Imperial Senate Sentinel

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For other uses, see Sentinel.

"The Emperor has decreed a quarantine! Stop and prepare to be detained."

―An Imperial Senate Sentinel to Galen Marek^[2]

The Imperial Senate Sentinels were a subdivision of the Imperial Senate Guard who served the Imperial Senate. They protected the Jedi Temple on Coruscant from looters and specially trained to combat and kill Jedi. In 2 BBY, they were encountered by the Sith apprentice Galen Marek.

Overview

The Sentinels were a subdivision of the Imperial Senate Guard^[3] and dressed similarly to the Royal Guards, but their armor and robes were gray and white rather than red, and their helmets resembled those of late Clone Wars–era Senate Guards. They wielded powerful force pikes that could effectively block a Jedi's lightsaber, which aided them greatly in their work. They had robotic voices^[2] and were thought to be cyborgs.^[3] Imperial Senate Sentinels worked alongside Stormtroopers to guard the remains of the Jedi Temple.^[2]

History

The Sentinels were handpicked by Palpatine to guard the Jedi Temple on Coruscant. Once there, they watched over the ruins and protected them from looters and those who sought to plunder the secrets of the Jedi Order. However, their true purpose was to wait for and kill any Jedi who returned to the temple.^[1] In 2 BBY, Darth Vader's Sith apprentice Galen Marek came to the Jedi Temple multiple times to further his training, whereupon he was attacked by a number of Imperial Senate Sentinels. When Marek arrived for his second visit, they attempted to warn him that he was to be detained as the Emperor had declared a quarantine at the Jedi Temple, but when he visited for a third and final time, they attacked him pre-emptively without giving a warning.^[2]

Behind the scenes

The Imperial Senate Sentinels made their first appearance in the first trip to the Jedi Temple in the Playstation 2, Playstation Portable, and Nintendo Wii versions of the Star Wars: The Force Unleashed video game. In the game, they were only referred to as "Imperial Sentinels," not to be confused with the Imperial Sentinels who guarded Palpatine's Citadel on Byss. They were given a proper name and revealed to be a sect of the Imperial Senate Guard in the 2009 roleplaying-game supplement Galaxy at War.