Goose had honestly not expected to be back in Fandom after graduation but Commander Walsh had been adamant that he return til things cooled down with the Board of Leaders over his appointment to the Series 5 Galaxy Ranger team. He had been assigned to teach engineering, had an apartment in town and everything so it was clear he was expected to be here for a while.
Walsh had loaned him an
interceptor with strict instructions on not to crash it … to which Goose’s response had been that he hadn’t crashed all of them and what happened on Ozark had not been his fault. That had been mostly true but then Walsh had started complaining about BETA’s budget and he was already running out of excuses to the higher ups about why they were constantly needing new spacecraft so Goose had decided not to press it any further.
So he was back in Fandom … in the year 2021, apparently some time had passed between Goose returning back home and coming back, even though for him 2014 had still been last year so that was going to take some getting used to.
He managed to land his interceptor in the junkyard without crashing it, powered it down and got out, having a look around as he did before heading towards the school and the Welcome Picnic, he would worry about settling in his apartment later.
[and Goose is back on the island. Open if you want to catch him heading up towards the school]