Star Wars Black Series Confederacy of Independent Systems

The Confederacy of Independent Systems — the Separatists — fought the Galactic Republic across the three-year Clone Wars with a droid army unlike anything else in Star Wars. Mass-produced, expendable, and relentless, the CIS droid forces stand as a visual counterpoint to the clone army: where the Republic deploys identical human soldiers with organic loyalty, the Separatists field identical machines with programmed obedience. The Black Series Separatist faction covers the droid army and its key figures across the prequel trilogy, The Clone Wars, and the gaming era.

It’s a smaller faction than the Republic it opposed, but it has a distinct visual identity — bone-white droids, slender battle chassis, spider-shaped destroyers — that displays well against the clone army’s armoured formations.

The Battle Droid — The Faction’s Army Builder

The B1 Battle Droid is the backbone of the Separatist faction and its primary army builder. Five releases span the line across different sub-lines and contexts: the standard Red Line Battle Droid, the Geonosis Battle Droid with tan colouring, the 50th Anniversary TPM Best Buy exclusive, the B1 Battle Droid from Jedi: Survivor Gaming Greats, and the Battle Droid from Republic Commando. The different deco options — standard bone white, Geonosis sand tan, the gaming era variants — give collectors genuine visual variety when building numbers.

The Battle Droid is one of the few figures in the line where multiples make immediate sense. A single Battle Droid looks like a prop; a row of them looks like a droid army. The Geonosis variants are particularly useful for an arena display, and the consistent tall, spindly silhouette means even mixing slight deco variants reads as a coherent formation rather than an inconsistency.

General Grievous

General Grievous is the faction’s most prominent named commander, with two releases — the Clone Wars Tartakovsky animated style (50th Anniversary Walmart exclusive) and the Gaming Greats Battle Damaged version from Jedi: Fallen Order. Both lean into his four-armed, multi-lightsaber configuration rather than the standard two-saber look, which is the right call for display impact. The Battle Damaged version in particular is a striking figure — the damaged plating and aggressive posture capture the character’s relentless physicality well.

General Grievous sits in the Separatist faction rather than the Sith faction despite wielding lightsabers, which is accurate — he was a general and military commander, not a Force user. The distinction matters for display: he anchors the droid army rather than the Sith hierarchy.

Specialist Droids

The Droideka Destroyer Droid from the TPM Galaxy Collection is one of the more visually distinctive figures in the entire Separatist faction. The rolling, shield-generating destroyer is immediately recognisable, and the sculpt captures both the curled transport form and the deployed weapon configuration. It’s a larger figure than standard humanoid droids and creates useful height and shape variation in a droid army display.

The Super Battle Droid from the AOTC Galaxy Collection covers the heavier B2 variant — bulkier, more threatening than the standard B1, and a natural centrepiece figure for a Geonosis arena arrangement. Its dark gunmetal colouring contrasts with the white B1s and creates visual depth in a mixed droid display.

The MagnaGuard from The Clone Wars sub-line is Grievous’s elite personal guard — the IG-100 series droids with electrostaffs who could stand against Jedi. The sculpt is slender and alien in a way distinct from the battle droids, and the electrostaff makes for a strong accessory that differs from the blaster rifles that equip most of the faction.

The Commando Droid from the Clone Wars sub-line adds the BX-series infiltrator — faster and more capable than standard battle droids, with a more aggressive pose and darker finish. For collectors building Clone Wars-era displays, the Commando Droid is the faction’s most narratively specific droid type.

Gaming Era Additions

The Heavy Battle Droid from Battlefront II (Gaming Greats GameStop exclusive) and the B1 Battle Droid from Jedi: Survivor Gaming Greats both extend the faction into the gaming era. These figures use the same core droid design but in gaming-specific contexts — the Heavy Battle Droid carries its oversized weapon configuration from the Battlefront game, giving it a different presence from the standard rifle-armed B1.

The Geonosian Warrior from the AOTC Galaxy Collection is the faction’s non-droid alien presence — the winged, insectoid native species that allied with the Separatists and hosted the Geonosis arena battle. A single figure, but a visually distinctive one that breaks up an all-droid display with actual creature variety.

Display Strategy

The Separatist faction rewards army building more directly than most factions in the line. A droid formation anchored by General Grievous, flanked by a Droideka and a Super Battle Droid, with a row of B1 Battle Droids behind — this is the Geonosis arena or a Clone Wars battlefield display that communicates its subject immediately.

The faction pairs naturally opposite the Republic faction for a Clone Wars battlefield arrangement. Clone Troopers versus Battle Droids is the defining visual dynamic of the prequel era, and having both factions represented on the same shelf tells that story across the space. The tonal contrast is stark — the organic warmth of the clone armour’s unit markings against the mechanical uniformity of the droid chassis.

For collectors who want to extend the display, the Separatist faction’s Commander-level figures sit in the Sith faction — Count Dooku is the political and military leader of the CIS, but his Force allegiance places him with the Sith. For a complete Separatist command display, cross-referencing the Sith faction’s Dooku alongside the Separatist faction’s Grievous gives you both leaders of the Confederate cause.

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Part of Star Wars The Black Series | Factions. Related: General Grievous | Battle Droid | Republic | Count Dooku.