

Before the start of the Clone Wars, the Republic had been blamed for being corrupt, as regards the bureaucrats and Senators that ran it. The Supreme Chancellor Palpatine was, at one time, the Senator of the planet Naboo. Leader Supreme Chancellor Sheev Palpatine With the first battle on Geonosis, the Clone Wars had begun. This Grand Army of the Republic army was made up clones grown Kamino. In retaliation, The Republic countered by sending out an army of their own. When Jedi were sent to the planet Geonosis to investigate the activities going on there, war broke out, causing the Separatists to unleash the Droid Army that they had been constructing. They in turn united together and formed the Confederacy of Independent Systems. Under the influence of two Sith Lords, eternal enemies of the Republic these systems and commerce guilds plotted to leave and ultimately to destroy the Republic. Over time, various planets, star systems, and commercial organizations began to lose trust or were fed up with the corruption that had gone on in the Republic.
