The Chancellor's podium was a podium located in the center of the Galactic Senate Building's Galactic Senate Chamber that extended from the Chancellor's working office[1] directly below.[2]
Description[]
The Chancellor's podium was 30 meters tall, this was to display authority towards the Senate. When not in use during Senate Meetings it retracts into the Chancellor's working office which lies beneath the chamber. The podium also featured a data screen that translated dialects and showed the results of votes to the Supreme Chancellor.[1]
The top of the podium was where the Supreme Chancellor stood and addressed the senate alongside his administrative aide and the Vice Chair. Slightly below them was where other key individuals sat, these officials included the Sergeant-at-Arms who was in charge of the senate workers and messenger droids, the Journal Clerk, the Official Reporter who recorded the debates of the senate, and a parliamentarian who advised the chancellor on senatorial procedures.[1]
In the early Imperial Era, the podium had changed and replaced the senate symbol with the Imperial crest.[5]
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- Star Wars: Card Trader (Card: Sly Moore - Chancellor's Aide - Base Series 1) (First identified as Chancellor's podium)
- Star Wars Helmet Collection 10 (Highlights of the Saga: Birth of an Empire) (Picture only)
- Star Wars: Complete Locations
- Star Wars Helmet Collection 22 (Weapons & Uniforms: The Supreme Chancellor of the Galactic Republic) (Picture only)
- Star Wars Helmet Collection 26 (Databank A-Z: Imperial Future Council–Inquisitorius) (Picture only)
- Star Wars Helmet Collection 39 (Databank A-Z: Kwazel Maw–Sly Moore) (Picture only)
- Star Wars Bust Collection 1 (Star Wars Universe: Darth Vader) (Picture only)
- Chancellor Lina Soh | Characters of Star Wars: The High Republic on the official Star Wars YouTube channel (backup link) (Posted on StarWars.com)
- Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga – The Official Collector's Edition (Picture only)
- "Aftermath" Episode Guide | The Bad Batch on StarWars.com (backup link) (Picture only)
- Star Wars: The Mandalorian: Guide to Season One (Picture only)
- Star Wars: The Bad Batch | Season 2 Teaser Trailer | Disney+ on the official Star Wars YouTube channel (backup link)
- Star Wars: The Bad Batch Season 2 | Official Trailer | Disney+ on the official Star Wars YouTube channel (backup link) (Posted on StarWars.com)
- Coruscant in the Databank (backup link) (Picture only)
- Emperor Palpatine/Darth Sidious in the Databank (backup link) (Picture only)
- Galactic Senate in the Databank (backup link) (Picture only)
- Mas Amedda in the Databank (backup link) (Picture only)