CIS Hero Roster

The CIS Hero Roster was one of four legendary rosters of heroes in the galaxy. It described each listed person/droid and what made him/her a hero of the Confederacy. Here are some abbreviated excerpts about each hero in the book.

Excerpts

 * The Confederacy could not have existed without Count Dooku. He was more aware that something had to be done about the corruption in the Galactic Senate, but he also knew that it couldn't be fixed. With him, the Separatists were able to make a clean, fresh start, or would have if it hadn't been for Emperor Palpatine, Darth Vader, and the relentless stormtroopers of their so-called unifying Galactic Empire.


 * While Grievous may not have been the bravest Separatist commander, he was certainly the boldest. He showed no mercy to the clone troopers or the Jedi, because, like Dooku, he knew that they were the "puppets of a decaying government". Admittedly, Grievous was pretty ruthless, but he knew that sometimes in war, you have to totally wipe out the enemy. Without him, the Confederacy may have lost many victories.


 * Ventress may be a little questionable as a hero because she often had her own agenda, but she, too, was a tough commander, and a master assassin. She served the CIS without wavering from the path, and helped kill many Jedi enemies, showing that the Jedi were not invincible.


 * No one could have said it better. This Jedi convert to Dooku's cause said that the Jedi were tainted by their connections to the Republic, because many people saw them as its enforcers. They were on the wrong side. They should have helped to bring the Republic down, once and for all. And now, we know that he was right, based on what the Republic became.


 * and : Not much is known for certain about these two warriors. Tann was an independent Chiss warrior who also killed many Jedi, and Durge was an ancient bounty hunter who sometimes partnered with Ventress. Both were very knowledgeable about the arrogance and overconfidence of many Jedi, and they wanted the galaxy to be free to live without those "pests".


 * General Durd was a great boaster, who apparently was very ambitious. He believed in using muscle to fight his enemies, sending squads to charge into battle and using big, powerful weapons like the Defoliator. For a Neimoidian who was so fat, he brought needed strength to the Separatist Army.


 * Captain Tuuk, while a vain man, knew his stuff when it came to running a Separatist fleet. He was good at outsmarting many enemies, which made him famous in the Confederate Navy, and almost the envy of other fleet commanders.


 * Trench was a legend in the CIS. He was a much feared fleet Admiral who knew many complex tactics in battle, which made him more than able to destroy enemy fleets, and yet, he wanted the best for the CIS, serving it as a brave patriot and a hero to many Confederates. He was also an expert survivor. He was left for dead at the Battle of Malastare Narrows, but turned up again in the blockade of the Battle of Christophsis. The Republic assumes that Jedi General Anakin Skywalker destroyed him there, but it's possible that Trench may have survived that, too, and is hiding somewhere in the galaxy, if the Empire didn't find and kill him. He hasn't been seen since Christophsis.


 * It may seem strange to call a simple spy droid a hero of the Confederacy, but Ventress insisted that this droid was her only true friend after losing her Master, Ky Narec, and that, like her, he served the CIS faithfully, perhaps moreso than many organics, and understood the oppression of the Republic.


 * Okay, so technically, this man is not a Separatist. He's an analyst for the HoloNet. We still consider him one of our heroes, though, because he voiced the fact that many of us Separatists were good rather than evil, and that we had real reason to hate the Republic as much as they hated us.


 * A tough, fanatical leader of the Nimbus commandos, Stratus wanted the best for his people, the Jabiimi, to be free of the Republic's ignorance of their problems. He led his people to an eventual victory, but the Jedi killed him in battle. His last words were that his war victims were just casualties of the Jedi's war, as he saw it.


 * Now talk about fierce. Tamson was a bold and devastating fighter, and wanted to help the Quarren separate from their longtime rivals, the Mon Calamari. However, both the Quarren and Mon Cala rebelled, and Tamson was killed.


 * This Separatist is an anomaly if ever we knew one. It's now known that he was once an ARC trooper of the Republic's clone army, but he was too independent and free-thinking to feel any loyalty to the Republic, and he became the first of many clone deserters. Later, he became affiliated with the Mandalorians and resurrected the "true" ones through the Mandalorian Protectors. He and they fought for the Confederacy, and Spar, as Mandalore was once known, fought against Republic corruption with a passion.


 * Not all Separatists had a pro-war stance. This courageous human senator attempted to negotiate a peace treaty with the Republic, and almost succeeded. Some Separatist terrorists, however, attacked Coruscant, and the treaty was rejected. Then, there was a Republic retaliation on Raxus, Bonteri's home world, and Bonteri was killed. She still stands as a hero for peace among the more pacifist Confederates.