Confederate States Army/Canon

"My army is highly skilled, trained and spirited, should Republic forces ever manage to land on my world, then my army will swiftly rout them!"

- Jane Zarkan to Count Dooku, on the CSEA

The Confederate States of Earth Army (CSEA), also known as the Confederate Army, Confederate States Army, Separatist Army, Confed Army, Rebel Army, Western Army, Western States Army and the Traitor's Army. were the ground forces of the Confederate States of Earth (CSE), a Separatist-aligned nation which joined the Confederacy of Independent Systems.

The CSEA was founded in 21 BBY from the short-lived Confederate States of Earth Militia, a volunteer army which served as the Confederacy's army in its earliest days prior to the creation of its professional army, the CSEA. Militia units would continue to serve the Confederacy following the creation of the CSEA, however they would be part of the CSEA.

The CSEA would see only a little service in the First Battle of Earth, most of the fighting being done by the Confederate States of Earth Navy, however CSEA forces would quickly rout the few Republic forces that managed to breakthrough the Separatist blockade and reach Earth, resulting in a decisive Separatist victory and the capture of Jedi General Maksi Hikar.

The CSEA was made up of both organic soldiers and droids. The Confederate States of Earth Army Aviation Corps (CSEAAC) was the branch of the army which dealt with army aviation.

The CSEA was widely respected across the CIS for being one of the Separatist Alliance's strongest and most elite ground forces, being rough equals for the Clone army of the Republic, the clones which fought the CSEA, and Jedi General Maksi Hikar himself, were suprised by how skilled the CSEA were at combat.

In 18 BBY the CSEA fought against the forces of the Galactic Empire and the Imperial puppet government, the Earth Empire, despite the CSEA's general elite combat skills and training, the CSEA was defeated, one of its critical blows was at the Battle of Mollun, in which Field Marshal Alexander Norman, a veteran leader of the Earth Civil War, was killed whilst leading the Confederate First Army. The CSEA finally surrendered following the Battle of Zarkan City.

Sep'ratist Soldier was the anthem of the CSEA.

Equipment and Uniforms
The CSEA mostly used Separatist-supplied equipment, however it also used native equipment, equipment supplied by the Rebel Alliance and equipment captured from Republic/Pro-Republic and Imperial forces:

Uniforms and body armour

 * Armoured Exosuit Mk II

Small arms

 * E-5 blaster rifle
 * E-5C blaster rifle
 * Zarkan Arms ZR-50 rifle
 * DC-15A blaster rifle
 * DC-15S
 * SE-14 blaster pistol
 * Zarkan Arms ZP-30 pistol
 * DC-17 hand blaster
 * E-5s sniper rifle
 * DH-17 blaster pistol
 * DL-18 blaster pistol
 * T-21 light repeating blaster
 * E-11 blaster rifle
 * A280C blaster rifle
 * TL-50 Heavy Repeater
 * ARE-1 Assault Rifle
 * M1 Assault Rifle
 * RK-3 blaster pistol

Heavy weaponry

 * Zarkan Arms ZLMG-55 light machine gun
 * Zarkan Arms ZHMG-39 heavy machine gun
 * M3 PAWS
 * Double-barrel repeating blaster
 * RPS-6 rocket launcher
 * E-60R missile launcher
 * ML-9 Missile Launcher
 * RLE-1 Rocket Launcher
 * RLE-2 "Quad" Rocket Launcher
 * DLT-19 heavy blaster rifle
 * GLP-1 Grenade Launching Pistol

Artillery, AA, anti-tank and tank guns

 * J-1 semi-autonomous proton cannon
 * Zarkan Arms ZFG-600 Field Gun
 * Zarkan Arms ZFG-850 Field Gun
 * Zarkan Arms ZAA-880 anti-aircraft gun
 * J-1 tank gun
 * Zarkan Arms ZAT-900 anti-tank gun
 * Zarkan Arms ZSAMS-930 surface-to-air missile system

Vehicles
The CSEA used numerous different vehicles, though most of the vehicles operated by the CSEA were either supplied by the Separatists or of native design, though the CSEA also received numbers of Rebel Alliance vehicles following the Liberation of Earth in 4 ABY, small numbers of captured Republic and Imperial vehicles were also operated.


 * AAT
 * Cobra medium tank
 * Black Mamba super-heavy tank
 * STAP
 * Flitknot speeder
 * HAG
 * TX-130 tank
 * AT-TE
 * AT-ST
 * AT-DP
 * AT-PT
 * AT-AP
 * Rebel attack tank
 * T3-B heavy attack tank
 * AAC-1 speeder tank
 * Rebel combat speeder

Uniforms
As with the other branches of the Confederate military the Army wore grey, ranging in colour from light grey to dark grey, the uniforms of the enlisted ranks tended to be of a lighter shade of grey than those of the officer ranks, the battle dress of the enlisted ranks looked coincidently somewhat similar to the officers of Darth Revan's Sith Empire. Enlisted soldiers wore the standard uniform with either a grey campaign hat or helmet, junior officers wore an officers uniform with a forage cap, whilst senior officers wore a dark grey officers uniform with matching officer's cap.

Ranks

 * Private
 * Private was the lowest rank in the army, Privates were usually newly-enlisted soldiers who had yet to see action.


 * Field Marshal
 * The rank of Field Marshal was the highest rank in the army, Field Marshals commanded the entire army. Notable Field Marshals include Alexander Norman, Ahsoka Tano, who at first was an honourary Field Marshal but was made a proper Field Marshal following the death of Alexander Norman at the Battle of Mollun near the beginning of the Third Battle of Earth and Samuel Tanner, who commanded the Force for the Restoration of Separatist Earth during both the First and Second Earth Rebellions

Appearances

 * Ashes of War
 * A.R.K.: Ancients to the Modern Aliens