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==== Background ==== | ==== Background ==== | ||
In the [[97th Cosmos]], the invasion occurred in 1897 ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Resurrection of the Wellsians (short story)|The Resurrection of the Wellsians]]'') and was enacted by Martians known as the [[Wellsian]]s because they called their version of [[Mars]] “[[Wellsia]]”. Wellsia was a “dying” world, facing droughts and other disasters, ([[VIDEO]]: ''[[The Wellsians (video story)|The Wellsians]]'') in part due to the Wellsians' own reckless draining of their atmosphere's ozone layer. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Resurrection of the Wellsians (short story)|The Resurrection of the Wellsians]]'') The Wellsians grew jealous of the lush, watery neighbouring planet [[Earth#In the 97th Cosmos|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|Tripod Walking-Machines]], “with built-in [[Heat Ray]]s, of course”, and began wreaking havoc. ([[VIDEO]]: ''[[The Wellsians (video story)|The Wellsians]]'') | In the [[97th Cosmos]], the invasion occurred in 1897 ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Resurrection of the Wellsians (short story)|The Resurrection of the Wellsians]]'') and was enacted by Martians known as the [[Wellsian]]s because they called their version of [[Mars]] “[[Wellsia]]”. Wellsia was a “dying” world, facing droughts and other disasters, ([[VIDEO]]: ''[[The Wellsians (video story)|The Wellsians]]'') in part due to the Wellsians' own reckless draining of their atmosphere's ozone layer. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Resurrection of the Wellsians (short story)|The Resurrection of the Wellsians]]'') The Wellsians grew jealous of the lush, watery neighbouring planet [[Earth#In the 97th Cosmos|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|Tripod Walking-Machines]], “with built-in [[Heat Ray]]s, of course”, and began wreaking havoc. ([[VIDEO]]: ''[[The Wellsians (video story)|The Wellsians]]'') | ||
==== The invasion ==== | |||
The invasion saw the [[Tripod]]s rampaging through major cities, destroying [[England]] ([[VIDEO]]: ''[[The Wellsians (video story)|The Wellsians]]'') and attempting to do the same to [[Paris]]. In the latter case, however, two of the [[Wellsian]]s 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 (comic story)|Towering Success]]'') | |||
==== The epidemic ==== | ==== The epidemic ==== | ||
