Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Tiu Tzoua's Space-flight School for Boys

The first, interplanetary space flight academy in the Imperium was founded by the famous astrocartographer, Tiu Tzoua, a human from the Tuet Cluster.  The skill of space navigation was, in the old days, seen fit for only men, women generally stayed at home.  Tzoua saw there were no Imperium naval academy, so he built one, in high orbit around Tuet II.  It had eleven stories, multiple docks, a workspace with custom parts, and living quarters for the boys.  It was cylinder in shape, had a tough hull, and was named Tiu Tzoua's Space-flight School for Boys, and the training lasted for ten years, boys could apply starting at age ten.  The school was run by Tzoua for fifty years, then he died by inhaling a toxic gas on an undiscovered planet, but the Tuetese government took over the school for another thirty-two years, then they closed during the Fourth Tuetese Conflict, tourists cans see the school in the Tuetese Nautical Museum.  Tiu also made a standard list of nautical terms, the most common being; Uechu (bow or front of the vessel), Nichu (stern or rear), Ting-ching (starboard, or the right of the craft), and Oching (port or the left).  The Tzouan nautical terms are used by the Galactic Imperium to this day.  Tiu was also the Chancellor of the Senate for ten years before his death.

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