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Artifact

Bane Statue

Legends

Legends. This article is part of Legends: the expanded-universe stories that Lucasfilm set apart from canon in 2014.

The Bane Statue was an ancient Sith artifact that had the power to identify Force-practitioners by pivoting toward them. By the time of the Naboo Crisis in 32 BBY, the Sith Lord Darth Sidious, who served as a senator of the Galactic Republic under his public persona of Palpatine, possessed the Bane Statue. He kept it in his apartment suite on Coruscant, among a vast collection of unusual art objects that he either picked up on his travels or received from fellow politicians. Later on, Palpatine replaced the Republic by his First Galactic Empire, anointing himself Emperor. By 4 ABY, the Bane Statue had accompanied him to the second Death Star orbiting the Forest Moon of Endor. Along with other relics of Palpatine's senatorial suite, including a Triffian carving and a duo of fossilized trumpet weeds holding marine pearls, the Bane Statue resided in a private suite of the hundred-story Emperor's Tower which also housed the throne room. Ultimately, the Death Star was destroyed with everything it contained.

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Facts

Culture
Order of the Sith Lords
Owners
Darth Sidious
Locations
Palpatine's apartment suite
Death Star II
Purpose
Identify Force-practitioners
Affiliations
Order of the Sith Lords