Born on Garen Hub in the Panoi system, as a boy I was intently interested in the ships my father was involved with in the Nova Corps military ports, it was inevitable that as a teen I would gravitate towards these machines. I was always focused on commanding a ship, and I had only one ambition, Nova flight school.

My time in education passed quickly, with days merging into months, and months into years, all the while my focus was on the pilot's seat, nothing else seemed to matter.

At last, the moment I had been waiting for for so long arrived, my pilot's training selection exam, I had spent every hour I could spare in the training simulators, preparing for the most important day of my young life, and being granted the ability to travel freely between the stars and begin my life as a commander.

I arrived at the pilot exam offices promptly at 09:30, the shuttle from home to Dromi, and then to Mason dock over in what felt like a heartbeat.
I booked in at the Pilots' Federation District Permit office and spent the rest of the day with my head in the Pilots handbook my father had given me

The next morning I made my way to the reception, where I found a rather disinterested bureaucrat hunched over the counter, he eventually saw fit to acknowledge my presents and looked up from his smart-glass assistant, grunting some greeting as I entered the room, and muttering under his breath he pushed the flat panel forward from the side of his desk without removing his attention from whatever piece of galactic disinformation he was reading.
Yes, I am here" I replied, in the only way a self-assured teen would, he lifted his eyes from the article without moving his head "OK, a smart one, let's see if you're smart enough to get your license on the first pass shall w
e" his lips formed a smile while his eyes remained fixed in my direction, emotionless apart from a slightly sarcastic expression". I looked down at the rectangular pad he had pushed in my direction, trying not to rise to his comments, thumbprint here .. he waved at the lower section of the document glowing on the counter.