiveness, emotional health and togetherness. The Civics VR put him into a detailed scenario where he had to work with other people to keep the city safe by collecting items and sharing them with other people to identify a solution. It was like a City wide escape room.
He was sure the VR sculpted the situation so he ended up having to present pieces of information collected by others to other groups in the city, and they worked together to finally find the answer and save the city.
That was the VR for Chapter 1: City & Unity. It took 2 hours to complete the VR escape room for chapter 1.
He had already read through Chapters 1 - 5, so he proceeded to do the Chapter 2 VR: Civic Organization.
It was a perspective on each of the orders of the City, and all that they did. It was more of a video demonstration than a challenge, and it filled in the gaps that the book couldn't get to.
He had missed all break time yesterday, being in the middle of his extremely long VR, but today he had a chance to go on break with block 0198.
There were two other adults, part of the rehabilitative program, so he sat next to them. The children were largely happy to congregate amongst their own age.
Some might say that an adult should find it easy to pass exams meant for children, but only a quarter of Level 1 Students make it on to Level 2. And children prepare for these exams before even starting the student program, whereas Wildden and the other adults start it on no preparation, and haven't taken these computerized exams in years.
Nonetheless, Wildden suspected that it was the behavioral testing of Level 1 that filtered out most adults that tried to start again. For Wildden, who never made it to the higher level Student exams, this was the easy part. He had no idea what would be his exams when the real studying started.
He was tested on his behavior every day in the field and office, but few children were ready to sit still and follow orders, and it was somewhat of a disaster that those who couldn't handle it as children never had a chance to pursue a higher place as adults.
He knew their was a correlation from childhood behavior to adult behavior, but Wildden thought his own contrasts proved it wasn't ironclad. He was completely undisciplined and wild as a child, and it was only the heavily outdoors, and martial arts training of the Monastic Order that found him wanting to learn and to do better.
He had learned the value of discipline, and the importance of boundries through the training process, experiencing life with a mentor in the Monastic Order. Finding enjoyment even when he wasn't the center of the universe. Learning to honor those who pursued a higher calling.
The monastery had taught him what he needed to go back to being a Student.
The other Rehabilitative adults didn't want to talk to him, however, and so he stood, leaning against the wall in the lunch room.
The attitude in the room was either sullen or focused, and some of both really. 20% of the class was already gone due to disciplinary issues.
Wildden was consoled that at least these kids would get another chance in the Monastic order.
Health was the first subject were he didn't have a lot of exposure and had to get first time understanding of 80% of the material. Sure dealt with occasional health issues himself, or on his team, but this Health subject was surprising diverse, dealing with several areas that surely would only be useful to a Medical or Doctor division official.
First Aid he knew a little about. CPR and ECG he knew nothing about. Neither had he ever thought about safety around the water, since he never encountered the water or pools. The busienss residential district the Chapter house was in had pools in a few places, and a few streams, but he had never had a reason or authorization to be there.
The subject should have been called Health and Safety, because it went into topics personally irrelevant to him as a monastic order citizen, but then, was he really that anymore. Reproductive and various matters of that sort, which were completely excluded to the monastery were brought up in this heath class.
As watched these informative VRs, he finally reached a subject he knew: Occupational Health. How to safely lift things, workplace safety. The subject of several ongoing exams for the head of a Chapter house, Wildden had become quite familiar with safety issues.
Identifying reckless conduct in others. Responsible volume levels and noise ordinance. (Even more strictly, he dealt with loud public order people, and his own staff.)
Emergency Response and Emergency Planning. Practicing.
Fires and the main Health risks in a Fire.
Finally, the Health class VRs covered auxilliary health areas, including dentistry, optical and exercise physiology.
He would need more time to learn the majority of this content, and his first official exam was coming up tomorrow, sixthday.
He supposed it was important to get situated in his new Student residence, and yesterday he had made it home and immediately fell asleep without getting to know his roommate at all.
There was no reason to collect that much stuff here, since he would be moving residences soon enough, one way or the other. He figured his accoutrements at the Chapter house would be collected and saved in storage somewhere.
So after finishing one more section of the Health subject, he headed home at the same time as the other students.
His residence was in a tiny section of the larger sea of child residences in the southwest district of the city.
In fact, the building he was in had mostly Level 1 Student housing for children, but there were five residences, each with two bedrooms, on the third floor.
The Hospitality division had a steady schedule of officials who worked in the building, and Sanitation officials were at the building as Wildden got off the train, being followed by a wave of other students who split off heading to each building in the area. He guessed roughly 80 child students lived in the building, and only 3 adults to the 5 adult residences and 10 bedrooms.
It was computers and the constant monitoring systems which kept the children across this whole district safe.
Nonetheless, he had been placed in a residence with a roommate. He had no access to know what the man's past position had been, but Wildden would have sword he was roommates with a past Senior examiner, much like his cover story.
Joran was a tidy fellow, comfortable with the dresses of the Examiner order, even these plain grey level 1 ones, unlike Wildden who found himself constantly uncomfortable and awkward in the attire. He much preferred robes, but he didn't mind that senior examiner's dress he had worn briefly.
All attire in the City was the same for both men and women, with position in society and size being the only source of variation, excepting special attire for special circumstances, like the Wildguard's camoflage or hunting attire.
Wildden waited in the hallway with Joran and the third adult in the building, Alana. She seemed to be an ex-Business order person, and she seemed to fidget as they waited, perhaps she wasn't comfortable with the Examiner's dresses either.
"Are you guys students.too," asked one of the kids.
"Yep, here we are," said Joran. "I don't know why I didn't chose exile, but I'm not going back on it now."
"To prove, once again, that you have what it takes," Wildden said.
"You obviously completely forgot what kind of nightmare being a student was. I was glad when only had to take Exams every other week, and they were relevant instead of being so dull."
"What about you, are you an ex-examiner?" Alana asked him.
He hesitated to say anything.
Alana said "I was business order, now I'm trying to pass all of the qualifications to become an examiner, and then go back and pass the monastic order quals."
"Ex-Monastic Order. Well, I was told I can go back to it, if I don't pass the Examiner and Business order qualifications. So I start over at Level 1 Student, but I actually, I finally appreciate being a student, and I didn't the first time I was one. I failed out at Level 1 before."
"Level 3 for me before I ended up in Business. But they demanded I go back through and pass the earlier levels. Apparently they have no ability to place people anywhere other than Student 1."
"What division were you in?" he asked.
"Financial."
"I don't know what you two are talking about? How did a punishment take you from Business Order up to Examiner Order?"
"Special Projects," Alana said.
"I don't think we were supposed to share that information," Wildden said.
"Whatever," Joran said, and went into the residence.
"If we both make it, we should exchange information about Business order and Monastic order qualifications."
"That would be great," Wildden said.
Joran was already attentive only to his tablet, as Wildden entered the residence.
He hadn't done his katas in three days, he decided to go into his new bedroom and rectify that right away, since Joran didn't seem interested in talking.
"List Katas," he said to his computer interface.
"No Katas available. Katas are only available to Monastic order officials of the appropriate rank."
Crap. He thought to himself, my stress relief, and fun. Getting into the routine of Katas, and the little computerized rankings, watching the martial arts bouts hosted by the Monastic Order, all that was taken from him as he had been planted into the new Student's world.
Classically, Students and Examiners spend a lot of their downtime studying or comparing their experience with others. That was the stereotype he had of them, at least.
Wildden pulled out his tablet and went to the little use Recommended section.
Student 1 - First Week
Recommended
1. Review Exam & Advancement Details
2. Review Disciplinary Grade Adjustment Policy
3. OSG Level 1
4. Schedule Appointment with Counselor
5. FRSG Level 1
Exam & Advancement Details
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Students at Level 1 are subject to a sliding box between the Dropout threshold and the Level Up threshold. Study and practice with intensity, because each week wasted leads to a higher grade standard for those who remain.
Your Weighted Average Exam Score (WAES), in conjuction with the number of weekly Exams you've taken is the marker which determines where you are on this sliding box. Except in rare circumstances, missing a scheduled weekly exam will result in a 2X or 1X dropout. So each week in the program will mean another Exam taken, and another adjustment to your sliding box.
The Weighted Average Exam Score at Level 1 takes into account the 4 subjects of Discipline, Civics, Health and Etiquette.
First, the individual subject score on the exam is modified by an under-performance penalty. For each point under 40% in a subject, you will receive an additional percentage point penalty for the adjusted score. This means a 0% in a subject will be weighted as -40% (0% minus 40 percentage point penalties). This means that you must demonstrate basic competency in all subjects assigned.
Taking all of your subject grades after the penalties, the first subject grade is multipled by 1.25, the second by 1.125, the third by 0.875 and the fourth by 0.750. This gives some advantage to students who have a bright spot in certain subjects but are struggling in others, so long as they still reach the minimum 40% threshold for penalty.
Taking an full example Sally Sal scores the following subject scores: Discipline 22%, Civics 93%, Health 62%, Etiquette 49%. Adjusted scores at 4%, 93%, 62% and 49%.
(4% * 0.75 + 49% * 0.875 + 62% * 1.125 + 93% * 1.25) / 4= 58%
Sliding Box thresholds are based on recent Student performance, with the goal of 25% of students advancing to level 2, 50% moving down to Business order, and 25% moving down to Monastic order.
Current Sliding Box thresholds are:
(LVL2 is the threshold for promotion, DBO is the threshold for dropping to Business Order, DMO is Monastic Order)
Week 1: [LVL2: 80%, DBO: 25%, DMO: 0%]
Week 2: [LVL2: 83%, DBO: 40%, DMO: 15%]
Week 3: [LVL2: 86%, DBO: 50%, DMO: 30%]
Week 4: [LVL2: 89% DBO: 60%, DMO: 40%]
Week 5: [LVL2: 92% DBO: 70%, DMO: 40%]
Week 6: [LVL2: 95% DBO: 75%, DMO: 40%]
Week 7: [LVL2: 95% DBO: 80%, DMO: 40%]
Week 8: [LVL2: 97% DBO: 85%, DMO: 40%]
Week 9: [LVL2: 98% DBO: 90%, DMO: 40%]
Week 10: [LVL2: 99% DBO: 95%, DMO: 40%]
Week 11: {LVL2: 99% DBO: 97%, DMO: 40%]
Week 12: [LVL2: 99% DBO 98%, DMO 40%]
Some Subjects may be locked to 100% or 0% with particularly impressive or atrocious performances. There is no need to take the subject sub-exam if your score is locked.
Discplinary Infractions and Affect on Grade:
Disciplinary infractions occuring at school, residences or anywhere else are dealth through the Education division, not through Governance.
Student Monitoring is high, to identify and place students based on their discipline and emotional maturity.
At Student Level 1: Exam grade penalties can be applied to any of the 4 subjects, based on the nature of the infraction. Penalties are deducted from your Exam score in the subject, so you are still incentivized to score as well as possible.
If any Subject area has a -100% penalty or higher, immediate dismissal from Student status will be ordered, and you will be placed in Business Order or Monastic Order depending on the extent of your infraction.
Some severe infractions will send you to Sentencing and lead to your Exile from the city.
Please pay attend, be obediant and cooperative to all Officials and Computer systems you interact with.
<< OSG : Level 1 >>
Online Study Group - Level 1
## <X10973> Health seems pretty easy, but I'm kinda shaking after the Discipline VR.
## <X99281> You haven't even seen Etiquette VR yet, have you?
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Chat room, huh, Wildden surmised.
>> Counselor appointments
Counselor Garza : 7 pm Tommorrow
Counselor Griffith : 7 pm Next Thirdday
Counselor Kramer : 7 pm Next Fifthday
Counselor Little : 7 pm Backlog 4 weeks
He supposed that students were in school early in the day, so they must have scheduled all of the counselors for after school hours.
He assumed FRSG would be another chat room, but he got something different.
/\FRSG/\
\/Sixth division : E Company : 7th Wing\/
Your fellow 1st Level students are fighting the Students of 2nd Level and 1st Tier members of the Business school.
You are part of a combined attack, in which you have to work together with the rest of your class. As part of 7th wing, you are a special force: operating an attack helicopter, you will provide fire support to your classmates and take out enemy positions of those 2nd years and business order folk.
Distribute 5 points among your soldier attributes before you go out on a mission.
Attributes
FLYING]
SHOOTING (CREW WEAPONS)]
AWARENESS]
SHOOTING (PERSONAL WEAPONS)]
COVER]
MOVEMENT]
Wildden thought it to be silly, but in a carefree manner, decided to play the little cooperative game anyway.
++ FLYING
++ FLYING
++ SHOOTING (CREW WEAPONS)
++ AWARENESS
++ AWARENESS
Awareness was half the battle, flying well was the other half, and knowing how to shoot was the third half. He joked.
You are ready to suit up.
His tablet displayed a simple 2d representation of his attack helicopter and him in it.
Your fellow students are tagged with the brown colored insignia, whereas your opponents are tagged in red. Two stripes for the 2nd level students, and one X for the business order.
Wildden spent a few hours piloting his pretend attack helicopter around, taking on their digital foes. The helicopter crashed twice and was shot to explosion once, but more often than not, Wildden was able to hone in on enemy positions an execute masterful strikes. It reminded him of Safeguard collections, in the consideration of how the enemy or collectee would move and respond to him.
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Joleen was buried in messages, work items and other office busyness.
He tablet displayed 78 as the number of items to be dealt with, which only included the critical messages, work items and business matters.
Her subdivision was one of the most frantic and interconnected. Worked closely with Doctors like all Med Bus subdivisions, but also worked with Governance and legal revolving around the legal mental status of patients. Funding requests, and responses denying them. Working with Education division providing support staff for student counselors.
Requests from influential family members, appealing to her after their doctor and nurse had no more answers to give.
Mostly, she turned the requesters way, and shrugged about denied funding. Only a few people were influential enough to impact their relative's treatment.
She had computer access to new Students' request for Counselors, so she had an inroute by the logic of the City computer system, to know about them.
She was able to identify the status of new students who were part of Governance's Special Projects program to cross train officials in all three orders. She could see new Students and new Business school students, but the Monastic Order had their own way of handling issues.
They used their discipline and martial arts katas to introduce ordered thinking, but also dropped anyone who still couldn't handle it.
It was only those officials who had a good position in the monastic order who had a chance to be helped by the psychiatric system. New monks were on the razor's edge between Exile and rising in the order.
Joleen assumed a high level monastic like Wildden Safeguard (now Wildden Student 1) would be very disciplined. To pass through all the traumu and strict routines of the monastic order took a lot of discipline.
She never expected, when she looked up his profile at the Counselor menu, that he would have a perfect 100, scoring 8493 in the Progressive Evaluation VR. Certainly in the top 5 scores ever, perhaps #1.
Governance Chief would be happy about picking Wildden after that.
Joleen ordered a change in Wildden's counselor selection. They had another counselor who was part of special projects.
Joleen checked in on another Special Projects applicant. They were in the Business school part of the process.
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