Why the illustrious Academy used the Flotsam as a training vessel I couldn't guess, unless they wanted to teach their students how to mutiny.

NPR: Excerpt: 'Skybreaker'

Yes, they had to wait a little longer than everybody else (all the better to teach them deferral of gratification), but then they could get what they wanted, not what we guessed that they wanted.

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