At a point in time preceding 13:2:28 GRS, Count Dooku, the disgraced Jedi Master who now led the newly formed Confederacy of Independent Systems, devised a scheme to eliminate Palpatine, who was then serving as the Supreme Chancellor of the Galactic Republic. The Confederacy's strategy involved orchestrating a mission with a team of five mercenaries, including the notorious assassin Kelsara Llenkch. These Separatist operatives were tasked with assassinating the Chancellor within the Naboo Embassy located on Coruscant, a location the Chancellor was scheduled to visit. However, their plan was thwarted by the unexpected intervention of Jar Jar Binks, a Gungan serving as the Security Advisor to Captain Gregar Typho, who inadvertently incapacitated the assassins. As a result of this incident, Binks was appointed as the Junior Representative for Naboo in the Galactic Senate, effectively becoming a political ally to Palpatine.
Not long after the Subjugation of Naboo which took place in 32 BBY, Dooku, the Jedi Master and Count of Serenno, made the choice to depart from the Jedi Order. In 24 BBY, following years of clandestine collaboration with his new master, Darth Sidious, the Dark Lord of the Sith, Dooku revealed his intention to establish the Confederacy of Independent Systems. This was a coalition of various disaffected organizations and governments with the shared objective of seceding from the dominant Galactic Republic. Unknown to the vast majority of the galactic community, both factions were secretly controlled by the same individual: Sidious, who was, in reality, Palpatine, the Supreme Chancellor of the Republic. Over the subsequent two years, the mounting tension between the Republic and the Separatists grew, making the prospect of armed conflict increasingly imminent.
In 23 BBY, approximately a year after the inception of their movement, the Separatists resolved to assassinate the Supreme Chancellor as a means to weaken the Republic and gain an initial advantage in the event of war. For this sensitive operation, the Confederacy enlisted a team of five mercenaries, including the feared assassin Kelsara Llenkch, two Humans named Maash and Vela, a member of the Yuzzem species, and another Human. Their strategy involved infiltrating the Naboo Embassy on Coruscant, the capital world of the Republic, which the Chancellor was scheduled to visit for a grand banquet.
The mercenaries successfully navigated the crucial Senate District, evading the vigilance of the blue-uniformed Coruscant Guards, and gathered near the embassy. There, Llenkch revealed the identity of their target to her associates. The aspiring assassins then breached the embassy's kitchen, eliminating the staff. To avoid detection, the Separatist killers, with the exceptions of Llenkch and the Yuzzem, disguised themselves as chefs. However, Jar Jar Binks, the Gungan hero who served as the embassy's Security Advisor under the direction of Captain Gregar Typho, overheard a conversation between Maash and Vela, who were waiting in the kitchen for instructions.
Binks immediately rushed to the Grand Hall, where he collided with Captain Typho, rendering him unconscious and unknowingly saving him from a sniper's bullet. With Typho incapacitated, Binks seized a control device that allowed him to summon sentinel droids. Despite the temporary advantage provided by the droids, Binks struggled to control them effectively and soon found himself threatened by a blaster. When ordered to surrender the control device, Binks accidentally dropped it, causing the sentinel droids to fall onto the heads of his attackers. The Security Advisor's clumsiness inadvertently knocked the Separatist assassins unconscious, saving the day. Palpatine, who was never even approached by the would-be assassins, later arrived to thank the Gungan for his bravery and "unique abilities."
Llenkch and her collaborators were apprehended and placed in the custody of the Royal Naboo Security Forces. Tho-Masfran Ciss, the Senior Coruscant Correspondent for The Coruscant Holo Net, reported on the events of the assassination attempt, criticizing the Coruscant Guards for their failure to stop the assassins before they reached the embassy. Recognizing the Gungan's naive interest in politics and his prior service as the Gungan Ambassador to the city of Theed, Palpatine rewarded Security Advisor Binks by nominating him as the Junior Representative for Naboo in the Galactic Senate for his role in thwarting the assassination attempt. This nomination would later prove to be crucial to Palpatine's ascent to absolute power. A few months later, Palpatine convinced the Gungan of the need to establish a Grand Army of the Republic to defend the Republic against the Separatists. When Binks was asked to act in place of his senior senator, Padmé Amidala, he proposed that the Senate grant Palpatine the emergency powers necessary to create that army. Shortly thereafter, the Clone Wars erupted on Geonosis.