Suribran Tu was a male Ishi Tib politician who lived during the final years before the rise of the Galactic Empire. During the Clone Wars, Tu was ruling his homeworld of Tibrin as a dictator with the backing of the Galactic Republic—an interstellar superpower that operated under the ideals of democracy and freedom. Tu was left to conduct his governance as he saw fit, and his regime ruled with an iron fist and ultimately killed a considerable number of its own people through political assassinations. With the outbreak of the Clone Wars in 22 BBY, the citizens of Tibrin placed their loyalty with the Confederacy of Independent Systems, causing the separatist government's Head of State, Count Dooku, to travel to the world and meet with Tu. The Ishi Tib premier offered to switch allegiance from