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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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[โ€“] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 7 points 6 months ago

Imagine Nathan Fielder talking to Mr Rogers. That might split atoms

[โ€“] LocalOaf@hexbear.net 7 points 6 months ago

howdy-skull

๐ŸŽถkeep a little dirt under my pillow for the dirt man๐ŸŽถ

๐ŸŽถin case he comes to town๐ŸŽถ

๐ŸŽถkeep a little dirt under my pillow for the dirt man๐ŸŽถ

๐ŸŽถso he won't take me down๐ŸŽถ

[โ€“] GoodGuyWithACat@hexbear.net 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months 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.

[โ€“] flugolem@hexbear.net 7 points 6 months ago (2 children)

how's alex jones doing these days?

[โ€“] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 6 points 6 months ago

Heโ€™s turning frogs gay

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[โ€“] HarryLime@hexbear.net 7 points 6 months ago
[โ€“] Blockocheese@hexbear.net 7 points 6 months ago

Made a really good vinegarette tonight comfy-cool

[โ€“] Carl@hexbear.net 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Made chili today. It was pretty good, but I accidentally left the stove on after scooping out a bowl so when I went to get seconds it was all burned to shit. Feels bad man.

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[โ€“] CrawlMarks@hexbear.net 7 points 6 months ago (5 children)

My crush just asked me if I liked her and I sent her a big text about how much I like her and I have been left on read. Chat I might just need to hold a L on this one.

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[โ€“] AernaLingus@hexbear.net 7 points 6 months ago

VTuber posting

find a Nimi clipping channel I hadn't seen before

"oh cool there's a clip about her talking about how it can be difficult to make sure what you're eating is vegan"

look at the comments

dead-dove-2 dead-dove-3

I won't bothering linking it. The clip itself is just her talking about how food can be sneakily non-vegan (e.g. "non-dairy" creamer having milk proteins and white sugar being made with bone char) and how she just tries her best; the comments are a greatest hits compilation of all the most baby-brained carnist takes: "if you can't completely eliminate animal suffering, there's no point in trying", "it's unnatural," "only privileged people can be vegan," "growing crops hurts the environment even more (???)," "muh B12 deficiency," et cetera. It's hard for me to understand the mindset of someone who considers themself a big fan of a creator and yet is incredibly condescending and dismissive towards a core part of their identity.

Even though there's already general hostility towards vegans, I think a big part of it here is plain ol' freeze-gamer misogyny and the connection (heavily reinforced by advertising) between eating meat and manliness. There's this vibe from a lot of the comments like, "Oh, you sweet little thing, look at you being a silly vegan because you think it'll help the cute widdle animals! You just need a big smart man like me to set you straight." There was at least one comment that more or less said that explicitly catgirl-disgust

[โ€“] ClathrateG@hexbear.net 7 points 6 months ago

When Missus Ned McLean (God bless her)

Can get Russian reds to "yes" her

Then I suppose

Anything goes

[โ€“] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 7 points 6 months ago

I think it's fair to call the vortex ring state the riptide of helicoptering

[โ€“] Blep@hexbear.net 7 points 6 months ago

Indeed changed their site since i was last applying, now i need an account to even click on the link to company sites.

[โ€“] Euergetes@hexbear.net 6 points 6 months ago

installing mods fucking sucks, why isn't there just one big fucking SKSE download with all the goddamned scripts (i know why this is rhetorical). but unforced granularity like this for the best results is what made wabbajack happen, modders need to be more collectively minded

[โ€“] Wmill@hexbear.net 6 points 6 months ago

I wish to drive a golf cart into a ditch, just keep doing this until I fill a ditch with golf karts and it's no longer a ditch.

[โ€“] WizardOfLoneliness@hexbear.net 6 points 6 months ago (6 children)

Turns out you can just buy a kit to assemble an 80 square foot greenhouse for like 350 dollars.........

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[โ€“] Euergetes@hexbear.net 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

real it just works hours my only problem with fedora so far was some strange freeze/lags but it seems to have gone after installing nvidia drivers.

if i can get mod organizer running through steam we might be playing skyrim in a couple days. really stoked

[โ€“] Demifriend@hexbear.net 6 points 6 months ago

Glad to hear Fedoraโ€™s working out nicely so far! I just set up Mod Organizer to use a couple Oblivion mods on Arch like 2 weeks ago and it was super easy, I just added MO to my Steam library and ran it with Proton and it worked just like that. Hopefully itโ€™ll work nicely for you with Skyrim as well.

[โ€“] WhoaSlowDownMaurice@hexbear.net 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

'socialism with american characteristics' where if a service employee messes up your order or makes you irritated or even if you just happen to be irritated while talking to one you can denounce them as a counter-revolutionary and they get sent to a reeducation camp

[โ€“] Woly@hexbear.net 6 points 6 months ago

"Socialism with American characteristics," where there's ample public transportation but all the buses are on lifted truck wheels with blinding headlights.

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[โ€“] buh@hexbear.net 6 points 6 months ago

the only thing I disliked about the new final destination movie is how the hottest character's death was also the most disturbing ohnoes but maybe his hotness was a contributing factor ๐Ÿค”

[โ€“] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 6 points 6 months ago

My work had a flyer taped to the door this morning saying 'restaurant work is fucked, start a union' and a QR code. Over half the kitchen staff are on work visas.

[โ€“] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 6 points 6 months ago

I was the first one in my village to listen to Chapo which explains my terrible political analysis, but then in 2020 I took the china pill, became third-worldist and denounced Bernie Sanders as Hitler from Vermont.

Haven't been wrong since.

[โ€“] WhyEssEff@hexbear.net 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months 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

[โ€“] wombat@hexbear.net 6 points 6 months ago

it is may 18 and stalin saved the world from fascism

[โ€“] Woly@hexbear.net 6 points 6 months ago

tromp

"Wishing Sleepy Joe the best of luck in his battle against terrible cancer! Here's one fight I hope he DOESN'T lose!!"

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