The Mission to Nal Hutta was an operation to assassinate a Hutt crime lord known as Keldan Inijic Sazjo because he opposed the Confederacy of Independent Systems. Count Dooku sent an assassin named Sssk!, a member of a rare feline species with telepathic abilities. He used telepathy and a lightsaber to distract and kill the security guards in the Hutt Cartel boss's palace, and succeeded in killing the Hutt. The action left a power vacuum in the Cartel.