The Grand Council of the Golden Empire was an advisory body to the Empire's Sovereign, and was composed of all the executive agencies which carried out her will. Rin Sakaros, the first Queen of the Empire, was a notorious micromanager, but after the Great Liberation ended in 102 ABY and the Empire more than doubled in size to over 150 systems as it acquired the territory of the defeated Tetrarchy of Mezlagob, Rin was forced to acknowledge that the Empire had grown beyond even her ability to personally oversee. The following year, she appointed a board of advisors to herself, bringing in three pre-existing agencies and creating nine more. The initial group was: