The first official communication with the Trisolaran Civilization would be held before the High Lords of Terra of the Holy Terra Alliance and broadcast live to people of every social class around the world.
For many people, what they longed for was certainly not war, oppression, or control, but freedom and peace.
Why had things come to this?
The answer was simple. Two hundred years ago, human society had been gripped by fear of the Trisolaran Civilization. Humanity had no means of resisting them and was like a lamb waiting to be slaughtered. Thus, the Holy Terra Alliance had come into being.
The original purpose of Holy Terra had been to protect humanity.
Measures such as compulsory conscription, centralized management of the global population, high-pressure living conditions, and fixed resource allocations for each social class had all been intended to help humanity develop the means to resist the Trisolarans more efficiently.
But what about now?
Humanity believed it had the strength to stand against the Trisolaran Civilization and make it fear them.
Their Space Fleet blotted out the skies, their colonies covered the Solar System, and, more than that, they had two great guardians of humanity at their side!
The Astartes Chapter and the Martian Mechanicus!
The wisdom of the Adeptus Mechanicus had allowed human civilization to travel, in a mere two centuries, a road that might have taken other civilizations thousands or even tens of thousands of years. It had erased the technological gap between humanity and the Trisolarans.
And the power of the Astartes Chapter had convinced humanity that these mighty demigods could protect them from the invaders at any time, in any place, and under any circumstances.
Humanity had both power and wisdom!
Given all this, most people throughout human civilization believed that these peace talks would