“These are the voyages of the starship Melampus. We’re on an eight-year mission to seek out new life and are bored to tears.” High Protector Vance Turbo managed to save the entire galaxy and retrieve his wayward child, Astrid. As such, he’s been looking for a safe job to raise his daughter and find some peace. Unfortunately, that turns out to have been a terrible idea because while Vance believes the universe doesn’t need him, the universe disagrees. Sent on a crazy mission to assassinate a Sorkanan warlord and recover a long-lost space pirate treasure, Vance discovers that humanity is on the chopping block for its many sins. The Elder Races intend to judge mankind, and Vance must prove that his species is worth saving—which is hard since he doesn’t even believe that himself. Space Academy is an all-new series from the hilarious duo of C.T. Phipps (Supervillainy Saga, Agent G) and Michael Suttkus (I Was a Teenage Weredeer, Lucifer’s Star) that lampoons the space opera as well as military science fiction genres. Includes a bonus short story, “Twinkle, Twinkle.”