Alien Dice Academy
The Alien Dice Academy is located in a spacestation specifically designed for housing several thousand students at a time. It's physical location would be between the Littan Galaxy and the Aburiel Galaxy, out of the way of raiders and trading routes other than the Alien Dice oriented traders. Occasionally the arena in the Academy is used for tournaments and training of the students.
They pick up the 'trash' of the universe: orphans and those nobody really cared about have ended up in the program and still do. It's like an orphanage on Earth, only far worse, because they're supposed to be trained for future jobs and not be a pull on intergalactic society. The Alien Dice Corporation as a gesture of goodwill, charity, took in hundreds of thousands of them. They educated them, taught them the game, and taught them things they needed to know. It looks good on the outside and nobody cares what happens to them anyway, just that they have a purpose and aren't a burden. Not everyone gets put into the game itself. Some get to work on other aspects of the game, less dangerous aspects than playing. They like putting Rishan into the games because there aren't a lot to begin with, being rare in space except on the space colonies. [1] No one has yet won all three sets of the game, and the cooperation doesn't want them to succeed. If they succeed, they're afraid that they'll tell everyone that they weren't willing participants: that they signed their contracts as children or didn't even sign their contracts. [2]
Most players come between the ages of 2-5, and most are not accepted past age 10. Between the ages of 5-15 they have gleanings to weed out the weaklings who would not survive the bonding and or training (they don't wish to waste money without the possibility of profit). They treat all wards with drugs to advance their aging since they feel humanoid races grow too slow. They are also in the habit of slipping drugs that induce nausea and vomiting into the food and drink of anyone they think is getting too heavy (occasionally there is a lethal reaction).
They have been working on developing better players through both a secret breeding program which Lexx refuses to be a part of), as well as the development of hybrid species (which hasn't been very successful due to their lack of knowledge on how to raise humanoid children).
