Appendix 1: Lunarian Declaration of Victory and Cessation of Hostilities

An announcement to the populace of the 13 Districts of the Lunar Capital:

This document exists to declare a formal end to the hostilities and to celebrate the hard-fought victory achieved by the Lunarians after sixteen years of bloody battle against the combined military expedition forces of the planet Earth. The First Lunar War has officially concluded.

Today, we remember the sacrifice of the Lunar Defense Corps in their struggle to stem the tide of Terran impurity and imperialism. Our victory, stands as a testament to physical, mental, and moral Lunarian superiority over the humans of the planet Earth.

We commemorate the heroes of this war, lest we forget the thousands of Lunarians and Moon Rabbits who gave their lives in the struggle to defend the sovereignty of the Lunar Capital against foreign invaders.

We honor the Lunar Constabulary, who bravely took up arms and went beyond the call of duty to fight the invaders on the streets of the thirteen districts when the Terrans breached the silver gates on the last day.

We honor the Lunar Army, who valiantly stood as the first line of defense throughout the entirety of the war, unshakable and unbreakable. We will never forget the immeasurable sacrifice of the Army on the last day, where they were nearly annihilated by the relentless Terran onslaught.

We honor the Lunar Navy, for it was their spacecraft that inflicted the final blow on the Terran forces, and it was their marines who retook the lower districts from the imperialist Earth forces on the last day.

We honor the Lunar Royal Guard, for keeping safe our Lord, the great Tsukuyomi, and protecting the princess, Toyohime, and her sister, Yorihime, in the thick of battle on the last day.

After the costly victory on the last day, where the Lunar Defense Corps was spent and lost nearly all its Moon Rabbit soldiers, and where the Terrans were annihilated, a peace treaty has been established. A peace between human beings, a peace between the humans who left the filth of the Earth, and the humans who chose to stay. Though in our reality, neither side considers the other as human, and the peace is uneasy, it is still peace nonetheless.

On the scarred surface of the moon, in the Lunar Sea of Tranquility, there rests a flag of red, white, and blue; a flag of stars and stripes. That flag belongs to a nation of the Earth, the first nation that dared to tread on our sacred soil, and stands today as their first and last statement of imperialism on the moon. It remains there only to remind both sides of the bloodshed that flag has caused.

It is hoped that both sides of this war have learned that another war of this scale would not be in any one's interest. Earth and Luna can ill-afford another entanglement akin to this one. In the conclusion of the war it is hoped that Earth has learned the consequences of attempting imperialist conquest against superior adversaries, while here on Luna we have learned that we must remain ever vigilant, as even an inferior force can greatly devastate our sovereignty.

Let us hope that in the future these two entities, Terra and Luna, Earth and Moon, despite the animosity and hatred, can turn this uneasy peace that is at the moment, nothing more than a stoppage of hostilities, into a lasting and prosperous peace for both.

This document was published by request of the Office of the Lunar Dignitaries and Ambassadors, and has been approved and endorsed by the Office of the Marshal of the Lunar Defense Corps, as well as her royal highness, the Princess of the Moon, Watatsuki no Toyohime.

Originally published in Terran time: 8 March, 1985.