The Trade Federation is a fictional organization in the Star Wars universe at the time of the Galactic Republic. It appears in the franchise's three prequel movies and the Star Wars Expanded Universe and is documented to be formed by a species called Neimoidias representing the Neimoidian Inner Circle from Neimoidia who are cousins of the Duros from Duro 350 years before the original star wars film takes place. In the Star Wars franchise, The Trade Federation was able to maintain a sizable monopoly on interstellar trade and held considerable sway in the government of the Star Wars universe known as the Republic. They are the main antagonist in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace due to being manipulated by the Order of the Sith Lords and become a part of a larger consortium in Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones and Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith known as the Confederacy of Independent Systems or the CIS which is also manipulated by the Order of the Sith Lords. It is ultimately destroyed among the other corporations of the CIS as an act of assassination of its representatives that ended the Clone Wars by Darth Vader at the formation of the Empire by Palpatine. Its succeeding representative resisted for a brief moment during his affiliation with the remnant of the CIS called the Separatist holdouts but was later forced to sign a surrender treaty by Clone Troopers who had recently become Stormtroopers which made the federation a puppet government of the empire. However pockets still resisted in what was known as the Trade Federation resistance. Shortly after the Rebel Alliance was formed a portion of the resistance joined the rebel cause. The main body continued to be a puppet to the empire for 19 years until it was dissolved with the Imperial Senate shortly before the Battle of Yavin occurred and a few months later the empire managed to defeat and disband what was left of the resistance as well.
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