6 Alexius, Moon Base Arturri, Docking Bay I stood back and watched Jamie. Took in her wide eyes. I was of the generation that had been raised to fight Queen Raya. Schooling had become more than just reading and mathematics. Planet history and other scholarly topics. Military strategy was added. Communications. Flight lessons. Ground skills. Tech basics. By the time I graduated from Velerion schooling, I was at a higher rank in the armed forces than those of my parents’ generation. We were the youth who would save the planet. I’d been adept at flying… hell, I’d loved every second of those studies. Except I’d also been adept at covert operations and had been tapped by Velerion’s intelligence agency within a few months of my twentieth birthday. I worked in that role until Jamie was matche