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| [[File:Chancery.jpg|thumb|right|[[Chameleon]] and [[Starbuck (TOS)|Starbuck]] at the chancery aboard ''[[Rising Star (TOS)|Rising Star]]'' {{OS|The Man with Nine Lives}}. ]] | | [[Image:Chancery.jpg|thumb|right|Starbuck and Chameleon at the chancery aboard the ''Rising Star'' ([[The Man with Nine Lives]]). ]] |
| | A '''chancery''' is a place where gambling occurs. They are similar to [[Wikipedia:Casino|casinos]]. |
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| A '''chancery''' is an establishment with games of chance and other gambling events. Chanceries will also have other adjacent amenities, including live performances from various artists, fine dining, and the consumption of [[Alcohol|victuals]] and [[fumarellos]].
| | The [[The Twelve Colonies (TOS)|colonials]] encounter a chancery on the surface of [[Carillon]]. This chancery is remarkable in that, unlike other chanceries, the players can't lose. The situation is too good to be true, however, when it turns out that the chancery is a lure that the [[Ovion]]s use to capture and consume people. The chancery is destroyed when the fire in the [[tylium]] mine detonates the planet ([[Saga of a Star World]]). |
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| During the [[Thousand Yahren War]], chanceries abound for [[Colonial Warriors]], as [[Boomer (TOS)|Boomer]] notes that he never came across one that didn't depend on military pay vouchers to sustain their operations {{OS|Saga of a Star World}}.
| | The ''[[Rising Star (TOS)|Rising Star]]'' is equipped with a chancery. [[Starbuck (TOS)|Starbuck]] tries out a new [[pyramid (TOS)|pyramid]] system at this chancery, using a week's salary for himself and [[Apollo (TOS)|Apollo]] as his stake. He ends up meeting [[Chameleon]] at the chancery, and the two immediately make a connection ([[The Man with Nine Lives]]). |
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| == Carillon ==
| | Apollo and [[Boomer (TOS)|Boomer]] end up at the chancery aboard the ''Rising Star'' in the course of trying to defend Starbuck against his murder charge. They seek out [[Chella]], who is the pyramid dealer at table three. It turns out that Chella is one of three people in [[The Fleet (TOS)|the Fleet]] who are blackmailed by [[Ortega]], the murder victim ([[Murder on the Rising Star]]). |
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| The {{TOS|The Fleet|new Colonial refugees}}, [[Battle of Cimtar|recently escaping their worlds' destruction]], discover a lone chancery on [[Carillon]]'s surface. This chancery is remarkable in its exception that the players can't lose.
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| The situation proves too good to be true, however, as the chancery is discovered to be an [[Ovion]] lure to capture and consume people as livestock, in order to sustain their number in the [[Tylium (TOS)|tylium]] mines.
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| The chancery is destroyed when the fire in the tylium mine, accelerated by [[turbolaser]] fire pummeling its surface from the [[Imperious Leader]]'s [[Basestar (TOS)|basestar]], and [[Battle of Carillon|detonates the planet]] {{OS|Saga of a Star World}}.
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| == ''T.S.S. Rising Star'' ==
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| The ''{{TOS|Rising Star|T.S.S. Rising Star}}'' is equipped with a chancery as part of its many amenities. {{TOS|Starbuck}} tries out a new {{TOS|pyramid}} system at this chancery, using a week's salary for himself and {{TOS|Apollo}} as his stake. He ends up meeting [[Chameleon]] at the chancery, and the two immediately make a connection {{OS|The Man with Nine Lives}}.
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| Apollo and {{TOS|Boomer}} end up at the chancery aboard ''Rising Star'' in the course of trying to defend Starbuck against his murder charge. They seek out [[Chella]], table three's pyramid dealer, who reveals that he is one of three people in {{TOS|The Fleet|the Fleet}} who are blackmailed by [[Ortega]], the murder victim {{OS|Murder on the Rising Star}}.
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| == Tie-in Material Information ==
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| * ''According to ''[[Encyclopedia Galactica]]'' (a non-canonical piece of merchandise published in 1979):''
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| : Gambling Chanceries have grown up wherever humans are found. The urge to risk all in the hope of gaining something for nothing is apparently a universal human trait. Even on the stern Colony of [[Gemoni|Gemon]], where all forms of gambling were officially banned, back-room gaming houses flourished throughout the ages. Chanceries range from the luxurious casinos aboard luxury liners like the ''[[Rising Star (TOS)|Rising Star]]'', or on the [[Ovions|Ovion]] planet, [[Carillon]] to rough-and-ready Chancery bars on frontier planets like [[Equellus]]. The card game [[Pyramid (TOS)|Pyramid]] is played universally. Its origins are lost in antiquity, but it seems certain that it was played in the days of the [[Lords of Kobol (TOS)|Lords of Kobol]] themselves. <ref>{{cite book|last=Kraus|first=Bruce|year=1979|title=[[Encyclopedia Galactica]]|pages=37}}</ref>
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| <gallery mode="slideshow">
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| File:TOS - TMWNL - Slot Machine.jpg|link=|A slot machine in ''[[Rising Star (TOS)|Rising Star]]''<nowiki/>'s chancery {{OS|The Man with Nine Lives}}.
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| </gallery>
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| == Notes ==
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| * Chanceries are akin to real world [[Wikipedia:Casino|casinos]].
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| == References ==
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