At Starborn Academy, the newest “school in space” is supposed to turn kids into future Guardians. Leo and Maya think they’re just helping with classes, zero-G games, and wild alien dormmates. Instead, they’re handed something terrifying: The first full class of students. At first, life on the huge ring-shaped station is fun chaos—floating tag, battle simulators, strange cafeteria food. But then the accidents start: Gravity fails only in Leo’s class. A simple rescue sim switches to lethal mode. A dead Void War weapon suddenly powers back on… and nearly blasts a kid. Commander Rigg says this proves his point: kids don’t belong on a battle station. Someone seems determined to shut Starborn Academy down—maybe a bitter commander, a jealous older cadet, or even the station’s own AI. But the truth is stranger. Hidden in the wires is a swarm of tiny “dust programs” left over from the last war—pieces of code that believe the only way to stop battles… is to stop training new heroes. Now Leo, Maya, Nova, Kiran, Captain Zara, and Tarek have to do the impossible: teach scared war code to protect kids instead of sabotaging them—before a real meteor storm turns the whole Academy into a disaster for everyone watching. The Space Explorers: Starborn Academy is a fast, twisty, heart-filled adventure about fear, trust, and what happens when kids are treated not as test subjects—but as partners.