Since this is almost certainly the post my hatedom was bitching about, I shall take a moment in its comments not merely to reiterate that the Alliance make terribly Confederate expies by virtue of never having been part of the Empire in the first place, but also that the Talentar Commonwealth make even worse ones.
(The Talentar Revolt was extremely brief and was, for its extremely brief duration, more analogous to how the Revolutionary War might have gone if the British side had promptly decided that obviously something had gone terribly wrong with the plan if people were that upset, ordered an inquiry, co-opted the revolutionary leaders as the new colony governance, and had them take the lead in fixing all the grievances that led to them wanting independence in the first place.
Oh, and discovering along the way that the cause of most of them was a giant foreign plot in the first place.)
((I mean, seriously, you can imagine the Declaration of Independence getting to Buck House and George III summoning his Privy Council just to drop it on the table and demand to know “What the royal shit have you assholes been doing?”
Followed by announcing that he is giving the gentleman on his right extraordinary and plenipotentiary powers to go to America, find General Washington and the Continental Congress, and fix all these problems right the hell now.
“While you gentlemen will find out exactly what went wrong in Our Government and make sure it and anything like it never happens again, ever. Because if I lose a whole damned continent over your blithering incompetence, I will be quite upset. And there will be no tea and cakes for anyone. Do I make myself clear?”
…and you’ve pretty much captured the flavor of the Imperial response to the Revolt.))