History Characters / StarWarsSeparatistAlliance

* SchrodingersCanon: In ''Legends'', he is a schemer such as [[TheStarscream trying to overthrow Dooku to become the new leader of the Separatists by pushing for an early attack on the Kaminoain cloning facilites]] and invading the Republic world of Ukio, though he fails in those efforts.

The Confederacy of Independent Systems, also known as the Separatist Alliance, was an organization of solar systems that declared their departure from the [[Characters/StarWarsGalacticRepublic Galactic Republic]]. Led by Count Dooku and backed by corporate titans that offered their unlimited droid armies to the cause, the Separatists waged war with the Republic during a legendary conflict known as the Clone Wars. Unbeknownst to most members of the Separatists, they were actually pawns in [[Characters/StarWarsEmperorPalpatine Darth Sidious]]' plan to transform the Republic into [[Characters/StarWarsGalacticEmpire the Empire]] and destroy the [[Characters/StarWarsJediOrder Jedi Order]].

The Confederacy of Independent Systems, also known as the Separatist Alliance, was an organization of solar systems that declared their departure from the Galactic Republic. Led by Count Dooku and backed by corporate titans that offered their unlimited droid armies to the cause, the Separatists waged war with the Republic during a legendary conflict known as the Clone Wars. Unbeknownst to most members of the Separatists, they were actually pawns in Darth Sidious' plan to transform the Republic into the Empire and destroy the Jedi Order.

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* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Helgait sounds very similar to "Hell Gate", and once he turns out to be the villain of ''The Mandalorian'' Chapter 22, he's not a man anyone can get along.

* TheRemnant: Some leaders and fleets continue fighting long after the war is over, with Imperial Admiral Nils Tenant continuing a pacification campaign at least five years after the Clone Wars ended. The ''Tarkin'' novel explains that Darth Vader led the Empire's forces to grind down their remnants for another 4-5 years after ''Revenge of the Sith'', but after that they ceased to officially control any planets — just isolated survivors here or there, many of whom later joined the nascent Rebel Alliance.

* EvilCounterpart: To Mak Plain. Both are members of the InterGalactic Banking Clan who want to keep the Clone Wars going so they could profit off it. But while Mak realizes that the Core Five have been keeping the profits to themselves and helps Padme and Rush Clovis expose corruption, Nix Card works with Palpatine to ensure he could nationalize the Banking Clan (except for the Muunilinst branch), thus saving the Republic from bankruptcy and having a shitload of money for his future Empire.

* GoodCounterpart: To Nix Card. Both are members of the InterGalactic Banking Clan who want the Clone Wars to keep going so they could profit off it. However, while Nix uses underhanded tatics such as requesting Dooku and Grevious to orchestrate a bombing on Coruscant and working with Palpatine to allow the Republic to nationalize most of the Banking Clan, Mak Plain helps Padme and Clovis expose corruption in the banks and even supports the latter in his nomination to be the new chairman.

* TokenMinority: Similar to Rush Clovis' relationship with the Intergalactic Banking Clan, Gume Saam is an Ishi Tib representing a corporation mostly run by Skakoans.

* BadBoss: He's been known to shoot Separatist droids just for mentioning the word "escape". Not even Commando Droids are safe from him!

* AssholeVictim: Just like the other Separatist leaders, he was killed by Darth Vader in ''Revenge of the Sith''. Aside from being an immoral arms dealer, his atrocities include being trying to have Anakin, Obi-Wan, and Padmé publicly executed by monsters at the start of the war, collaborating with Queen Karina to have the Jedi infected with parasitic brain worms, and being an oppressive ruler.

* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: He was captured during the Second Battle of Geonosis and held in Republic custody for at least one year before being released after pretending to defect. Karma then comes right back to him when Darth Vader kills him and the rest of the Separatist leaders at the end of the war.

* PuppetKing: While he is the face of the Geonosian hives in the Separatist Alliance (and brought his people into it), he is actually subservient to Queen Karina the Great, who [[ShadowDictator rules Geonosis from underground]].

* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Calls Dooku a heroic visionary, not knowing Dooku was a villainous Sith Lord who was just as bad as the corrupt Republic he was trying to oppose and only saw the Separatist movement as a means to an end. To be fair to him, he is not the only former separatist to view Dooku as a hero, since most of them never learned that Dooku worked for Palpatine and view the Republic turning into the empire as proof that Dooku was right.

* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Calls Dooku a heroic visionary, not knowing Dooku was a villainous Sith Lord who was just as bad as the corrupt Republic he was trying to oppose and only saw the Separatist movement as a means to an end.

* CaughtMonologuing: Once he's outed by Din, he goes on a long rant about the term being pejorative and Dooku being a visionary while his hand is over a button that would cause the droids on Plazir-15 to return to their normal settings. Bo-Katan puts an end to his rant while he's not focusing on her with a taser dart, sending him falling to the floor.

!!!'''Homeworld:''' Phasir-15

Helgait is the Head of Security on Phasir-15's city.

* CaughtMonologuing: Once he's outed by Din, he goes on a long rant about the term being pejorative and Dooku being a visionary while his hand is over a button that would cause the droids on Phasir-15 to return to their normal settings. Bo-Katan puts an end to his rant while he's not focusing on her with a taser dart, sending him falling to the floor.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Calls Dooku a heroic visionary, not knowing Dooku was a villainous Sith lord who was just as bad as the corrupt Republic he was trying to oppose and only saw the Separatist movement as a means to an end.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Helgait sounds very similar to Hell Gate, and once he turns out to be the villain of his episode, he's not a man anyone can get along.

%%* BaldOfEvil: It comes with being a Muun.

* EvilCounterpart: To Mak Plain. Both are memebers of the InterGalactic Banking Clan who want to keep the Clone Wars going so they could profit off it. But while Mak realizes that the Core Five have been keeping the profits to themselves and helps Padme and Rush Clovis expose corruption, Nix Card works with Palpatine to ensure he could nationalize the Banking Clan (Expect for the Muunilinst branch), thus saving the Republic from bankrupcty and having a shitload of money for his future Empire.

* RasputinianDeath: R2-D2 sets R3 on fire. R3 then falls to his death and then gets smashed to pieces by a stray piece of debris.

* AxeCrazy: Not only was he willing to unleash the incredibly lethal Blue Shadow Virus into Naboo's ecosystem (and kill all life on the planet, including himself), he's also outright unstable and genuinely excited that the virus could get out of his lab even after he's captured.

* FacialMarkings: Although they're most likely natural for his species.

* KnightTemplar: He thinks he's bringing judgment to the galaxy by releasing the Blue Shadow Virus on its populace, but he's [[AxeCrazy clearly]] [[OmnicidalManiac insane]].

* LaughingMad: When it seems the virus bombs are about to go off.

* MadScientist: What else can you say about someone who thinks bringing back an incredibly lethal virus that can infect any species is a good idea?

* ArcVillain: Of the Citadel arc.
* AxeCrazy: When you threaten droids by "choking" them, you definitely qualify. Also see below at BadBoss.

* BoomHeadshot: He used it on a captured clone trooper.

* HoistHeroOverHead[=/=]KillItWithFire: He attempted to kill Tarkin by throwing him in a lava lake.

* InTheBack: He was stabbed by Ahsoka in the back.

* BizarreAlienLocomotion: The DVD featurette for "[[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS1E21LibertyOnRyloth Liberty on Ryloth]]" suggests that Skakoans might not actually have legs (referencing how Tambor's original ILM model didn't have them), hence why Tambor "scoots" when he "walks".

* VagueAge: ''[[ComicBook/StarWarsDoctorAphra Doctor Aphra]]'' reveals that he got hold of the Triple-Zero protocol personality matrix at least a century before the events of the comic, which makes it clear that Tambor was no less than eighty years old at the time of his death. Whether he was an old man by Skakoan standards isn't clear.

San Hill was the Chairman of the [=InterGalactic=] Banking Clan. He helped lead the Separatists as part of the council of corporate interests who started the war.

Wat Tambor was the Foreman of the Techno Union — which provided a huge chunk of the Separatists’ droid army and weapon technology — and a member of the Separatist Council.

* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: After being convinced by Cody to peacefully stand down, she is almost immediately shot and killed for releasing her hostage. Its even worse than it seems as the reason for why she surrendered in first place to allow some degree of peace to occur for her her fellow citizens, but they’re likely to suffer the abuse of Imperial forces anyway.

* CrazyPrepared: To prepare for a hostile conflict with Imperial forces, she had her remaining battle droid battalion armed with anti-air weapons to shoot down Imperial shuttles, include elite units such as Destroyer Droids and Commando Droids to be deployed during critical moments, and even managed to acquire a Tactical Droid to coordinate her capital’s defense.

* DisproportionateRetribution: On the receiving end. After capturing Governor Grotto, she did not have him tortured in any way and promised to free him and his men as soon as the Galactic Empire recognized Desix's independence. When her rebellion is crushed by Imperial forces and after Ames voluntarily releases Grotto for peace, Grotto has her summarily executed and her body displayed on the streets as a warning to others who would try to rebel.
* FaceDeathWithDignity: After Grotto orders her execution, she doesn’t even bother trying to fight back with her blaster or to escape, instead cynically shrugging to Cody about how she was right all along. When she finally is shot, she simply gives the clone one last sad look before falling over.

* DisproportionateRetribution: On the receiving end. After capturing Governor Grotto, she did not have him tortured in any way and promised to free him and his men as soon as the Galactic Empire recognized Desix's independence. When her rebellion is crushed by Imperial forces and after Ames voluntarily releases Grotto as a sign of goodwill for peace, Grotto has her summarily executed and her body displayed on the streets as a warning to others who would try to rebel.
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: After being convinced by Cody to stand down and release her hostage for the sake of her fellow citizens, Ames gets immediately shot.
* ProperlyParanoid: She knew the Empire would send its military instead of diplomats after she took the Imperial governor hostage due to seeing how the Republic functioned over the Clone Wars, fully believing that peace was never an option.
* TokenGoodTeammate: Continuing the trend of sympathetic Separatists, Ames supported her planet breaking away from the Republic due to genuinely believing the Republic to be as corrupt as Dooku framed it was, and her primary interest was in protecting her fellow citizens from an authoritarian takeover.

* AllThereInTheManual: the full name of the Separatists' rival government, "the Confederacy of Independent Systems", was never actually said aloud throughout the Prequel Trilogy. Instead, in an organizational case of EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep, they're just referred to in dialogue as "the Separatists". Even in the cartoons they tend to get called "the Separatist Alliance" more often. Nor does anyone refer to them in clipped form as "the Confederacy". It's sort of like if in a series about the United States Civil War, the rebel government was pervasively referred to as "the Secessionists" instead of "the Confederate States of America".

* InformedAttribute: ''Revenge of the Sith'''s OpeningScroll says that "there are heroes on both sides", but the Separatists rarely show this off. The closest thing to a heroic character who stayed with the Separatists would probably be Mina Bonteri, who is pretty deep into TokenGoodTeammate territory (to the point of being assassinated by other Separatists). The Separatist leaders we see are corporate directors, war profiteers, and [[ArmyOfThievesAndWhores any criminals they could convince to side with them]], and their armies are almost entirely comprised of {{Killer Robot}}s. ''The Bad Batch'' later shows another heroic senator, Avi Singh, during Common Ground, so it looks like it's not all talk.

* VillainHasAPoint: As much as [[{{Hypocrite}} they are corrupt themselves]] (primarily amongst the Separatist leadership in charge of the war effort), they aren't wrong that the Republic has become nothing but a broken system run by {{Mega Corp}}s and the {{Corrupt Politician}}s they've bribed to carry out their agenda of lining their pockets on the backs of the millions who suffer because of it. Anakin doesn't buy it for a minute, but Ahsoka learns that the situation isn't as black and white as she once thought.

* ShadowArchetype: She's a Separatist-aligned Padmé with a very similar personality and the same goal of finding a peaceful resolution to the war. Unlike Padmé, who has loyal friends like Bail Organa and Mon Mothma, Mina's death is dismissed by her fellow senators, except for her son.

* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Downplayed. ''Legends'' works set in the Clone Wars had the tendency to emphasize the CIS' most sinister and villainous traits, often giving the impression that the Separatist cause was a theoretically idealistic goal which was nonetheless only supported by psychos and douchebags. In contrast, while the villainy remains, ''The Clone Wars'' (and by extension the canon) gave a more visibly optimistic portrayal of the CIS by making Dooku more sympathetic and introducing the Bonteri family.