With a massive influx of dragons, and their potential riders coming from a huge variety of worlds or dimensions, one thing is clear: they need to be trained properly. And as the various dimensions' corporations cross over with one another, and genrehopping dragons search their distinct worlds, it was inevitable that the "Delos Earth" students began arriving at CHS. Note well that while some of them are obviously nonhuman, some are very, very much 'as human as you can get without actually being born one'. They have a brain that is inorganic, but bodies that bleed and can eat, sleep, and other normal human duties... With the added bonus of having a fully controllable set of background skills downloaded and even backstories available when needed.

The Delos Host Rider Training Initiative, or DHRTI (yes, yes, they find it as amusing as you do, H'lis, it says dirty indeed you twelve year old), is a joint project surprisingly funded by and approved of on numerous fronts. Since Carramba High has portal technology allowing for multidimensional travel in a reasonably cost-effective and safe manner, this location has become the new training facility for the school. It is off-site, but all its entrances are directly connected to numerous Crescent and Talon City departments, in addition to the school's dragonry sectors. Students and dragons do not live at this site, it's for training and assembly only.

Its uses are varied, and its purposes are clear.

First: it's for dragon riders to learn in a more safe environment, training for flight and teleportation, fire and other breath weapons, team and squad flight tactics, and dragon care overall. It has facilities for classroom training and testing, as well as an assortment of entertainment sections. When the Carramba High campus swapped out its older dragon-riding training field for a portal, it led here!

Second: it's to train dragons how to do these things if they are unsponsored or unbonded. The 'classrooms' for the dragons are obviously much larger but are catered directly to their needs. Currently they are all being taught by hatched-dragons, rather than Host dragons, but as time goes on, you'll start seeing them more. Dragons that come to this world for practice must be able to prove that they are okay with the other conditions, while human students need to sign a waiver - not uncommon for many CHS classes.

Third: for large-scale dragon based activities that need to be practiced first before being loosed on the Crescent or Talon City areas, the location can be reconfigured to the physical specifications as well as weather conditions. The Island that the Delos Parks are located on is a marvel of alternate Earth technology, and though construction still is required to an extent, the overall look and feel of a real city to patrol, a tall-tree surrounded valley to battle in, a mountain-side rescue flight, even a desert to let loose powers or flights unhindered... All are available with about a week's notice, and it's all on a schedule after the first year's worth of courses hashed out what would be needed each semester.

Fourth: medical and physical therapy is available on-site since accidents do happen during training. All manner of physical ailments that may be caused by this training are completely covered by their insurance, but those brought on by disease or transmitted in some other manner are not, so be sure of what you're going in to the med center for because they might not be able to treat it. However there's virtually no injury that could be sustained in the Park that can't be fixed physically with their tech! It works on most but not all humanoid-types, and does work on dragons of Pernese, Alskyran, and Icarian descent or hybrids, and with less accuracy can be used on virtually any sort of other dragon. Note however that magical injuries must be tended to by actual... magical beings. While physical breaks, burns, and cuts are easy, things brought on by other energies that aren't found on their dimension's Earth cannot be fixed fully. Magic does work on this dimension, but it is not something that's found normally there.

Lastly: more or less as a compromise between these corporations and Carramba's legal departments, and to get the greatest benefit from the Delos parks, it's also training their Hosts and Dragons to act in more... dragonridery authenticity. Since all of their creatures, people, and dangers are created in labs, those Hosts must act correctly. Walking and talking like people is one thing, but walking with the swagger of a Bronze rider, or talking about world-specific issues to practice conversations among Pernese or other world riders is another thing entirely. What better way to do this than to enlist real Pernese riders, real Pernese dragons, and support teams, to help flesh out their skill download center?

It is this last thing that may cause a few people concern. In some versions of this Earth, Delos does not use this ability responsibly in any way. The presence of a specific still-living or only-recently-deceased individual, Dr Robert Ford, indicates the specific turning point. In this version, apparently, the Hosts are if-not-openly accepted as human, they are legally human there. But the dimension-hopping entities that originally located this one have assured everyone - with psionic mind-delving as proof - that this version is 'safe and sound', with Ford having perished decades earlier than in some more sinister versions. Delos is still definitely an actively running corporation, and still will want to exploit their technology to increase sales and please their board of directors. But then Alabaster is also doing the same thing on Twoarth, and Black Mesa Rookery's entire genetic engineering department uses markedly similar training tactics already.

That training is of most importance to those riders who will go back to Pern or Alskyr. Those who were 'in on this' from the start include H'lis of Blackstone, Baeris Kshau of the Healing Den, Lord Rider Engell of Alabaster Weyrhold (and at least the Twoarth Engells on both fur and skin sides), Zora Domina of House Domina, and Melissa Larrabie of the Rookery. Each of them brings something slightly different to the table, and each might have their own take on what could be done better, what is appropriate for the students and their dragons, and what is forbidden for Delos to do with them while they're on-site.

As CHS is typically able to very carefully vet their instructors and staff, locations, and events (particularly since that Borg incident a couple decades back), they are always checking to make sure that all legal agreements are on the up and up, and that they're being followed. That does not necessarily mean that the students know about any of this. They do know that 'training is dangerous so it's a simulation', but most - and in fact most uninvolved staff and instructors - do not 'know the details'.

Those details include that H'lis learned how to ride and fight Thread with his massive dragon at an incredibly early age, after having moved through time to train, grow up with Synesth, and lead a wing and later a weyr. His experience doing so taught him that a controlled environment works well enough, but real dangers can come at any time. Simulated Threadfall is terrifying even if it isn't deadly, but even he and Synesth get their training in at this site now. Synesth is only slightly disappointed that the dragons they're training aren't his own personal descendants...

Baeris and H'lis think that having access to the technology is amazing, though the geneticist works closely with the designers and creators of the Host dragons more than the fighting side. Her only beef with the whole thing is that 'they can't breed and they don't grow up from a hatchling'. Which is why she started poking around for 'other interested parties'. She knew that several projects had been quite successful (Velasco Carver's Gebavix Darelth, and Peregrine Blankenship's Voy'urr ahlXen) with the multiple parents and selection of features, so why not try it with straight-up Pernese? With access to the people and riders of Carramba's staff, it turned out there are some interesting dragons that have full Pernese blood out there in the multiverse! Little Dulath takes great pride in continuing her own participation with these, she's never stopped popping eggs out, honestly. Sixth can't be held responsible for participating either, since Kalkin is always waiting for any moment to 'help' in these efforts too.

Engell of Alabaster Weyrhold is most interested because Alskyr still has its threats, still needs fighting dragons here and there. Also, because Tehndarinth was tapped for the experimental clutches... and he's always interested in seeing his dragon look proudly at his colorful offspring! And this time, no messy mating flights needed... no entanglements of mood anyway (he looks back to Kalkin, who used to live at Alabaster, with a wry grin 'there's time for that later you pervert'...). Those under his protection on Alskyr include the now-dragon-centric Caledrus Hold, though it's still filled with non-riders, the number of riders coming from the population is actually quite high. Three of them were selected to participate in this breeding program. Black and blue Yuth, flamingo-marked pink (!) Vaoth, and obsidian gold Etiuruth will proudly watch their offspring and likely see them come back to Alskyr in some cases.

Zora Domina 'knows a girl' in her own school's roster, whose dragon is truly impressive, and one which has its origins in Baeris's own realm. It was then though that dragon, another of its breed was found on Abode, brought by Apogee's group, though she herself has declined to be 'in' on the whole of this venture. But the two Moriean dragons, Kastanja-kupari and Lorewrath, are eager participants. They look almost nothing like their Pernese parents, but they definitely qualify! Baeris has assured everyone their lineage is 'correct'.

Melissa, being one of the lead Genetic Engineering professors at CHS as well as heading up all of the skill download and training facilities back at Black Mesa Rookery, has a dual role here. She makes sure that the downloaded skills are legally used, in the appropriate manner, and collected with the students and dragons privacy in mind. She does sometimes balk at the Host creation facility, but since many of her adventures before becoming a professor here at CHS include 'defeating the Combine entirely', her unease at the similarity to the controlling Combine tech is mostly a footnote. She does remind people: if you do this the wrong way, you get an evil empire that can control everyone's mind. Which... the lawyers for Delos (and Incite) take quite seriously.

Below, find the participants and their contributions, but on their own whole page, the results of these "clutches"!

The parentage of any given 'Old World Dragon' in this experiment can be loosely ascribed to at minimum of two of the above, and generally speaking also includes at least one 'third' partner for spare features. These are all genetically engineered such that some features have been 'forced onto' the offspring (the lack of features on head, neck, tail, or body for instance) they all also have four-fingered wings, flexible forepaws, often adopt a 'semi-bipedal' stance, and act in general as Pernese as they can given some amount of 'mutt' found among their genes. They do require a bond at hatching, but beyond that it is entirely possible they might seek out nonhumans or other pairings later. Generally speaking only their coloration and their vast size differences might distinguish them from a plain-old Pernese hatchling! They were brought to Carramba's hatching grounds where a variety of students - and some staff or others - impressed them! Most have remained on site, while at least two are not on site nor connected to CHS directly.

Male Parent / Added Partner > Female Parent / Added Partner V ^ = Twin Egg; some are full siblings	Sixth (7/5)	Tehndarinth (7/1)	Kastanja-Kupari (4/4)	Yuth (6/3)
Dulath (6/3)	^Zudenlunth(+Yuth) ^Zedrolainth(+Yuth)	Zellulelth(+Kast) Zeyreth(+Vaoth)	Zlisath(+Sixth)	Zedirinth(+Sixth)
Lorewrath (5/2)	Zoyulth Zeenniluth(+Dulath)	Zolith(+Sixth)	Zozurinth(+Etiu)	Zeadarlth(+Kast)
Etiuruth (5/1)	Zelioth(+Vaoth)	Ziarriolth(+Lore)	Zekenth(+Dulath)	Zmolunith(+Kast) Zwuroth(+Vaoth)
Vaoth (8/3)	Zermegalth(+Lore) Zugukwuth(+Tehn)	Zalzith Zhorlith(+Kast) Znederth(+Dulath)	Zonolth(+Yuth)	Zudisath(+Sixth) Zlutacath(+Sixth)

Obsidian Gold Etiuruth and Blue Sixth and Silvered White Flurry Tehndarinth and Chestnut dun-striped copper caprice Kastanja-Kupari and Neon Blue Black Yuth

Red striped snowy salmon Brown Lorewrath and Blue Sixth and Silvered White Flurry Tehndarinth and Chestnut dun-striped copper caprice Kastanja-Kupari and Neon Blue Black Yuth

Greeny Gold twotone Dulath and Blue Sixth and Silvered White Flurry Tehndarinth and Chestnut dun-striped copper caprice Kastanja-Kupari and Neon Blue Black Yuth

Pink Flamingo Vaoth and Blue Sixth and Silvered White Flurry Tehndarinth and Chestnut dun-striped copper caprice Kastanja-Kupari and Neon Blue Black Yuth