Post by lordroel on Dec 17, 2016 18:42:21 GMT
The great Martian war (1913-1917)
Plot
In June 1913, astronomers in London discover a bright meteor passing by the planet Mars, on a collision course with Earth. Two days later a massive explosion rocks the whole of Europe, the epicentre of which lies within Germany's Bohemian Forest. Initially accused of testing a super-weapon by the other nations of Europe, elements of the German Army are sent to investigate, only to disappear without a trace. Kaiser Wilhelm makes an urgent appeal to the world for military assistance in fighting what turns out to be a powerful, non-human invading force thought to be from Mars.
As the war unfolds, the European Allies engage monstrous Martian fighting machines, unaware that deep flaws exist in their military leadership's central battle strategy: the alien force sends thousands of scavenger drones over the battlefield every night, scouring every scrap of metal to be recycled into the construction of new fighting machines. The Allies' mass-wave tactics only serve to resupply the enemy with fresh metal. Across the Atlantic, US President Woodrow Wilson struggles to keep America out of the war while sending aid to the beleaguered European alliance.
Following an apparent attack on London by a single alien tripod, the Allies discover that the Martians are vulnerable to Glanders, a terrestrial virus endemic to horses. Now standing on the brink of total defeat by the invaders, the Allies engineer Glanders into a bioweapon despite the risk of triggering a pandemic. The weapon is released and kills the Martians in couple of weeks, winning the war. However, the disease mutates after coming into contact with the humans, resulting in millions more deaths in the following pandemic than had occurred during the war.
Throughout the documentary, modern historians with opposing views about the conflict's many controversies. They disagree on an incendiary new discovery centered around the previously uncrackable "Martian Code", a vast century-old cache Martian documents seized following the end of the war. These messages warnings from the "Martians" themselves about the true culprit behind invasion: a liquid metal lifeform (which mankind names "Victacite") that entices other, intelligent species into appropriating its highly-adaptable technology. Integrating itself into all civilizations it finds, Victacite slowly causes its host species to rapidly advance technologically and expand the population until they become too numerous on their homeworld, at which point the host species will seek to colonize new worlds. Eventually Victacite will force humans to wage war on other worlds in order to spread its parasitic existence, ready to "infect" whichever alien species manages to defeat us in order to repeat the cycle again.
Documentary
Meet the Martians
Herons
These are the largest of the three. They are up to 300 ft high, slow moving but in the early stages of the war, invulnerable to human weapons. They are armed with an energy shield, a devastating energy cannon, and surrounded by clouds of poisonous gasses that mirror the atmosphere of their pilots’ home world. What is inside each Heron is unknown at first, but it’s clear that they can lay waste to the great cities of Europe in a matter of days, and also that they act as the hub for battalions of smaller tripod war-machines, that the troops have christened 'Spiders'.
Spiders
These are the fast moving attack dogs of the Martian Invasion. 20ft high they wield a tentacle like weapon and are merciless close-quarters killing machines. The 'Spiders' appear to be acting under the command of their Heron masters, but as our story unfolds a number of key events point to a very different dynamic. For contained within the Spider machines is an important secret that will prove pivotal to the course of the war and the future path humanity takes.
Lice
These are the third type of machine, and they quickly spread a deep, penetrating terror among the men on the Martian Front. Moving only at night and in vast warming herds, these small, ground-hugging crawlers appear to be harvesting the countless dead bodies left out on the battlefield at the end of each day’s fighting. Like the Spiders, the Lice are absolutely pivotal to the entire Alien strategy - but the exact purpose of their nightly harvest out on No Man’s Land is a gnawing mystery whose eventual unravelling will have devastating effects on the common soldier and expose terrible flaws in the Allied Generals’ leadership.
Plot
In June 1913, astronomers in London discover a bright meteor passing by the planet Mars, on a collision course with Earth. Two days later a massive explosion rocks the whole of Europe, the epicentre of which lies within Germany's Bohemian Forest. Initially accused of testing a super-weapon by the other nations of Europe, elements of the German Army are sent to investigate, only to disappear without a trace. Kaiser Wilhelm makes an urgent appeal to the world for military assistance in fighting what turns out to be a powerful, non-human invading force thought to be from Mars.
As the war unfolds, the European Allies engage monstrous Martian fighting machines, unaware that deep flaws exist in their military leadership's central battle strategy: the alien force sends thousands of scavenger drones over the battlefield every night, scouring every scrap of metal to be recycled into the construction of new fighting machines. The Allies' mass-wave tactics only serve to resupply the enemy with fresh metal. Across the Atlantic, US President Woodrow Wilson struggles to keep America out of the war while sending aid to the beleaguered European alliance.
Following an apparent attack on London by a single alien tripod, the Allies discover that the Martians are vulnerable to Glanders, a terrestrial virus endemic to horses. Now standing on the brink of total defeat by the invaders, the Allies engineer Glanders into a bioweapon despite the risk of triggering a pandemic. The weapon is released and kills the Martians in couple of weeks, winning the war. However, the disease mutates after coming into contact with the humans, resulting in millions more deaths in the following pandemic than had occurred during the war.
Throughout the documentary, modern historians with opposing views about the conflict's many controversies. They disagree on an incendiary new discovery centered around the previously uncrackable "Martian Code", a vast century-old cache Martian documents seized following the end of the war. These messages warnings from the "Martians" themselves about the true culprit behind invasion: a liquid metal lifeform (which mankind names "Victacite") that entices other, intelligent species into appropriating its highly-adaptable technology. Integrating itself into all civilizations it finds, Victacite slowly causes its host species to rapidly advance technologically and expand the population until they become too numerous on their homeworld, at which point the host species will seek to colonize new worlds. Eventually Victacite will force humans to wage war on other worlds in order to spread its parasitic existence, ready to "infect" whichever alien species manages to defeat us in order to repeat the cycle again.
Documentary
Meet the Martians
Herons
These are the largest of the three. They are up to 300 ft high, slow moving but in the early stages of the war, invulnerable to human weapons. They are armed with an energy shield, a devastating energy cannon, and surrounded by clouds of poisonous gasses that mirror the atmosphere of their pilots’ home world. What is inside each Heron is unknown at first, but it’s clear that they can lay waste to the great cities of Europe in a matter of days, and also that they act as the hub for battalions of smaller tripod war-machines, that the troops have christened 'Spiders'.
Spiders
These are the fast moving attack dogs of the Martian Invasion. 20ft high they wield a tentacle like weapon and are merciless close-quarters killing machines. The 'Spiders' appear to be acting under the command of their Heron masters, but as our story unfolds a number of key events point to a very different dynamic. For contained within the Spider machines is an important secret that will prove pivotal to the course of the war and the future path humanity takes.
Lice
These are the third type of machine, and they quickly spread a deep, penetrating terror among the men on the Martian Front. Moving only at night and in vast warming herds, these small, ground-hugging crawlers appear to be harvesting the countless dead bodies left out on the battlefield at the end of each day’s fighting. Like the Spiders, the Lice are absolutely pivotal to the entire Alien strategy - but the exact purpose of their nightly harvest out on No Man’s Land is a gnawing mystery whose eventual unravelling will have devastating effects on the common soldier and expose terrible flaws in the Allied Generals’ leadership.