"Interesting! It seems General Duan Harbalton is far smarter than those stubborn, foolish, old-fashioned colleagues of his. He understands the disadvantage he is at in this war, so he has tightly linked the Eighth Fleet with the base on the lunar surface. In this way, if we want to launch a frontal assault, we must take into account the support the Moon might provide."
Looking over the intelligence Blitz Gundam had just brought back, Rau Le Creuset quickly made his judgment.
As everyone knew, the Moon was Earth's only satellite, born 4.5 billion years ago.
It was precisely because of this satellite that many meteors and asteroids had not struck Earth directly, preventing countless disasters and terrifying mass extinctions.
One only needed to look at the countless craters of all sizes across the lunar surface to understand that.
They were the marks left by the Moon shielding Earth from catastrophe.
Thus, from the dawn of humanity, the Moon had held an extremely important place in countless myths and legends.
Later, innumerable religions, philosophies, calendars, traditional customs, and works of art related to the Moon emerged.
After humanity entered the cosmic age, the Moon became an incomparably important transfer station and launching point.
Nearly every spacecraft, after escaping Earth's gravity, made a brief stop and adjustment near the bases established on the Moon.
Over time, the bases there grew larger and larger, until a massive space city was even constructed.
Once war broke out between Coordinators and Naturals, that city was transformed in an extremely short time into an enormous, impregnable military fortress.
Even the ZAFT Army, which had won one brilliant victory after another in space, did not dare launch an attack there lightly.
Because they knew perfectly well that the price of capturing the Moon base was not something