Confederacy of Independent Systems

The Confederacy of Independent Systems, also known as the Separatist Alliance,

Separatist Crisis
During the Secessionist Movement, some members of the Novas sided with Count Dooku, seeing the Republic as too corrupt to be saved. Senator Rush Clovis had Separatist-inclined friends in the Loyalist Committee. Padmé Amidala used her position in the Star Whores strip club to spy on these individuals. Amidala defied the Separatist factions in the Galactic Senate.

The Clone Wars
"Did you know that during the Clone Wars, there were Separatist commanders who had their battle droids fitted with mechno-phalluses to allow them to sexually terrorize female prisoners and occupied civilian populations?"

- FN-2199

The Clone Wars were waged between the Separatist Alliance and the Republic. Aqua droids were used in assaults on Mon Cala and Kamino. Separatist commanders had their battle droids fitted with mechno-phalluses in order to sexually terrorize female prisoners and occupied civilian populations. Murkhana became a center of Separatist Shadowfeed broadcasting under the Hyper-Communications Cartel. Grummgar fought for the Separatist Alliance with the Vibroblade Brigade. During the war, rumors circulated that the Separatists were working on an ultimate weapon, fueled by attempts to recover a massive kyber crystal from Utapau and the kidnapping of Republic scientists like Galen Erso.

The Separatist Alliance and the Republic battled in the Outer Rim Sieges, when the Shadow Collective almost became a viable third force in the conflict under Maul's leadership.

After three years of fighting, the clone trooper Kix discovered a conspiracy in the Grand Army of the Republic and learned the truth about Palpatine. However, he was captured thanks to Senator Condus DeSade and was tortured by EV droids in The Works while Dooku watched via hologram. The Count ordered Kix to be placed into a cryo-cycle stasis pod for transport to him on Serenno, but the Separatist vessel Obrexta III was attacked by a Republic fleet and crashed in the Sea of Sand on Ponemah Terminal. Kix would remain in stasis for fifty years until his discovery by Sidon Ithano during the time of the First Order.

End of the war
"There's just something about those great warrior-monks being brought low by brute force and masterful scheming...the Separatists, the Empire, now the First Order&mdash;they provide no shortage of cosmetic accoutrements for me."

- Supanovvva, on the Jedi

When Palpatine declared the formation of the Galactic Empire, many saw it as an opportunity for a reformation of the corrupt remnants of the Republic as well as in aspects of the Jedi, citing the Separatist Alliance's leadership under a former Jedi.

The Separatist leaders were killed on Mustafar at the end of the war, ending the conflict and inaugurating the Emperor's rule. All Separatist droid factories were deactivated by a signal from Mustafar. Following the loss of the Council, the Separatists surrendered.

Legacy
"So, are the Separatist remnants still on the verge of storming our perimeter again?" "All quiet on the Outer Rim, I’m afraid."

- Leto Borian and Selwyn Phasma

Following the Clone Wars, Separatist remnants remained active, and some within the Empire believed them to be a threat on the verge of storming the government's perimeter from the Outer Rim. Any calls for violent revolution were seen by the general public as a threat to return to the chaos of the Clone Wars and a new round of Separatism. The Empire rained destruction on Murkhana for its role in the Separatist Alliance, though Hyper-Communications Cartel was leftover and eventually utilized by the Visualists. However, the economic and ecological crises of former Separatist worlds were ignored by the Empire. Some former battle droids joined the Droid Gotra, though Imperial scavengers wiped junked droids' memory banks in an effort to prevent this.

Rumors and conspiracy theories circulated that Darth Vader was actually Count Dooku, grafted onto the recovered shell of General Grievous.

Following the defeat of the Empire, the New Republic accommodated many of the former Separatist planets.

A supposed lost treasure of Count Dooku was sought in the era of the New Republic, and was revealed to be the cryo-frozen clone trooper Kix, discovered aboard the wreck of the Obrexta III by Captain Sidon Ithano and his crew. With assistance from the Visualists on Murkhana, they decoded the memory core salvaged from the wreckage and discovered the locations of Separatist secret bases, weapons warehouses, and droid factories. Kix used his knowledge to help the pirates salvage them.

The scavenger Rey discovered a deactivated Separatist aqua droid in the Vicar's junkyard on Jakku decades after the Clone Wars, and though she considered fitting it with a probic arm she was unable to reactivate it to play out her fantasies.