Reequezactomophosfurdasik the Prodigy (an excerpt)

In childhood, modesty; in youth, temperance; in manhood, justice; in old age, prudence. At every age, hold true to your station—An old Moogian aphorism

           

                    A charmed young near human named Reequezactomophosfurdasik resided on the planet Moog with his extended parentage family.  Moogians had discovered long ago that through masterful manipulation of technetronics and ornate music they could navigate easily and quickly throughout their star system.

Called Navers these talented navigators were viewed by the Moogian population as gifted wizard heroes.  Reequezactomophosfurdasik, an extremely perceptive Moogian was surely slated for renown from an early age well above and beyond what a prodigy would bring to mind in mundane Tellurian terms. Early on, with his long dexterous fingers, amazing perspicuity, and incredible recall, he could finger the classics on his parents’ fingerboard at a very young age.  Recognized soon after, he received a full scholarship to the illustrious Moogian Navcorps at the tender age of fifty-three Drexal cycles.

            Immediately and permanently separated from his parental units for the remainder of his formative years, he fully accepted his calling and everything associated with the Navcorps. Reequezactomophosfurdasik loved the space training, he loved the music, but most of all, he loved the attention young and old around him gave in admiration of his stellar talents. In the matter of only four Drexal Cycles, he matched or exceeded his instructors in knowledge and fingerboard manipulation. No doubt destined for greatness, he awed the seasoned Navers, and many, upon hearing his story came from all corners of the system to meet him. They deemed Reequezactomophosfurdasik as the future Axtromorzack, the current leader of Moog’s Interplanetary Navcorps. He absorbed and basked in this high association as additional attention, which only spurred him to try harder and reach loftier goals. Only two more cycles passed before his instructors could no longer match his dazzling ability, nor could they no longer satisfy his insatiable appetite for increasingly rapid, complex music, or keep up with his inconceivably rapid fingerboard manipulation.

Reequezactomophosfurdasik became the youngest Moogian ever to obtain his nasal cavity navigational sensors, and soon after, became the single novitiate of Axtromorzack himself. The leader voiced his amazement over the young Moogian’s expansive knowledge and ability, and after only two supervised sorties he allowed Reequezactomophosfurdasik to solo pilot his Interplnetary Pointship, the ship to lead all others to and from the planet Moog. For Reequezactomophosfurdasik this remained exciting duty for only two cycles longer for he began to tire of the repetition, the loneliness, and the dimming attention. With his boredom, he mentioned his unhappiness with the duty, but Axtromorzack reminded him of his ten-cycle commitment to the Navcorps. To alleviate his boredom, he became a clandestine patron of the Illegal Imbibing Guild where he began associating with both licensed privateers and unlicensed pirates.

Fascinated by the pirates’ tales of single-place, hyper-drive IP Ships at near-light speed to legally or illegally haul likewise considered commodities, he thought to leave his humdrum existence of structured space flight behind. After another half-cycle of Navcorps duty, he simply walked away from his commitment to the Navcorps and took up the illicit interplanetary hauling profession with an IP pirate who went by the lofty name of Moogian renown, Krisdoferkringlezak…

An excerpt from my Quintessence Trilogy.