The Ministry of Protection, alternatively referred to as the Protection Ministry, was an entity that Marchion Ro of the Nihil established through the Eye. The Minister of Protection, Abediah Viess, a Mirialan with a century's long background as a mercenary general, headed the organization. The Protection Ministry's regulations stipulated that the individual who dealt the fatal blow to a lightsaber's former owner gained the right to possess it, except in cases where either Viess or Ro personally secured the weapon.