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[Revan Centurion]

Imperial Republic Intelligence was formed at the creation of the Imperial Republic. However, its beginnings stretch farther back than that, back to the Old Republic. There were four organizations which gathered and analyzed intelligence for the Senate and other agencies of the Old Republic – the Republican Security Organization, the Senate Bureau of Intelligence, the Interstellar Consortium on Technology, and the euphemistically labeled Special Acquisitions Branch of the Library of the Republic.

As the Old Republic began to rot from within, the directors of the four agencies discovered that they were routinely being used by unscrupulous Senators who bribed lower level functionaries within the agencies to pass along misinformation through agency channels, in order to influence important intelligence reports which were presented to the Senate. The senators’ greed caught up with them; they often were too cheap to bribe operatives of all four agencies, relying on the innate distrust of the intelligence agencies toward each other to prevent them from comparing scandocs.

A number of directors met during the last days of the struggle for the Senate. The negotiations were unprecedented in their openness and willingness to compromise personal power in order to maintain an effective intelligence organization for the government. But, which government? The directors felt the Republic to be unsalvageable. In their opinion, the rot had gone too far, and there were too many constituent worlds to install an effective new government based on elected representation. A strong central government was needed. — Exactly which the New Order promised.

Next they agreed to quietly and unofficially merge their four organizations. Information would be shared and compared among the branches of the organizations in order to decrease the odds that the information was contaminated. To oversee this process the new intelligence organization, the Ubiqtorate was created. This was a governing body for all parts of the organization.

On many worlds, Ubiqtorate has come to be the name for the whole of Imperial Intelligence. The name came to light in several COMPNOR scandocs which were accidentally transmitted to a media beamcast in the Qeimat system. The scandocs themselves indicated that the authors were not aware of the real role of the Ubiqtorate, and Imperial Intelligence saw no reason to correct their error. From the beamcast the name Ubiqtorate caught on. The Ubiqtorate can best be described as Imperial Intelligence's High Command. The Director of Imperial Intelligence was the supreme authority within the Ubiqtorate, and reported directly to the Emperor.

After the fall of the Empire and the subsequent rise of the New Republic, the august government department once known as Imperial Intelligence relegated itself to a substantially smaller role. Assets and resources were condensed as the department split in loyalty between Imperial Remnant forces and those of the New Republic. The ensuing struggle for information superiority only helped to ensure the future collapse of the New Republic. For a time, there were seemingly no secrets in the galaxy.

At the creation of the Imperial Republic, High Prince James Stratus was able to salvage what was left of the former intelligence organization. Instead of keeping current leadership in place, forces from Imperial Intelligence and the New Republic's Central Intelligence Agency were combined under new leadership. Within less than a year, any dissenting parties were quickly silenced in seemingly mysterious ways. Today, the organization serves as the one and only galaxy-wide intelligence organization. The details of the new organization's structure and leadership are largely unknown, but the Imperial Republic Intelligence Services have done an excellent job of executing information assurance policy for the Imperial Republic. The term "Ubiqtorate" has reportedly been used a number of times to reference the organization, but it is unknown whether or not the Ubiqtorate has returned as the High Command aspect of IRIS.