Prologue
Lieutenant Kassius Remeas, Planet Velerion, Eos Ground Station, Private Quarters
My fingers slid over the keypad with expert precision. Yeah, I knew they could throw me in the brig for this. My commanding officer, Captain Sponder, underestimated me, which was fine. I didn’t give a s**t. If he wasn’t going to add me to the Starfighter Training Academy as a potential recruit, if he thought he was going to deny me the chance to become a pair-bonded Starfighter, he was wrong. I didn’t need him to approve me. If he was going to be an asshole, then I was going to hack into the system and do it myself.
The Starfighter swirl popped up on the holographic monitor in front of me with a list of newly added candidates qualified for training. There were hundreds—people from Velerion, the Art
