Before the break of Dawn, Arran, along with his other unit members, were gathered in an open field outside the academy gates. They were not the only ones present, as other cadet units also gathered together.In the Kingsman academy, each cadet unit contained at least 20 members to an upward number of forty.There were different grades or batches, each based according to the year of entry into the academy. Each grade was separated from the other by twenty years, with there being four grades in total. The academy started recruiting cadets when they were 20 years old and they were allowed to graduate and serve various departments in the aeth council when they turned 100. That means in every generation there will be 4 recruitment drives conducted by the academy.When Arran joined the lineup outside the academy’s walls, he was surprised to find there were not only cadets from his grade present. But cadets from the second and third grades were also present too.Previously, Arran had learned

Arran followed the others to board the spaceships after being divided up into different platoons. Each platoon had an instructor serving as the platoon leader. As there were 50 instructors and about 12000 cadets, there were a total of 50 platoons, with each having 240 cadets at the very least. Each platoon was made up of a mix of cadets from different grades.The platoons were further divided into different squads, with there being 6 squads and 40 members in each squad. The squad members were selected from cadets in the same unit who usually trained together because they were already used to cooperating with each other.And these squads would be further divided into various teams depending on the objective of the mission that will be assigned to them later.The leader of a squad was usually the unit head of the unit that made up that squad. But in the case there was a squad formed by two different units, the unit head of the higher grade would serve as the squad leader.Arran’s squad

The so-called central hub 1 was a large open area located at the lower area of the outpost, close to the loading dock where all the spaceships were parked. It didn’t take the cadets long to all file inside and line up in formation.The place was very large, probably as big as a stadium that could hold 50000 people. There were already others lined up inside the hall. The Kingsman academy was the last to arrive. As soon as they did, the doors to the hall were closed and everybody was locked in.All of this took five minutes, so there was still some time before the briefing would begin. The cadets used this time to look around their surroundings.Apart from the Kingsman academy, there were two other groups present in the hall. Each of their uniforms was different from the others, which was how you could tell where each group came from.The cadets from the Kingsman academy wore emblazoned black combat outfits with red linings in the pants and sleeves. Blue inscriptions that flowed faintly

‘Why has everybody been asking me that lately?’Arran had a strange expression on his face as he heard commander Margo’s question. That she had taken time out of her busy schedule to call Arran just now I ask him this confused Arran for a moment as he couldn’t imagine why she would do that.Seeing Arran’s expression, commander Margo frowned and quickly asked him.“What’s the matter? Is there any problem?”Commander Margo’s concern for Arran was written clearly on her face as she thought Arran had encountered a problem.This startled Arran, which prompted him to quickly reply.“No, there’s no problem at all.”“Then why do you look like that?” Commander Margo asked, not giving up.“It’s really nothing,” Arran hurried to explain.“It’s just, when you asked me how I was doing, I was surprised. A lot of people have been asking me that same question ever since I embarked on this mission.”Knowing that Arran was not in any trouble, commander Margo sighed in relief. Then, with curiosity, she

Arran, dressed in a black space suit, stared out the window at the endless stretch of darkness that was space and for the first time, he felt small and insignificant before the vast expanse.This was not the first time that Arran was looking out at space. But at other times, he had either been moving too fast to notice how vast and expansive space truly was, or he didn’t care enough to actually sense his own incongruity with the universe.But this time, Arran was completely stationary and had been like this for many hours. That is why the feeling suddenly struck him.After leaving the outpost, Arran and the other cadets had arrived at their designated location and were currently in the loading cabin of a battle cruiser that was parked on the route they were meant to patrol and set up an ambush in case any criminals ever make it to their side.Since then, they had been here for almost four hours already but were still yet to see hide or hair of any vessels quickly sprinting through spa