Dining on ashes (Complete)
Imperial Academy of Carida, 1 BBY
Ensign Tannis V'larr, adjunct flight instructor, crossed to the first of four training simulators with savage urgency in his long stride. Even before the pod, the same shape and size as an eyeball cockpit, hissed and settled back into its hydraulic carriage, the Sikarran halfbreed hammered the override code into the control panel. The exit hatch in the side of the simulator slid free from its cowl, pouring acrid smoke into the test hangar.
A slight figure in a trainee's flight suit spilled out from the still-sparking simulator pod and onto the gangway, still unsteady on her feet after the exceedingly convincing experience of spinning out and breaking up in a planet's upper atmosphere at a suicidally high speed.
Tannis did not even allow the pilot to remove her flight helmet before he said, in a sharp voice loud enough for her assembled squadmates to hear, "Cadet Inirial. You were the flight leader for this exercise. How would you critique your performance?"