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Republic Executive Building

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Republic Executive Building
General information
Location

Legislative Borough, Senate District, Galactic City, Coruscant

Usage
Era(s)

Rise of the Empire era

Affiliation

Galactic Republic, Galactic Empire

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The Republic Executive Building, also called the Senate Office Building, Executive Annex Dome, and Senate Annex, was a large domed building in the Senate District of Galactic City on Coruscant.

[edit] History

The Republic Executive Building, foreground, with the Senate Building in the background, during the Clone Wars

The building was located at the rear of the Senate Building. The annex dome was designed to complement the Senate Building, due to their similar appearances. The building was built to alleviate the cramped office conditions in the Senate Building. The Chancellor's Suite was located towards the top of the building, from which the Supreme Chancellor conducted meetings with the Loyalist Committee, Senators and members of the Jedi High Council.

Many senators held an office here, including Senators Padmé Amidala and Bail Organa. Organa held a meeting with a few loyalist Senators, which would eventually become the Alliance to Restore the Republic here during the last days of the Galactic Republic. Following the memory wipe of C-3PO, Organa stored the droid's memory on a data disk in his office, to retrieve it if necessary.

The Executive Building featured an expansive, multi-level landing dock near the top of the dome. Executive shuttles, speeders and gunships docked here for meetings with the occupants of the Senate offices. Attendant droids, load-lifters and pilot automatons were on hand to assist Republic officials. Larger vessels, such as diplomatic cruisers, star skiffs and light stock freighters, could dock in some of the larger landing bays. From the dock, visitors walked through a huge, column-lined hall to reach the executive offices. It had an atrium at its top.

The Senatorial docking bay.

During the Clone Wars, Chancellor Palpatine was one of the most high profile residents of the building. It was in his office, overlooking Galactic City, where he resisted an arrest attempt by Jedi Masters Mace Windu, Agen Kolar, Kit Fisto, and Saesee Tiin, before issuing Order 66 and beginning the Great Jedi Purge.

After the formation of the Galactic Empire, Emperor Palpatine relocated his place of residence to the Palace of the Republic, which he renamed the Imperial Palace. Secret chambers within the Executive Building were used to hold captured Jedi during the Purge. In the bowels of the building, Darth Vader tortured Dama Montalvo in his attempt to track down Obi-Wan Kenobi.

With the formation of the Galactic Alliance, the Chief of State's Suite was established in the building, along with the many other offices that existed previously.

[edit] Appearances

An alternate version from the Attack of the Clones comic.

[edit] Sources

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