Inquisitorius Headquarters

The structure that would become known as the Inquisitorius Headquarters during the Imperial Era was originally the LiMerge Power building. This planet Coruscant skyscraper was located in the Works, an industrial sector situated on the planet Coruscant, which served as the capital of the Galactic Republic. The building's base was composed of three large fins that converged at its mid-section, from one of which extended a smaller secondary structure that, during the Clone Wars, was connected to the main building by several dilapidated walkways. A large, central, cylindrical pillar with a conical head rose from the mid-section. Also found in the mid-section was a secret hangar featuring multiple hatches that opened upwards, allowing ships as large as a Punworcca 116-class interstellar sloop to enter and exit. Upon entering the hangar, the ceremonial chamber, adorned with statues, was located to the left. By the time of the Clone Wars, the tower's exterior had fallen into a state of disrepair, with sections of the structure showing signs of wear and damage.

By the early days of the Galactic Empire, the tower featured a large central chamber, a conference room, and a leisure area. During this period, the exterior had been renovated and repaired. The secondary structure had been transformed into a landing platform, and the multiple walkways had been replaced by a single pathway. In the leisure area, the Inquisitors could consume alcoholic beverages and sit at one of the tables. The leisure area also included several corridors, one of which led to a walkway outside the building and a small, degraded platform.

In 32 BBY, after the death of Qui-Gon Jinn at the hands of Darth Maul on Naboo, Count Dooku made his way to the hidden lair. Before his departure from the Jedi Temple, he engaged in conversation with Yaddle, a member of the Jedi High Council. The Jedi councillor grew suspicious when Dooku stated that he would not be attending the funeral of his former Padawan and close friend on Naboo. Shortly thereafter, the Serennian Count departed the Temple and headed for The Works. Unbeknownst to him, the Jedi Master was secretly following him.

Upon reaching the building, the Jedi discovered Dooku conspiring with the Sith Lord Darth Sidious inside. Yaddle revealed herself, but when Dooku's allegiance became clear, she was forced to engage him in a lightsaber duel. Dooku defeated his former ally, executing her after coldly remarking that he would grant her peace. This act pleased Sidious, as it drew the former Jedi closer to the dark side.

Following the opening battle of the Clone Wars and a lightsaber duel against the Jedi in 22 BBY, Count Dooku, now the leader of the Confederacy of Independent Systems and secretly the Sith Lord Darth Tyranus, journeyed in his personal solar sailer to the tower in the Works district on Coruscant to meet with his Sith Master. This tower served as a secret retreat and a repository for Sith artifacts.

Upon Dooku's arrival at the tower's hangar, he was greeted by his Sith Master, Darth Sidious, and informed that the war between the Galactic Republic and the Confederacy had commenced. Sidious was pleased by this news, as it signified another milestone in his plan to destroy the Jedi Order and seize control of the galaxy, declaring that everything was proceeding as planned.

In 19 BBY, the Grand Republic Medical Facility was temporarily placed on lockdown to enhance security following a mission to Level 1325 aimed at capturing rogue clone trooper CT-5555 after he allegedly attacked Supreme Chancellor Palpatine, who was secretly Sidious. During the lockdown, Sidious relocated his collection of Sith artifacts from the abandoned tower to the medical facility, fearing that the Jedi might discover the tower. Following the mission to Oba Diah, Grand Master Yoda embarked on a mission to Moraband to uncover the secrets of preserving one's consciousness after death and to attempt to identify the Sith Lord who had been manipulating the Jedi and had created the clone army for them.

Yoda's quest led him to Moraband, the ancient homeworld of the Sith. Apparitions of Sith Warriors summoned by the Force Priestesses alerted Sidious and Dooku to Yoda's presence on Moraband. Dooku was informed by his super tactical droid, Commander Kraken, that his master had ordered him to Coruscant to meet with him. After Dooku arrived from his flagship, Sidious greeted him and led him to the tower's ceremonial chamber, which was lined with statues arranged in a circle around a sacrificial altar basin at its center. Sidious then initiated a ritual, using Dooku's blood and Force-bond to connect with his former Jedi Master, Yoda, while also employing Force lightning and chanting in Balc, a Sith language.

By employing the ritual, Sidious was able to exploit the Force-bond to reach through ripples in the Force and create Force Illusions on Moraband, hoping to break Yoda's will and tear the Jedi Order apart from within. In the subsequent illusions, Yoda saw himself back on Coruscant in the Works aboard a LAAT/i gunship with fellow Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker, Clone Captain CT-7567, and a squad of clone troopers tasked with a mission to the tower after detecting a rogue shuttle that had infiltrated Coruscant's security grid, believing that Dooku was onboard. Initially confused, Yoda nevertheless ordered the mission to proceed, believing that they were on the verge of uncovering the mystery of the Sith and that the Sith must not be allowed to escape, even if it meant executing them.

After the LAAT/i landed in the hangar of the abandoned tower, Yoda, Skywalker, Rex, and the clones discovered Sidious and Dooku in the ceremonial chamber. Dooku attacked the group with Force lightning, killing Rex and the clone troopers. Skywalker engaged Dooku in a lightsaber duel and managed to kill the Sith Lord, but not before Yoda exclaimed to Skywalker not to. Regardless, Yoda pursued Darth Sidious to the outside of the tower, with Skywalker arriving shortly after. After dueling with Sidious, Skywalker was defeated and rendered unconscious.

Sidious continued to fight Yoda, attempting to break his will by forcing him to choose between saving Skywalker and learning Sidious's true identity and stopping his future actions. Yoda chose the former, allowing himself to be struck by Force lightning but saving Skywalker. Sidious ended the ritual, thus eliminating the spiritual plane they were on, having failed to break Yoda's will. Defeated, Sidious stated that they would need more time to defeat the Jedi, while Yoda gained a new perspective about the Force that the Sith would not be able to foresee.

In 19 BBY, following the rise of the Galactic Empire and the destruction of the Jedi Order, Darth Sidious, now the Galactic Emperor of the newly transformed Galactic Empire, established the Inquisitorius, a dark side organization tasked with eliminating any remaining Jedi. After [the Grand Inquisitor](/article/the_grand_inquisitor], the leader of the Inquisitorius, briefly dueled Sidious's new Sith apprentice, Darth Vader, Sidious introduced them and informed Vader about the Inquisitorius, which was based in the tower, now known as the Inquisitorius Headquarters.

The tower had been renovated with a new landing platform, a large chamber, a conference room, and was guarded by the Emperor's Royal Guard. There, as the Inquisitors trained with each other in the main chamber, Lord Vader was placed in command of the Inquisitorius and tasked with training them. After some time training with the Inquisitors, Vader and the Grand Inquisitor conversed in a conference room, reviewing a list of potential Jedi survivors. They were tasked with tracking down Chief Librarian Jocasta Nu, whom Sidious considered to be a high-priority target.

Years after Order 66, in the aftermath of a mission to hunt down former Jedi Master Eeth Koth, Darth Vader and his team of Inquisitors, consisting of Fifth Brother, Thirteenth Sister, and Tualon Yaluna, arrived in their Zeta-class shuttle and landed on the tower's landing platform. They were greeted by the Grand Inquisitor, along with two Kallidahin servants, who were holding Koth's captured newborn. Vader and the Grand Inquisitor then proceeded to the conference room and began discussing Jedi survivors of the purge as they reviewed a list of survivors, as well as the status of Project Harvester.

During the time after their arrival from the planet where they had killed Koth, several of the Inquisitors, including Eighth Brother, Seventh Sister, the Grand Inquisitor, the Inquisitors who accompanied Vader to eliminate Koth, and the Second Sister, were present in the tower's leisure room, where Akaris and Tualon were at a table drinking dust juice and discussing recent experiences. However, Vader confronted the two and ignited his lightsaber.

With Vader standing before them, the two Inquisitors were stunned, and the other Inquisitors were confused and reached for their lightsabers. As Vader brought down his lightsaber on Akaris, it was blocked by Tualon, and after a brief scuffle, the two Inquisitors escaped through a corridor that led to an outside walkway and platform that had not been renovated and was in a deteriorated state. They fled to the city, but Vader eventually managed to kill them. After the chase, Sidious concluded that the Inquisitorius should be moved off-world, and Vader asked his master Sidious to grant him the planet Mustafar, the location of Vader's greatest defeat, to serve as the site of his personal castle, to which Sidious agreed.

Consequently, the Inquisitors were assigned a new headquarters, the Fortress Inquisitorius on the water moon Nur near Mustafar. Having been constructed early in the Imperial Era, the Fortress Inquisitorius had already existed as a major base of operations while the LiMerge Building was used as headquarters.

After the Inquisitorius departed LiMerge for the Fortress on Nur, the skyscraper was repurposed as living quarters for the Emperor's Royal Guard. This was due to the need to keep them isolated from the Imperial population for safety reasons, as well as because they were privy to Palpatine's deepest secrets. The Guards followed a regular schedule, having breakfast at the tower every morning, then donning their uniforms and departing for the Imperial Palace via shuttle. In 3 ABY, assassin Ochi, working for Qi'ra and the Crimson Dawn, infiltrated the tower using ASN-909, an ASN courier droid modified as an assassin droid, and had it poison their food with Ziroxin-12, timed to kill them as Palpatine would be arriving before them. Royal Guard Major Erstin Deez had skipped breakfast to go directly to work, prompting Ochi to shoot him with his sniper rifle coated with yurfloo poison instead. Unaware that they had been attacked, the Guards donned their uniforms and headed to the Palace, dropping dead as soon as Palpatine and Mas Amedda entered the chamber.

The tower, named the Inquisitorius Headquarters in the 2018 canon comic by Charles Soule, Darth Vader (2017) 20, was created for the 2002 prequel trilogy film Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones. The tower was described as the "Coruscant tower" in a caption via the StarWars.com episode guide for "Sacrifice," the final episode of the animated television series Star Wars: The Clone Wars, released in 2014. The tower was originally introduced in the Star Wars Legends continuity through the novelization of Attack of the Clones, released prior to the film in 2002. In 2012, it was identified as the "LiMerge Building" by the Legends novel Darth Plagueis. It was canonically identified with such name in the 2018 reference book Star Wars: Complete Vehicles.

The LiMerge Building was first depicted as the headquarters for the Inquisitorius in Soule's 2017 Star Wars: Darth Vader comic series. The building made its debut in that capacity in Darth Vader issue 6 before being outright identified as their headquarters in issue 20. The novel Ahsoka featured the Inquisitor known as the Sixth Brother contact his personal headquarters, but it is unclear if that refers to the former Li-Merge Building or the Fortress Inquisitorius building, which also existed during that time.