the wrong gear when docking with the main central and reduced half the

planet to molten lava, the Commander decided that a special training

facility was needed to provide an elite corps of pilots for the

advanced military skimmers used in colonization and reconnaissance

work. The Citadel Academy for Advanced Pilots (The Citadel) was

founded in 2813 to meet this requirement. With an intake of over a

hundred would be pilots a year, only a few meet the exacting

requirement of skills. In order to graduate from the Citadel cadets