Palau Alliance

**Highest Ranked**: Xenia (3/20)

The Palau Alliance was an alliance from Survivor: Micronesia.

After competing together on the Ulong tribe during *Survivor: Palau*, these four castaways returned as Favourites for *Micronesia* where they formed a large alliance that heavily influenced the entire game. However, none of them made it to the end due to a number of betrayals and one affiliate considering the alliance too powerful an entity.

## History

### Origins

The purple Malakal tribe, containing Favourite veterans from the past 15 seasons, was formed on Day 1 of *Survivor: Micronesia*. Four castaways on the original Malakal were returning players who previously competed on *Palau*; Jaclyn, Ricardo, Wyatt and Xenia. Ricardo and Wyatt formed a strong personal relationship with Axel because of their shared interest in working out and sports. Jaclyn and Xenia also become close friends with Axel, mainly because they considered him easy to strategically manipulate. When the Favourites lost the first immunity challenge, the Palau Four were the strongest unit and voted together to eliminate notorious villain and *Survivor: China* winner Cherry. The alliance then brought in Axel officially, where they now had the numbers to eliminate Priya for being a strategic threat. During this time, Xenia also found the Malakal Hidden Immunity Idol.

### The Switch

At the tribe switch, Ricardo, Wyatt and Xenia remained on Malakal whilst Axel and Jaclyn were switched to the rival Airai tribe. The trio decided to bring in *Survivor* fan Cecilia into the Palau Alliance because they perceived her as a fiercely loyal, smart and perceptive player. After winning an immunity challenge, losing Axel whilst he was on Airai and experiencing from the evacuation of super-fan Kaylee, Malakal had to attend tribal council on Day 17. The Palau Alliance had the numbers because Lily didn't want to work with the counter alliance, and they ended up eliminating her. The two tribes then had to attend a Double Tribal Council, where the Palau Alliance again had the numbers and Belle was voted out.

### The Merge

On Day 12, the remaining eleven castaways from Airai and Malakal merged into the green Dabu tribe. Ricardo, Wyatt and Xenia reunited with their *Palau* ally Jaclyn. The trio explained that they had begun working with Cecilia, whilst Jaclyn mentioned she had a good relationship with Arthur and Emma from Airai. At the first merged tribal council, this majority of seven had the numbers and they voted out Gloss. The core of the Palau Alliance were wary of the fans making moves against them and decided to go after them. Jaclyn told Arthur and Emma that the alliance was going to blindside Wyatt, whilst Ricardo, Wyatt and Xenia got the tribe to split the votes between Arthur and Rachel. With the highest number of votes, Arthur was eliminated.

The Palau Four agreed that this move put on a huge target on their backs and they made a ploy to ensure their combined safety. Ricardo and Wyatt approached the rest of the tribe and created a plan to vote for Xenia at tribal council, but she played her idol. With the only three votes that counted from Cecilia, Jaclyn and Xenia, Rachel was voted out and made the third member of the jury. Wyatt however had formed strong relationships with Brendan and Katniss in particular and decided it was in his best interest to work with them as a back up to his Palau Alliance. They voted for Emma, but the Palau Alliance still had the numbers and Katniss was eliminated next. Wyatt's betrayal caused some mistrust amongst the *Palau* veterans and they blindsided him at the Final Seven, followed shortly by Ricardo at the Final Six.

### Their Demise

With only five castaways remaining, Jaclyn and Xenia decided that they would bring Cecilia to the Final Three because she was least connected to the jury socially and was perceived most as a goat in comparison to underdog Brendan and continual strategist Emma. They decided to go after Emma next and the trio eliminated her, with Cecilia playing her idol because it expired at the Final Five anyway. Xenia, having made the Final Four in *Palau*, worried she would be targeted for being a huge threat and decided to make a move against her closest ally and biggest threat Jaclyn. She gathered both Brendan and Cecilia and the trio voted out Jaclyn at the Final Four. When Cecilia won the final individual immunity challenge, Xenia assumed she would vote out Brendan because of their close friendship. However, Cecilia saw Xenia as her biggest competition and the final member of the Palau Alliance also became the final member of the jury.