As the Old Republic began to rot from within, the directors of the four agencies discovered that they were routinely being used by unscrupulous Senators who bribed lower level functionaries within the agencies to pass along misinformation through agency channels, in order to influence important intelligence reports which were presented to the Senate. The senators’ greed caught up with them; they often were too cheap to bribe operatives of all four agencies, relying on the innate distrust of the intelligence agencies toward each other to prevent them from comparing scandocs.

A number of directors met during the last days of the struggle for the Senate. The negotiations were unprecedented in their openness and willingness to compromise personal power in order to maintain an effective intelligence organization for the government. But, which government? The directors felt the Republic to be unsalvageable. In their opinion, the rot had gone too far, and there were too many constituent worlds to install an effective new government based on elected representation. A strong central government was needed. — Exactly which the New Order promised.

Next they agreed to quietly and unofficially merge their four organizations. Information would be shared and compared among the branches of the organizations in order to decrease the odds that the information was contaminated. To oversee this process the new intelligence organization, the Ubiqtorate was created. This was a governing body for all parts of the organization.”

On many worlds, Ubiqtorate has come to be the name for the whole of Imperial intelligence. The name came to light in several COMPNOR scandocs which were accidentally transmitted to a media beamcast in the Qeimat system. The scandocs themselves indicated that the authors were not aware of the real role of the Ubiqtorate, and Imperial Intelligence saw no reason to correct their error. From the beamcast the name Ubiqtorate caught on. The Ubiqtorate can best be described as Imperial Intelligence's High Command. The Director of Imperial Intelligence is supreme authority within the Ubiqtorate, and reports directly to the Emperor.