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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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[-] AernaLingus@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month 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

[-] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago

If you swap the lyrics of Running Up That Road and Run to the Hills and keep thenmelodies the same you get one really funny song and one sad one

[-] jjsandwich7@hexbear.net 7 points 2 months ago
[-] Blep@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago

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

[-] flugolem@hexbear.net 7 points 2 months ago

how's alex jones doing these days?

[-] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago

Heโ€™s turning frogs gay

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[-] HarryLime@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago
[-] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago

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

[-] CrispyFern@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago

A law has been broken.

[-] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago

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

[-] GoodGuyWithACat@hexbear.net 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 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.

[-] ClathrateG@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago

When Missus Ned McLean (God bless her)

Can get Russian reds to "yes" her

Then I suppose

Anything goes

[-] Cowbee@hexbear.net 7 points 2 months ago

Mega mega mega THREAD live-slug-reaction

[-] WizardOfLoneliness@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago

Man my back and my lower back and my ass are just bustin out after all this working out, I'm like a fuckin gorilla, i'm so strong, but it's like i have a sacroiliac joint that is just not meant for all this juice, like my skeleton was meant for some Hank Hill type ass and not a fuckin meat miracle

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[-] WizardOfLoneliness@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago

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

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[-] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago

I read a book that someone lazily wrote with AI and it shows. It would constantly repeat the same phrases, would change scenes or alter them mid-sentence, and would frequently change details about the characters. Glad I didnโ€™t pay for it.

[-] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month 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.

[-] WizardOfLoneliness@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago

Do you guys think if i want to try planting a meyer lemon tree in a zone where it gets too cold (usda 7a, baby) it might help if I like, plant it in a raised garden bed with a thick layer of mulch

Google AI says it could help in ways i find plausible (i.e. insulating some of the roots from colder temps deeper underground) but google says a lot of shit

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[-] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

If you have twins how do you tell one of them they're an unplanned child and how do you know which to tell that to?

[-] Wmill@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago

Gonna be starting some job training stuff orientation is today and I'm at the place. Gonna be for 8 weeks but gonna be learning I think 4 things related to energy, mostly some ac stuff and plumbing. I got hopes for finding something through this forklift stuff hasn't really turned up much where I live.

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[-] WizardOfLoneliness@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago

y'all I'm unemployed for 3 months, what videogames should I pirate (or buy if it's really fun co op i could do with my partner (we already did split fiction and it takes 2 though)) to fuel my endless drive for dopamine satiety? i've spent 99% of my gaming for the last year ish on Victoria 3 but I'm bored of it and they're making me wait until like June 17th for some big dumb patch that will actually make the game playable or whatever so I need some brain candy to focus on unhealthily until then

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[-] Grownbravy@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago

Screamo kids are too obsessed with being heavy and not obsessed enough with having a sound that feels likes itโ€™ll implode with a careless misstep. For a genre with such an anxious sound, they sure became bad at capturing it

[-] peppersky@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago

I feel so goddamn awful I can't even begin to describe it

[-] WhyEssEff@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 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

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