Separatist holdouts

"As Governor Tarkin can attest, our navy was still chasing Separatist holdouts as late as a year ago."

- Vice Admiral Dodd Rancit, five years after the Clone Wars

The Separatist holdouts were the surviving military and political segments of the Confederacy of Independent Systems, an alliance of star systems and corporations that seceded from the Galactic Republic. The political crisis between the Republic and the Confederacy culminated in the Clone Wars, a galaxy-wide conflict that was ultimately lost to the latter, yet also allowed the Galactic Empire to rise in place of the Republic. Although the war's conclusion marked the end of the Separatist cause, remnants of the fallen Confederacy would endure for years, hiding from the New Order in several locations such as the planet Agamar or the Western Reaches.

Orgin
The death of the Separatist leaders at the hands of Darth Vader forced the deactivation of the majority of its armed forces and ending the Clone Wars. Leading to the surrender of almost all remaining Separatist systems and sectors to the Empire, meanwhile remaining military and governing elements of the Confederacy began retreating.

Resisting the Empire
Four years after the end of the Clone Wars, the Imperial Navy was still fighting and chasing after the holdouts, including one major campaign in the Western Reaches where a large amount of these holdouts were made up of starships crewed by organic beings instead of droids. The weapons and technology of the Separatists continued to be utilized after the war and were also studied by Imperial researchers. Four years before the Battle of Yavin, Imperial cadets such as Zare Leonis imagined serving the Empire; fighting against Separatist holdouts, as well as pirates and slavers.

Encountering with the rebellion
In the second year before the Battle of Yavin, Clone Captain CT-7567 led a a rebel cell from Lothal on a mission to Agamar to salvage proton bombs. Rex along with Jedi Knight Kanan Jarrus, Ezra Bridger, and Garazeb Orrelios were quickly captured by General Kalani and his B1 battle droids who forced the rebels to take part in a combat simulation in order to end the Clone Wars for the Separatists. However the rebels managed to survive the battle droids and Ezra managed to convince Kalani and Rex to make peace as the Galatic Empire started to battle the holdout after receiving signal intelligence indicating that some of the rebels were located there. Due to collaboration between the rebels, Jedi and the Separatists, they were able to mount a successful rearguard defense and escape aboard Sheathipede-class transport shuttles.

Relics
Nearly fifty years after the Clone Wars, all organized holdouts of the Confederacy long gone; despite this, a discounted holdout continued to exist due to an ion storm striking the Obrexta III, a cruiser that was tasked with carrying the captured clone trooper CT-6116 from the planet Coruscant to Serenno. En route, the cruiser had been attacked by Republic forces and heavily damaged. Knowing that the ship was in no shape to reach Serenno, a B1 battle droid called B1-CC14 activated the emergency beacon before jumping the ship to a random point through hyperspace. The jump took it to the desert planet Ponemah Terminal, where it fell into the planet's surface and B1-CC14 lost power. The cruiser would have some of its systems re-powered, including the emergency broadcast which caused a number of pirate groups to be attracted by the broadcast, believing the Obrexta III to contain the legendary lost treasure of Count Dooku. After one group of pirates managed to get aboard the vessel who thought that Dooku's treasure was the collection of Jedi lightsaber kyber crystals that the Count had collected, which were worth a massive fortune on the black market. B1-CC14, unaware that Clone Wars were long over, briefly powered back up and activated a fail-safe that would mobilize all B2 super battle droids on board to stop the intruders, thinking that they were the Republic clone troopers. As the pirates tried escaping, the battle droid would then deactivate again and was destroyed soon after when the Obrexta III exploded after the pirates escaped.

Appearances

 * Tarkin
 * Servants of the Empire: Imperial Justice
 * "The Crimson Corsair and the Lost Treasure of Count Dooku"
 * "The Crimson Corsair and the Lost Treasure of Count Dooku"