Confederacy of Independent Systems
"The Republic cannot be fixed, m'lady. It is time to start over."―Count Dooku to Padmé Amidala[src]"The Republic cannot be fixed, m'lady. It is time to start over."―Count Dooku to Padmé Amidala [src]
The Confederacy of Independent Systems, also known as the Confederacy, the Separatist Confederacy,[2] the New Order, the pro-secessionists,[3] colloquially as Separatists or Seps for short, nicknamed the Sepies by clone troopers and lesser known as the Separatist Alliance,[4] was the government and separatist movement publicly led by Count Dooku, a.k.a. Darth Tyranus, (and secretly led by Darth Sidious) formed by various planetary and sectorial governments, as well as some mega-corporations, that declared intentions to leave the Galactic Republic, refusing to comply with its excessive taxation[5] and corruption in the Senate during the Separatist Crisis.[6]
"The Republic cannot be fixed, m'lady. It is time to start over."―Count Dooku to Padmé Amidala[src]"The Republic cannot be fixed, m'lady. It is time to start over."―Count Dooku to Padmé Amidala [src]
The Confederacy of Independent Systems, also known as the Confederacy, the Separatist Confederacy,[2] the New Order, the pro-secessionists,[3] colloquially as Separatists or Seps for short, nicknamed the Sepies by clone troopers and lesser known as the Separatist Alliance,[4] was the government and separatist movement publicly led by Count Dooku, a.k.a. Darth Tyranus, (and secretly led by Darth Sidious) formed by various planetary and sectorial governments, as well as some mega-corporations, that declared intentions to leave the Galactic Republic, refusing to comply with its excessive taxation[5] and corruption in the Senate during the Separatist Crisis.[6]