Following a week of silence, intervention from Octavton forces Zimbabmei and the Pacific Exchange (the Herwanese power bloc) to sign a peace treaty with the Greater Empire of Rattanjeetland and the Octavton Community on October 4, 2005.
An initial delay in negotiations was prolonged on September 26 by the revelation that the Pharaoh of Zimbabmei had made a public statement condemning the Herwanese administration in Zimbabmei to whom she had earlier secretly ceded control of her country. The Pharaoh said she opposed her country's previous espionage activities and she demanded that she resume control of Zimbabmei. However subsequent attempts to reach the Pharaoh all failed.
These events threatened to escalate a contained war between Rattanjeetland and Zimbabmei into a general conflict. Largely due to Bangkwokian and Octavian efforts, it became widely accepted that Herwan controlled Zimbabmei and thus Herwan, and by extension the Pacific Exchange, would become involved should any resumption of war occur.
Furthermore, disclosure of the secret Herwan-Zimbabmei link incensed the world which was already reeling from the discovery of Zimbabmei's secret terrorist campaign against the 2005 Jeetanics. This anger was particularly virulent in Terra Exortus where a historic enmity between the Pacific Exchange and Hongolia and Octavton had festered for over a year.
On October 2 Zimbabmei was handed an ultimatum. Failure to agree would result in termination of the ceasefire the next day. In addition, the Octavton Community would join the war and target the entire Pacific Exchange.
Faced with this prospect, Herwan acquiesed to Zimbabmei apologizing for past transgressions against Octavton, dismantling all military installations, transferring ownership of all technologies in its possession to Rattanjeetland, and nullify previous financial and territorial transactions with the Pacific Exchange.
Herwan also acquiesed to the Pacific Exchange cancelling the Chercagoan mandate in Puerto Christo (effectively returning power to its former leader El Moustache), and ceding the ancestral lands of Novara to Rattanjeetland.
The news was greeted with guarded optimism in Octavton and Rattanjeetland. Both insisted that the burden of maintaining the peace now squarely depends on Herwan making good on its promises.
