Geno Dome Computer System Academy

The CSA (as it`s sometimes called) at Geno Dome is the place to be to study advanced computer programming and cybernetics. Here courses range from simple CS specialty courses to studies in AI development and the Neural/Cognitive Sciences. Little more than half the staff is robotic, and it is the only school in Guardia which recognizes Robotic students and disperses diplomas to them. This is cause for some controversy, simply because Robots are better able to absorb and store information than humans are, so the Robotic student body is largely segregated from the non-Robotic student body, at least as far as academic comparisons are concerned. While for non-Robots CSA is a standard four-year university with extensive graduate school degree programs, for Robots the average term of study is one to one and a half years, three years with grad school.

CSA has only one major competitive "sport," and that is the RoboSport. Several on-campus teams set up competitions among themselves, building and then battling each other with low-intelligence Robots, many of whom started out as a cyberneticist`s term project (or something along those lines). The school has several arenas set up for just this purpose. Don`t Robotic students get offened at the RoboSport games? No, of course not. Most of the time, Robots join RoboSport teams to lend some of their expertise. The current RoboSport champs are a crew lead by a B-series robot named B-Z888, or "8-Ball", as his nickname goes (he has an 8-Ball insignia airbrushed on his forehead, and each of the team`s members have an 8-Ball tattoo somewhere on their bodies [most often on biceps, though one of the girls has it on her midriff]). Each of the robots the crew builds is also branded with an 8-Ball. The 8-Ball tradition may well carry on after 8-Ball himself leaves the school; this is his last year at CSA, and already he`s looking at a promising career with the Guardian military.