The "New Confederacy of Independent Systems" (sometimes referred to as the "New CIS", "New Confederacy", "Neo-Confederacy", "Neo-CIS", "Earth Confederacy" and the "Reborn Confederacy") was a planned resurrection of the Confederacy of Independent Systems, it was the plan of General Samuel Tanner, leader of Separatist Holdout rebel group the "Force for the Restoration of Separatist Earth".