While its not a high rank, it does put you in the officers core. When i was younger, and first showing a quite keen interest in science fiction, my family bought a book for me. The terran trade authority is a sciencefiction setting originally presented in a collection of four large illustrated science fiction books. Tta books and galactic encounters terran trade authority.
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