Class 7: Endurance Training – Year One
Added 2025-07-06 14:56:49 +0000 UTC“If you collapse, you get up. If you can’t get up, you crawl. If you can’t crawl, you drag. If you can’t drag, you breathe hard enough to move the dirt. And if you can’t breathe... you die. That’s the rule.”
This class breaks every cadet who walks in. It is not about health. It is not about fitness. It is about breaking yourself and still standing.
All training is done with stat suppressors active. No System aid. No skills. Just pain. Just you.
Cadets are expected to operate at peak output until collapse, and then keep going.
You do not pass by completing the task. You pass by proving the task can’t stop you.
What This Class Actually Teaches
1. System Suppression Protocols
Cadets are fitted with full-body stat suppressors
Movement tracking ensures cadets do not fake collapse or delay recovery
2. Pain Management and Recovery Forcing
Breathing patterns for oxygen retention under collapse
Muscle memory programming to move while unconscious
Controlled breaks discouraged; stopping punished
3. Mental Override Conditioning
Breakpoint threshold drills
Repetition under neurological fatigue
Sleep, hunger, and heat used as environmental variables
Cadet Assignments
Drag a fully loaded hauler unit, 500 kg minimum, for one kilometer stat-suppressed
Carry your entire squad one by one across the ravine line, no breaks, no help
Wall climbs and crawl courses under blackout fog and sensory deprivation
Final: The Mountain. No end is marked. No signal is given. Your class hauls a deadweight load until one of two things happens: the mountain moves, or you break. Anyone who stops is cut from the Citadel.
Cadet Notes
“I blacked out and woke up with my arms still moving.”
“You start to forget what pain feels like. Not because it stops. But because it doesn’t matter.”
“He told me to crawl. I bled instead. Still passed.”
Class Motto
“You stop, you die.”