Janus Academy

The Janus Academy is a private high school on Catalina. It is owned by the Chalice Group.

The Academy is built atop an underground research base, dating back to World War 2. It belonged to a group of scientist that were experimenting on a variety of subjects, attempting to weaponize electricity for the war. The lab beneath the school is in the process of being reassembled, as it is the control center for the G.O.D. network.

History
The primary building that makes up the classes and dormitory of the school was layed out immediately proceeding the war. Known as Braun Manor, it would be the de facto seat of power for whoever owned the island. Eventually, during the 1980's, it was pruchased from the Conservancy by Sunset Realty, the realty company of the Chalice Group. Some renovation was done over the years, but it was closed for earthquake retrofitting while equipment was moved into place to dig down into the old lab/base.

In the early 1990's, it was opened as a private high school and college prep school, serving the children of the elite in the Southern California, primarily the families of Chalice executives. The director of the school is in charge of putting the base back into operational order.

Public school merge
Just before holiday break in 1994, Chalice Group represenatives approached the Long Beach School District and convinced them to allow the academy to absorb the Catalina High School. Citing both the recent findings of ubiquitous abestos found throughout CHS, along with their corporate responsibility to support their community, the district was won over. All students who are eligiable to attend CHS instead attend the academy.

Coming back from break, the the senior class began taking partial classes at the academy, for the second half of the school year. They brought with them their school stories and culture, which the rich and incrediably bored academy students ate up. In addition to now having a sense of school pride, they also appropriated many legends and lore. Among the legends, they believe that their academy was once a hospital, is haunted, is built on Native American burial grounds, and is above a tunnel system that leads to pirate treasure. All of these are in fact true of the public high school.

1995
The director is continuing the reassembly of the grid. E is unhappy by how the higherups forced the academy to absorb CHS. However, e is using the rumors about the school to eir advantage, effectively distracting noisy students, and even the occasional faculty member.

One of the adminstrators, and long time teacher, left the public school just before the summer break. She was replaced by a new teacher, who started at the academy, though he was hired for the public school.