The Separatists (Star Wars)

"Now is the time, my friends. This is the moment when you have to decide between the Republic or the Confederacy of Independent Systems."

- Count Dooku

The Separatists, whose formal name is the Confederacy of Independent Systems, was a fictional faction featured in the prequel films of the Star Wars saga: Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones and Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith.

The Separatists was so formed by a composite of planetary governments and corporations, which had been gathered by Count Dooku (Christopher Lee), in response to the inaction of the corrupted Galactic Senate and its excessive taxation.

Nonetheless, the Separatist movement was just another puppet of the sinister Senator Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid), in his tyrannical plans.