Avalonia will not join DAV or Four Crowns. I'm allied with member nations of both, and since relations between the two seem to be quasi-hostile, Avalonia will not put itself in a position to alienate itself from it allies or entangle itself in affairs that are not its own.
Avalonia begins work on its own exoskeleton program.
Avalonia begins to beef up its interceptor grid and its retaliatory nuclear devices. Shelters continue to be made, government issued or otherwise. None of this, as usual, is for the purpose of starting anything; only protection and/or retaliation.