Chapter 136
Galactic Standard Date: 152,323.08
Haven-4: Galactic Youth Training Academy
Colonel Raphael Israfa
RAPHAEL
Haven-4 wasn't really a planet, but an artificial moon placed in orbit around the seat of the Alliance Parliament, Haven-3. Colonel Raphael Israfa didn't have a chance to marvel at the Emperor's engineering acumen as his ship approached the planet. He simply popped into existence on the base's airfield.
"Oh, thank the gods!" he cried out as the living "needle" ship opened her marsupium. He tumbled out, stripped down to his socks and under-clothing because the ship was so small he could barely fit, and yanked off the oxygen mask; resisting the urge to flap his wings.
"Colonel Israfa?" said the Delphinium who'd been sent to meet him.
"Did you expect someone else?"
