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In Card's fictional future universe, humanity is at war with an alien species known as the Formics, or, colloquially, buggers. Battle School is the training ground for the future leaders of Earth's war effort—most notably Ender Wiggin and Bean. At the school, they undergo a rigorous curriculum designed to teach military strategy and tactics. As befits an elite school, only the very best and brightest students are taken. Prospective students must undergo invasive monitoring, and a battery of tests, to see if they are suitable for the school. Look up war in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... In popular culture and conspiracy theories, life forms, especially intelligent life forms, that are of extraterrestrial origin, i. ... In biology, a species is one of the basic units of biodiversity. ... Formics, usually referred to by the pejorative term, buggers, are a fictional insectoid alien species from the Enders Game series of science fiction novels by Orson Scott Card. ... Andrew Ender Wiggin is a fictional character from Orson Scott Cards science fiction story Enders Game and its sequels (Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, Children of the Mind), as well as in the second part of the spin-off series, Enders Shadow. ... Julian Delphiki, more commonly known as Bean, is the main character of the books Enders Shadow, Shadow of the Hegemon, Shadow Puppets, and Shadow of the Giant by Orson Scott Card. ... In education, a curriculum (plural curricula) is the set of courses and their contents offered by an institution such as a school or university. ... Military stratagem in the Battle of Waterloo. ... Military tactics is the collective name for methods of engaging and defeating an enemy in battle. ...

Students are generally taken to Battle School at a very young age—5 or 6 years old. The common age of "graduation" is usually 12. While at Battle School, they are taught academic subjects, including especially a heavy grounding in mathematics and science, a setup for work in space; for instance, Card describes Ender as learning trigonometry, which in the United States is not taught until high school. Euclid, Greek mathematician, 3rd century BC, as imagined by by Raphael in this detail from The School of Athens. ... Part of a scientific laboratory at the University of Cologne. ... Wikibooks has a book on the topic of Trigonometry Trigonometry (from the Greek Trigona = three angles and metron = measure[1]) is a branch of mathematics which deals with triangles, particularly triangles in a plane where one angle of the triangle is 90 degrees (right angled triangles). ... Main article: Secondary education High school is a name used in some parts of the world, and particularly in North America, to describe the last segment of compulsory education. ...

However, the academic work is not the focus of Battle School. Rather, the true evaluation of the students comes in battle simulations which are run by the school's instructors. The students are divided into 41-person armies, most named after an animal (real or mythological). They fight mock battles in weightlessness, armed with harmless lasers and suits that freeze when hit with a laser shot. These battles are used to test the tactical aptitude of the students. Their performance is used to evaluate their progress. As such, the student body places a great weight on the standings in these games, a perception which is encouraged by instructors. The object of the game is supposedly to 'destroy' or freeze all the enemy soldiers and then pass through the gate the enemy entered through, but unconventional tactics on Ender's part somewhat subverted this victory condition. To win the game, four soldiers must touch their helmets to each corner of the enemy gate, and one soldier must go through the gate. Digimon, the only known animals. ... // For the Derek Sherinian album, see Mythology (Derek Sherinian album). ... Bold text Astronauts on the International Space Station display an example of weightlessness. ... For other uses, see Laser (disambiguation). ...

List of armies Ender was a member of (listed in chronological order):

• Salamander Army
• Rat Army
• Phoenix Army
• Dragon Army

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