Ekatera is a small nation on Horizon's End, led by Governor Meagernine8910. Previously the host of the Trade City Altar Sanctorium, Ekatera was handed off to the leadership of Meagernine8910 by its previous Queen Kiro231 due to the secession of Altar Sanctorium from Ekatera on 3 February 2025 as a result of the Vega-Ekatera War.

The nation of Ekatera on Horizon's End was named by the player Avan_Brightearth as an homage to the long-lived nation of Ekatera on StarLegacy; while not formally affiliated with founder of Ekatera Emeris4017, the nation has retained this title.

Claims[edit | edit source]

	Ekatera
	; Symbol of Ekatera
General
Demonym	Ekateran
Activity level	Negligible
Capital city	Republic of Arik
Settlements	Artica, Republic Of Arik
Government
• Governor	Meagernine8910
Formation
Foundation date	5 June 2024
Culture
Language	English
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Republic of Arik[edit | edit source]

Republic of Arik is a small settlement in northwest Aerach owned by Meagernine8910. It is host to a few small buildings and an elevated starship landing platform.

Artica[edit | edit source]

Artica is a small settlement in northwest Krio owned by Makusu017. It is not visibly developed.

History[edit | edit source]

Creation[edit | edit source]

Following the expulsion of Altar Sanctorium (then named "Haven") from Vortexion's Arimfea on 11 May 2024 - the city's third such removal, after Orovika and Imperial Nova in the preceding months - Blackular, the leader of Haven, elected to found his own nation on the server. Partnering with Avan_Brightearth, a veteran of StarLegacy's Ekatera, Blackular named his nation "Ekatera" as an homage to the nation's legacy. The nation of Ekatera was founded on 5 June 2024.

Following Ekatera's creation, several Blackular-aligned members of Arimfea, most notably Voided_Crusader and Kiro231 (both on 10 June), would leave to join Ekatera. This event would ultimately lead to Vortexion and Cadia, and later Peregri, leaving Arimfea for Cortesia Del Mar, leaving Middosk ultimately in charge of Arimfea and producing the Arimfea-Ekatera Alliance.

Merger with VTF[edit | edit source]

On 10 June 2024, the two-month-old new-player nation of VTF, which had grown to considerable size under the leadership of Kingsheep3, would elect to merge with Ekatera. This merger would see three settlements - Ionizera, vyserian, and Van Aurela - join Ekatera, increasing the nation's size and prestige.

Ekateran Neutrality[edit | edit source]

Following Ekatera's establishment, the nation largely stayed on the sidelines of server politics for the rest of 2024, avoiding involvement in conflicts such as the Ilios Alliance-Vask Authority War. While victim to extensive piracy by various actors (such as z4nityy), Ekatera heavily centered itself its trade city of Altar Sanctorium, making most of the nation's members difficult to attack and thereby rendering the nation an unappealing combat target.

Vega-Ekatera War[edit | edit source]

On 5 January 2025, following an incident wherein Kiro231 impounded a Vegan ship belonging to LeMaire on a mistaken assumption of hostility, the nation of Vega declared war on Ekatera. In the days following this declaration, the nations of Lonestar and Radiance would declare varying states of conflict against Ekatera as well.

As the safezone of Altar Sanctorium, which depended on the settlement having 4 active players, largely prevented any proactive attacks on Ekaterans, offensive strategy during the war primarily centered on seeking to deprive Ekatera of active members; the combined diplomatic and military pressure of the anti-Ekateran coalition caused a large reduction in Ekatera's number of active members, primarily to these players leaving the nation and joining others. This effort was successful in causing the Altar Sanctorium safezone to be disabled due to insufficient member activity on a single occasion prior to the end of the war, on 29 January 2025.

The war functionally concluded with the secession of Altar Sanctorium from the nation on 3 February 2025, with Kiro231, the leader of the settlement, declaring that she was "going back to activity logging" (IE, she would not be actively playing the server henceforth). As Altar Sanctorium was previously Ekatera's primary industrial and activity base, this secession left Ekatera a very small nation.

As of February 8th, Altar Sanctorium was re-added as Ekatera’s capital, as without it Ekatera would run the risk of purging from inactivity and losing its precious outposts.

On February 10th, Ekatera donated two Vesta shuttles to lonestar.