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The Helmsman

by Bill Baldwin · 1985

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One of the few survivors of a League sneak attack on his poor and miserable homeworld of Carescria. Wilf Brim sets out to settle the score. Were it not for the attrition from the war that followed, Wilf would never have escaped his lower-class status and been accepted into the Academy. Now, freshly graduated, young Sublieutenant Wilf Ansor Brim, Imperial Fleet, begins his first assignment, Helmsman of the I.F.S. Truculent.

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medium · 316 pages

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