In the Galactic Senate of the Old Republic, the Speaker's staff was a long wooden scepter wielded by the Vice Chair of the Senate, who was often referred to as the Speaker, to demonstrate his authority over the Senate's debates. It had crisscrossing carved lines running down its length, and it was capped by a dull golden figure of the ancient demagogue Sistros, one of the controversial Four Sages of Dwartii.