Plot to assassinate Chancellor Palpatine

At some point before 13:2:28 GRS, the newly founded Confederacy of Independent Systems led by the self-defrocked Jedi Master Dooku plotted to assassinate Palpatine, then Supreme Chancellor of the Galactic Republic. In order to do so, the Confederacy fomented a mission involving a group of five mercenaries, including the famed assassin Kelsara Llenkch. The Separatist-aligned agents were supposed to murder the Chancellor inside the Naboo Embassy on Coruscant, which the Chancellor was to visit. However, their mission failed when Jar Jar Binks, a Gungan who acted as the Security Advisor to Captain Gregar Typho, intervened and unwittingly knocked the assassins out. As a consequence, Binks was made Junior Representative for Naboo in the Galactic Senate, effectively becoming a political ally of Palpatine.

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