Confederacy of Independent Systems (Smashb1996)

"The Confederacy of Independent Systems, ultimately, is a movement that is nothing more, nothing less, than a puppet of the Sith; the Separatists' only purpose is to aid the Sith in their ploy to seize control of the galaxy. The leaders of this "movement" are completely ignorant of the facts; they don't even realize that they are, compared to the dark lords of the Sith, merely tools, pawns, and playthings."

- Mace Windu

The Confederacy of Independent Systems, also known as the Confederacy, the Separatist Confederacy, the New Order, the pro-secessionists, informally as the CIS, the Separatists or Seps for short, nicknamed the Sepies, and lesser known as the Separatist Alliance, was the government, and independence movement, led in public by, a.k.a. Darth Tyranus, (and clandestinely led by the , Darth Sidious) formed by various  and  officialdoms, as well as some mega-corporations.

After years of of either being a part of, or working with, the Galactic Republic, numerous corporate entities and star systems stated their intent to take leave of the Republic, rejecting compliance with the immoderate taxation, as well as jobbery, venality, dishonesty, and corruption in the during the Confederacy of Independent Systems Crisis, which was immediately prior to the Clone Wars, of which the Separatists took part in, fighting against the Republic, their main enemy.

After three years of fighting, the deaths of both Dooku, and the, General , along with the capture of the members of the , put an end to the war, and the CIS was promptly dissolved, the rogue systems and fractured businesses that were the members of the Confederacy were either given Republic membership, the main case of the former, or subsumed, the likely fate of the latter. Shortly following the war, ex-Separatists member-worlds would work hard to re-claim their status in the Republic, after it was revealed that the had secretly ruled the CIS throughout a large majority of existence, in order to take dominion over the galaxy.