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MARTIAN REBIRTH, ANOTHER INVASION ATTEMPT

May 27, 2025 at 1:45 pm Leave a comment

                                           MARTIAN REBIRTH

The last Martians clung desperately to life, knowing their situation was hopeless.  Still, they practiced a truth known throughout the universe; life is precious and vigorously preserve. But their society was doomed.  The underground cities they inhabited were littered with corpses. Their scientists had predicted this turn of events, but no one believed it true until it was too late.

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As time passes the atmosphere of Mars began to thin, but since the loss began the Martians inhabited the planet’s core and manufactured their own atmosphere, the population worried little.  They had their magnificent oceans on the surface, the source of life-giving power, the declining atmosphere was of little concern.

The scientists tried to explain the impact of the loss of the atmosphere.  One prominent scientist addressed the supreme council, “We are safe in our cities, we control most of the aspects of our life – the atmosphere, food production – but we have no control over the oceans on which our lives depend.

“Our atmosphere is slowly thinning, escaping into space.  A thousand years from now, the atmosphere will be too thin to support life, but you say, “’We live in the planet’s core and make our atmosphere’, that is correct, but we cannot duplicate the surface water that gives us the unique life which is ours.”   

“Our oceans will disappear.  With little atmosphere, much of the water will sublime into space.  What water remains will freeze.  No longer will the streams of life filter from the surface to fill our lakes.  We may be able to farm the ice, but we will never be able to supply the vast amount of water our society requires. Understand, we can manufacture water, but it will not have the same life-giving properties which water contained on the surface provides.”

At one time that the most advanced beings on Mars were a primal form of life. But gradually, due to some unknown factor, the Martians changed both physically and mentally resulting in an entirely new society. For newborns this factor was unable to cross the Martian placenta causing the babies of the inhabitants to appear nothing like the adults. But once the babies began nursing and drinking the water, they took on the appearance of their parents.

A thousand years passed; the scientist’s prophecy came to fruition.  The oceans began to disappear.  The planet cooled, the atmosphere thinned and what remained of the oceans froze.  Where once the deafening roar of the water from above filling the lakes below echoed through the interior of the planet, now there was only silence.

Rationing began, but an estimate of approximately one hundred years was given for their society to continue.  As the years passed, the lakes grew smaller and smaller.   Eventually, they became pools of mud and then parched ground.

The last Martians huddled near what water remained.  No one had the strength to venture to the surface and gather what little ice which was still there.  They grieved for their magnificent cities; now vast wastelands filled with rotting corpses.  All hope for their civilization was lost.

                                                 TO BE CONTINUED

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