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Originally explored by Aslan traders and clan scouts looking for new territory. During its history, the Ea subsector has been the scene of numerous confrontations between Humans and Aslans competing for the same real estate. During the era of the Reaver Warlords, several small human states sprang up here. Currently, two human states, separated by a scattered band of unclaimed independent worlds, dominate this region. The Grand Duchy of Marlheim is a tightly controlled totalitarian state with expansionist tendencies. The Confederacy of Duncinae is a less restrictive interstellar community with close ties to the Principality of Caledon to coreward.

Aslan trade company associated with the Loakhtarl Clan. Formed in -835, ostensibly to trade with the score or so inhabited worlds in Eakoi and Ea subsectors despite the dangers and difficulties of such a venture at that time and despite the fact that trade with the mostly pre-stellar TL communities of the time simply wasn't profitable enough to be worth while. In reality the corporation was a nearly self-supporting tool of the Loakhtarl Clan Lords for keeping the area, which was adjacent to the main holdings of the clan, under surveillance, preempting choice pieces of land for future use, and discouraging other Aslan clans from settling there.

Although the Eakoi Corporation could not seal off the area to outside settlement completely, it did keep down the number of such settlements considerably. Historians note that non-Loakhtarl settlements in Eakoi and Ea tended to fail due to Reaver attacks. Much of the blame for this has been put on the Drexiltharan Empire and the Celestial League, but some historians speculate that the Eakoi Corporation may also have played a part in these disasters.

By -100 the Loakhtarl clan had consolidated its hold on its main territories and began moving into Eakoi and Ea in earnest. A number of clan holdings were established on Eakoi, Ea, and several other planets. But the greedy, selfish policies of the clan got it accused of un-Aslan conduct during the Cultural Purge (qv.) and it got attacked by a coalition of minor, land-poor Aslan clans and lost quite a lot of power. Simultaneously a minor human polity centered on Soloman started waging a trade war against the Eakoi Corporation.

After a protracted war with little real action but a ruinously expensive arms race, the Eakoi Aslans gave up in the end and abandoned the area in 128, bringing its fighting assets back to the Loakhtarl heartland to help stave off the attacks mentioned above. The collapse of the Eakoi Corporation triggered an influx of Aslan ihatei fleets to Reavers' Deep that in turn led to the escalating series of Aslan/Human conflicts that is called The Turmoils and which culminated in the Last Aslan Border War (374-380).

Asteroid belt mined by a mix of aslans and humans under the auspices of the Ekaftouh Treaty Administration. Failing trade and pirate attacks have pushed the system to the brink of disaster; several habitats have suffered life support failure and others survived only by cannibalizing parts from failed or abandoned habitats. Most of the aslan clans have already pulled their people out.