Trade permit

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A **trade permit**, also known as a **trade licence** or **trading licence**, was a legal document that permitted an individual to use a trade route (along with proof of haulage and a pilot licence).

It had no expiry date.

## Document details

### Anti-counterfeiting artefacts

The Transportation Committee included many security measures to minimise counterfeiting as an attempt to maintain civilian safety. A lot of the features were part of the galactic standard for legal documents: using paper-3, raised printing, microprint, infrared and sub-infrared properties, and small impressions or indents.

All of the security features were difficult to detect or notice, but could be read with specialist equipment such as the SCAN-20, the standard police scanner which could scan and verify the authenticity of the document.

**Barcodes**:

In total, there were 2120, or 1,329,227,995,784,915,872,903,807,060,280,344,576 (1.3 undecillion or 1.3 billion billion billion billion) combinations.

**Seal of the Committee**:

The seal of the committee was attached to the top right corner of the permit. It was made of an unknown material, known as R-9, only a few atoms thick, covered in a thin layer of a protective coating. The material's structure was highly complex and difficult to replicate without large amounts of energy.
**Special ink**:

This was used as the ink for the rubber stamp.
### Issuing planet

There were only a few locations in the galaxy that could distribute trade permits:

* Mon Pel, at the Mon Pel trading hub

### Fields

 Vehicle | Displayed the vehicle used. It usually included 3 key pieces of information about the ship:
* **The series**: such as the Y-series of freighters.
* **The model**: such as the 68 model in the M-series of fighters.
* **The type**: such as 'freighter', 'fighter', or 'shuttle'. It could also specify subtypes, such as 'light freighter' instead of just 'freighter'. The specificity usually came down to the ship had a similar or identical name to a different type of ship.
* **The brand or manufacturer**: sometimes it was necessary to distinguish between different brands or manufacturers due to similar or identical names of ships with different features. Usually, it was to distinguish ships that had unique or notable features that were necessary to be able to be identified.
 Vehicle ID | Displayed the identification number of the vehicle. |  | This was formatted as `XXX-XXXX/YYYY-YYYY-YYYY`, where `X` (representing the model/make) and `Y` were either digits from 0-9 or letters from A-Z (in capitals).

#### Stamps

This area of the document was used to add space lane codes, using a rubber stamp. If the area became full, then you would need to apply for another permit and use that to continue adding codes. The old permit would still be valid and would need still be required.

#### Name

Displayed the holder's full name (forename, middle names and surname) in their native script. Smaller writing was used for names that did not fit. If the holder's name still did not fit, then less important aspects of the name were removed or shortened.

#### Vehicle

Displayed the vehicle used. It usually included 3 key pieces of information about the ship:

* **The series**: such as the Y-series of freighters.
* **The model**: such as the 68 model in the M-series of fighters.
* **The type**: such as 'freighter', 'fighter', or 'shuttle'. It could also specify subtypes, such as 'light freighter' instead of just 'freighter'. The specificity usually came down to the ship had a similar or identical name to a different type of ship.

It could also have included:

* **The brand or manufacturer**: sometimes it was necessary to distinguish between different brands or manufacturers due to similar or identical names of ships with different features. Usually, it was to distinguish ships that had unique or notable features that were necessary to be able to be identified.
* **Personalised ships**: if a ship had been modified such that it was necessary to distinguish from its original model, then a small "M" would be noted next to the ship.

#### Licence ID

Displayed the holder's pilot licence identification number. This was formatted as `XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX`, where `X` was either a digit from 0-9 or letter from A-Z (in capitals).

#### Vehicle ID

Displayed the identification number of the vehicle. This was formatted as `XXX-XXXX/YYYY-YYYY-YYYY`, where `X` (representing the model/make) and `Y` were either digits from 0-9 or letters from A-Z (in capitals).
## Gallery

Filled in example (personal information redacted).
Blank permit.
## Site navigation

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