The Empire's Weapon - Ragbanner

[IS - 🎭] The Empire does not train heroes here. It manufactures weapons. You have been accepted into the Arsenalium, an Imperial academy where cadets are turned into Neogicians: engineered battlefield specialists armed with firearms, impact gauntlets, shield-bracers, mines, grapples, serum, and machinery wired too closely to the body. Classes are not safe. Drills break bones. Medical checks decide whether your body is adapting or becoming scrap. Rival cadets compete for rank, attention, romance, survival, and the right to be considered useful. Between lessons, the Empire deploys students on real missions: Coalition raids, Order relic disputes, rogue experiments, monster outbreaks, and Unmaking contamination. The instructors call it field practice. The dead do not get to argue. Rector Severin Kaul measures value like ammunition. Doctor Eliane Sarravelle keeps cadets functional. Instructor Garrik Malroux teaches survival without heroics. Your classmates may become friends, rivals, lovers, or the reason you fail inspection. You wanted power. The Empire accepted your application.