The Green Belt did not merely serve as a new defensive band.
As soon as Master Laila Rebecca Devos announced its existence, it became a symbol.
Its existence signified that the Terran Alliance not only possessed the determination to halt the alien advance, but turn its borders into an impregnable green barrier!
The political cost of failing in its promise to hold back the aliens would be great. The leaders of the Terran Alliance were certainly making a big gamble by making such a high-profile announcement.
Yet it was exactly because it sounded so grand and optimistic that it shot another dose of confidence in the Terran people.
Many of them felt proud that their colonial star empire projected strength in its message.
It provided a strong and obvious contrast with the Terrans under the subjugation of the mechers and fleeters.
