| abstract | - The Educational Expansion Corps was an agency of the Golden Empire, part of the Ministry of Education. It was tasked with bringing newly admitted member worlds of the Empire up to the same standard of technological development as the Empire as a whole. Since the Empire existed entirely in the Unknown Regions until 137 ABY (when it conquered the Chiss Ascendancy), many of the systems incorporated had not developed technology considered "normal" in the Known Galaxy, such as hyperdrives, energy weapons, planetary shields, and various agricultural, building, and mass transit techniques. Some of the most primitive worlds did not even have computer systems or wireless communications. In all these instances, agents of the EEC were charged with taking the foremost scientists and educators of the worlds and explaining the function and workings of advanced technological systems. These intellectual leaders would, in turn, share the information with others on their home systems, gradually disseminating the information to the populace in general and "bringing them up to speed". The EEC worked very closely with the Royal Integration Corps, whose duty it was to introduce Royal culture to new member systems and inculcate a firm belief that membership in the Empire was to a system's benefit. The EEC also worked with other agents of the Ministry of Education who were revising (or building from scratch) public education facilities, allowing new generations to learn advanced science, physics, Orhyo, and galactic history without needing to wait years or decades for the "trickle-down" effect of the EEC's instruction to the highest levels.
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