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 . Background . Shortly after the Subjugation of Naboo in 32 BBY , the Jedi Master Dooku , Count of Serenno , chose to leave the Jedi Order . In 24 BBY , after years of secret plotting with his new master , the Dark Lord of the Sith known as Darth Sidious , Dooku declared his intentions to form the Confederacy of Independent Systems , a group of disenfranchised organizations and governments the goal of which was to secede from the dominant Galactic Republic . Unbeknownst to the immense majority of the galactic community , both sides were led by the same person , as Sidious was none other than Palpatine , then Supreme Chancellor of the Republic . During the next two years , tension kept mounting between the Republic and the Separatists , and the imminence of an armed conflict was becoming more evident . The assassination attempt . In 23 BBY , about one year after the foundation of their movement , the Separatists decided to murder the Supreme Chancellor in order to weaken the Republic and start out with an advantage in case of war . For that delicate mission , the Confederacy recruited a group of five mercenaries : the dreaded assassin Kelsara Llenkch , two Humans named Maash and Vela , a member of the Yuzzem species , and another Human . Their plan was to infiltrate the Naboo Embassy on Coruscant , capital world of the Republic , which the Chancellor was meant to visit on the occasion of a grand banquet . The mercenaries easily made their way throughout the critically important Senate District , escaping the vigilance of the blue - clad Coruscant Guards , and met in the vicinity of the embassy , where Llenkch informed her associates of the identity of their target . The would - be assassins then stormed the embassy ' s kitchen and killed the staff . The Separatists killers , all dressed as chefs , with the exception of Llenkch herself and the Yuzzem , in a manner as to go undetected . However , the Gungan hero Jar Jar Binks — who worked as the embassy ' s Security Advisor under the command of Captain Gregar Typho — overheard a conversation between Maash and Vela , who were staying in the kitchen waiting for orders . Binks immediately ran to the Grand Hall , where he bumped into Captain Typho , knocking him unconscious and unwittingly saving him from a sniper shot . With Typho incapictated , Binks seized a controlling box that allowed to summon sentinel droids . Although the droids gave him a temporary advantage , Binks could not control them correctly , and he soon found himself under the threat of a blaster . When he was ordered to hand over the controlling box , Binks accidentally dropped it , prompting the sentinel droids to fall on his assailants ' heads . Fortuitously , the clumsiness of the Security Advisor had knocked the Separatist assassins unconscious and saved the day . Palpatine , whom the would - be assassins had not even been able to reach , later showed up to thank the Gungan for his bravery and " unique abilities . " Aftermath . Llenkch and her accomplices were arrested and put in the custody of the Royal Naboo Security Forces . The events of the assassination attempt were recounted by Tho - Masfran Ciss , Senior Coruscant Correspondent for " The Coruscant Holo Net " , who taxed the Coruscant Guards with incompetence for not stopping the assassin before they reached the embassy . Knowing that the Gungan had developed a naive fascination for politics and had already served as the Gungan Ambassador to the city of Theed , Palpatine nominated Security Advisor Binks to the position of Junior Representative for Naboo in the Galactic Senate as a reward for the role he played in foiling the assassination attempt . That nomination was later found to be instrumental to Palpatine ' s rise to unlimited power . A few months later , Palpatine convinced the Gungan of the necessity to create a Grand Army of the Republic to defend the Republic against the Separatists . When Binks was asked to act in the stead of his senior senator , Padmé Amidala , he suggested that the Senate give Palpatine the emergency powers required to create that army . Shortly after , the Clone Wars broke out on Geonosis .