Command School is an advanced training facility in the fictional world of Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card. Command School is located inside the asteroid Eros. The facility is comprised of a labyrinth of winding tunnels and claustrophobic rooms, because it was captured from the Formics in the First Invasion. Enders Game (1985) is the best-known novel by Orson Scott Card, set in a future where mankind is facing annihilation by an alien society, the insectoid Buggers (more formally known as Formics). Having barely survived two separate Bugger invasions, humanity institutes a program for the breeding and training... The introduction to this article is too long. ... The asteroid 433 Eros (eer-os) was named after the Greek god of love Eros. ... 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. ...

Storyline Overview

Ender Wiggin is sent to Command School prematurely, told that this was to be the place in which he would complete his training. Ender is instructed in highly advanced combat tactics by none other than Mazer Rackham, the hero of the Second Bugger War. Ender is introduced to a virtual reality game that simulates every aspect of space combat. After quickly defeating the computer, Ender is told that he is to be pitted against Rackham. Unbeknownst to him, he is in reality commanding squadrons of starships sent from Earth years ago to launch a pre-emptive strike on the bugger homeworld. 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. ... Mazer Rackham is a fictional character in the novel Enders Game by Orson Scott Card. ... Virtual reality (VR) is a technology which allows a user to interact with a computer-simulated environment, be it a real or imagined one. ...

After progressively harder and more draining "tests", Ender's team reaches the final world, with their ancient fleet against the thousands of Formic ships remaining—and all their queens. Launching a desperate, hopeless attack, Ender's forces reach the planet and launch their "Dr. Devices", which combined with the mass of the planet, causes an explosion which destroys everything—the few human ships remaining, the remaining Formic ships, and the planet itself. In the moment of victory, only then is he informed that the "game" was real, and that he just destroyed the Bugger race. Ender, already stretched beyond his limits, cannot take this news and collapses into a coma.

Ender eventually leaves Command School, and ventures to an uninhabited bugger colony to begin his life anew.

Ender's Team

When Mazer Rackham began the serious tests, the squadron leaders Ender was given were all people he knew previously. They were described as "all the best ones Ender had fought with or against, everyone that Ender had trusted in Battle School." The ones named:

• Alai
  • Noted for being an expert strategist and could be trusted with a large amount of ships.
• Bean
  • Noted for being able to use a small amount of ships extremely well, but in Ender's Shadow it is noted by Graff that Mazer was deliberately influencing Ender to take this view. This would allow Bean to pay attention to how the entire battle was going and prepare him to be Ender's backup in case Ender is unable to finish the war on the Formics. In Ender's Shadow we learn that in the final battle against the Formic home world Bean gets a chance to take over the battle.
• Petra Arkanian
  • Noted for being a brilliant tactician to the point where Ender called on her too often.
• Dink Meeker
  • Noted for being well at carrying out any instructions, but slow to improvise.
• Crazy Tom
• Shen
• Hot Soup
• Fly Molo
• Carn Carby
• Vlad

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International Fleet Schools

The required age for entering Command School is 16. It is the highest and toughest of the IF schools.Normally, after a child is chosen by the IF, he or she will proceed to Battle School. This is the average order in which the events would take place: The International Fleet (I.F. or IF) is a fictional space military organization in the Enders Game series by Orson Scott Card created to protect Earth from the alien Formics. ... In the science fiction novel Enders Game and its sequels, by Orson Scott Card, Battle School was a military academy in Earth orbit. ...

1. The chosen child is taken to Battle School as a Launchie-Average Age=6
2. The child will enter an army, play in the battleroom, etc.-Average Age=8-9
3. The child will be graduated to enter another school, Pre-Command school if they are a good enough.-Average Age=13
4. The child will graduate the Pre-Command school and enter Command School-Average Age=16.