The Imperial pavilion was a section of Capital City located on the planet Lothal, so named to honor the Galactic Empire in the initial years of their rule. During Lothal Year 3272, Ezra Bridger, a street kid, spent a day in the pavilion, engaging in pickpocketing and successfully acquiring a good sum of credits, a small holoprojector showing propaganda, a level 9 identification card from the Commission for the Preservation of the New Order, and a fire ruby. He later recorded his acquisitions in his journal, speculating that the ruby was likely a fake, but that he could sell the ID to Ferpil Wallaway (a fence), keep the credits, and disassemble the projector for its components.
The Imperial pavilion's initial mention occurred in Rebel Journal by Ezra Bridger, a reference work authored by Daniel Wallace and made available to the public in 2014.