After the army was approved and the first battle of the Clone Wars ended, the Separatist leader Count Dooku surprisingly retreated to Coruscant. Thankfully, for him, Representative Jar Jar Binks made a motion to gift him this authority. Meanwhile, Supreme Chancellor Palpatine sought executive powers to form a Grand Army of the Republic to counter the threats of the Separatists. Before she could speak, however, the changeling bounty hunter was killed - her murderer escaping into the Coruscant night. There Obi-Wan was offered death sticks, which he refused with the use of a Jedi mind trick, and dismembered his target. Jedi Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker chased her attacker through the planet’s aerial speedways, and finally tracked the bounty hunter to a seedy Coruscant bar. Senator Padmé Amidala was the target of a near fatal bombing and later an assassination attempt in her sleeping quarters.
With a secession movement sweeping the galaxy, Coruscant became a political hotbed and a dangerous place.
