Chapter 22
Galactic Standard Date: 152,323.02
Command Carrier: 'Light Emerging'
Colonel Raphael Israfa
RAPHAEL
The officer's lounge was where high-ranking members of the Light Emerging met to eat, play board games, and yes, get stinking drunk, away from the gossiping eyes of the enlisted men. Like most Alliance warships, the lounge was sparely, but tastefully decorated. A group of white-winged Angelics playing cards cleared Raphael's preferred table in front of the window which overlooked the launch bay.
A tall, slender Mantoid private came to take his order.
"Would you like some supper, Colonel?" she asked.
"Just coinneac," [62] he said. "One bottle, two glasses?"
"Yes, Sir."
The private left to get his drink. He stared out the window. A long, silver arrow of a ship glided into
