CIS

## Confederacy of Independent Systems (CIS)

The **Confederacy of Independent Systems**, abbreviated to **CIS**, and known as the **Separatist Alliance**, was a collection of star systems and corporate titans that succeeded from the Republic and fought against the Republic's clone armies, the Jedi Knights and Terran Alliance.

They were the first adversaries of the Terran Alliance after the arrival of the Galactic Republic on Earth in 1991, and the start of the Terran campaign the following year.

## History

The Confederacy of Independent Systems, simply referred to as the **Separatists**, was a confederate alliance formed from thousands of sovereign star systems of the Inner Rim, Mid Rim and Outer Rim Territories which had withdraw as member-worlds from the Galactic Republic, whom the Confederacy had opposed from 1989 until 1994 following a period of political turmoil.

Established by fallen Jedi Master Count Dooku of the planet Serenno, who served as the government's Head of State, the Confederacy was founded from a belief of excessive taxation and corruption within the Republic's Galactic Senate, as well as a general feeling of dissatisfaction towards and neglect by the Republic-centric Core Worlds region of the galaxy. From 1981 to 1988 (after the Trade Federations failed Invasion of Naboo), a political crisis had begun which led to escalating tensions between the reigning Republic and the rising Confederacy, one year later, Dooku established a galaxy-wide secessionist movement, thus forming the CIS. Many within the Confederacy, including its parliament of senators, as they sought to be free of what they saw as the corruption and tyranny of the Republic.

### Clone Wars

By 1991, both governments and their respective military forces became enmeshed in the pan-galactic Clone Wars that had erupted on the planet Geonosis. Five months after their defeat on Geonosis, the Separatists made an expedition to the Milky Way Galaxy in an effort to discover the source of signals they picked up. On January 9, 1992, the Separatists discovered planet Earth, where they encountered a Republic task force and attacked the planet, starting the Terran Campaign. From January 9 to January 11, the Separatists attacked nine cities on Earth, yet were defeated by the Terran Alliance, the Jedi Order, and the Republic. A few days after the campaign, the Terran Alliance joined the fight against the Separatists.

In the following three years of the war, which had raged across the entire galaxy, the Confederacy made attempts to cease the Republic's influence. However, unknown to the galaxy or either governments, the war was a ploy by the Dark Lord of the Sith, Darth Sidious, who led both the Confederacy through Dooku as his Sith Master, and, secretly, the Republic as Supreme Chancellor Sheev Palpatine. The Sith Lord had managed to deceive both parties. By the third year of the war, the Confederacy had suffered several major defeats in the Outer Rim Sieges as the conflict began to approach its end, while the government had lost a third of its navy in the decisive Battle of Coruscant, which had resulted in the death of Dooku, the Confederacy's leader, though they were unaware that Dooku's death was actually masterminded by Sidious.

## Politics and Government

A union of independent governments and thousands of star systems, the Confederacy of Independent Systems was a confederate government organized and directed by former Jedi Master, Count Dooku, who served as the government's head of state throughout much of the Confederacy's duration. Acting through the Bylaws of Independent Systems, an established constitution that vested capabilities to the Confederacy's parliament, Dooku operated as an officiator within the legislature for congressional procedures. Disparagingly referred to as the Separatists by those within the Galactic Republic, the Confederacy's ideological beliefs centered around minimal taxation and trade regulations, as it provided its member systems with an increase in control over their territories.

Furthermore, the CIS also offered assurances to its allies of a smaller and more centralized government, as well as freedom for local governments in order to privately maintain their internal affairs, while also offering egalitarian representation for governments that were left isolated within the galaxy's Rim regions from the Core Worlds and Republic Senate. They share similarities with the former Confederate States of America on planet Earth during the course of the American Civil War.

## CIS Military & Branches

The various commercial entities who joined under the banner of the Confederacy of Independent Systems pledged their forces to the military, creating one sprawling group of droids as well as organic forces, and local warriors, and was often referred to as the Droid Army, and was headed by a Supreme Commander. These units were led by organic officers as well as tactical droids to lead ground and naval forces, which included of the T-series tactical droid and the more sophisticated super tactical droid. The Confederacy's droid army was the largest droid ground force in history. The Droid Armies were considered as the most notorious enemies of both Terran Alliance and the Galactic Republic during the course of the Clone Wars until the 19 BBY/1994 AD.

### Army

The **Separatist Droid Army,** otherwise referred to as the CIS droid army, Separatist Army, or the droid army, served as the ground forces for the Confederacy of Independent Systems' military during the course of the Clone Wars. These are the formidable armies of the CIS that faced by both Terran Forces and the GAR Clone troopers during the Terran campaign and later the course of the Clone Wars in the Andromeda Galaxy until 1994 AD.

### Navy

The **Confederacy of Independent Systems Navy** (**CIS Navy**) was the naval branch of the Confederacy of Independent Systems' military during the Clone Wars. The navy, sometimes referred to as the Confederacy navy or the Confederacy fleet, was created sometime after 24 BBY during the Separatist Crisis, where they would fight against the naval forces of the Galactic Republic and later the newly formed Terran Starfleet after the Terran Campaign.

## Appearances

* *Rise of the Terran Alliance (first appearance)*

## See Also:

* Galactic Republic - Their main adversarry during the early years of the Clone Wars.
* Terran Alliance - Their second adversarry during the Terran campaign and later the whole Clone Wars.
* Alliance to Restore the Republic - Their immediate successor after taking an alliance with Ezra Bridger during the early years of the Andromeda Revolution.

## Trivia

* Some former CIS Battledroids were actually joined the War against the Empire with the Rebel Alliance and later the Terran Forces during the age of Revolution.