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The Confederacy of Independent Systems, abbreviated to CIS, and otherwise known as the Separatist Alliance, the Separatist State, the Separatist Confederacy, the Separatist coalition, or simply referred to as the Separatists, was a confederation with limited recognition of outlying star systems in the galaxy that had declared independence from the Galactic Republic, a democratic union, and had its capital on the planet Raxus Secundus in the Outer Rim. Secession could be traced back to the Raxus Address by former Jedi Master Count Dooku of Serenno, from a belief of excessive taxation and corruption within the Galactic Senate, as well as a general feeling of dissatisfaction towards the neglect by the Republic-centric Core Worlds. Furthermore, the Confederacy was secretly supported by several major galactic corporations which formed the executive council, while a parliament of senators become its civilian legislature.

Thousands of disgruntled star systems seceded from the Republic and joined together in the newly-created Confederacy of Independent Systems, born from a galaxy-wide secessionist movement orchestrated by the Count of Serenno Dooku. By 24 BBY, it had become a political crisis which led to escalating tensions between the Republic and the rising Confederacy. Many within the Confederacy, including its senators, had no desire in fighting their adversaries, as they sought to be free of what they saw as the corruption and tyranny of the Republic. The Confederacy was supported by the Trade Federation, led by Viceroy Nute Gunray; the Stalgasin hive, led by Archduke Poggle the Lesser; the InterGalactic Banking Clan, headed by Chairman San Hill; the Techno Union, led by Foreman Wat Tambor; the Commerce Guild, led by Presidente Shu Mai; the Corporate Alliance, led by Magistrate Passel Argente; and the Retail Caucus. However, in 22 BBY, both governments and their respective military forces became enmeshed in the pan-galactic Clone Wars, the first major conflict in a millennium, after the conflict exploded into being on the Confederacy's first capital world, Geonosis.

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 losing many starships in the decisive Battle of Coruscant, which also resulted in the death of Dooku. In the days following their defeat at Coruscant, General Grievous was neutralized on the planet Utapau, leading to the collapse of the Separatist leadership, and the fighting effectively coming to an end.

Following both the Jedi's demise and rise of the Galactic Empire, Viceroy Nute Gunray and the other surviving leaders gathered on the planet Mustafar with hopes of securing peace with the newly rising Empire ruled by Galactic Emperor Sheev Palpatine. However he sent his new apprentice Darth Vader to wipe out them and deactivate the Separatist Droid Army as a threat to his Empire.

With the end of the Clone Wars, the newly-formed Galactic Empire as the successor to the Old Republic, reintergrated former Separatists worlds into the Empire, with only several holdouts daring to resist the Empire, which were suppressed. But an idealized view of the cause persisted during the Imperial Era, with some still holding secessionist tendencies, even into the New Republic Era.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Seriously you can't introduce a segment with "there are many obvious differences between men and women" and then have a thing about the size of the protuberantia occipitalis externa (Women apparently tend to have a more prominent one)

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm gonna try and make a frappucino. Stand back

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (3 children)

This is good but not worth the effort.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

My professor wrote an erotic thriller and it's really bad.

It's about lesbians BDSM solving crime, and it's written by a guy who is very obviously very hetero and also has spent 30 years in medicine/academia

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

Two very dangerous combination when done by the average old straight dude writer.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)

my fking dad is showing me this wierd racist video by some chinese web comedians making fun of that indian jet that got shot down, complete with turbans, brown face and a "comedy" indian accent

internet-delenda-est

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

on a road trip so spent my time in the passenger seat reading all of Sacred and Terrible Air, it's a bit hard to penetrate initially but it's good

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

for anyone wondering if living in dublin is good: its not! this city sucks! bad city!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Every Irish person will make sure you know Dublin is bad, I doubt anyone had the opportunity to think otherwise.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

You won't find any Irish prople Dublin down on that

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

i could have been the king of the nerds but nah I needed to like real movies and real music and real books and things that don't suck

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

the Commerce Guild, led by Presidente Shu Mai

What's fun about Star Wars is that this might be a totally random name or the writer was eating dim sum

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

Chancellor Xiao Long Bao was voted out

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I stopped running my Age of Rebellion campaign, but I really wanna do a mission where rebels go scouring tech from an abandoned base but it's actually still run by rogue droids that didn't get shut down with the rest and think the Clone Wars are still going on.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Watched Murderbot diaries with my partner and I surprised how much I empathise with Murderbot seeing as I do event jobs for an art collective that couldn’t manage their way out of a wet paper bag. I kind of passively witness all the interpersonal drama, they keep trying to get me to be more in touch with my spirit or whatever and I have to make sure they don’t hurt themselves as they build rickety ass contraptions with loose wiring and shit. I am also terrible at eye contact.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

i'm always bad posting b/c i'm a certified baddie big-cool

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

Lol my anatomy textbook is taking time out of explaining stuff to tell me how to transvestigate. Beware trans people. I'm coming for your skulls and pelvises. I'm gonna measure the angle between your left and right ramus inferior ossis pubis using the "finger rule".

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (4 children)

i'm unemployed for the next 3 months unless i find summa dat sweet under the table work because why the fuck would I work for free essentially if I get unemployment that I'd lose if I got another job

anyway, know what that means? in addition to now rowing 4.5 miles a day (all at once without stopping, no brakes on this motorized rowboat) i'm gonna get back into doing a stupid number of pushups and situps and squats

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

3 miles and 1000 strokes in my hands start to go numb but then i remind myself im not just rowing for myself, i'm rowing for the revolution, and through the collective will of the proletariat i stroke my way to victory

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

Oh yay, landscaping season is here again. I hated these peaceful quiet mornings, I'm so glad I'm blessed with being woken up by the drone of two stroke engines. I'm extra thankful it seems that everyone has organized to do their landscaping on different days so I don't go a day without waking up to a weed wacker being run into a wall or a lawn mower eating rocks.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

this blows i have to install windows because i couldn't figure out/hit the correct keys in time to make it boot from the usb instead, so i'm going to have to set it up just to restart with the "advanced startup" smdh

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

People who write (sic) when there's no error in the quote should be drawn and quartered

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think I've come across the rare ideological [sic] when reading Roderic Day's essays a couple of times. Like he will put it in a quote when the author he's quoting says something he disagrees with. That rocks IMO.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

shidding and farding (sic) rn

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago

"CIS did nothing wrong"- Hexbear mod

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

Pluto should be a planet. The definition of planet that excludes pluto is a bad definition, it does not include exoplanets that don't orbit a sun and "Clearing it's orbit" is an arbitrary definition that means a planet is only a planet if there's not anything else big in its orbital path. Also what if mercury crosses the orbit of another planet, does either or both planets stop being a planet while that's happening.

Astronomers, justify yourselves.

Edit: wait, hold on. Neptune and Pluto crosses their orbits. Neptune isn't a planet by this definition. And like the definition of "Dwarf planet" is stupid too, because it isn't defined by any kind of actual size. Mercury is only like twice the size of pluto.. what's the limit. Where's the limit. I started off wanting to make a joke about the Pluto thing being messed up, but the pluto thing is actually messed up. This genuinely seems like they sat down and tried to work out a definition that made Pluto not a planet and couldn't come up with anything real.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (8 children)

How do I message the mods?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

howdy-skull

🎢keep a little dirt under my pillow for the dirt man🎢

🎢in case he comes to town🎢

🎢keep a little dirt under my pillow for the dirt man🎢

🎢so he won't take me down🎢

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

my right eye has been twitching on and off since yesterday and it's still going. why did this happen and how to make it stop catgirl-hiss

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