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{{Individual Ship Infobox
{{Individual Ship Infobox
|name=''Chancer V''
|name=''Chancer V''
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|image=[[File:Chancer.jpg|350px]]
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|class=''Argo''-class transport
|class=''Argo''-class transport
|manufacturer=[[Rhodes Collosi Shipwrights]]
|manufacturer=[[Rhodes Collosi Shipwrights]]
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The year 2519 signaled the end of an era as Rhodes Collosi announced that it would be ceasing production on the Series-7 ''Argo''-class ships, the last of a dynasty which had played a pivotal role in settling the {{Halopedian|Outer_Colonies|Outer Colonies}} as the first slipspace-capable vessel available on the civilian market. When the last batch came off of Skopje's assembly lines in November of that year, a small celebration was held for the shipyard's workers, executives, and a number of minor government officials whom attended. The final vessel was specially purchased by a wealthy RCS executive and donated to the Skopje Historical Society to serve as a museum display, open to the public until 2547 when the planet was glassed. No one, however, would pay attention to the ship just four units ahead of the last, serial number RCS-SK-519/000A823543, which would outlive and outdo any of its sister ships.
The year 2519 signaled the end of an era as Rhodes Collosi announced that it would be ceasing production on the Series-7 ''Argo''-class ships, the last of a dynasty which had played a pivotal role in settling the {{Halopedian|Outer_Colonies|Outer Colonies}} as the first slipspace-capable vessel available on the civilian market. When the last batch came off of Skopje's assembly lines in November of that year, a small celebration was held for the shipyard's workers, executives, and a number of minor government officials whom attended. The final vessel was specially purchased by a wealthy RCS executive and donated to the Skopje Historical Society to serve as a museum display, open to the public until 2547 when the planet was glassed. No one, however, would pay attention to the ship just four units ahead of the last, serial number RCS-SK-519/000A823543, which would outlive and outdo any of its sister ships.
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{{File|filename=ArgoBlueprints.png|align=left|width=300px|caption=Constructed precisely according to the blueprints of her class, no one could have known what this ship's future held.}}
Spending a week in drydock before she was purchased, the vessel would be christened the ''Karen J.'' and become the workhorse of a one-horse construction company on {{Halopedian|Jericho_VII|Jericho VII}}, where it was given its black, white, and orange paint scheme. For just over fifteen years, the ''Karen J.'' served as the company's heavy lifter and the owner's personal vehicle, hauling lumber, stone, and steel to building sites across the flourishing outer colony, and even making occasional slipspace jumps to neighboring systems to pick up particularly rare materials. Ultimately, when Jericho VII was {{Halopedian|Battle_of_Jericho_VII|attacked}} by the {{Halopedian|Covenant}} in 2535, it would be responsible for saving the lives of 47 civilians, including the owner and his family, when it broke through the alien blockade to make a randomized slipspace jump and eventually end up on {{Halopedian|Actium}}. While he had survived, however, the owner would be forced to sell the ship as one of the growing number of refugees gathering in the core systems.
Spending a week in drydock before she was purchased, the vessel would be christened the ''Karen J.'' and become the workhorse of a one-horse construction company on {{Halopedian|Jericho_VII|Jericho VII}}, where it was given its black, white, and orange paint scheme. For just over fifteen years, the ''Karen J.'' served as the company's heavy lifter and the owner's personal vehicle, hauling lumber, stone, and steel to building sites across the flourishing outer colony, and even making occasional slipspace jumps to neighboring systems to pick up particularly rare materials. Ultimately, when Jericho VII was {{Halopedian|Battle_of_Jericho_VII|attacked}} by the {{Halopedian|Covenant}} in 2535, it would be responsible for saving the lives of 47 civilians, including the owner and his family, when it broke through the alien blockade to make a randomized slipspace jump and eventually end up on {{Halopedian|Actium}}. While he had survived, however, the owner would be forced to sell the ship as one of the growing number of refugees gathering in the core systems.
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===Under New Management===
===Under New Management===
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{{File|filename=Takeoff.png|align=right|width=300px|caption=The ''Chancer V'' dusts off of a distant frontier planet.}}
===The Hijacking===
===The Hijacking===
In late 2559, Gavin was still trying to eke out a living on the colonial frontier. Now determined to remain independent of the Syndicate and its criminal network, he risked the underworld empire's wrath by evading the various "protection fees" imposed by its local agents and taking jobs from clients on the Syndicate's blacklist. Gavin's friends within the Syndicate such as Judith Ives and his handful of endearing encounters with the Syndicate's young but ruthless leader Helen Powell allowed him to get away with far more offenses than most spacers, but Helen knew that she would eventually have to make an example of him in order to keep other potential freelancers in line. She personally placed a modest bounty on Gavin's head, directing the Syndicate's expansive network of privateers and freelance mercenaries to capture him alive for delivery to the Syndicate leadership. At first Gavin was wily enough to evade the string of bounty hunters without losing out on his smuggling business. But the consequences of the Syndicate's bounty finally came back to him when a figure from his past picked up the contract.
In late 2559, Gavin was still trying to eke out a living on the colonial frontier. Now determined to remain independent of the Syndicate and its criminal network, he risked the underworld empire's wrath by evading the various "protection fees" imposed by its local agents and taking jobs from clients on the Syndicate's blacklist. Gavin's friends within the Syndicate such as Judith Ives and his handful of endearing encounters with the Syndicate's young but ruthless leader Helen Powell allowed him to get away with far more offenses than most spacers, but Helen knew that she would eventually have to make an example of him in order to keep other potential freelancers in line. She personally placed a modest bounty on Gavin's head, directing the Syndicate's expansive network of privateers and freelance mercenaries to capture him alive for delivery to the Syndicate leadership. At first Gavin was wily enough to evade the string of bounty hunters without losing out on his smuggling business. But the consequences of the Syndicate's bounty finally came back to him when a figure from his past picked up the contract.