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Greetings, young people of planet Earth, In
NEBADOR Trilogy One, Ilika of Satamia attempted to educate ten youth from a medieval kingdom, hoping to find a crew for his mysterious ship.
One student quickly returned to the comfort of slavery, a system he understood. Another jumped before he looked once too often, and left behind the love of his life. She could not bear to be alone, and was soon in the arms of a young man far too smart to do the growing he needed to do. Finally, one was called by love and the gentle animals of the Earth.
After spending months imagining sails and a wooden deck, Ilika’s five new crew members departed the kingdom of their birth in a deep-space response ship of the Nebador Transport Service. Their destination: Satamia Star Station.
They will soon learn that the road to the star station is neither short nor easy. Countless lessons must be learned on the ground, in the air, and on water. Often their minds are eager, but their bodies are not ready to follow.
Sometimes progress is only possible because of their strong bonds of friendship.
But their biggest challenge comes from an unexpected source, as a calling of the heart fools both the young captain and his inexperienced crew.
Any reader who is sure that going into space will be push-button easy, and that we can take all our human myths and problems with us, has probably left the Nebador stories behind long ago. Books Four and beyond are especially for those youth, and a few young-at-heart, who are not afraid of the hard work
— physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual — that comes with any grand, life-changing, soul-building adventure.
Greeting from the Deep Learning Notes, NEBADOR Trilogy One is behind you. Hopefully, you learned many things, from the electromagnetic spectrum to emergency rope techniques, from need-driven communications to trigonometry, from quantitative logic to the ethics of leadership transfer.
But all that was just the appetizers. The five new crew members of the Manessa Kwi may have taken a very large step outside their culture, but it was still just a step. Now it’s time to get serious, time to spread wings and fly.
The Muse, who whispers to the author and wants young adults to sharpen their wits and hone their skills, is quickly being joined by many wise human voices. Although they don’t often agree on the details of what is upon our future-horizon, one theme comes through clearly: the excesses and
entitlements of the 20th century are not sustainable.
In
NEBADOR Book Four and Book Five, the new crew of the little ship learns that they must clean up their own messes. The Nebador Transport Service may watch over them, but no help remaining stuck in childhood will be forthcoming.
J. Z. Colby
2011