::Grabs it, wincing.::

Academia aims to complete a multinational project from their world, called the Arc Area Project. The aim of it is to use the life energy of people turned into cards, who have been deemed evil or inferior, to fuse multiple parallel universes together to create a modern day Eden, a Utopia for all mankind.

And they believe in the endeavor completely, that they are good people, doing an act of good for the rest of us.