Slice

Slice
The Slice is between Heaven and Beyond. This document provides background information for writers exploring this world.

Distance Learning
On Amp there is an academy for distance learning. They teach a variety of disciplines, mostly what we would consider general education today. Much of the curriculum has to do with neo-agriculture. A large focus in the higher education is the field of optics. Not only does the school crank out a large amount of optometrists, but also engineers who create the lighting systems that allow for inter-platform communication. In recent years there has been research in holographic systems, though the funding for those projects often gets sent to other departments, mainly at the behest of the Order.

Since the general education correspondent classes require a constant flow of information, there is a shipping company on contract with the academy that makes regular scheduled stops at many of the larger platforms. In recent years there have been some attacks on these regularly scheduled ships, so they have begun to have Order gunships escorting them. In addition, there have been one or two large battleships created, in cooperation from Kartik Enterprises (we are dropping this entity, I've never really liked it, and it was Tim's idea.).