Royal reception hall

The royal reception hall was a section of the Pijali monarchy's royal palace on the Inner Rim planet Pijal. The hall was located directly outside the palace's Celestial Chalice temple and had two large wooden doors leading into the amphitheater's entrance tunnel, which were only opened a few times in each Pijali monarch's reign. By the time of the Republic Era, the hinges of the reception hall's doors were kept oiled by palace staff, and Czerka Corporation sentry droids guarded the area.

In 40 BBY, Pijal's lord regent Rael Averross gave Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn and his Padawan, Obi-Wan Kenobi, a tour of the Pijali palace. As part of their briefing, Averross visited the reception hall with the two Jedi while explaining how the Pijali Princess Fanry's coronation would occur in the nearby Celestial Chalice. Days later, Jinn revisited the hall and passed through its doors after being scanned by Czerka's droids.

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