The Flail The Flail was a terrorist organization active on Coruscant during the years immediately before the Battle of Naboo . Self - justified with The Flail Manifesto , the Flail accused the politicians of its time of corruption , particularly of benefiting specific companies while slighting the individual citizen . Strangely , The Flail was mostly composed of Humans , and although they accepted aliens such as Twi ' leks into the organization , they were not readily preferred . The Flail considered that the Galactic Senate was particularly corrupt . The Flail performed several guerrilla attacks on Coruscant , disrupting communications , traffic , trade , and weather control systems . They damaged structures and cared little about possible deaths . Whenever they detected a known authority force , such as a member of the Jedi Council , they would immediately attempt to escape the premises rather than fight . History . In 33 BBY , the Flail unjustly accused Supreme Chancellor Finis Valorum of corruption , and the chancellor ' s reputation suffered as a result . Fearing that he would be thrown out of office , Valorum decided to fight The Flail as his last important action while in office . As part of this measure , Valorum ' s Judicial Department forces captured or killed many members of The Flail , including the entire leadership . However , The Flail survived with a new leader , Corellian smuggler Zegmon Pent . Pent publicly and falsely claimed to be a Force - using assassin trained by the Jedi Order , and his Flail members firmly believed his claims . Attack on Valorum . Valorum publicly announced that the remnants of The Flail would be jailed before the following Senate hearing . Pent organized reprisals against Valorum in response , including death threats and an unsuccessful assault against Valorum ' s aide Sei Taria . Meanwhile , Valorum and his ally Jedi Master Mace Windu organized a strike team of previously - unknown agents to foil the Flail ' s imminent attempt against Valorum ' s life . The Flail sent its main expert in explosives , Senn Riip Domeet , to hide a thermal detonator in the platform where Valorum was to give his conference the following day . Although Domeet was disguised , he assumed that he had been discovered and attempted to escape . However , The Flail had prepared several contingency plans in case of such an occurrence , one of which was to take control of the Weather Modulation Control Center and unleash a powerful thunderstorm in the unprotected buildings surrounding the area which the discourse was to take place . Pent had developed a re - programming software for the weather modulation controls , and sent several Flail members to the center to sabotage the machinery . However , Valorum and Windu had correctly assumed that this would be The Flail ' s following step , and the terrorists were greeted by Valorum ' s new security agents . The Flail immediately enacted their third contingency plan , to enter the Traffic Control Center , and from there remote - pilot a vehicle and hurl it against the meeting building . Pent and seven agents arrived there ten minutes before the speech . Once again , they were met by Valorum ' s agents and were foiled before they could enact their assassination attempt .