Republic Security Bureau

The Republic Security Bureau was a and  of the.

Formed by in  as one of a number of agencies allegedly created to "increase public security," the RSB was tasked with policing the various agencies and departments of the Republic to ensure loyalty to Palpatine and consolidate his hold over the bureaucracy and intelligence community.

Agents of the RSB, nearly all officers with proven loyalty to the Chancellor's Office, were empowered with sweeping authority to conduct investigations against all federal personnel, regardless of rank or station.

More often than not, deviant elements were quietly removed from power if not silenced all together. The practices and procedures of RSB agents during the last days of the old Republic laid the groundwork for its successor, the.