Imperial Archives

Imperial Archives
Leader	Director and Principal Librarian Lasidious von Feldure
Foundation Date	Year 9 Day 175
Type	Information Database
Professions	Galactic Documentation
Members	Click Here
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Motto	"Because the past is the present, and the future too."
Application Process	Click Here
Forum	Pending Update
Affiliation	Galactic Empire COMPNOR Coalition for Progress Department of Culture

"History is not about embracing the past, it is about conquering the future."

— Feldure

Stormtroopers standing guard at the Imperial Archives.

The Imperial Archives is a large facility situated on Coruscant. It contains a multitude of corridors and rooms, several of which are public research areas containing info-consoles and archaic documents. The Archives contains several vaults of varying degrees of security. The main vault is perhaps the most heavily guarded room in the Archives. Stormtroopers and other Imperial officials stand guard at the vault 24 hours a day, and it's contents is not publicly listed. Other rooms in the Archives hold scale models of different planets, like Coruscant, Corellia, and Naboo and there is also one room near the centre of the Archives that contains a large star-map. Apart from the public research areas the Archives also contains conference rooms, and private studies for the Imperial Archivists who painstakingly document the Galaxy day and night. Both the Imperial Security Bureau and Imperial Intelligence also operate in the Archives.

The Imperial Archives, main public research hall, Coruscant.

Database

The Imperial Archives boasts the largest information database that can be accessed anywhere in the Galaxy; on datapads, holonets and other info-consoles. The database is the premier Galactic source of information on all aspects of the Galaxy. This includes information about the Galaxy at large - such as planetary, spacecraft, technology and species details - as well as personal and psychological information of both Imperial and non-Imperial individuals of the galaxy. Historical events such as wars and battles, political upheavals, poignant social events as well as a record of various galactic cultural endeavours, within such mediums as art, music, theatre and science.

Database Category Map

Info-console; Imperial Archives, Coruscant.

I-VIII are Central/main categories, remainder are sub-categories.

• I Imperial Navy
  • a Fleets
  • b Naval Operations (Wars, battles, campaigns and missions)

• II Imperial Army
  • a Legions
  • b Army Operations (Wars, battles, campaigns and missions)

• III Imperial Regional Government
  • a Sectors

• IV Order of the Sith

• V Imperial Intelligence

• VI Ministry of Industry
  • a NATs

• VII COMPNOR
  • a Central Government
    • i Ranks and Titles
    • ii Awards/Ribbons
    • iii Culture
      • 1 Documents
      • 2 Historical Articles
      • 3 Imperial Broadcasts Archive
      • 4 Terms and Expressions
        • a Medical Terminology
    • iv Imperial High Command
  • b Technology
    • i Ships
    • ii Vehicles
    • iii Weapons
    • iv Medical
  • c ISB
  • d Imperial Individuals
    • i Emperors
  • e Military Archives

• VIII Galaxy
  • a Factions
  • b Imperial Union
    • i Member States
  • c NFGs
  • d Non Imperial Individuals
  • e Sectors
  • f Systems
  • g Planets
  • h Races and Species
  • i Languages
  • j Materials

Leadership

The Imperial Archives are managed and maintained, which includes the reviewing, organizing and security of the articles within, whilst making sure they don't violate any protocols and are appropriate for the Galactic Public, by the Director and Principal Librarian of the Imperial Archives under the direct supervision of the Director of Culture, the Vizier for Progress and the Director of Imperial Intelligence.

The Director of the Imperial Archives is the head of the Imperial Archives based on Coruscant. The Director is responsible for the institution's general administration and reported its accounts to the Minister of Culture and/or Vizier of the Coalition for Progress. At the Archive's inception, its most senior member of staff was called 'Principal Librarian'. The job title became 'Director and Principal Librarian' in Year 10 Day 43. On Year 11 Day 93, the position was abolished by the Grand Vizier only to be recreated again on Year 12 Day 86.

Lasidious von Feldure, Director of the Imperial Archives.

Principal Librarian of the Imperial Archives (Y9 D175)

• Ryan Roche, Year 9 Day 175 - Year 9 Day 340
• Orphaea Imperium (interim), Year 9 Day 340 - Year 10 Day 43

Director and Principal Librarian of the Galactic Archives (Y10 D43)

• Mekum Campbell, Year 10 Day 43 – Year 10 Day 77
• Inwe Ventidius, Year 10 Day 78 - Day 356
• Kate Black-Granger, Year 10 Day 356 - Year 11 Day 93

Director and Principal Librarian of the Imperial Archives (Y12 D86)

• Lasidious von Feldure, Year 12 Day 86 - present

Reformation - Year 12

Feldure working on the main Archive database.

On Y12 D39 Lasidious von Feldure was personally requested by Vizier Vaan to evaluate the Imperial Archives in preparation for a reform that he would head. The Archives had fallen into a minor state of chaos; The database system had not kept up to date to a high enough standard and had, itself, become outdated. Feldure alongside II Director Ventidius went about redesigning the main layout of the Archive database, ripping out the unnecessary elements that had developed over the years and replacing it with a far more concise and appropriate system for the modern Galactic Public.

On first accessing the database Feldure had discovered that a vast majority of Imperial historical events had been left undocumented or worse still had been doctored. Other articles were out of date or missing vital information. He went about correcting this, reprogramming the database's main information category and storage system and removing dysfunctional staff members and hiring new. With the help of various Imperial command members he was also able to recover some documents and holo-recordings that had fallen out of public hands and re-display them within the Archives. Other than documents and other data, artifacts slowly began arriving for display and storage in the Archives. One distinct artifact was the Ser Scott Hampton painting of Emperor Cherokee that hung in the main public research hall for several weeks.

Painting "Cherokee, 10th Emperor", by Ser Scott Hampton on display at the Imperial Archives.

The initial reform was a great success and Feldure was soon appointed Director of the Imperial Archives by the Director of Culture, Gunther Rall under the approval of Grand Vizier Jorus Taidan.

Imperial Geographic

Imperial Geographic crest.

The Imperial Archives, ancient history main research hall, Coruscant.