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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Pluto’s not a planet because we’ve discovered dozens of other dwarf planets in the solar system, and at some point it makes sense to make a cutoff of how big an object has to be to be considered a full sized planet lest we have 100 of the things floating around and making third-grade science courses look like learning Mandarin tones.
Okay but the definition doesn’t cut off based on size, but based on the relative size of nearby objects, and I already pointed out that the definition is inconsistently applied. If Pluto and Mercury switched places, by this current definition it would be a planet (And what about when they’re at the point where Pluto and Neptune make each other non planets would mercury then become a non planet? And I don’t even know if Mercury could clear the orbit that far out, would Mercury become a non planet because there are larger asteroids in the kuiper belt). That’s not a definition that’s actually consistent, nor is it one that’s actually based on size.
And even the earth does not clear its orbit, there’s a bunch of NEAs. Is the Earth not a planet?
It’s just some nonsense they made up and the definition sucks and I can’t find a good defense of it.
edit: Hold on, I just devised a thought experiment. Imagine we take the moon as it exists now, we ctrl-c, ctrl-v’d it to a solar system without any other celestial bodies in it. Bam, it’s a planet… Except if we added a couple of moons instead of just one, because they wouldn’t clear each other so they would become dwarf planets. Depending on the same objects relative position it can be a moon, a dwarf planet or a planet without changing any actual inherent property of the object itself.
I gotta say you’re being too precious about Pluto. yes, it’s made up, let it go. it doesnt matter. dwarf planets are special too.
from the Wikipedia page:
so Neptune and earth have indeed cleared their orbit. also pluto is better understood as one of the Trans-Neptunian Objects (good megathread topic).
I don’t care about Pluto directly, I care about the definition of planet being ridiculous and seemingly made up explicitly to demote Pluto while keeping the “core” planets and failing to do so if applied with any rigor. It is also such an arbitrary definition it doesn’t apply outside our solar system and NASA missions ignore it. It’s bad science.
No they haven’t. As your quoted part had to point out with the words “To a greater extent”
Let me be clear here then: 1: The definition does not concern itself about mass or size beyond the object reaching a hydrostatic equilibrium that’s round. Pluto is cut off because of its location, not its size. The same goes for other objects like a lot of moons and every dwarf planet.
2: it’s inconsistently applied.
3: I’m pointing out some utter bullshit I just found out on a website for shitposting, not starting a petition or mailing threats to Mike Brown.