Imperial Bureau of Standards

The Imperial Bureau of Standards was a department of the Galactic Empire tasked with the standardization of industrial production around the galaxy. It included multiple bureaucratic departments including Weights and Gauges, Redundancy, Verification and Fuel Purity. Syril Karn joined the Bureau, serving in Fuel Purity, in 5 BBY, after his uncle Harlo's intervention.
==Operation==
The Bureau of Standards was a department of the Galactic Empire responsible for organizing the bureaucracy around the galactic industry. The Bureau calculated the production quotas and outputs which were then distributed to the myriad imperialized corporations which worked for or with the Empire, and monitored said corporations' adherence to them.Star Wars: The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire Any discrepancies were reported to the Bureau's Data Center, which was in turn closely monitored by the Imperial Security Bureau that had agents on standby to intervene if any crimes were suspected. The Bureau also performed worker productivity studies aimed at improving or adjusting Imperial working standards.
The Bureau maintained a central office on Coruscant employing thousands of civilian employees tasked with observing and enforcing the bureaucratic regulations of the Galactic Empire throughout the galaxy. Its members were assigned to different Departments, including but not limited to the Weights and Gauges, Redundancy, Verification and Fuel Purity, in which Syril Karn secured an unexceptional office job. 
==History==
The Imperial Bureau of Standards had been established and operating by 5 BBY, takes place shortly after , which dates itself to 5 BBY maintaining an office in a Coruscant skyscraper. Syril Karn's uncle Harlo had close relations with a Bureau supervisor, Flob, a connection Eedy Karn would exploit to get her son a job in the company's Coruscant office. Obsessed with Cassian Jeron Andor, the fugitive who cost him his career, once hired in the Fuel Purity Department Karn used Bureau resources to report him six times as a missing fuel specialist, an unresponsive energy engineer and a fuel purity field officer suspected of forging Imperial reports. These reports were flagged and led to ISB Supervisor Dedra Meero's intervention, who called Karn in for questioning in the ISB Central Office. Karn revealed the discrepancies in her predecessor's review regarding Andor, and as a reward Meero provided him with a clean record which granted him a promotion within his Department.
At some point, the Bureau of Standards conducted Worker Productivity Study TJ8210, which determined that starving workers underperformed and were thus bad for production; as a result, the Empire continued to pay the workers in imperialized enterprises.
==Behind the scenes==
The Imperial Bureau of Standards was first pictured in the sizzle reel for the Andor television series released on December 10, 2020. It first appeared in "Announcement," the seventh episode of the series, which aired on October 19, 2022. It was first identified in that episode's guide on StarWars.com.
Tony Gilroy and the other writers used the Imperial Bureau of Standards to suggest the large scale of the Empire. Concept artist Peter McKinstry and production designer Luke Hull created a sketch of the Fuel Purity department in the office on Coruscant. The sketch included two droids that look similar to IT-O interrogation droids.
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*Star Wars: The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire
*Star Wars Encyclopedia: The Comprehensive Guide to the Star Wars Galaxy
==Notes and references==
Category:Imperial bureaus