The Professor and the Pilot

In the year 2045, at 16 years old, Cedric tested out of highschool. Desperate to get out of his backwater town and messy homelife, Cedric applied to Wilken's Interstellar Flight and Space Science Academy. This school was on the other side of the country, and was one of the few universities today that still offered on campus housing.

Ever since he was a kid, Cedric had wanted nothing more than to be a pilot just like the space rangers on the 10 o'clock news. He wanted to explore the stars, discover new worlds... and be far, far away from his mother's grimy, cigarette infused 1 bedroom trailer. He'd been flying his own gel pack hovercraft since he was 6, and flew his first solar-cruiser when he was 11, how different could a spacecraft really be?