Universities

Shimizu University (Destroyed 2374)

The Kaneko Institute of Fashion and Design

Ishikawa University

Rivals of SU: open warfare is a popular student pastime. Tends to draw more offwolders than SU.

Located in Koto City.

Professor Matsuoka Tomiichi, fashion historian.

The Machine Intelligence Research Unit (MIRI)

Also Accelerationists. frequently raided/assassinated by Netwatch, unabashedly pro-Singularity.

Maddox Allers, Senior Researcher

The Pennington School

Highly respected programs in media and creative writing, with a substantial offworlder population. Located in Old Dome. Bizarrely refuses to relocate to someplace nice, like Koto City. It's some arcane legal thing that's been in dispute for a century.

The original; the Earth campus is a lamestream branch.

Shenzen University

Shenzen University has a galactic reputation in the marine sciences, from biology to weather modification to naval architecture, and its researchers consult far afield, particularly with chilly but un-frozen Andorian colony worlds.