Order of the Canted Circle The Order of the Canted Circle was one of the oldest and most exclusive social orders on Coruscant whose members included some of the galaxy ' s most powerful , influential and wealthy beings . Gaining membership was a rare privilege as , on average less than a dozen new members were invited each decade , an infinitesimal number compared to the list of waiting elite . History . Founded by a group of influential and wealthy beings on Coruscant during the administration of the Galactic Republic ' s Supreme Chancellor Tarsus Valorum , the Order of the Canted Circle was established as a secret society which observed arcane rituals and gathered in secret to discuss politics and galactic goings - on . During the formative years , the founding members purchased a towering monad in the center of the Fobosi District which was said to stand in the middle of a volatile lake bed . Seismic activity had tilted the building ; while the structure was sound and later restored , the tower ' s pinnacle chamber floor remained tilted . This " canted circle " that served as a floor would eventually give name to the Order . Rituals , considered arcane and allegorical , were overseen by a Grand Mage , the leader of the Order . Numbering no more then five hundred members at a given time , inductions of new members were limited to a dozen being each decade , far short of the number of applicants . Some nine hundred years after its founding , the leader of the Order was a male Gotal Mage who courted the wealthy Muun leader of Damask Holdings , Hego Damask , in an attempt to get him to join which ultimately failed ; however Damask kept an invested interest in the Order and attended many ceremonies , as well as inviting the leader to the secret Gathering s on the Hunter ' s Moon . During the Chancellorship of Thoris Darus , Damask was in attendance at the Order ' s lodge on Coruscant in 52 BBY at the initiation ceremony of Damask ' s colleague Larsh Hill of the InterGalactic Banking Clan . Unbeknownst to the Muuns in attendance , the members of the Order gathered were in fact assassins of the Maladian Order ; the real members of the Order had been gassed and their unconscious bodies stowed in a storeroom out of sight . As the attack commenced , Hill and the other Muuns were decapitated by spinning disks while Damask lost his jaw and a portion of his neck . Drawing on the power of the dark side of the Force Damask , in truth the alter - ego of Dark Lord of the Sith Darth Plagueis , managed to hold off the assassins until his apprentice Darth Sidious arrived to end the assault . After the attack surviving members of the Order kept quiet about the deaths , refusing to speak with investigators or Jedi . Rebuilding , the Order moved its induction ceremonies to the nearby Skydome Botanical building and persevered through the Clone Wars and the rise of the Galactic Empire ; even Galactic Emperor Palpatine was inducted into the sacred Order . Reflecting the preferences of the New Order towards male Humans , the Order no longer allowed for aliens to join . Emperor Palpatine used the Order to collect the officials , dignitaries and officers who had proved themselves most useful , continuing the Sith tradition of using the Canted Circle as part of the Sith power struggle . His hand pushed first Rufaan Tigellinus and then Thrawn ahead of the well - regarded leaders waiting in line ; Palpatine - sponsored invitations pushed the number of new members to fourteen in just seven years . After the fall of the Empire , the Order continued to operate , although its deep ties to a number of high - ranking former Imperial officers made it the target of close observation by the New Republic ' s secretive Alpha Blue division . Rituals . Many of the Order ' s rituals were based on Sith rituals , though its members were unaware . Other rituals could be seen as allegorical while others still were as mundane as secret handshakes or code words . During an initiation ceremony , members wore midnight black velvet robes and were welcomed officially into the Order over the canted circle . A private affair , the Order would hold the ritual in the Imperial Palace or Skydome Botanical Gardens during the Galactic Empire . Members bore a pendant of the canted circle that marked their membership , although the group was small enough to make it more of a status symbol than a functional identifier .