Ten years have passed, and Chancellor Palpatine has brought peace and prosperity to the Republic. However, there exists armed discontent in the form of The Confederacy for Independent Systems, and it is secretly led by the rebel Jedi Count Dooku. The separatist movement has made it difficult for the limited number of Jedi Knights to maintain peace and order in the galaxy.

Dooku is a charismatic separatist who had disappeared from the Jedi Order, and who now challenges the Chancellor's rule : the fact that he was a Jedi is of grave concern to the Senate, the Jedi Council, and the general populace.

Amidala, the former Queen of Naboo, is now co-senator with Jar-Jar Binks. She is on her way to Coruscant, to vote upon a bill that would allow the Republic to start building an army to assist the overwhelmed Jedi.

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