America may have been the first to go to Earth’s moon, but it was the AI Council who first colonized our nearest neighbor. China quickly responded by saying that no mere machines could colonize anything and claimed Luna with their own colony. We followed with a colony of our own to dispute the claim, and so matters have held ever since. China accuses us of being disrespectful barbarians to the claims of the oldest and greatest empire of all human history. And we challenge them to show us where exactly that mythical empire exists, because we cannot find it anywhere. It is a war of mocking words and steely gazes, but the Lunar Treaties forbid us from exchanging more lethal ordinance inside Luna’s orbit. Thank God for that.