Young Gabe Oliveri will study in virtual reality for the next three years, a colonist en route to planet Rayas. Academic studies can't make a terraformer out of Gabe, more of a physical guy. But History captures his imagination, a vast RPG spanning Earth's past. First campaign, Gabe fights to save a pueblo facing a megadrought in 1279 CE, while the trickster god Kokopelli lures the people toward doom.

The AI software that rules Gabe's life was designed to train captains of industry, not high school. Gabe figures leadership is the key to its AI soul. Can Gabe win the leaderboard? School of Hardship is a litRPG time travel academy, full of magic and battles, quests and heroes. Features crafting, leveling progression, base building, and monsters, in a school within a spaceship.