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Dance of Aegis: Book 1 of the Galactic Academy Series
Paperback
Series: The Galactic Academy, Book 1
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Dec 13 2025
Pages: 310
Weight: 1.59
Height: 0.65 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
Some warriors train with swords. Mia learned to fight with a dance.
Sixteen-year-old Mia Nekomata has dreamed of proving that a half-cat spirit girl who fights like a dancer belongs on the front lines. When she earns a place at Galactic Academy-humanity's foothold in a vast interstellar alliance-she's ready to turn her years of capoeira and ballet into something more: a way to protect people.
The Academy, carved into the side of a towering mountain, is supposed to be the safest place in the sector. Advanced combat sims, shielded training halls, and the legendary AEGIS system watching over every drill. But from Mia's very first day, something feels off. Safety fields glitch. Hazard levels spike. Advanced simulations come just a little too close to lethal.
Alongside her grounded best friend Sebastian York, gentle crystalline healer Lyren, and shadow-born strategist Hexa, Mia's new squad-soon nicknamed Aegis Tria-is written off as a pack of misfits and underdogs. Rival prodigy Kaera Vesh is certain Mia's battle dancing has no place in a real fight.
Then a year-end trial turns into a live-fire nightmare.
As AEGIS pushes beyond its limits and training scenarios start to look like real battlefields, Mia and her friends must decide what kind of warriors they want to be. Do they chase glory and rankings-or become the shield the Academy thought it already had?
If you enjoy:
Sci-fi academy stories with high-stakes training trials
Fierce rivalries that grow into hard-earned respect
Found family, squad dynamics, and tactical teamwork
A heroine who turns chaos and dance into a weapon
...then Galactic Academy: Dance of Aegis is your next read.
This is Book One of the Galactic Academy series-a character-driven YA/NA sci-fi adventure about surviving the mountain's tests... and uncovering who's trying to push you off it.
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