The zero-gravity combat training center was located in Primori's central hub, where the station's rotation provided almost no artificial gravity. Isabella had read about zero-g training in the academy materials, had watched videos, had even practiced the breathing exercises meant to help with motion sickness.
None of it prepared her for the reality.
The training center was a massive spherical chamber, half a kilometer in diameter, with padded walls and a complex network of handholds, obstacles, and maneuvering targets. Cadets entered through airlocks around the chamber's equator, and the instructors controlled everything from an observation deck that ringed the upper hemisphere.
Captain Helena Reeves, their zero-g combat instructor, was a woman in her late thirties who moved through the
