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D6 | These Martians look |
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1 | like bug-eyed humanoids the colours of necrotic flesh, whose torsos terminate just below the ribcage into many pairs of waving boneless arms. |
2 | much like people do, only they're eight feet tall, daintily skinny, got ruby-red skin, and skulls elongated into shapes like fallen-over question marks. |
3 | like branching worms with hard armoured segments, each branch ending in a ring of eyes and many-jointed claws. |
4 | like green inhuman corn-husk dolls tied together from diaphonous tissues. |
5 | like terror birds with crookclawed arms instead of wings, big compound eyes, and dusty spines instead of feathers. |
6 | like lip-mouthed octopus-heads on six-armed spider monkey-bodies. |
D6 | These Martians arrive |
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1 | as desperate yet chauvinistic refugees in a ragtag star-fleet. |
2 | as a testing vanguard - their success or failure will determine whether a much larger invasion will follow. |
3 | by accident, after activating some space-warping machine older than their civilization. |
4 | as confused would-be conquistadors - they assumed human technology was much less advanced based on outdated scans. |
5 | in interplanetary artillery shells, only a fraction surviving the impact - they are convicts offered Earth as an alternative to execution back on Mars. |
6 | in collusion with a terrestrial government that sold humanity out in exchange for special privileges. |
D6 | The Mars these Martians came from |
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1 | is a dying world of drying canals and ancient monsters thawing from old ice. |
2 | was once lush, but became infected by the same planet-phage that long ago destroyed Phaeton after incautious Martian research. |
3 | has a barren surface, with life surviving only in the vast network of sealed and pressurized tunnels below its surface - the life support of these failing with the loss of knowledge and resources over generations. |
4 | is dominated by a hydraulic despot empire that controls the moisture condensing technology that enables its continued inhabitability. |
5 | was once green like Earth, but a mutant blight rendered all its vegetation red as well as some combination of carnivorous, poisonous, and sickly. |
6 | is a divine realm of rusted arsenal-mountains and endless bloodshed. |
D6 | These Martians' vehicles |
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1 | are battle-mechs built to resemble the most threatening fauna of Martian biomes. |
2 | are whirligig-airships that surround themselves with micro-cyclones. |
3 | crawl like spiders across forcefield-webs they project onto battlefields. |
4 | move around by hopping, and are built for the lighter Martian gravity, suffering constant break-downs under the strain of Earth's gravity. |
5 | are a caste of their own species, grown to huge sizes and fitted with cybernetics so they can be controlled and hold crews. |
6 | are gigantic shovel-lined wheels that scoop up ores and metals then forge them interally into swarms of drones. |
D6 | These Martians might wield |
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1 | explosive canisters of flesh-melting gas. |
2 | nervewrack-rays that project beams of the purest agony. |
3 | weapons like tasers, except instead of sending electricity down their wires, they rapidly drain their victims of blood - converting it into a delicious and nutritious energy drink in the process. |
4 | drill-tipped whips able to autonomously seek out targets and pass through walls, armour, and other barriers all but unimpeded. |
5 | synaesthetic destructors which can convert beams of sunlight into channels of annihilating noise, or strong scents into flensing rasps, or whatever else. |
6 | guns that fire bubbles, which can unleash a variety of horrible effects when they pop. |
D6 | These Martians might be defeated |
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1 | by splashing them with bleach - it causes a chain reaction in their alien biology that leads to them melting into vanilla-scented sludge. |
2 | by manipulating their insatiable lust for human pussy. |
3 | with the music of the late, great Jimmy Buffett, the harmonic resonance of which effectively lobotomizes them. |
4 | by bribing them with gold, which is a thousand times more valuable on Mars than it is on Earth. |
5 | by credibly threatening to crash Phobos and/or Deimos into Mars. |
6 | only through long and grueling years of asymmetric warfare. |
These martians are awesome.
ReplyDeleteThese strike just the right balance of Classic-Mars and Pulp-Mars!
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