Military Academy of Aphros
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The Military Academy of Aphros was a Star League Defense Force academy that was part of the "War Triad" of academies that included Sandhurst Military Academy and the War Academy of Mars. At the time, the academy served as a major center for the SLDF's Gunslinger Program, in addition to providing training for aerospace and dropship pilots.[1]
Located in one of the domed cities on Venus, by 3062 it was the only such remaining city on the planet. By that point, the failure of the atmospheric stabilization stations on Venus had rendered the atmosphere uninhabitable, and as a result only AeroSpace pilots and JumpShip, DropShip, and WarShip crews were still being trained there by the Word of Blake.[2]
By 3085, following the Jihad, the RAF took over the academy and used it as its primary naval training facility, but in light of the continuing atmospheric problems they began considering moving their naval training programs to Sanglamore.[3]