Tribunal

The Tribunal was a Venator-class Star Destroyer that served in the Galactic Republic naval forces' Open Circle Fleet toward the end of the Clone Wars. In 19 BBY, the Tribunal was used to transport the former Sith apprentice Maul to the Republic's capital planet, Coruscant, following his capture by the 332nd Division and former Jedi Padawan Ahsoka Tano during the siege of the planet Mandalore. However, while traveling to Coruscant, Dark Lord of the Sith Darth Sidious enacted Order 66, which forced the clone troopers of the Grand Army of the Republic to execute their Jedi commanding officers.

As a result, a skirmish erupted aboard the Tribunal as Tano's clone troopers, led by Clone Commander Rex, attempted to kill her. Tano was able to free Rex from the brainwashing by removing his inhibitor chip, while the Tribunal was locked onto an uncontrolled descent onto the surface of a nearby moon after Maul destroyed its hyperdrive. He, along with Tano and Rex, narrowly escaped the doomed Star Destroyer before it crashed, killing all the clones still on board. Afterwards, Tano and Rex landed at the crash site, burying the dead clones. Years after the end of the war and the transformation of the Republic into the Galactic Empire, Imperial forces led by the Sith Lord Darth Vader discovered the Tribunal wreckage during the Imperial Era.

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