Separatist holdouts

"I calculate that this will be my only opportunity to end the Clone Wars as I planned: with a victory for the Separatist Alliance."

- General Kalani, like many Separatists, was unaware or did not accept that the Clone Wars had truly ended

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.

Description
The Separatist holdouts were the remnants of the Confederacy of Independent Systems that was spread across the galaxy. They varied from groups of pro-Separatist sentients to battle droids that did not follow the shutdown command at the end of the Clone Wars.

Origin
"Understand, as a Separatist, I fought for freedom...but put my trust in a corrupt leadership."

- Kleeve, to Caleb Dume

The death of the Separatist Council at the hands of Darth Vader and the following deactivation of the majority of its Separatist Droid Army ended the Clone Wars in 19 BBY. 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
"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

In 16 BBY, the Imperial Navy was still fighting and chasing after holdouts, including one major campaign in the Western Reaches led by Moff Wilhuff Tarkin who was assigned to oversee operations by Emperor Sheev Palpatine until he was reassigned to Sentinel Base to oversee the Death Star project. Meanwhile 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 the rebellion
"You are against the Empire. I am against the Republic. Now the Republic has become the Empire. I accept your logic. We are on the same side."

- General Kalani to Lieutenant Commander Ezra Bridger

In 2 BBY, one holdout was encountered Clone Captain Rex who was leading 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 the super tactical droid 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 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 and the separatists, they were able to mount a successful rearguard defense and escape aboard the Neimoidian Sheathipede-class transport shuttles where despite becoming allies, Kalani thought that the Rebellion had a 1% chance of success against the Empire and the Separatists departed for parts unknown

Legacy
In 30 ABY nearly fifty years after the Clone Wars, a discounted holdout continued to exist due to an ion storm striking the cruiser Obrexta III 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.

Shuttles

 * Sheathipede-class transport shuttle

Droids

 * B1 battle droids
 * OOM command battle droid
 * Droidekas
 * Tactical droid
 * Super tactical droid

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"