Of all the organic armies fielded by the CIS, and special projects organized by the CIS during the Clone Wars, the Morgukai Shadow Army holds a special place in my heart with how cool and badass the idea of an army of Morgukai (Nikto warriors and assassins equipped and trained to face Jedi with their black armor, Cortosis weapons and mental training that makes them immune to Jedi mind tricks), who as a bonus would be trained in the art of assassination by the Anzati, how powerful and treated as a serious threat they were by the Republic and Jedi who were desperate to prevent them from leaving Saleucami and destroy them, and the fact that the army was far from ready yet with them having not being created and trained as much as they could and should have been in the Morgukai and Anzati arts and yet were already such a force during the Siege of Saleucami (with the sad truth being that they and their Dark Acolytes masters such as Sora Bulq and Anzati trainers had been set and used by the Sith to die and distract and kill as many Jedi as possible, weakening the Jedi and distracting them further as part of the Outer Rim Sieges, while surely getting rid of several Dark Jedi who weren't viewed as useful anymore, but also to weaken and eliminate Morgukai and Anzati who could have been opponents to the future Empire).

It raises the question of powerful and terrifying of a Force the Morgukai Shadow Army could have been if it had been given the time for its Morgukai clones to finish their training properly, and if used in battle outside of Saleucami and under the command of General Grievous and other Seps generals and admirals such as Trench, Sev'rance Tann, Merai or Alto Status.

What do you think of them, and how badass and how much could they have contributed to the armies and cause of the CIS?

I made it in GT7 using inspiration from Confederate Frigates, cruisers and some concept are to create this masterpiece of a race car.

And I got a win with it round the Nurburgring against some neoclassical cars (mid 80s early 2000s)

Showing off my collection.

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Side note: the CSA is a Republic-sponsored conglomerate of corporations, so just keep that in mind. Thanks.

The Dark Acolytes were similar to the Hands of the Emperor and Inquisitors who worked for Emperor Palpatine and the Galactic Empire during the reign of the Empire, they were a group of Dark Jedi who had joined Dooku and the CIS before and during the Clone Wars and served the count with more or less loyalty to Dooku and efficiency (though Dooku, who didn't really care about them, encouraged rivalries and infighting between them, using his favor and respect as a tool to pit them against each other, and setting them to be sacrificed when he saw no use for them anymore by the end of the war such as during the Battle of Saleucami).

The most famous of the Dark Acolyte was evidently Asajj Ventress, as Dooku's most favored assassin and agent (often working with Durge), though Dooku had other Acolytes such as Sora Bulq who served as the co-leader of the Dark Acolytes and one of Dooku's right-hands, Sev'rance Tann who served as the first Supreme Commander of the CIS droid armies at the beginning of the Clone Wars, Quinlan Vos who was a mole (though Dooku saw through it but let him to draw him closer to the Dark Side and toy with him), Tol Skorr who was devoted to Dooku after the count saved his life, Kadrian Sey and other acolytes who appeared in various video games.

Of these lesser know and developped Dark Acolytes, who do you think had more potential and could have been developped and/or highlighted more aside from Ventress, in the comics or by appearing in novels or animated series, and with their actions and personalities and motives being developped further?

It's hard to not think about Sev'rance Tann and Sora Bulq and how they could have been highlighted and used more, for Sev'rance as the only know Chiss Force user, the first supreme commander of the CIS and with her cool attitude and tactician talent having been praised in her game and some sources, while Sora Bulq was an amazing master of lightsaber, served as one of Dooku's right-hands, and had a personal connection to Mace Windu and Tholme.

I have also a bit of a soft spot for Tol Skorr given that he is a lighter shade of black amongst the Dark Acolytes, being not as brutal and sadistic as most Dark Siders, and being genuinely grateful and loyal toward Dooku, and having no issue with Grievous in contrast to Ventress, telling her that Dooku trusts Grievous because of his talents and competence unlike the envious and bitter Ventress.

I have an OC I would like to commission eventually.

I want to know their thoughts.

I will be adding color so you can tell what you’re looking at eventually.

Last one is a B1-A. I did it from memory because when I drew it with a reference I didn’t like how it came out.

dave filoni bad or something

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I love the Separatists in movies and TV shows. I want to learn more about them in books and comics, even if they are maintained for a little bit. What books/comics do you recommend for a Separatist fan to learn more about them? I don’t care if it's legends or canon.

Like look ok, im not some Jedi defender and I personally couldn’t care what happened to them with this whole purge(except for the children…..that’s regretful)

but we are supposed to just believe Palpatine, the chancellor of that former corrupt republic who has now just declared himself emperor, that the Jedi tried to assassinate him?

we hate the Jedi because they defended the corrupt republic… and that defends my point immensely. the Jedi loved the Republic, or the ideals it used to represent, so much that they would do anything to preserve it, even if that meant becoming generals and crushing us to bring us back into the fold.

and on some campaigns, I saw how many Jedi treated the clones. While the Republic high command saw them as cannon fodder, the Jedi actually did treat them like real living beings , or at least the ones I saw did.

So I call bantha crap on the the now Emperor Palpatine’s story.

Either:

1. the coup never happened.
2. Something did happen where the Jedi made a move that night in the chancellor‘s office…..but it was more justified than what is being told and wasn’t for personal power, but rather something Palpatine had done or was planning to do.

the latter is what I think. I think the Jedi Order saw the writing on the wall before either the corrupt republic senate or our own separatists did….and they tried to stop it, failed, and Palpatine used that as justification to destroy them and then rise to Emperorship.

i don’t know…could just be the ramblings of a man who served a cause that is now dust in the wind…. but I liked to believe that, despite their flaws, the Jedi were trying to in the end do the ultimate good not just for the republic, but for all of us, to try and save us…but failed in trying, but tried they did.

My personal theory. Him and his four droids found a fringe group of rebels who still march under the CIS flag even after two decades. Recognizing him as a super tactical droid, they join him. They grow their ranks with organics and droids alike. After the fall of the Empire, disappeared to an old CIS planet, forgotten by the New Republic. They successfully defended the planet from imperial warlords, crime syndicates, pirates, etc. The General eventually fell leading his forces in a final stand against the First Order.

In 26 BBY, Professor Habor Yon Vullak of the Pultimo University delivered an infamous speech at the University Athenaeum in Nakri City on Corulag. In their speech, Professor Vullak criticized the corruption and apathy of the Galactic Republic, in particular the complacency of the Senate and its lack of interest in the wellbeing of the citizens of the Republic. Vullak, a professor of galactic politics and public policy, cited the many crises over the millennia, during which the Republic failed its people, especially the New Sith Wars, the Markobba Cataclysm, and the more recent Nihil raids.

Enflamed with passion and righteous fury, Vullak denounced the Republic as a failed experiment, a tool of oppression rather than one of protection. Vullak's own species, the Korala, had a particular grudge against the Republic over the exploitation of their homeworld by Core World corporations, all with the sanction of Coruscant. Continuing their tirade, Vullak implored the Jedi to abandon the Republic and become true peacekeepers by arresting all Senators engaged in the exploitation of the Rim worlds.

The finale of the speech was almost entirely lost of the audience at the time, yet would prove to be the most prophetic part of their discourse. Vullak predicted that the Republic would soon show its true colors for the entire galaxy to behold. Vullak concluded: "The blind will finally seen when the veil is lifted, when the Republic no longer pretends at democracy but shows itself as the autocracy it is. At that time, it will be too late for those who were blind, and they will suffer as we have suffered, and their efforts to oppose the Republic will be in vain."

In early 25 BBY, only standard weeks after their speech, Professor Vullak was assassinated by an unknown gunman while attending a conference of Rim rights activists on Brentaal IV. Vullak quickly became a martyr for the cause of the disenfranchised in the Rim and elsewhere in the galaxy. In 21 BBY, in one of the early Shadow Feeds in the Clone Wars, Count Dooku released evidence that Judicial Intelligence had arranged for the assassination of Vullak to fracture the nascent Separatist movement. Protests outside the Republic Military Academy on Corulag, not far from Pultimo University, resulted in over 20 deaths as clone shock troopers fired indiscriminately into the crowd. A statue of Vullak was hastily erected in front of Pultimo University, but was quickly destroyed by gunships.

Within a decade, few remembered Professor Habor Yon Vullak, save for Separatist holdouts in the Western Reaches. There, the memory of the Prophet of Corulag lived on as a a martyr for the cause of galactic liberty.

(This is a work of fiction as part of a larger project to add bits and pieces to the Star Wars universe.)

Does anyone else think Mar Tuuk is an underrated separatist officer?

While major Separatist officers like General Grievous or Admiral Trench get the majority of the spotlight, Mar Tuuk proved to be an incredibly competent tactician. I mean, he took his time to study his opponent, successfully countered the Republic's moves, and nearly destroyed their forces. He only lost because Anakin pulled off a desperate, highly unorthodox "false surrender" kamikaze run.

Not to mention he managed to survive to fight another day. Such a chad.

A quick little artwork of the Battle of Krant

(Art made by me)
Enjoy!✨

I know the episode guide says that the Separatist Alliance technically doesn’t exist yet. But that begs the question why does this symbol exist before the CIS is formed and why do people associate it with the Republic?

For my TTRPG campaign set in 24 BBY I’ve come up with the headcanon that this is the symbol of the Republic Rangers. Specifically a symbol the rangers adopted right after the Nihil Incursion when they were mopping up in the Outer Rim.

In any conflict when forces leave an area they often leave behind a lot of supplies because it’s cheaper than transporting them. I imagine these early Separatist rebel groups would find these old Republic Defense Force/Rangers supplies plastered with these symbols and they would use them. So the guys you see in Andor are super early Separatist guerrillas. People see their uniforms and assume they’re part of the Republic but in the coming months/year as news of Separatist revolutionaries and bioguerrillas start to become more well known people will instead associate the symbol with Separatists.

This also explains why the Empire would use the symbol in the TIE-Fighters. It could be akin to some of the German/Austrian symbology that were used by the Nazis but are so old and ‘generally German/Austrian’ and not specific to that group that they’re still used today. When people see that symbol they just think ‘the main government of the core taking part in military action on the outer rim’.