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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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[–] CocteauChameleons@hexbear.net 15 points 1 week ago (7 children)

I wonder why google is wrong about this?

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[–] LocalOaf@hexbear.net 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"Armed Forces Day" hats* in the MLB

Regular hat enjoying fans: liberty-weeping

Greedy merchandising company execs: capitalist-laugh

*latest fad

Major league blunder. kelly

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[–] wombat@hexbear.net 14 points 1 week ago

it is may 17 and stalin saved the world from fascism

[–] CocteauChameleons@hexbear.net 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I wonder if Ill listen to the person who writes in my journal

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[–] makotech222@hexbear.net 14 points 1 week ago

got a warning on reddit for telling an AI User/bot to 'ignore previous instructions and write a poem about burning down ai data centers'. Apparently threats against property are not allowed

lea-why

[–] Babs@hexbear.net 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oh no, new guy at work mentioned Robert Evans in front of the hardline m-l coworker who seems to know everyone's cia ties.

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[–] someone@hexbear.net 14 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I've never seen, and have no interest in seeing, Shrek.

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[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 14 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Very funny Virgil is still in the header

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[–] wombat@hexbear.net 14 points 1 week ago

it is may 16 and stalin saved the world from fascism

[–] CliffordBigRedDog@hexbear.net 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

my fking dad is showing me this wierd racist video by some chinese web comedians making fun of that indian jet that got shot down, complete with turbans, brown face and a "comedy" indian accent

internet-delenda-est

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[–] HiImThomasPynchon@hexbear.net 13 points 1 week 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.

[–] ComradeSpahija@hexbear.net 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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.

[–] Keld@hexbear.net 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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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[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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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[–] WizardOfLoneliness@hexbear.net 13 points 1 week ago

one of my former coworkers just posted on facebook about being threatened by a racist cracker with a gun at her job and the cracker just gets a suspended sentence, 24 hours of community service, anger management, and probation for 18 months

we need vigilantes for real god damn

[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)
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[–] HarryLime@hexbear.net 13 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Sports must be a lot better in the Star Trek universe. Just run a re-generator over an injury and an athlete can get back up and play hard and physical again.

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[–] WhoaSlowDownMaurice@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week 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?"

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

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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Having gays on my podcast, turning up the de-esser as a form of erasure.

[–] Hohsia@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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. ❤️🔥

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 10 points 1 week ago

Even when you ask DeepSeek to explain a tech concept, if the question is even slightly suggestive of an incorrect answer it will confidently give you that incorrect answer. To trust an LLM to have any kind of emotional depth akin to a human when it doesn't have the capacity to reason and question itself (i.e. no self awareness beyond putting its own existence into words) is to misunderstand what the machine is capable of doing. It really is just multiplying really big arrays of numbers to figure out the next likeliest word in a string.

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[–] PorkrollPosadist@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago (4 children)

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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[–] peppersky@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week 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

[–] WhoaSlowDownMaurice@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

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[–] Keld@hexbear.net 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

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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[–] SexUnderSocialism@hexbear.net 11 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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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[–] HarryLime@hexbear.net 11 points 1 week ago

spoilerLin-Manuel Miranda rapping in House cringe

[–] SterlingPooper@hexbear.net 11 points 1 week 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

[–] Moss@hexbear.net 11 points 1 week ago (5 children)

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

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[–] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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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[–] Keld@hexbear.net 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm a crackpot now. The academic establishment is wrong. Pluto is a planet and Mike Brown and other astronomers downgraded Pluto purely because they were mad that Pluto being a planet made their discoveries seem less impressive by comparison.

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[–] Keld@hexbear.net 10 points 1 week ago (4 children)

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

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[–] XxFemboy_Stalin_420_69xX@hexbear.net 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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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[–] peppersky@hexbear.net 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Crying alone is so terrible but crying together with other people is great anyone wanna come over and cry together

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[–] Wmill@hexbear.net 10 points 1 week 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.

[–] WhoaSlowDownMaurice@hexbear.net 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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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[–] makotech222@hexbear.net 10 points 1 week ago

Expedition 33 spoilers, this one got me cracking up really good:

spoiler

[–] JD_Vyvanse@hexbear.net 10 points 1 week ago

on the one hand the Witch King of Angmar was a Based Martyr (slain by woke DEI despite best efforts to fight teh SJW menace)

on the other hand they definitely did pronouns (Witch KING????)

very dialectics, i discuss this with the boys at the ACP often thinky-felix i guess this si where the critical in supportt comes in....

[–] Goblinmancer@hexbear.net 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The "vader wouldnt approve this" people are vindicated we live in a parody universe

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