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The cadet graduates by taking a saddle and signaling for a skybax to fly to him or her by holding an arm out with a clenched fist. If the skybax approaches, the cadet slings the saddle around it and flies for the first time. If a skybax does not approach, the cadet has been rejected and is dismissed
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In the series, Skybax riders studied in
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conquest, cutting off the machine's source of power. In the process, he discovers four trapped
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In the series, thousands of years before the events of the books, the advanced city of
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fantasy book series. In the series, it carries "skybax riders" to their destination, although the skybax itself does the steering. The master pilot that trains the riders in the books is Oolu, one of the Aerial
Habitat Partners. It is shown in the series to be a separate species from
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and his friends, and together they hide
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