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Confederate Navy

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Confederate Navy

General information
Founder(s)	Count Dooku
Leader(s)	Count Dooku General Grievous
Notable members	Sev'rance Tann Asajj Ventress Durge Trench Mar Tuuk Merai Pors Tonith
Headquarters	Various
Historical information
Founding	22 BBY
Fragmentation	19 BBY
Restoration	See Separatist holdouts
Other information
Era(s)	Rise of the Empire era Rebellion era
Affiliation	Confederacy of Independent Systems Separatist holdouts

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"Our problem is simple—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^[src]

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

HistoryEdit

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.^[1]

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 perished during the Battle of Christophsis in the second year of the Clone Wars.^[2]

At the beginning of the war, the heavy battleship Malevolence terrorized Republic supply lines and destroyed multiple naval task forces.^[3] The ship was destroyed by a Jedi strike team, who reprogrammed the ship to collide into the Dead moon of Antar.^[4]

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.^[5]

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.^[1] This task force was defeated in the Battle of Coruscant and its remnants retreated.

AftermathEdit

However, 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 the droid armies.^[1]

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.^[6]

Capital ship classesEdit

Space stationsEdit

BattleshipsEdit

BattlecruisersEdit

Bulwark Mark I

CruisersEdit

DestroyersEdit

DreadnaughtEdit

FrigatesEdit

CorvettesEdit

StarfightersEdit

BombersEdit

TransportsEdit

Landing craftEdit

Boarding craftEdit

ShuttlesEdit

Supply shipsEdit

TankersEdit

Known shipsEdit

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