Wellsian invasion of Earth

The Wellsian invasion of Earth
AKA	The Martian invasion of Earth The War of the Worlds
Statistics
Type	Alien invasion
Date(s)	1897
Location(s)	Earth
Result(s)	Ravaging of Earth Extinction or near-extinction of the invaders due to a pandemic
Actors
Side #1	Humanity
Side #2	Martians
Behind the scenes
First seen in	COMIC: Miss Adventure (mention)
Also seen in	See list

The Wellsian invasion of Earth was the invasion of Earth by octopoid Martians armed with metallic Tripods. In some universes, it was a real events, but in others, it was the subject of War of the Worlds, a popular piece of science fiction.

History

In the 97th Cosmos

Background

In the 97th Cosmos, the invasion occurred in 1897 (PROSE: The Resurrection of the Wellsians) and was enacted by Martians known as the Wellsians because they called their version of Mars “Wellsia”. Wellsia was a “dying” world, facing droughts and other disasters, (VIDEO: The Wellsians) in part due to the Wellsians' own reckless draining of their atmosphere's ozone layer. (PROSE: The Resurrection of the Wellsians) The Wellsians grew jealous of the lush, watery neighbouring planet Earth, and decided to invade it. After discarding multiple other, even more ridiculous ideas, the Martian Empire Science Department settled on the idea of shooting the Wellsian colonists at the Earth using a Really Bloody Big Cannon. There, finding that the Earth's gravity prevented them from moving about on their own, they hastily constructed Tripod Walking-Machines, “with built-in Heat Rays, of course”, and began wreaking havoc. (VIDEO: The Wellsians)

The invasion

The invasion saw the Tripods rampaging through major cities, destroying England (VIDEO: The Wellsians) and attempting to do the same to Paris. In the latter case, however, two of the Wellsians who'd been assigned to the raid, Shogorf and Rusk, ended up being scared off by the sight of the Eiffel Tower, believing it to be a war machine similar to theirs. (COMIC: Towering Success)

The epidemic

As the Wellsians fall sick to the plague, some of their weapons are turned against them in the chaos. (VIDEO: The Wellsians)

However, “just as they were finishing up the destruction of England”, they began to feel hungry, and, having been unable to bring their “blood-cattle” from home, began to drain humans for blood. This proved a mistake, as the Wellsians had failed to anticipate that human blood was contaminated with a variety of pathogens; all diseases were long-extinct on their own planet. Most of the army was wiped out, and the last survivors collected in one Tripod which they modified into a space-ship, flying to the nearest planet, Venus. At some point, a video Cupid Fact File detailing the invasion had been recorded by the Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids through time-travel, (VIDEO: The Wellsians) in the presence of Juliet-178. (PROSE: The Resurrection of the Wellsians)

Aftermath

A small number of surviving Wellsians were later found on Venus and resurrected as part of Mandragora's Great Experiment. Escaping in an interdimensional vessel, (PROSE: The Resurrection of the Wellsians) they founded a New Wellsian Empire in another dimension. (PROSE: The Time of the Toymaker)

As fiction

See main article: War of the Worlds

Martian tripods in a movie. (COMIC: Miss Adventure)

In one dimension, the invasion of Earth by the Martians, using Tripods, was depicted in a movie called War of the Worlds which was played in 1938 at the Benton Cinema in Chicago, where a version of Jenny Everywhere saw part of it while in the middle of an adventure. (COMIC: Miss Adventure)

In the 925th Universe, Dibbsy produced an animated adaptation of War of the Worlds in which, at one point, two women kissed in the background for half a second. In 2022, Dibbsy included the film in a Pride Month-themed promotional box set of all films featuring their alleged “first gay characters”. (PROSE: A Series of Queer Events)