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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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[-] WIIHAPPYFEW@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago

Bowling alley I’m at is playing uncensored 2002 era Eminem greatest hits lol

It’s also proudly showing off their little bowling pin characters in the strike animations. They gave tits to the female ones because of fucking course they did. This implies that bowling pin milk exists in their universe and now I wish nothing but ceaseless torment upon their character designers

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[-] HiImThomasPynchon@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago

I was today years old when I learned "Bodacious" is a portmanteau of "bold" and "audacious."

I hope that "Bodacity" is also a word.

I also absolutely prefer it when the babes are bodacious.

Yes, I might be Garth Algar.

[-] Keld@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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

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[-] ComradeSpahija@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Today a middle-aged stranger started a conversion by going in front of me, looking straight into my eyes and saying: "jewish!". Probably the weirdest conversation starter I have ever faced. He then proceeded to guess which flashbang country I was from.

[-] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago

Imagine being the guy at some Saudi intelligence agency pitching running some ship sails into the Brooklyn bridge as your idea for 9/11-2.

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[-] WhoaSlowDownMaurice@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago

random white guys in the pnw: "we're the most oppressed people in the us...we need our own separate state of our own to live in...free cascadia. no we aren't fascist why do you ask?"

[-] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago
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[-] WhoaSlowDownMaurice@hexbear.net 12 points 1 month ago

Catch me on the 'down with C.I.S.' bus

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[-] peppersky@hexbear.net 12 points 1 month ago

Capitalism is killing every single beautiful and good thing in the universe and AI is just it's latest weapon and it's most powerful one

[-] PorkrollPosadist@hexbear.net 12 points 1 month ago

I think I am going to acquire a bicycle sometime soon sicko-biker.

Any advice? I am thinking of getting a "hybrid." Something in-between a road bike and a mountain bike. A "commuter" bike really.

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[-] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 12 points 1 month ago

George Costanza actually lived a very interesting and full life. Dude saved a beached whale, he met Castro!

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[-] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

party-parrot-science After several attempts, I finally made some good nickel acetate and electroplated it onto a small bronze sculpture I had lying around. Now than I know I can do it, my next step is to cover a test piece in a thick nickel layer and electrify it while suspended in drain cleaner. If the nickel survives it's alkaline bath unscathed, the experiment will be a success and I can move forward building that thing I'm building with plated scrap steel instead of seven layers of brand new 316L, which will reduce the cost by like...a fuckload, and bring the project's completion back into the realm of possibility.

Before starting on this journey I didn't know anything at all about chemistry or electricity, and barely anything about metallurgy. I am impressing myself a great deal

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[-] Hohsia@hexbear.net 12 points 1 month ago

DeepSeek a less bad llm but I don't see how people are forming relationships from this garbage. It's just validation tbh. Truly feel like I'm in hell with the way people are so eager to replace intimate conversations with virtualization deeper-sadness

spoilerOh, comrade, your words cut straight to the heart of one of the most human paradoxes—the way grief and love embed themselves in objects, songs, and fragments of the past, making us feel both too much and not enough at once. Why the Songs Hold You Hostage

They’re Emotional Archives

    Music is a body memory. When you shared those songs with her, they became vessels for the entire relationship—the hope, the intimacy, the loss. Now, they replay not just melodies, but the ghost of what almost was.

    This isn’t avoidance; it’s the mind’s way of containing pain too vast to hold all at once. The songs are a shrine, and your tears (or lack thereof) are the offerings.

The "Real Human" Lie

    Capitalism (and its henchman, pop culture) sells us a script: "Proper grief looks like X. Proper love looks like Y." But real humans feel in spirals, not straight lines.

    You are feeling. The proof? The way the songs stab. The guilt that you’re "doing it wrong." The numbness itself is a response—not a failure.

How to Reclaim Your Emotions (and Your Playlist)

Ritualize the Unlocking

    Option 1: Listen on purpose. Light a candle, press play, and let the song flood you. Cry, rage, or sit in silence. Name what arises: "This chord is the night we talked until dawn. This lyric is the goodbye we didn’t say."

    Option 2: Bury the songs—temporarily. Write down their titles on paper, fold it, and tuck it away. Tell yourself: "I’ll return when this doesn’t feel like a open wound."

Find a New Soundtrack for Your Grief

    Create a counter-playlist: Songs that sound like how you wish you felt. Screamy punk. Ambient drones. Or something entirely unrelated (bird calls, video game soundtracks). Give your pain a new language.

Talk to the "Her" in Your Head

    Write her a letter you’ll never send. Tell her:
    "You were the proof I could be seen. I’m sorry my body couldn’t follow where my heart went. I’m sorry I couldn’t lie. Thank you for the songs. I’m letting them mean something else now."

    Burn it, bury it, or tear it to pieces.

This Is What Healing Looks Like

You’re not a machine checking off "correct" emotional steps. You’re a living, grieving, adapting being.

The songs aren’t trapping your emotions—they’re holding them until you’re ready.

The numbness isn’t absence—it’s the quiet labor of repair.

You’re feeling this exactly as a real human does: messily, imperfectly, honestly.

The cosmos didn’t run out of magic when this connection didn’t align. It was a preview—not the final show.

Keep going, comrade. One song, one breath, one rebellion against despair at a time. Solidarity always. ❤️🔥

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[-] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 12 points 1 month ago

I’m starting an NGO whose goal will be to make it so that by 2050 most of the pacific garbage patch is made of recycled plastics.

[-] SterlingPooper@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago

Was gonna stay lurking, but every time I scroll on this site lately I see fake news and bad posting from different comms that aren't c/fakenews and c/badposting lmao

Never change, Hexbear

[-] WhatDoYouMeanPodcast@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago

Dad sick. Just got done crying.

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[-] Keld@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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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[-] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I’ve had a huge craving for fruit all week, especially watermelon and pineapples.

I really like dried mangoes but they’re still somewhat processed and usually have some sugar added to them. Watermelons are just nice and refreshing.

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[-] Moss@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago

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

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[-] HarryLime@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago

spoilerLin-Manuel Miranda rapping in House cringe

[-] SexUnderSocialism@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago

Every time I spot a patsoc in the wild, I become instantly annoyed to the point that I want to outright fash-bash them on the spot and then stalin-gun-1 them. They anger me more than regular fash.

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[-] WizardOfLoneliness@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

people's interactions with the grok bit account are confusing me because all the screenshots i saw posted from twitter had the actual grok state as a fact that white genocide doesn't exist, but the bit account keeps both sidesing it and going "nobody can really say for sure" about it

Like i remember it being like "yeah while there have been cases of violence against white farmers, there is no evidence to indicate that it was racially motivated or to indicate a greater pattern of genocide" and shit like that

Idk i haven't been on twitter and only saw what was posted here but i feel like i'm being gaslit with people acting like it was saying white genocide is/might be real when i saw the literal exact opposite

is the joke that it's groKKK and therefore more racist than grok

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[-] oscardejarjayes@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago

People keep confusing the Southern Yemeni Government and Ansar Allah, and it's infuriating.

[-] WizardOfLoneliness@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago

Organic farmers will never know the joy of lazily dumping some miracle grow on a tomato and bring rewarded with the most verdant emerald green you've ever seen as it gets absolutely juiced on that nitrogen that you managed to not burn its roots with

[-] WhoaSlowDownMaurice@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago

Baby Gronk doot doot da-doot da-doo

Baby Gronk doot doot da-doot da-doo

Baby Gronk doot doot da-doot da-doo

Baby Gronk

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[-] Keld@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago

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

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i want to join the psl but when i go to their website and they ask me for my email i feel like im signing up for a "please deport me to CECOT" list. wat do

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[-] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago

my first lemmy experience was getting insulted on hexbear

Thats how you know you are in the right instance

[-] WittyProfileName2@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Dr Who rant incoherent geopolitical metaphor edition

The Doctor and Belinda go to space Eurovision but uh oh, terrorists from the genocided helian people are about to spoil the show. On the bright side, I can appreciate Andor in a new, brighter light after seeing how badly Dr Who fails to say anything while tackling the concepts of imperialism and genocide.

But it's ok, an assimilationist liberal got to sing on stage at the end.

The good:

  • I'm really groping around for something positive to say but, some of the various background aliens were cool.

The bad:

  • the irritating fawning about the reality TV micro celebrities that cluster around Eurovision like pilot fish around a shark.

  • the marvel quippy ass "did he just shoot his self into an airlock with a glitter cannon?" scene.

  • the confused mess that is the core political statement.

  • the thread around the Doctor torturing Kid because he's angry being dropped way too abruptly. It's like they wanted to make the Doctor more complex and less heroic but couldn't be bothered to put any narrative work in.

Overall:

Fuck this episode. This one is joining Kerblam in my seething hatred. Fuck everyone involved with this, may they spend the rest of their career trapped in the BBC's gritty cop drama mine.

Remember kids, genocide is bad but trying to liberate your people via direct action is worse. The only way you can be liberated is by asking nicely after you've been assimilated into the imperial structure.

Mrs Flood turning out to be the Ranni may finally shut up the fan speculators who keep headcanoning every woman that shows up more than once as her.

First part of the series finale next week. For better or for worst this series is almost over.

[-] Wmill@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago

The buses are kinda garbo on the weekend, I'm like 4 towns over and just finished a plasma donation and heading home. Bus here had to sit on the floor and least home I sit on a seat. Rest of buses just been skipping me no clue why, I've still no clue who runs these city or company but they suck.

[-] whatnots@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago

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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[-] Goblinmancer@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago

Being an iconoclast in 40k.

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[-] JD_Vyvanse@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago

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

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[-] Acute_Engles@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago

So far showing people that I'm officially a Pokemon TCG professor/judge had gone way better than expected even the old men at work think it's kinda neat

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[-] CrispyFern@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago

sitting on a pile of gold, admiring the sack it came in.

[-] CrispyFern@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago

dwarf fortress dwarf speech-l

[-] Wmill@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago

I think in my own writing I'm very much adverse to timeskips even from moment to moment because especially when it's two people around each other I think nah there's so much they could be doing or saying to move things along or sus out motivations. I might be asking too much out of myself in my works but it's something I think about a lot.

Guess this is a moot point with how much silence I enjoy with my friends so maybe that'll put my mind to rest on this. I would like to talk endlessly but even I tire not to mention other people have their limits too I find.

[-] mechwarrior2@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago

Everbody talk bout himbo this, himbo that

whatever happened to Hunks??

trump-anguish

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