Galang Alliance

The Galang Five was the majority alliance of the original Galang tribe in.

History
The alliance was created by Aras Baskauskas (although it was more of a mutual formation) when he, Gervase Peterson, Monica Culpepper, Tina Wesson and Tyson Apostol meet in their tribe camp's well on Day 5 to talk about Colton Cumbie's behavior at camp, stirring trouble and trying to pit everyone against each other but him. Seeing they have a common target and goal of monitoring Colton's deceptions, Aras suggested that the five form an official alliance. They sealed it off with a pact saying "Don't say anything!".

The Coconut Bandits
As the days go on, Gervase and Tyson became close. They decided to keep close with each other, and even agreeing eating coconuts without the others knowing about it.

Colton Quits
Feeling that he is all alone in the tribe, Colton finally decided to quit in Day 7 on the Redemption Island arena. After the duel John Cody (who won first place) won a Hidden Immunity Idol clue which he decided to give to Monica (possibly to put a target on her like what happened to him with Monica's husband, Brad Culpepper). Monica, however unprecedentedly decided to burn it to the flaming urn, not even reading what is inside of it, which she did again at the next Redemption Island duel (when John Cody again won a duel).

Double Laur-iat
The alliance wasn't able to test its loyalty as Galang won three Immunity Challenges after the alliance was formed. However, on Day 13 Galang finally lost an Immunity Challenge, testing the alliance. The alliance decided whether to vote out Laura Boneham (who was originally from Tadhana and was voted out, but switched with Rupert Boneham putting her to Galang and made her an automatic outsider) or Laura Morett (a returning player who is not part of the alliance). At first they wanted Laura B. to be voted out as it would be an "easy vote" as she is not originally from the tribe, but Aras suggested that an "easy vote" is not the smartest vote, and elected to vote out Laura M. instead to have a chance to beat Brad, in which his elimination could keep Monica on the alliance's side. At Tribal Council, the alliance finally decided to keep Laura B. and voted out Laura M. instead, voting her out unanimously 7-1 blindside.

The Threat of the Baskauskas
After Laura M. was voted out, Aras was concerned that Laura M. would talk bad about him after seemingly betraying her. At the Redemption Island duel the next day, Laura M. won first place, and decided to give Aras' brother, Vytas Baskauskas an idol clue to the to possibly make him a target. Vytas eventually burns it to the fire like what Monica did when she received clues from Redemption Island before, however. After the duel, Jeff Probst announced that they would all be switching tribes. The Tribe Switch randomly puts all of the male castaways except Vytas on Tadhana, while all female castaways except Ciera Eastin (Laura M.'s daughter) on Galang - meaning that alliance members Tina and Monica are separated from alliance members Aras, Gervase and Tyson.

At Tadhana, the number of returnees and loved ones were equal. The "Coconut Bandits" - Gervase and Tyson - figured out that they need to eliminate Aras as he is a threat, and decided to really keep each other's backs. At Galang, the women bonded a connection and seemingly made an alliance, putting Vytas at the outside. However, Kat decided to target Monica instead for her perceived overstrategizing, which alerted Tina to give the information to Monica. With that, Monica wanted to vote out Kat as she is a threat to her, although Tina said that she would still want to eliminate Vytas, although at the same time thinking about voting out Kat due to doubts of loyalty.

At Tribal Council, Kat said that she wanted to be loyal, but Monica said that she felt uneasy with Kat telling everyone she should be voted out. Eventually, Monica's wish of having Kat be eliminated was fulfilled by the tribe, voting her out instead of Vytas in a unanimous 5-1 vote.