Skyler Therris dreams of being a great starship captain like his dead father. He has joined the United Galactic Forces Space Academy to make his dream a reality, however, with his reckless attitude and compulsive carousing, this eighteen-year-old has a lot of growing up to do. Thanks to his new friends, the uptight Michael and lovely Kax, he might make it through school after all, but war looms on the horizon. Can these star cadets survive their first year without Skyler getting them thrown out of the academy....or worse, blasted by their enemies?