Starfleet Academy

Leadership
Commandant - Rear Admiral Nash ka’Sharren

Purpose
To provide training, coaching, guidance, and education for all would-be Starfleet officers.

Physical Layout
The primary Starfleet campus is located on Earth near the city of San Francisco, not far from Starfleet Headquarters. Significant locations on campus include:

Memorial Gardens - Larger than the name would imply, the Gardens are closer to park. A variety of plants from the various member worlds are carefully tended here, with a series of two meter granite walls scattered throughout creating a maze of passages leading deeper into the garden. The gardens are filled with flowers, statues of famous graduates and other significant figures, and greenery. In addition, every Academy graduate receives their own brick in the walls. The brick is made of smart material and can display the name and rank of the graduate and a personalized holographic message that the graduate may update at will, as well as changing color to signify the graduate's status: White is standard for all graduates, Yellow for those that join the fleet proper in a shipboard assignment, Bronze for the Explorer Corps, Gold for those that have commanded a ship, Black for those that retire and pass on from natural causes, dark grey for those missing in action or presumed captured, and red for those killed in action.

Academy Underground Training Facility - A vast underground complex, forming a controlled environment where you can simulate nearly any type of away team mission. Primary above-ground entrance marked by a ziggurat.

Administrative Building - A large circular building with mirrored windows and a view of SF Bay. The Commandant's office is located here.

Annexes
USS Serapis - A full-scale mockup of a flight three Saladin located a short distance off the coast in San Francisco's Cetacean District. Select cadets undergo an intensive eight-week simulation of shipboard service under the guidance of Academy training staff serving as the ship's senior officers. The final seven days—informally known as "hell week"—serve as a capstone to the experience, where the crew is forced to grapple with the most extreme scenarios a starship can encounter. After completing this course, cadets become eligible to serve a three-month tour aboard one of the Academy's aviso runabouts. The captain of the Serapis is considered to be among the most coveted and prestigious Lieutenant Commander billets in the fleet.

Elkins Runabout Training Center - The second-largest station in the Sol System behind Spacedock, the ERTC serves both as a base of operations for Starfleet Academy's runabout fleet and as a small shipyard complex, where engineering students are able to both witness and participate in the construction of these small warp-capable starships. Completed in 2306.

Fleet
Starships

Runabouts

Crunch
Determines your incoming crew levels.