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Long Live the Confederation!
Not quite, since that implies that they were an independant group at some point -- the systems in question were the most recent coreward colones of the Terran Confederation. Had it not been for the war they would have likely grown up and become represented in the Confederation's political system in an ordinary process. The war separated their experience from core and spinward systems that *didn't* endure (so much of) the actual fighting.