Confederacy of Independent Systems

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The Confederacy of Independent Systems (CIS), also known as the Confederacy, the Separatist Confederacy, the New Order, the pro-secessionists, colloquially as Separatists or Seps for short, nicknamed the Sepies and lesser known as the "Separatist Alliance," was the government and separatist movement formed by various planetary and sectorial governments, as well as some mega-corporations, that declared intentions to leave the Galactic Republic, refusing to comply with its excessive taxation and corruption in the Senate during the Separatist Crisis. Eventually, tensions between it and the Republic developed into war. After the Republic revealed its clone army on Geonosis, the Separatists were forced to retreat, beginning a great war that would last for three years and tear the galaxy apart.

The CIS put fear in the hearts of countless citizens of the Republic. The Confederacy won many battles in the ensuing war but was dissolved when its leaders were killed on Mustafar, allowing Hiram Drayson to reform the Republic into the Galactic Empire.