The Flail

The Flail was a terrorist organization active in 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 benefitting specific companies while slighting the individual citizen. Strangely, The Flail was mostly composed of Humans and, although they accepted aliens such as Twi'leks in the organization, those were more tolerated than really accepted. The Flail considered that the Galactic Senate was particularly corrupt.

The Flail performed several guerrilla attacks in Coruscant, disrupting communications, traffic, trade and weather control systems. They damaged structures and care little about possible deaths. Whenever they detected a known authority force, such as a member of the Jedi Council, the Flail members immediately tried to escape.

In 33 BBY, Supreme Chancellor Finis Valorum had been unjustly accused of corruption and his reputation had suffered. Valorum, fearing that he could be ousted, decided to fight The Flail as his last important action while in office. Valorum's forced captured or killed many members of The Flail, including the whole leadership.

The Flail survived with a new leader, Corellian smuggler Zegmon Pent. Pent publically and falselly claimed to be a Force-using asssassin trained by the Jedi Order; The Flail members firmly believed this.

Valorum then publically claimed that the remnants of The Flail would be jailed before the following Senate hearing. Pent then organized reprisals against Valorum, including death threats and an assault against Valorum's aide Sei Taria. Taria apparently survived unharmed. 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 would give his conference the following day. Although Domeet was disguised, he thought he had been detected and tried to escape. The Flail had prepared alternative attacks, as anybody could find the bomb before the event.

The Flail wanted to take the Weather Modulation Control Center and unleash a powerful thunderstorm in the unprotected buildings surrounding the area around which the discourse was to take place. Pent developed a re-programming software and sent several anarchists 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 agitators were greeted and defeated by Valorum's new security agents.

The Flail then went to the Traffic Control Center, from where they wanted to remote-pilot a vehicle and hurl it against the meeting. Pent and seven agents arrived there ten minutes before the speech. They found Valorum's agents and were defeated before they could kill Valorum.

Appearances

 * Shadows of Coruscant in Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook