Arimfea-Ekatera Alliance

The Arimfea-Ekatera Alliance was a short-lived period of close cooperation between the nations of Ekatera and Arimfea. After Haven's secession, Vortexion resigned as Arimfea's Grand Vizier in favour of joining Cortesia Del Mar. He appointed Peregri as his successor, who in turn returned all power to Sultan Middosk and subsequently left as well. Arimfea was in a poor position, with effectively only K9 Caper and Middosk as its members. Avan Brightearth, then the leader of Ekatera, reached out to Middosk to offer his support for the reconstruction of Arimfea. Several Ekaterans, amongst them Avan, switched nations to Arimfea. Middosk then appointed Avan as his next Grand Vizier and announced his withdrawal from the Ilios Alliance and rivalry with Cortesia. Elaborate plans were made for industrial expansion and even a potential trade city, but none came to fruition. The Ekateran immigrants wanted to keep Arimfea as a colonist nation inside Ekatera's bloc, which Middosk and K9 heavily opposed. Middosk insisted to Avan that Arimfea return to its tradition of piracy. The Ekaterans mostly left Arimfea, but Avan would remain.

Avan had agreed with Kiro231 (whom he had appointed as nation leader in his absence) that she would return nation leadership eventually, but this has yet to happen. Months after the alliance was formed, Kiro would seize LeMaire's cargo vessel in the trade city of Altar Sanctorium (without Avan's approval), which sparked the Vega-Ekatera War. Middosk abrogated the alliance on the day the war was declared. Avan still remains in Arimfea, and is committed to his settlement Athos on Damkoth. He has not made any indication of returning to Ekatera.