Chapter 59
Galactic Standard Date: 152,323.11 AE
Orbit – Haven-1
Angelic Air Force
Brigadier-General Raphael Israfa
RAPHAEL
Brigadier-General Raphael Israfa strode through the launch bay of the Light Emerging, inspecting samples from the most promising planet they had searched to date. Enthusiasm for the mission had worn thin amongst a crew grown weary of the forced radio silence. It was hardest on the newer sentient species who had been reared in families.
Raphael combated their homesickness by rotating the men so every crewman got a chance to explore one of the new planets they were logging at a pace unheard of at any time in Alliance history. Each crewmen was granted the privilege of naming planets, moons, suns, plants and species after themselves or loved ones who they missed wi
