Palace library

The palace library of the Pijali monarchy was located on the Inner Rim planet Pijal within the world's sprawling royal palace. By the time of the Republic Era, the library had fallen out of regular use, resulting in much of its equipment becoming covered in dust. The cavernous, marble-tiled library had several windows, data solids, and holographic comm terminals.

Around 40 BBY, a census was carried out in the Pijal system, and copies of both the official overall results and the local tallies were stored in the library. Not long afterward, Czerka Corporation officials took the copy of the event's official results and falsified them to lessen the population count of Pijal's moon.

While on a mission to Pijal in 40 BBY, Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn and his Padawan, Obi-Wan Kenobi, met in the palace library to discuss the census results and how the tallies had been used to draft the Governance Treaty, an initiative that would form a representative Assembly based on the census's proportions of Pijali citizens. As they reviewed Czerka's alterations to the census's original results, both Jedi were wary of someone overhearing their conversation. Afterward, Jinn refused to ratify the Governance Treaty on the Galactic Republic's behalf after deciding that Czerka was corrupt, additionally citing his violent dreams warning of trouble if the initiative proceeded. Later that night, Kenobi visited the library for a second time to contact the Jedi High Council through a comm terminal to discuss his displeasure with Jinn's refusal to carry out their mission mandate. After the Padawan's conversation with the Masters, he was appointed as the Republic's ratifier in Jinn's place.

The palace library appeared in Master & Apprentice, a 2019 novel written by Claudia Gray.