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Kestrel-Astria Treaty Organization
	"Sword & Shield" logo as of August 16th, 2025
Abbreviation	KATO
Predecessor	Neo-Orzel + some New Ares Treaty Organization member states + some Petrograd Pact member states
Formation	12 April 2022 (4 years ago)
Type	Military alliance
Headquarters	Eclipse Development Zone
Membership	Treaty signed on 12 April 2022 (4 years ago): ; Cerulean Taskforce ; International Weapons ; Independent Karelian Republic; Nationalist Republic of Kalestania; Kalmar Republic; ; Treaty signed on 5 August 2024 (21 months ago): ; Ludasia; ; Treaty signed on 17 October 2025 (7 months ago): ; Izakia; ; Treaty signed on 1 November 2025 (7 months ago): ; Verslavian Socialist Republic;
Secretary General	March
Secessions	Kinetic Assault Initiative ; - Signed: April 12th, 2022; - Terminated: June 17th, 2022; ; Bozostan ; - Signed: April 12th, 2022; - Terminated: 2024 (unknown exact day); ; Lusatia ; - Signed: April 12th, 2022; - Terminated: October 2023 (disbanded)

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The Kestrel-Astria Treaty Organization (often shortened to "KATO") is the joint pact between some former New Ares Treaty Organization member states and some former Petrograd Pact member states, most of which were previously allied during the Neo-Orzel Alliance.

After the collapse of Neo-Orzel, the Cerulean Taskforce and the Nationalist Republic of Kalestania had lost contact for the most part. However, most previous members of the New Ares Treaty Organization still were good friends and talked often. A Discord server previously existed as far back as July 2021 for old-heads within the New Ares Treaty Organization + International Weapons Corporation as a general friend space after World War III.

Around December 24th, 2021, several old NATO members began to join the Corn Flake Crew (CFC) server after it had installed ACF-3, for non-clan related reasons. Over the next month, these events escalated, and boiled over around January 24th, 2022; as the catalysts for the CFC Conflict (the harassment of Ghost Company members, alongside Omegatrion renaming himself to "[AEF] Strayed" as a joke) led to the sudden influx of faction activity on the server, which led to more people from that friend circle joining in for the conflict.

The previously mentioned Discord server saw increased activity during the CFC Conflict, which drew NATO and IW closer together. Sergei, the leader of the Nationalist Republic of Kalestania, was invited to the Discord around late-January 2022, reuniting the two founding Neo-Orzel Alliance states once again. On April 8th, 2022, after an internal info-security breach, it was discussed splitting off the previously non-Garry's Mod section and the Garry's Mod section into two servers, alongside formally creating an alliance.

The acronym "KATO" was chosen both as a reference to RasNotty - a YouTube channel that was a part of the internal friend group humor - and because of how similarly it sounded to NATO, the previous alliance most member states were in. It was later expanded to "Kestrel-Astria" as a backronym - Kestrel had little meaning at the time, but Astria was the name of Independent Karelian Republic's home server. All founding member states agreed to the alliance by April 12th, 2022.

Emblems

Note: There may be discrepancies between the official treaty signing dates of member states and the member states allocated on the emblems. Initially, there was some contention with some members on whether they wanted to fully be "in the meta", for lack of a better way to put it - but were still supporting the treaty and were in the alliance, albeit in a more private fashion.


Date	Member States	What changed about the emblem?
6 April 2022 (4 years ago) (2022-04-06)	Cerulean Taskforce International Weapons Kinetic Assault Initiative Nationalist Republic of Kalestania Lusatia Independent Karelian Republic	Initial design
12 May 2022 (4 years ago) (2022-05-12)	Cerulean Taskforce International Weapons Kinetic Assault Initiative Nationalist Republic of Kalestania Lusatia	IKR requested to be removed, as they were not sure if they were coming back yet
24 July 2022 (3 years ago) (2022-07-24)	Cerulean Taskforce International Weapons Nationalist Republic of Kalestania Kalmar Republic	The Kinetic Assault Initiative was removed from the alliance due to internal disagreements on the behavior of a high-command member of the group. Lusatia effectively did nothing and was removed from the alliance. The Kalmar Republic requested to be its own independent faction rather than being lumped in with the Cerulean Taskforce.
4 October 2022 (3 years ago) (2022-10-04)	Cerulean Taskforce International Weapons Nationalist Republic of Kalestania Kalmar Republic	Readability adjustments A border was added around the flags to help them stand out.
30 August 2023 (2 years ago) (2023-08-30)	Cerulean Taskforce International Weapons Nationalist Republic of Kalestania Kalmar Republic Independent Karelian Republic Bozostan	IKR requested to be re-added in 2023 as they had decided they would come back publicly. Bozostan had always been a part of the alliance, but due to the free space and the fact that they were becoming less of a joke group, they were added to the emblem.
8 June 2024 (23 months ago) (2024-06-08)	Cerulean Taskforce International Weapons Nationalist Republic of Kalestania Kalmar Republic Independent Karelian Republic Bozostan	The emblem was redone from the ground up to provide enhanced readability and less saturated colors. IKR's emblem changed during this time period and was updated.
16 August 2025 (9 months ago) (2025-08-16)	Cerulean Taskforce International Weapons Nationalist Republic of Kalestania Kalmar Republic Independent Karelian Republic Ludasia	Bozostan left the alliance due to disagreements on how we operated. Ludasia had joined the alliance previously but a spot was not open - they took the empty spot.

@@ Line 6: / Line 6: @@
 | logo_caption             = "Sword & Shield" logo as of August 16th, 2025
 | abbreviation             = KATO
-| predecessor              = [[Neo-Orzel Republic|Neo-Orzel]]
+| predecessor              = [[Neo-Orzel Alliance|Neo-Orzel]]
++ some [[New Ares Treaty Organization]] member states
++ some [[Petrograd Pact]] member states
 | type                     = Military alliance
 | headquarters             = Eclipse Development Zone
-| membership               = Treaty signed on April 12th, 2022 by: <br>
+| membership               = Treaty signed on {{start date and age|2022|04|12|df=y|p=y}}: <br>
 [[File:CTF_Rev5.4_Flag.png|20px]] [[Cerulean Taskforce|Cerulean Taskforce]] <br>
 [[File:International_weapons_2.webp|20px]] [[International Weapons Corporation|International Weapons]] <br>
 [[File:IKR_2024_flag.webp|20px]] [[Independent Karelian Republic]]<br>
-[[File:Nrk_flag.jpg|20px]] [[Kalestania|Nationalist Republic of Kalestania]]<br>
+[[File:Nrk_flag.jpg|20px]] [[Nationalist Republic of Kalestania]]<br>
 [[File:KAL_SmallRecreationForWiki.webp|20px]] [[Kalmar Republic]]<br>
 <br>
-Treaty signed on August 5th, 2024 by: <br>
+Treaty signed on {{start date and age|2024|08|05|df=y|p=y}}: <br>
 [[File:Ludasia2025Flag.webp|20px]] [[Ludasia]]<br>
+<br>
+Treaty signed on {{start date and age|2025|10|17|df=y|p=y}}: <br>
+[[File:Izkflag.png|20px]] [[Izakia]]<br>
+<br>
+Treaty signed on {{start date and age|2025|11|01|df=y|p=y}}: <br>
+[[File:VSR20War20Fixed.png|20px]] [[Verslavian Socialist Republic]]<br>
 | sec_gen                  = March
 | secessions               = [[File:Kainewflagdraft3.webp|20px]] [[Kinetic Assault Initiative|Kinetic Assault Initiative]] <br>
@@ Line 27: / Line 35: @@
 - Terminated: 2024 (unknown exact day)<br>
 <br>
-[[File:LusatiaRecreationForWiki.png|20px]] [[Lusatia]] <br>
+[[File:lusatia.png|20px]] [[Lusatia]] <br>
 - Signed: April 12th, 2022<br>
 - Terminated: October 2023 (disbanded)
 }}
-== Overview ==
-The Kestrel-Astria Treaty Organization (often shortened to "KATO") is the joint pact between some former [[New Ares Treaty Organization]] member states and some former [[Petrograd Pact]] member states.
-After the collapse of [[Neo Orzel]], the [[Cerulean Taskforce]] and the [[Kalestania|Nationalist Republic of Kalestania]] had lost contact for the most part. However, most previous members of the [[New Ares Treaty Organization]] still were good friends and talked often. A Discord server previously existed as far back as July 2021 for old-heads within the [[New Ares Treaty Organization]] + [[International Weapons Corporation]] as a general friend space after [[World War III]].
+The Kestrel-Astria Treaty Organization (often shortened to "KATO") is the joint pact between some former [[New Ares Treaty Organization]] member states and some former [[Petrograd Pact]] member states, most of which were previously allied during the [[Neo-Orzel Alliance]].
+After the collapse of [[Neo-Orzel Alliance|Neo-Orzel]], the [[Cerulean Taskforce]] and the [[Nationalist Republic of Kalestania]] had lost contact for the most part. However, most previous members of the [[New Ares Treaty Organization]] still were good friends and talked often. A Discord server previously existed as far back as July 2021 for old-heads within the [[New Ares Treaty Organization]] + [[International Weapons Corporation]] as a general friend space after [[World War III]].
+Around December 24th, 2021, several old NATO members began to join the Corn Flake Crew (CFC) server after it had installed ACF-3, for non-clan related reasons. Over the next month, these events escalated, and boiled over around January 24th, 2022; as the catalysts for the [[CFC Conflict]] (the harassment of [[Ghost Company]] members, alongside [[Omegatrion (RFAI)|Omegatrion]] renaming himself to "[AEF] Strayed" as a joke) led to the sudden influx of faction activity on the server, which led to more people from that friend circle joining in for the conflict.
+The previously mentioned Discord server saw increased activity during the [[CFC Conflict]], which drew NATO and IW closer together. Sergei, the leader of the [[Nationalist Republic of Kalestania]], was invited to the Discord around late-January 2022, reuniting the two founding [[Neo-Orzel Alliance]] states once again. On April 8th, 2022, after an internal info-security breach, it was discussed splitting off the previously non-Garry's Mod section and the Garry's Mod section into two servers, alongside formally creating an alliance.
-Around December 24th, 2021, several old NATO members began to join the Corn Flake Crew (CFC) server after it had installed ACF-3, for non-clan related reasons. Over the next month, these events escalated, and boiled over around January 24th, 2022; as the catalysts for the [[CFC Conflict]] (the harassment of [[Ghost Company]] members, alongside [[Omegatrion (RFAI)|Omegatrion]] renaming himself to "[AEF] Strayed" as a joke) led to the sudden influx of faction activity on the server, which led to more people from that friend circle joining in for the conflict.
-The previously mentioned Discord server saw increased activity during the [[CFC Conflict]], which drew NATO and IW closer together. Sergei, the leader of the [[Kalestania|Nationalist Republic of Kalestania]], was invited to the Discord around late-January 2022, reuniting the two founding [[Neo Orzel]] states once again. On April 8th, 2022, after an internal info-security breach, it was discussed splitting off the previously non-Garry's Mod section and the Garry's Mod section into two servers, alongside formally creating an alliance.
 The acronym "KATO" was chosen both as a reference to RasNotty - a YouTube channel that was a part of the internal friend group humor - and because of how similarly it sounded to NATO, the previous alliance most member states were in. It was later expanded to "Kestrel-Astria" as a backronym - Kestrel had little meaning at the time, but Astria was the name of [[Independent Karelian Republic]]'s home server. All founding member states agreed to the alliance by April 12th, 2022.
+== Emblems ==
+'''Note:''' ''There may be discrepancies between the official treaty signing dates of member states and the member states allocated on the emblems. Initially, there was some contention with some members on whether they wanted to fully be "in the meta", for lack of a better way to put it - but were still supporting the treaty and were in the alliance, albeit in a more private fashion.''
+{| class="wikitable"
+|+
+!Emblem
+!Date
+!Member States
+!What changed about the emblem?
+|-
+|[[File:Kato-4-6-2022.png|frameless]]
+|{{start date and age|2022|04|06|df=y|p=y}}
+|[[File:CTF_Rev5.4_Flag.png|20px]] [[Cerulean Taskforce|Cerulean Taskforce]]
+[[File:International_weapons_2.webp|20px]] [[International Weapons Corporation|International Weapons]]
+[[File:Kainewflagdraft3.webp|20x20px]] [[Kinetic Assault Initiative]]
+[[File:Nrk_flag.jpg|20px]] [[Nationalist Republic of Kalestania]]
+[[File:lusatia.png|20px]] [[Lusatia]]
+[[File:IKR_2024_flag.webp|20x20px]] [[Independent Karelian Republic]]
+|Initial design
+|-
+|[[File:SwordAndShield 5 12 22.png|frameless]]
+|{{start date and age|2022|05|12|df=y|p=y}}
+|[[File:CTF_Rev5.4_Flag.png|20px]] [[Cerulean Taskforce]]
+[[File:International_weapons_2.webp|20px]] [[International Weapons Corporation|International Weapons]]
+[[File:Kainewflagdraft3.webp|20x20px]] [[Kinetic Assault Initiative]]
+[[File:Nrk_flag.jpg|20px]] [[Nationalist Republic of Kalestania]]
+[[File:lusatia.png|20px]] [[Lusatia]]
+|IKR requested to be removed, as they were not sure if they were coming back yet
+|-
+|[[File:SwordAndShield-7-24-2022.png|frameless]]
+|{{start date and age|2022|07|24|df=y|p=y}}
+|[[File:CTF_Rev5.4_Flag.png|20px]] [[Cerulean Taskforce]]
+[[File:International_weapons_2.webp|20px]] [[International Weapons Corporation|International Weapons]]
+[[File:Nrk_flag.jpg|20px]] [[Nationalist Republic of Kalestania]]
+[[File:KAL_SmallRecreationForWiki.webp|20x20px]] [[Kalmar Republic]]
+|The Kinetic Assault Initiative was removed from the alliance due to internal disagreements on the behavior of a high-command member of the group.
+Lusatia effectively did nothing and was removed from the alliance.
+The Kalmar Republic requested to be its own independent faction rather than being lumped
+in with the Cerulean Taskforce.
+|-
+|[[File:SwordAndShield-10-4-22.png|frameless]]
+|{{start date and age|2022|10|4|df=y|p=y}}
+|[[File:CTF_Rev5.4_Flag.png|20px]] [[Cerulean Taskforce]]
+[[File:International_weapons_2.webp|20px]] [[International Weapons Corporation|International Weapons]]
+[[File:Nrk_flag.jpg|20px]] [[Nationalist Republic of Kalestania]]
+[[File:KAL_SmallRecreationForWiki.webp|20x20px]] [[Kalmar Republic]]
+|Readability adjustments
+A border was added around the flags to help them stand out.
+|-
+|[[File:SwordAndShield_Revision8-30-2023.png|frameless]]
+|{{start date and age|2023|08|30|df=y|p=y}}
+|[[File:CTF_Rev5.4_Flag.png|20px]] [[Cerulean Taskforce]]
+[[File:International_weapons_2.webp|20px]] [[International Weapons Corporation|International Weapons]]
+[[File:Nrk_flag.jpg|20px]] [[Nationalist Republic of Kalestania]]
+[[File:KAL_SmallRecreationForWiki.webp|20x20px]] [[Kalmar Republic]]
+[[File:IKR_2024_flag.webp|20x20px]] [[Independent Karelian Republic]]
+[[File:BozostanFlag2022.webp|20x20px]] [[Bozostan]]
+|IKR requested to be re-added in 2023 as they had decided they would come back publicly.
+Bozostan had always been a part of the alliance, but due to the free space and the fact that they were becoming less of a joke group, they were added to the emblem.
+|-
+|[[File:SwordAndShield-6-8-2024.png|frameless]]
+|{{start date and age|2024|06|8|df=y|p=y}}
+|[[File:CTF_Rev5.4_Flag.png|20px]] [[Cerulean Taskforce]]
+[[File:International_weapons_2.webp|20px]] [[International Weapons Corporation|International Weapons]]
+[[File:Nrk_flag.jpg|20px]] [[Nationalist Republic of Kalestania]]
+[[File:KAL_SmallRecreationForWiki.webp|20x20px]] [[Kalmar Republic]]
+[[File:IKR_2024_flag.webp|20x20px]] [[Independent Karelian Republic]]
+[[File:BozostanFlag2022.webp|20x20px]] [[Bozostan]]
+|The emblem was redone from the ground up to provide enhanced readability and less saturated colors.
+IKR's emblem changed during this time period and was updated.
+|-
+|[[File:SwordAndShield-8-16-2025 rev2.png|frameless]]
+|{{start date and age|2025|08|16|df=y|p=y}}
+|[[File:CTF_Rev5.4_Flag.png|20px]] [[Cerulean Taskforce]]
+[[File:International_weapons_2.webp|20px]] [[International Weapons Corporation|International Weapons]]
+[[File:Nrk_flag.jpg|20px]] [[Nationalist Republic of Kalestania]]
+[[File:KAL_SmallRecreationForWiki.webp|20x20px]] [[Kalmar Republic]]
+[[File:IKR_2024_flag.webp|20x20px]] [[Independent Karelian Republic]]
+[[File:Ludasia2025Flag.webp|20x20px]] [[Ludasia]]
+|Bozostan left the alliance due to disagreements on how we operated.
+Ludasia had joined the alliance previously but a spot was not open - they took the empty spot.
+|}
+[[Category:Alliance]]

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