Confederate Navy

"Our problem is simple&mdash;the Separatist navy has four times the number of ships we do. We must slow down their ship production or this war will end quickly, and not in our favor."

- Mace Windu

The Confederate Navy was a large collection of warships and other starships provided for the Separatists' armed forces by the contributing members of the Confederacy of Independent Systems.

History


The navy was organized around flotillas of destroyers and frigates built by hundreds of aggressively-independent star systems, who often donated them to the various commercial organizations frontlining the war. The main battleships were donated by the Trade Federation.

Although the ships were often commanded by droid officers, many fleets and blockades were placed under the command of organic Captains and Admirals. One notable officer was a Harch by the name of Trench, a feared admiral whose tactics tore apart Republic fleets. Trench was defeated and believed to have been killed during the Battle of Christophsis in the second year of the Clone Wars.

At the beginning of the war, the heavy battleship Malevolence used it's deadly Ion cannons to great effect, terrorizing Republic supply lines and making short work of multiple naval task forces, such as Plo Koon's fleet whilst stationed in the Abregado system. The ship was destroyed by a Jedi strike team, who reprogrammed the ship to collide into the Dead moon of Antar.

The navy depended on large shipyards administered by Overseers who watched over the slaves whom they depended on to build the massive warships quickly. They made use of organic workers rather than droids so that the Republic could not bomb their shipyards without immense civilian casualties. In an effort to halt production, a team of Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and Ahsoka Tano infiltrated the Gwori shipyards, administered by Juhm, and liberated the facility's slaves, allowing a strike team to bomb the shipyards. The destruction of the shipyard tipped the balance of the war away from the Separatists, allowing the Clone Wars to rage on.

During the course of the war, Separatist warships participated in various fronts, like at Quell, Kamino, and Umbara. Other times, at Ryloth, Lola Sayu, and Serenno, Confederate ships served defensive purposes or blockades.



One of General Grievous's flagships, the Invisible Hand, led the navy on a hit-and-fade campaign that disrupted travel, communication, and commerce in the Rim regions, as well as mass invasions on vulnerable Outer Rim worlds.

Towards the end of the war, millions of Separatist warships battled the Republic in vast Outer Rim campaigns, while a task force of several thousand ships made a fast snatch at Coruscant in an attempt to capture Supreme Chancellor Palpatine. This task force was defeated in the Battle of Coruscant and its remnants retreated.

Aftermath
At the end of the war, the Confederacy still had many more armadas of ships in its holdings in the Outer Rim Territories, but these were made redundant after the deactivation of most of the droid armies.

Years later, some remaining ships appeared in Gizor Dellso's Remnant Navy, a starfleet Gizor Dellso created for the Separatist holdouts. This fleet was destroyed in the 501st Legion's conquest of Mustafar.

Organization
Throughout its existence, the Confederate Navy was composed of six levels to its command structures. The structure was as follows:

Section
The Section was the smallest group in the Separatist admiralty. It was commanded by a captain and was composed of 2-4 vessels, plus maintenance and support crews.

Flight
The Flight was composed of 2-4 sections, and by extension, 4-16 vessels. It was commanded by a commodore.

Squadron
The Squadron was made up of three to four flights, and by extension, 6-12 sections and 12-64 vessels. It was commanded by a commodore.

Task group
The task group was composed of three to ten squadrons, with 36-640 vessels for each task group. It was commanded by a rear admiral.

Task force
The task force was composed of two task groups, with 72-1,280 vessels for each task force. It was commanded by a vice admiral.

Fleet
The highest of the levels, the fleet, was composed of three task groups, and 200-4000 vessels among them. It was commanded by an admiral. At least a hundred fleets were comprised of the Confederate Navy.

Space stations

 * Banking Clan treasury space station
 * Lucrehulk-class core ship
 * Battlesphere
 * InterGalactic Banking Clan gun platform
 * Automated Vulture droid deployment station

Battleships and dreadnoughts

 * Battleship Starcrusher
 * Conqueror-class atmospheric dreadnaught
 * Geonosian dreadnaught
 * Lucrehulk-class battleship
 * Lucrehulk-class Droid Control Ship
 * Subjugator-class heavy cruiser

Battlecruisers

 * Bulwark Mark I
 * Bulwark Mark II

Cruisers and destroyers

 * Cruiser Shadowblade
 * Diamond-class cruiser
 * Fantail
 * Lucrehulk-class core ship
 * Battlesphere
 * Lucrehulk-class cruiser
 * Lucrehulk-class destroyer
 * Providence-class carrier/destroyer
 * Recusant-class light destroyer
 * Sabaoth destroyer
 * Separatist cruiser
 * Separatist Star Destroyer
 * Storm Fleet destroyer

Frigates

 * Munificent-class star frigate
 * Sabaoth Frigate
 * Separatist bombardment ship
 * Trade Federation Missile Frigate
 * Umbaran support ship
 * Wavecrest-class frigate

Corvettes

 * Commerce Guild corvette
 * CR90 corvette

Prototype ships

 * Corona-class armed frigate

Starfighters

 * Amphibious fighter
 * Belbullab-22 starfighter
 * C-73 Tracker starfighter
 * CIS-Advanced starfighter




 * Droid tri-fighter
 * Ginivex-class starfighter
 * Hex Deployer
 * Mankvim-814 light interceptor
 * Nantex-class territorial defense starfighter
 * NovaSword Space Superiority Fighter
 * Porax-38 starfighter
 * Rogue-class starfighter
 * Sabaoth Defender
 * Sabaoth starfighter
 * Scarab-class droid starfighter
 * Spearhead droid
 * Turbostorm-class gunship
 * Variable Geometry Self-Propelled Battle Droid, Mark I
 * Z-95 Headhunter



Bombers

 * Belbullab-24 strike bomber
 * Hyena-class bomber
 * Trade Federation droid bomber

Landing craft

 * C-9979 landing craft
 * Vehicle Armored Carrier
 * XT Beetle Transport

Boarding craft

 * Droch-class boarding ship
 * Trandoshan dropship

Shuttles

 * BC-714 luxury transport
 * Fantail
 * Hardcell-class interstellar transport
 * Punworcca 116-class interstellar sloop
 * Sheathipede-class transport shuttle
 * Tri-wing shuttle

Supply ships

 * Lucrehulk-class container vessel
 * Separatist supply ship

Tankers

 * Lucrehulk-class tanker
 * Separatist refueling ship

Known ships

 * Aurora
 * Colicoid Swarm
 * Corpulentus
 * Devastation
 * Discord
 * Force of Commerce
 * Gahenna
 * Invincible
 * Invisible Hand
 * Lapiz Cutter
 * Last Call
 * Lucid Voice
 * Malevolence
 * ''Malvolence II
 * Mersel Kebir
 * Patriot Fist
 * Prosperous
 * Reaper
 * Reaver
 * Shark
 * Skorp-Ion
 * Soulless One
 * Starcrusher
 * Starshot
 * Tide of Progress XII
 * Trident
 * Unlimited Projection
 * Voice of Industry II

Known units

 * Bulwark Fleet
 * Christophsis blockade
 * Confederate First Fleet
 * Confederate Third Fleet
 * D-1600 fleet
 * Fighter Wing Zero-Zero
 * Group One
 * Rendili Home Defense Fleet
 * Ryloth blockade
 * Sabaoth Squadron
 * Storm Fleet

Troops

 * CIS Officers
 * B-series battle droids
 * B1 battle droid
 * Droid marines
 * Firefighter droids
 * Rocket battle droids
 * B2 super battle droid
 * B2-RP battle droids
 * B2-HA series super battle droids
 * BX-series droid commandos
 * Droidekas
 * IG-100 MagnaGuards
 * OOM-series battle droids
 * OOM pilot battle droids
 * Pistoeka sabotage droids
 * T-series tactical droids

Appearances

 * Star Wars: The Rise and Fall of Darth Vader
 * LEGO Star Wars: The Video Game
 * LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga
 * Star Wars: Republic Commando
 * Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones
 * Star Wars: Battlefront II
 * Star Wars: Clone Wars PhotoComic
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars novel
 * The Clone Wars: Shakedown
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Jedi Alliance
 * LEGO Star Wars: The Quest for R2-D2 game
 * LEGO Star Wars: The Quest for R2-D2 film
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Republic Heroes
 * The Clone Wars: Act on Instinct
 * The Clone Wars: Hunting the Hunters (Part I)
 * Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds: Clone Campaigns
 * Star Wars Battlefront: Elite Squadron
 * Labyrinth of Evil
 * Star Wars: Obsession
 * Reversal of Fortune
 * Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith comic
 * Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
 * Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith junior novel
 * Star Wars: Dark Times: Parallels
 * Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader
 * Star Wars Rebellion: My Brother, My Enemy
 * Star Wars Battlefront: Renegade Squadron
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Republic Heroes
 * The Clone Wars: Act on Instinct
 * The Clone Wars: Hunting the Hunters (Part I)
 * Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds: Clone Campaigns
 * Star Wars Battlefront: Elite Squadron
 * Labyrinth of Evil
 * Star Wars: Obsession
 * Reversal of Fortune
 * Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith comic
 * Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
 * Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith junior novel
 * Star Wars: Dark Times: Parallels
 * Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader
 * Star Wars Rebellion: My Brother, My Enemy
 * Star Wars Battlefront: Renegade Squadron
 * Reversal of Fortune
 * Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith comic
 * Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
 * Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith junior novel
 * Star Wars: Dark Times: Parallels
 * Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader
 * Star Wars Rebellion: My Brother, My Enemy
 * Star Wars Battlefront: Renegade Squadron
 * Star Wars Rebellion: My Brother, My Enemy
 * Star Wars Battlefront: Renegade Squadron