Imperial Peace-Keeping Certificate

"My name's Bossk. I'm a licensed bounty hunter. My Imperial Peace-Keeping Certificate number is five-five-nine-four-six-one-one-two."

- Bossk

An Imperial Peace-Keeping Certificate (IPKC) was a license issued to bounty hunters by the Imperial Office of Criminal Investigation and the Bounty Hunters' Guild, certifying them to pursue such activities and allowing them access to the Imperial Enforcement DataCore, a network that contained information regarding the law enforcement activities of the Galactic Empire and its agents, for a fee at posting agencies.

Description
"Bossk. He's a Trandoshan, carries a mortar gun, flies a YV-series freighter&hellip;Why am I writing this down? You can read it all on his ID card, which I swiped!"

- Ezra Bridger listing information from Bossk's Imperial Peace-Keeping Certificate in his private journal

Imperial Peace-Keeping Certificates were licenses issued by the Imperial Office of Criminal Investigation and the Bounty Hunters' Guild to bounty hunters, certifying them to pursue such activities, and could be requested to be seen by Imperial personnel. Each Imperial Peace-Keeping Certificate had its own number and allowed its holder access to the Imperial Enforcement DataCore, a network that contained information regarding the law enforcement activities of the Empire and its agents whose use was limited to Imperial personnel and licensed bounty hunters only, at some posting agencies, offices where bounties were posted. Licensed hunters still had to pay a fee of fifteen credits an hour or twenty-five credits a day, however, to access the DataCore.

The license itself was a rectangular plastic ID card, which had a picture of its holder and listed their name, species, height in meters, weight in kilograms, what weapons they were authorized to carry, and what vehicles they were authorized to pilot, along with the words "Licensed by the Imperial Office of Criminal Investigation and the Bounty Hunters Guild" and "ALL ACCESS", all written in High Galactic.

Holders
"The license that you showed to the agent. Who's Mundokk from Wasskah?''" "''Someone who doesn't need his license anymore."

- Ezra Bridger and Bossk

One holder of such a certificate was Bossk, a notorious Trandoshan bounty hunter whose Imperial Peace-Keeping Certificate number was 55946112, until it was stolen by Ezra Bridger, a thief who Bossk had hired as a guide while pursuing a bounty on the planet Lothal, who placed it in his private journal. Bossk also had in his possession the license of a fellow Trandoshan bounty hunter named Mundokk, who Bossk claimed no longer needed the certificate.

Behind the scenes
The Imperial Peace-Keeping Certificate was first mentioned in Galaxy Guide 9: Fragments from the Rim, a 1993 Star Wars Legends supplement written by Simon Smith and Eric Trautmann for Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game. It became canon when it appeared in Ezra's Gamble, a junior novel written by Ryder Windham that was released on August 5, 2014. An Imperial Peace-Keeping Certificate was first canonically pictured in Star Wars Rebels: Rebel Journal by Ezra Bridger, a young readers book written by Daniel Wallace as the in-universe journal of Ezra Bridger and released on October 21, 2014.

Appearances

 * Ezra's Gamble