Only those who test in the top 2% of the qualifying exams are eligible to attend, and they all must receive the endorsement of a military officer of moff rank or higher, as well as pass a more detailed background check than is given to most officer recruits. While not as large or renowned as the Raithal Academy, the Imperial Navy does maintain a single, premier training academy for its most promising cadets. These Sector Naval Academies take recruits that are new to military service, as well as those having prior service, and train them for life in the Imperial Navy. Unlike the Imperial Army, which concentrates its training in a single prestigious academy, and numerous others, the Imperial Navy organizes its academies into a series of smaller local academies, with one in each sector of space.
Following a one year program, cadets are commissioned as a Second Lieutenant and enter normal service. The fundamental doctrine of the Raithal Academy is to teach new officers to lead through a combination of fear (through harsh discipline) and respect (by setting an outstanding example).
Heavy indoctrination into Imperial political ideology is accompanied by lengthy field exercises. The Raithal Academy is the premier training facility for the Imperial Army, and is renowned for a training regimen which is both grueling and extremely effective. Raithal Academy was already one of the oldest and most respected military academies in the galaxy before the incorporation of the Imperial Academy system, the eponymous military academy of the planet Raithal in the Core Worlds. Graduates of local Academies are given preferential treatment over those with no prior military training or service when applying for other parts of the Imperial Academy system. Those who graduate these academies are well prepared for enrollment into another academy for their commissioning, in programs that last from between 12 to 30 months depending on the service they are entering and the program they are enrolling in. They provide academic instruction, typically leading to an academic degree, as well as initial military instruction, and often basic flight training (since prior flight experience before reaching the higher levels of the Imperial Academy system means better chances of being accepted for flight training). While they are not sources for commissioning under the central Imperial Academy system, they still have a place. They are the traditional schools of continents, worlds, or star systems which have been assigned a new role in the New Order. Throughout the Empire there are thousands of local military academies, often with histories dating back centuries or millennia.
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