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{{Substance
|image=[[File:Chrysopaz.png]]
|name=Chrysopaz
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|color=[[Color/Legends|Yellow gold]]<ref name="GSWU">''[[A Guide to the Star Wars Universe]]''</ref>
|properties=Translucent<ref name="GSWU" />
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|cost=5&mdash;2,000 [[Galactic Credit Standard|credits]] per [[Coruscant Standard Carat]]<ref name="PP">''[[Pirates & Privateers]]''</ref>}}
{{Quote|Where's your sense of chivalry, Han?''"<br />"''Near as I can recall, I traded it for a ten-carat chrysopaz and three bottles of good brandy about five years ago on Commenor.|Luke Skywalker and Han Solo|<ref name="IVn">[[Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (novel)|''Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope'' novelization]]</ref> During the [[Galactic Civil War/Legends|Galactic Civil War]], chrysopaz was valued anywhere from 5 to 2,000 [[Galactic Credit Standard|credits]] per [[Coruscant Standard Carat]].<ref name="PP" /> In [[11 ABY/Legends|11 ABY]], [[Duke|Duchess]] [[Mistal]] offered a large reward of chrysopaz and [[firefacet]] gems for the return of her consort, [[Dack]]. After [[Lando Calrissian/Legends|Lando Calrissian]] resolved the situation, he was paid the full reward which equaled over a million credits.<ref name="JS">''[[Jedi Search]]''</ref>}}
'''Chrysopaz''' was a translucent, yellowish gem.<ref name="GSWU" /> The [[Ryn/Legends|Ryn]] settlers of an [[unidentified planetoid]] in the [[Corporate Sector/Legends|Corporate Sector]] once offered to pay [[Dexter Jettster/Legends|Dexter Jettster]] a small fortune in chrysopaz and [[Aurodium/Legends|aurodium]] after he brought them equipment with which they could defend themselves against a group of overzealous tax collectors and their [[Security Police]] enforcers. Jettster refused, however, instead settling for an ancient Ryn technique of making [[Ardees/Legends|Jawa juice]] in payment.<ref name="DD">{{Hyperspace|url=fans/hyperspace/source/dexdiner/index.html|text=Dining at Dex's|int=Dining at Dex's}}</ref> [[Han Solo/Legends|Han Solo]] once commented that he traded his sense of chivalry for a ten-carat chrysopaz and three bottles of [[Brandy/Legends|brandy]] on [[Commenor/Legends|Commenor]] when [[Luke Skywalker/Legends|Luke Skywalker]] was trying to convince him to [[Rescue of Princess Leia/Legends|rescue]] [[Prince/Legends|Princess]] [[Leia Organa Solo|Leia Organa]] from the [[DS-1 Orbital Battle Station/Legends|first Death Star]].<ref name="IVn" />

==Behind the scenes==
Chrysopaz is misspelled "chrystopaz" in the gemstones table on page 38 of ''[[Pirates & Privateers]]'', and "chyrstopaz" on page 164 of the supplement ''[[The Far Orbit Project]]''.

==Appearances==
*''[[Star Wars: The Old Republic]]''
*[[Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (novel)|''Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope'' novelization]] {{1st}}
*{{Journal|15|The Great Herdship Heist}} {{ID|crysopaz}}
*{{WEGCite|book=The Far Orbit Project|story=The Grand Prize}}
*''[[Jedi Search]]''

==Sources==
*''[[A Guide to the Star Wars Universe]]''
*''[[Pirates & Privateers]]'' {{C|As "chrystopaz"}}
*{{WEGCite|book=The Far Orbit Project|story=The Grand Prize}} {{ID|chyrstopaz}}
*{{Hyperspace|url=fans/hyperspace/source/dexdiner/index.html|text=Dining at Dex's|int=Dining at Dex's}}

==Notes and references==
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{{Interlang
|ru=Хризопаз
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[[Category:Gemstones]]