The outspoken Senator Fang Zar was opposed to Chancellor
Palpatine's sweeping executive proclamations and decrees that riddled the Galactic Constitution with amendment after amendment. For his idealism, he was selected by Senators
Mon Mothma and
Bail Organa to join a cabal of concerned politicians searching for a way to stop the Chancellor.
In these dark times that saw an end to the Republic, Zar was dismayed that the Senate had come to such a dire position. He signed the Petition of 2,000, a formal declaration of complaint against Palpatine's policies, and a request to relinquish emergency powers back to the Senate and do away with a newly installed system of regional governors. He was also one of the delegates who presented the petition to Palpatine, to little effect.