This ad is one I remember very vividly for the way it attempts to draw you into the Third Imperium setting and its unique elements. Arguably, the advertisement is a bit too wordy to be effective, but I've always liked it, precisely because it goes into some detail about the three species who are the subjects of the Alien Modules available at the time. Plus, the fact that it's the K'Kree rather than, say, the Aslan who are the most dangerous of the three just tickles the world builder in me.
This is one of my earliest memories of Traveller, which never took off among my friend group. The depth of thought into the races really made me want to interact with the imperium, but none of us had any grounding as teens in the early 80s with the inspiration material. Instead we noodles with Star Frontiers and then glommed onto the WEG Star Wars system.
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