I feel sorry for you if you ever try to put this into some kind of chronological order.
I like the flavor of it, though. I tend not to write action sequences, but this would make a great intro for my character Talon, (the teacher with the metal arm).
Talon learned sociology the hard way, from the gnat's perspective. Forcibly retired from active combat by getting flung out of known space, he took up teaching. It was the next best thing.
Anybody home?
Sure is dark in here.
It’s rather easy to keep it in some rude order, there’s the “present” where the “current” action is taking place, then there’s “four months prior” that explains how we got to the “present” events.
Though there are several different viewpoints to the same events to contend with.