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Confederacy of Independent Systems / Separatist Alliance
In General
- Asshole Victim: The Separatist Council helped start the Clone Wars, are guilty of a laundry list of war crimes and other atrocities, and most of their members are Corrupt Corporate Executives running the very same greedy Mega Corps responsible for the Republic's gradual slide into decadence and corruption, while using Screw the Rules, I Have Money! to escape facing any consequences for it. Needless to say, they receive a very fitting end when the Crimson Razors (who don't give two hoots about the Council's money or political connections) eradicate them like the parasitic vermin they are through Exterminatus during the battle for Raxus Secundus. Dooku doesn't even think twice about abandoning the Council to die, lying to them that it is safer to remain on the planet instead of evacuating like he did. Grievous also doesn't seem too upset with the news of their endangerment, deliberately making little-to-no effort to rescue the Council when his fleet comes to Raxus Secundus's defense late in the battle.
- Butt-Monkey: The Confederacy has done very poorly against the Imperium with several of their fleets smashed and their capital planet Raxus Secundus destroyed via orbital bombardment. Later on Thune's fleet destroys many of the Confederate worlds after temporarily smashing the droid armies' command chain.
- Decapitated Army: The loss of General Grievous and most of the Separatist leadership during the destruction of Raxus Secundus leaves the Separatist Droid Army in chaos and unable to organize a coordinated defense against the Crimson Razors. Dooku awakens the true Grievous in hopes of subverting this, but is left back at square one when the true Grievous goes rogue.
- Enemy Civil War: Following the events of Episode 31, there are now two factions of the Confederacy. There's the remnants of the original CIS under Dooku's leadership who are struggling to survive against the Crimson Razors' genocidal invasion following the destruction of Raxus Secundus and much of the fake Grievous's fleet. Then there's the Renegade Splinter Faction formed by the true Grievous after he goes rogue and cuts off all ties with the Sith.
- Make Way for the New Villains: The Confederacy becomes much less of a threat to the Republic after the Crimson Razors destroy Raxus Secundus, seemingly kill Grievous, and go on a genocidal killing spree throughout Separatist space.
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: The entire point of the Confederacy's existence was to serve as a boogeyman to scare the Galactic Republic into heavily militarizing and becoming increasingly authoritarian as part of the Sith's Grand Plan to transform the Republic into a dictatorial empire. With the Imperium intervening in the Clone Wars and proving to be a much greater threat than the Confederacy ever could have been, the Separatists are no longer needed to serve as an excuse for Palpatine to seize more power, something which Dooku makes clear when he abandons all the Separatists he rallied to his cause on Raxus Secundus to their deaths.
Separatist Leadership
Count Dooku
A former member of the Jedi Order who became the new apprentice to Darth Sidious. Dooku formed the Confederacy of Independent Systems as part of his masters plan to take over the Galaxy.
- Aristocrats Are Evil: Dooku is the Count of Serenno and has no problems with murder, genocide, betrayal, and helping to start a pan-galactic war that has claimed billions. Upon seeing him for the first time, Araknus can't help but compare his aristocratic attire and his imperious attitude with that of Inquisitors and Lord Generals he's met in the past, and those guys aren't exactly nice.
- Bad Boss: Is perfectly willing to abandon the Separatist Council and Senate to their deaths without even trying to save them despite him being the one who founded their nation in the first place. He also betrays Grievous letting him be imprisoned on Hypori for three years despite his loyal service.
- Big Bad Wannabe: Dooku despite his Smug Snake tendencies was always a much smaller threat compared to Sidious. With the Imperials on the rise however he is barely even a threat anymore. His Confederacy has been shattered with its capital and its most vital worlds in ashes. What's more, the true Grevious has realized how Dooku and Sidious have betrayed him and has gone rogue, leaving Dooku without his best general and it's been hinted that Grevious will grow to be a far greater threat than Dooku has ever been.
- Blatant Lies: Tells the true Grievous that the reason he had been kept asleep for the last three years was due to a problem he had when he was recovering from the battle of Hypori before then talking about the Imperials and how they had just destroyed Raxus Secundus and were obliterating the Confederacy making it clear that the reason he was awoken was because he was needed.
- A Day in the Limelight: Downplayed. Dooku gets an Intro-Only Point of View in Episode 31 which, among other things, gives insight into Dooku's inner thoughts and how he views himself, the Jedi, and Palpatine.
- Evil Brit: Per canon, the author voices Dooku with a British accent reminiscent of a haughty aristocrat.
- Evil Feels Good: The primary reason Dooku has remained a Sith and never once considered turning back to the Light Side is because he enjoys all the power, control, and freedom that aligning with Sidious and the Dark Side has afforded him.
- Evil Old Folks: Per canon, he's an human elderly Sith Lord with an aging body and white hair. Araknus notes that Dooku clearly hasn't had access to the Imperium's rejuvenate drugs yet he still proves to be extremely dangerous.
- A God Am I: His POV segment at the start of Episode 31 reveals that he views himself and Sidious as deities, and considers all the Separatists who follow him to be no more than puny mortal worshippers whose lives he could snuff out on a whim if he so desired.
- Lack of Empathy: Towards the Separatist Council and the people of Raxus Secundus. Dooku's reaction to learning that the Separatist military won't be able to stop the Imperials from destroying Raxus Secundus is to callously abandon the planet's people and escape unnoticed while the Imperials are distracted slaughtering the Separatist Council. Then there's what he actually says in response to being told that everyone on Raxus will die:Dooku: [lets out a mildly disappointed sigh] A pity. Truly, a pity.
- Master Swordsman: Dooku is regarded as one of the greatest swordsmen in the Galaxy, having mastered multiple forms of lightsaber fencing. He proves his credentials by killing an entire squad of Space Marines, admittedly picking them off one at a time and being exhausted after doing so.
- No-Nonsense Nemesis:
Word of God says that when Dooku killed Araknus's Space Marine squad, he ambushed each of the Marines one-by-one and immediately dispatched them with one-hit kills to the head before any of them knew what hit them or could warn the others. - Not-So-Harmless Villain: Heavily downplayed. Dooku himself was never portrayed or treated as harmless in any sense of the word, but his first physical appearance in the series comes after the Confederacy had been subjected to Make Way for the New Villains by the Imperium, who had basically replaced them as the antagonists of the Clone Wars. Dooku's appearance in Episode 24 sees him easily defeat Brother Araknus, who had previously bested Admiral Trench in Season 1 and had been on a winning streak since then, reminding everyone that the Sith are still a serious threat even if they are no longer the main focus of the story's conflict.
- Pre-Mortem One-Liner: Says one to Brother Araknus after stabbing the Astartes through the heart with his lightsaber, right before he finishes his opponent off by moving his lightsaber so that it cuts through Araknus's second heart.Dooku: You lost the war before you started, fool.
- Shock and Awe: He has mastered the Sith technique of Force Lightning, which lets him fire lightning from his hands and is one of the few canonical Force techniques that compare to the Imperium's arsenal of offense psionic powers.
- Smug Snake: Extremely arrogant and dismissive of almost everyone other then Sidious.
- Unwitting Pawn: Is Palpatine's puppet and seems to have absolutely no idea that he plans to get rid of him when his usefulness ends.
- You Fool!: He calls Araknus a fool as part of his Pre-Mortem One-Liner.
- You Have Out Lived Your Usefulness: Dooku's attitude towards the Separatist Council when he leaves them to die after accepting that Raxus Secundus is lost.
General Grievous
The Supreme Commander of the Confederacy of Independent Systems droid army. Grevious was a Kaleesh Warlord with a grudge against the Jedi who was recruited by the Sith to lead the Separatist war effort.
- Adaptational Backstory Change: Has a completely different backstory than his Legends counterpart for why he hates the Jedi. In Legends, Grievous was once a highly-beloved military leader who led his enslaved people to rebel against a predatory alien species, only to then be subjugated by the Jedi when said predatory aliens played the victim and deceived the Jedi into helping them quash their slaves' uprising. Here, he was just some random warrior who envied the Jedi's Force powers until the Jedi rejected him for not being Force-sensitive, leading to a lifelong obsession with destroying the Jedi for this perceived slight. The real Grievous averts this by having the exact same backstory that he had in Legends.
- Bad Boss: It's mentioned that he regularly opens fire on his own soldiers (organics and droids alike) if it means gaining an advantage in a battle.
- Death in the Limelight: Episode 31 is centered around Grievous and over a third of the episode is told from this guy's point-of-view. It's also the episode where he dies, thus paving the way for the true Grievous.
- Dies Differently In The Adaptation: In canon, Grievous dies on Utapau when Obi-Wan tears open his chest plate and shoots his few remaining organic organs with Grievous's own blaster. Here, he is instead killed in an elaborate trap set by Davik Thune, who lures Grievous onto a Cruiser and then has the Techmarine aboard overload the ship's Warp core, detonating the vessel and killing Grievous in the blast.
- Driven by Envy: He was originally a Kaleesh warrior who was envious of the Jedi for their Force powers and desired to have them himself. However, when his request to join the Jedi Order was rejected due to him not being Force-sensitive, Grievous took it as a personal insult and dedicated the rest of his life to killing every last Jedi while augmenting himself with more and more cybernetic parts to enhance his strength, durability, and speed. It's implied that Grievous believes that killing every Jedi using nothing but his cybernetic enhancements and warrior prowess will prove to everyone that he is better than the Jedi and doesn't need the Force to be powerful.
- Dropped a Bridge on Him: Is killed in his first appearance in the story making way for the real Grievous.
- Evil Is Petty: His reason for hating the Jedi and killing many of them. They wouldn't let him join the Order because he didn't have the Force, ignoring that it's impossible to be a Jedi without Force-sensitivity.
- Flanderization: His tendency to break down into wheezing coughs from canon gets dialed all the way up to eleven here to the point of being a Character Tic.
- From Nobody to Nightmare: He went from being some unknown Kaleesh warrior that the Jedi rejected to a feared Jedi killer and the supreme commander of the largest droid army in galactic history.
- Frontline General: Probably his only real virtue is this. Davik Thune uses it against him however drawing him onto a ship that had been set to explode which kills him.
- Heroic Wannabe: His backstory is that he was a wandering Kaleesh warrior who wanted to become a Jedi. However, he lacked the Force-sensitivity as well as any of the qualities the Jedi value like compassion and selflessness. His only motivation for wanting to become a Jedi was that he wanted their Force powers for himself. Obviously the Jedi Order rejected him on the spot with the Temple Guards refusing to even grant him an audience with the Jedi High Council.
- I Am the Noun: He says a variation of this to Brother Tasleon in Episode 31 when he asserts that it doesn't matter how many Separatist worlds the Imperials destroy.Grievous: Some worlds may burn, but so as I live, the Confederacy lives!
- I Know Karate: As he prepares to battle Tasleon aboard the bridge of a disabled Imperial Cruiser, Grievous says this after seeing Tasleon dispatch his MagnaGuards.Grievous: I have been personally trained in lightsaber combat by Count Dooku. Even the Jedi cannot stand before me!
- Inadequate Inheritor: Compared to the real Grievous, this one was a bad joke. The real Grevious could fight multiple Jedi Masters at once and win, this one had difficulty with fighting Ahsoka one on one. He also walks right into a trap the Imperials set while the true Grievous catches them in a trap.
- Insane Troll Logic: When the Jedi refused to let him join their Order because he wasn't Force-sensitive, Grievous decided this meant the Jedi were to blame for his lack of Force-sensitivity.
- It's All About Me: Legends Grievous hated the Jedi for all the suffering they caused his people. This Grievous hates the Jedi because they wouldn't let him join them. The author has stated that this Grievous didn't fight in the Huk War and didn't care about the other Kaleesh, only about getting power for himself.
- Killed Mid-Sentence: He's in the middle of issuing orders to his forces over comms when the Imperial Cruiser he's aboard self-destructs.Grievous: All forces, retreat from the ship! Now-
- Lack of Empathy: He cares about nothing and no one outside of himself, his quest for power and glory, and his Roaring Rampage of Revenge against the Jedi. Upon seeing the devastation of Raxus Secundus, Grievous shows zero concern for the safety of Dooku, the Separatist Council, or any of the countless civilians living on the planet. He even seems to view compassion as a weakness and mentally thanks the Separatist Council for getting killed because it forces the Imperial fleet to take up a formation that leaves them vulnerable to Grievous's counterattack.
- Legacy Character: He's actually the second individual to hold the mantle of General Grievous.
- Murder by Inaction: When the Imperials start bombing Raxus Secundus's surface, Grievous doesn't care that the Separatist Council is on the planet and makes next-to-no effort to rescue them, instead internally thanking the Separatist Council for their "sacrifice".
- No Name Given: His real name prior to replacing Sheelal as General Grievous is never revealed with Sidious claiming its unimportant when Dooku asked.
- Not Good with Rejection: His backstory is that he wanted to join the Jedi Order due to envying their power, only to be rejected because he couldn't use the Force. His response? Throw in his lot with the Sith and dedicate the rest of his life to eradicating every single Jedi, deciding that if he can't be a Jedi then no one can.
- Opportunistic Bastard: When Palpatine recalled the entire Republic Navy back to defend Coruscant at Tarkin's advice, Grievous immediately leaps at the opportunity to launch a massive counterattack on all fronts, defeating the Outer Rim Sieges and reclaiming dozens of previously lost Separatist worlds.
- Overshadowed by Awesome: For all the jokes that are made about how much of a General Failure Grievous was in The Clone Wars, this fic depicts him as being a competent tactician. This version of Grievous mentions having led Operation Durge's Lance, widely regarded as the Confederacy's greatest and most successful military campaign in the Legends continuity. Throughout his appearance in Episode 31, he behaves analytically (gathering intelligence on the Imperials' capabilities before going to fight them), employs cunning tactics (such as spreading out his fleet's formation to negate the effects of the Imperial Nova Cannons), and shows long-term thinking (compiling a list in his head of which CIS worlds he should prioritize defending after learning of the Crimson Razors' plan to divide their fleet and hit all of the Confederacy's most important worlds simultaneously). As a warrior, this Grievous is also not half bad; he's a Frontline General able to turn the tide of a battle with his presence and is even shown to be a match for Tasleon in a direct fight. Tasleon is a Techmarine who had just earlier destroyed an entire squad of MagnaGuards singlehandedly. Unfortunately for Grievous, the enemy commander he was up against happened to be a centuries-old Chapter Master who totally outclassed him in every way imaginable. And that's not even getting into how much this imposter pales in comparison to the real deal.
- Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Literally everything he has done during the Clone Wars, from allying with the Sith to transforming himself into a cyborg, has all been in service to one singular goal: getting revenge on the Jedi for rejecting him. And Grievous doesn't care how many innocent lives he has to destroy in order to achieve his vengeance.
- Small Name, Big Ego: He boasts about being the greatest warrior in the Galaxy as he prepares to fight Brother Tasleon in Episode 31. This is the same guy whose track record in The Clone Wars includes failing to kill Kit Fisto, losing a lightsaber duel with Ventress, getting defeated and captured by Gungans, and failing to kill a group of younglings being led by a Padawan Ahsoka.
- Smarter Than They Look: For all that he's an Adaptational Wimp when compared to his Legends counterpart, there are still moments that show this version of Grievous is more intelligent than many give him credit for. For instance, during the Battle of Raxus Secundus, Grievous quickly identifies the Imperial Navy's Nova Cannons as one of their most dangerous weapons and correctly deduces that they must have a limited supply of these armaments based on the fact that the Imperials aren't simply spamming them for all they're worth. Thus he has his ships organized in a loose formation so that they're just far apart enough to negate the Nova Cannons' Splash Damage.
- The Sociopath: He doesn't give a damn about anything except himself, explicitly boasting to Tasleon that he doesn't care how many Confederate worlds the Imperials destroy so long as he himself is still alive. This extends to his own species as he didn't participate in the Huk War or do anything to help alleviate the suffering of his fellow Kaleesh. He is smug, extremely ruthless, only cares about getting power for himself, and views compassion as a weakness. He doesn't flinch an eye at the Imperials' brutal orbital bombardment of Raxus Secundus (which killed millions if not billions of civilians) and willingly commits Murder by Inaction by refusing the rescue the Separatist Council (who Grievous is supposed to serve and protect) in favor of using them as live bait to attempt to trap the invading Imperial fleet. He shows a complete unwillingness to accept any of his shortcomings and faults; in his backstory, upon being told that he couldn't join the Jedi Order due to not being Force-sensitive, Grievous employed mental gymnastics to convince himself that it was somehow the Jedi's fault he couldn't use the Force and devoted the rest of his life to genociding the Jedi for this perceived slight. He's also somewhat impulsive and predictable as he immediately decided that he just had to capture an Imperial warship after seeing their powerful weapons technologies, and even personally boards a disabled Imperial cruiser to capture it himself when his regular battle droids couldn't, resulting in his death as he never once considered the possibility that the ship was set to explode until it was too late.
- Villain of Another Story: For most of Season 2. It's established at the start of the season that while the Republic and Jedi are preoccupied dealing with the Imperial occupation of Axum, Grievous is busy conquering vast swaths of undefended Republic space now that nearly all of the Republic's military assets have been recalled to Coruscant.
- Worthy Opponent: He is impressed by the Imperials' surprise attack on Raxus Secundus, viewing it as a gutsy move which even a maverick like Anakin Skywalker would never have attempted at any point during the Clone Wars.
Spoiler Character
Qymaen jai Sheelal / The True Grievous
Grievous in the aftermath of the Battle of Hypori was secretly imprisoned by Dooku and Sidious out of fear that he would grow out of their control and had a more malleable replacement take his name. With the Imperial invasion underway and the fake Grievous dead, Dooku reawakens him.- The Ace: An outstanding warrior capable of overpowering both Jedi and Space Marines by himself, Grievous is also an exceptional strategist and tactician who led the Kaleesh tribes to victory over the more advanced Huk invaders.
- Ambiguous Situation: It's unclear if he recovered his memories as a side effect of his Bacta treatments and Kaleesh biology, the sheer weight of losing his wife, or from the Midocholorian-rich blood of Sifo-Dyas flowing through his veins.
- Asskicking Leads to Leadership: How he became the leader of the Kaleesh was by being so ridiculously good at killing Huk in addition to being a great leader. He was so good that his people believe that he is an actual demigod.
- Berserk Button:
- When he wakes up and realizes that Dooku tried to erase his memory of his previous life as a Kaleeshi Warlord and of his first wife, he goes absolutely nuts.
- He hates being called a droid.
- The Chessmaster: Not only is this Grievous a better fighter then the fake he is also much smarter. Predicts the actions an Imperial Battlegroup will take perfectly and destroys it.
- The Dog Bites Back: Grievous, after having been kept asleep for three years by the Sith is awakened by Dooku. However, he regains all his memories and realizes that Dooku and Sidious had attempted to remove his memories of Ronderu lij Kummar and that he was nothing but a pawn to them goes rogue and has come to despise the Sith even more than the Jedi.
- Empowered Badass Normal: Before his conversion into a cyborg, Grievous was already an excellent strategist, peerless marksman, and master swordsman. His cybernetic enhancements and training with Count Dooku have made him even stronger than before.
- Played With in regards to the transfusion of Midocholorian-rich blood from the deceased Jedi Master Sifo-Dyas he received. At the time of the Battle of Hypori, Dooku stated that Grievous had not even the barest hint of Force-Sensitivity despite the transfusion and Sith Sorcery applied to him. However, the narration upon his awakening implies that it may be the cause of his restored memory, though it is equally possible that it was an unintended side-effect of the Bacta treatments he was subject to while in stasis combined with the regenerative capabilities of Kaleesh minds, and Dooku suspected that he was already beginning to recover his memories prior to being interred and that the loss of his wife simply weighed that heavily on his soul.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Qymaen jai Sheelal loved Ronderu lij Kummar with all his heart and has never truly recovered from her death. The very reason he took the name Grievous was his grieving over her. He also loves his people-the Kaleesh-completely and unconditionally, and was even willing to serve as a debt collector for the Banking Clan to aid them (to a proud warrior like Grievous, serving as the enforcer to a bunch of money-grubbing bankers would have been both humiliating and demeaning).
- Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: Upon realizing that Dooku and Sidious tried to wipe his memory of his past life and altered his brain, Sheelal immediately turns his back on the Sith and strikes out on his own.
- The Mourning After: Even after all the time that's passed and everything that's been done to him, Qymaen jai Sheelal still loves his deceased wife Ronderu lij Kummar with such a fierceness that, after recovering his memory of her and realizing that Dooku suppressed those memories to try and control him, he immediately severs ties with the Sith Lords and decides he hates them even more than the Jedi.
- Outside-the-Box Tactic: One of the key differences between him and his imposter. The fake Grievous, while a fairly competent tactician, still fought with conventional and by-the-books tactics. Sheelal, on the other hand, is shown to use unconventional tactics like filling up his starships with Space Mines to counter ramming Imperial vessels and outfitting his droids with scavenged Space Marine Bolters to use against Vordran and his Marines in Episode 33.
- Quality over Quantity: After cutting ties with Dooku, Sheelal orders the droid factories under his control to cease all production of the B1 Battle Droids due to how useless they were against the Imperium even with overwhelming numbers. He then orders all the resources originally used for producing the B1s to instead go into producing more of the B2 Super Battle Droids, which are more advanced and have heavier armor.
- Red Baron: Becomes known as the "Bane of Razors" due to how effective he is at combating the Crimson Razors.
- Rightful King Returns: Upon awakening and severing all ties with Dooku, he decides to send a message in Kaleeshi to his homeworld to let them know that the true General Grievous has returned. Considering how even as a young man, he was venerated by his people as a demigod of war, and the author has confirmed that he has plans for Grievous's many sons, the Kaleesh will soon form the vanguard of his new army.
- Shoot the Dangerous Minion: Downplayed. Sheelal proved to be so dangerous that both Sidious and Dooku believed he would eventually grow impossible to control and had him replaced. However, instead of killing him, they simply had him put into stasis and hidden away in an underground bunker as a contingency should he be needed in the event of a Godzilla Threshold.
- Stealthy Colossus: His ten-foot tall metallic body is swift and quiet enough to stalk and ambush a fireteam of (injured) Astartes, dragging one away and killing him before the rest can react.
- Tragic Villain: Grievous may be a monster but he became what he is due largely to Jedi foolishness, Huk brutality, and Sith scheming.
- Villain Respect: Grevious shows sincere respect for Force Captain Vordran and the Imperials in general regarding their willingness to put their mission before their lives and even gives Vordran a weapon to allow him a warrior's death which the Captain begrudgingly acknowledges as honorable.
- Worthy Opponent: Grevious despises the Jedi but regards the Imperials or at least the Space Marines as true warriors similar to himself.
Separatist Navy
Admiral Trench
A Harch cyborg who served as an admiral in the Separatist Navy. He commanded the Separatists' forces during the Battle of Anaxes.
- Adaptational Wimp: Not that it would have him done much good against the Crimson Razors, but canon Trench had an Arm Cannon that fired an electrical shock net and a Sword Cane with a concealed taser that he used against Anakin when the Jedi entered his flagship's bridge during the Battle of Anaxes. This version of Trench has neither, and he pretty much just gives up as soon as Araknus takes out all the battle droids guarding his ship's bridge.
- Better to Die than Be Killed: Implied. After telling the Crimson Razors that Dooku would kill him for losing Anaxes, he deliberately tears apart his own mind in his struggle to deny Taselon access to the disarming codes to the planet-cracking bomb on Anaxes that were stored in his brain.
- Cyborg: In addition to his obvious cybernetic augmentations from canon, this version of Trench is also shown to have parts of his brain replaced with cybernetic parts. This bites him in the ass when it enables Tasleon to use his servo-arms to hack into Trench's brain and forcibly extract important data.
- Dies Differently in Adaptation: In canon, Anakin kills him by stabbing him through the chest with a lightsaber. Here, Trench rips apart his own mind while trying to stop a Techmarine from extracting important data from his cybernetic brain.
- Dropped a Bridge on Him: In canon, he's known as a brilliant and feared tactician, and was the Arc Villain for the Bad Batch arc of The Clone Wars. Here, he's unceremoniously defeated by the Crimson Razors in his first appearance and dies from a Mind Rape inflicted onto him by a Techmarine.
- Know When to Fold 'Em: In canon, when Anakin stormed the bridge of Trench's flagship to get the disarming codes for the planet-cracking bomb, Trench did put up a fight by firing a stun net which Anakin dodged, and later shocking Anakin with a concealed taser in his cane. Here, however, he tries none of that when his ship gets boarded by a squad of Astartes, likely recognizing that neither of those weapons would be of much use against heavily-armored super soldiers.
- Mind Rape: After the Crimson Razors take over his flagship, Trench gets his cybernetic brain forcibly hacked by Brother Tasleon when he refuses to cooperate with the Razors' demands.
- Oh, Crap!: His reaction upon realizing that Tasleon is hacking into his brain in search of the disarming codes for his bomb on Anaxes. He visibly panics hard and eventually tears apart his own mind in his struggle to prevent Tasleon from gaining access to the codes.
- Villain of Another Story: Prior to the Imperials upstaging him, Trench had been the main antagonist for the Battle of Anaxes, having led a Separatist fleet into the heart of the Core Worlds to directly assault Anaxes, one of the Republic's most vital and historically important fortress worlds. When he appears in this series, however, he's just some minor enemy admiral that the Crimson Razors easily dispatch in order to show how much of a threat they are.
Admiral Borvant
A Siniteen admiral who commanded the Separatist home defense fleet from his flagship Confederate Pride. He is killed by Davik Thune during the Crimson Razors' assault on Raxus Secundus.
- Big "WHAT?!": His reaction upon learning that the Space Marine who has boarded his ship is standing right outside the door to his bridge after assuming that the droidekas he sent were enough to stop him.
- Classy Cane: He has a cane which seems to serve more as a status symbol than for walking assistance given how he seems to have no trouble walking around without it.
- Cruel and Unusual Death: Borvant gets sucked out into the cold vacuum of space when Thune smashes the windows of his ship's bridge. Right before Borvant's body leaves through the broken window, Thune holds his Lightning Claw out right in front of Borvant, dicing his body into small pieces.
- Defiant to the End: Even with most of his fleet destroyed and the bridge of his flagship taken over by Thune, Borvant remains defiant in the face of certain death and boasts to his killer that more Separatist reinforcements will be coming to crush the Imperials. Not that it helped him much in the end.
- Even Evil Has Standards: He finds the sheer hateful and petty behavior that Thune shows towards battle droids (such as taking the time to crush the heads of already destroyed droids with his boots) to be extreme and unnerving.
- General Failure: While not as egregious as some of the other examples of this trope, he still deluded himself into thinking that he was winning a battle in which over half his fleet had been destroyed while the enemy fleet had taken next to no losses. During the same battle, he also wastes time daydreaming about how awesome he thinks he is instead of focusing on the battle itself.
- Miles Gloriosus: He considers himself to be both an unbeatable leader and a genius admiral. However, he shows himself to be extremely inadequate when facing Davik Thune's fleet and the Separatists suffer a brutal Curb-Stomp Battle that ends with their fleet obliterated and the planet burnt. While it was true that the Imperial fleet did badly outmatch the Confederacy, the admiral does not help matters by daydreaming about how awesome he is and not paying attention to the rapidly losing battle, remaining blindly optimistic despite losing half his fleet, and panicking after seeing Thune destroy a squad of commando droids.
- Motive Misidentification: He's under the impression that the Imperials attacking Raxus Secundus seek to occupy the planet. It's only during his dying moments that he realizes the Imperials' true goal is to destroy Raxus via Orbital Bombardment.
- Oh, Crap!: Has this reaction twice. First is when he sees Davik Thune take out an entire squad of commando droids sent to stop him with a single swipe from his Power Claw. The second time is when he witnesses most of the Separatist home defense fleet get wiped out by a single shot from a Nova Cannon.
- One-Shot Character: Is only featured in the mini episode "Davik Thune and the Droids" and never appears again.
- Original Character: He is an OC created by the author for this series and has no canon counterpart.
- Thrown Out the Airlock: He has long been afraid of suffocating to death in the void of space, which is what initially comes to his mind when Thune smashes the transparisteel windows of his dreadnought's bridge.
- Underestimating Badassery: When his bridge crew reports that the Imperials have sent only a single Space Marine to board his ship, he arrogantly dismisses the Marine as a threat and pays little attention as the Astartes effortlessly tears through every droid sent his way. It's only when the Astartes is literally banging on the door to his bridge that Borvant starts to realize just how badly he screwed up.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: Is introduced and killed off in the same mini-episode.
Separatist Army
Battle Droids
The Separatist forces are officially divided into two groups; the planetary defense forces of worlds that have joined the Separatist cause, who tend to focus on their homeworlds, and the Battle Droids, the mass-produced cybernetic troopers that are the primary offensive forces of the Confederacy.
- Cannon Fodder: Being made as cheaply as possible, with bare minimum armor and primitive processors, the basic B-1 droid troopers are chaff in the face of even Clone Troopers, never mind the Space Marines currently assaulting Seperatist space. Their only saving grace is that there's an endless supply of them, and even that's little use given their reliance on central processing hubs and the Space Marines' skill at tactical decapitations.
- Elite Mook: The higher grades of Battle Droid are better than their B-1 droid trooper counterparts... but still usually not much of a threat.
- B-2 "Super Battle Droids" are the most common of the higher-tier Battle Droid, and are basically heavily armored Dumb Muscle.
- B-3 "Ultra Battle Droids" are a Giant Mook version of the B-2s.
- Droidekas, or "Destroyer Droids", are fast-moving mobile gunners armed with forcefields that make them much harder to kill than any standard Battle Droid.
- IG-series are elite bodyguard and assassin droids, and as such are quicker, stronger, tougher and smarter than any of the standard models.
- AQ-series "Aqua Droids" are designed specifically for use on water worlds.
- BX-series "Commando Droids" are a cheaper (though still very expensive) alternative to the IG-series, and thus much more common.
- Fantastic Racism: Battle Droids are hated by pretty much everyone except maybe their own masters. The Clone Troopers hate them as the enemy and refer to them as "clankers", the Republic considers their very existence to be a low-grade war crime, and the Imperium literally views them as daemonic.
- Mecha-Mooks: The B-1 droid troopers were made to be cheap and quick to build, resulting in individually subpar fighters that are only dangerous in numbers.
- Replacement Mooks: The true Grievous has his Renegade Splinter Faction cease all production of the B1 droids due to how useless they are against the Imperials and has them replaced with B2 super battle droids.
- Ridiculously Human Robot: Per canon, the B1 battle droids display alarmingly human-like behavior and a wide range of emotions. The ones in the "Davik Thune and the Droids" mini-episode demonstrate awe and wonder at Thune when he singlehandedly dispatches a squad of BX commando droids, then fear when they see Thune crush those same commando droids' heads under his boots. One B1 even covers its own optics to avoid looking at the footage of Thune crushing the droid heads due to finding the sight so traumatizing. When Thune smashes his way into the bridge of the Confederate Pride, all of the B1 droids present scream in terror and abandon their stations to run away.
- Robot Soldier: The Battle Droids are literally robots programmed to kill people as ordered, a very rare thing in the Star Wars galaxy. They were fielded because, after centuries of peace, standing militaries were a rare thing in the galaxy, so it was deemed quicker and easier to create robot soldiers than to try and train living troops. They were also considered cheaper and easier to use than living soldiers.
- We Have Reserves: The reason why the Separatists rely on Battle Droids as their primary troopers; the enemy can blow up as many as they like, but the Separatists can just churn out endless replacements.
- Zerg Rush: The Confederacy's approach to using Battle Droids; flooding the battlefield with trillions of cheaply made, largely expendable droid soldiers. Deconstructed in that the Confederacy's cost-cutting methods, which include limited armor and low-grade intelligence circuitry, makes the Battle Droids largely chaff in the face of Super-Soldier type forces, such as the Jedi or the Space Marines.
