The Speaker's staff
The Speaker's staff was a tall staff constructed from wood, used by the Senate's Vice Chair within the Galactic Republic. Carved, intersecting lines adorned its entire length, and a golden likeness of Sistros Nevet, one of the Four Sages of Dwartii, served as its finial.
The Chagrian Mas Amedda, then the current Vice Chair, was holding the staff during the proclamation of the New Order, the moment when [Sheev Palpatine](/article/darth_sidious], the Supreme Chancellor, declared the Republic's change into the First Galactic Empire.
Following his appointment as Grand Vizier of the Galactic Empire, Amedda went on to use a comparable scepter. Amedda would strike the floor with his staff to signal the commencement of a briefing whenever the Galactic Emperor was holding one.
The Speaker's staff initially made an appearance in Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith, the 2005 film of the prequel trilogy, and its canon identification was in Star Wars Character Encyclopedia: Updated and Expanded, a reference book from 2016 by Pablo Hidalgo.