What We Know About Mars

Mars has become an increasingly important

theatre is the expanding conflict between the

Trilobyte Kingdom and Humankind. 

(above- a martian in Surfer Armor views a cresting Kilbit Worm) 

Martians alluded detection by Earthlings

for decades due to being (like all other planet inhabitants

in the solar system) subterranean dwellers.

Over the past 30 years or so the two cultures

have established diplomatic relations,

with surprisingly little blood shed.

Language barriers were

quickly solved through technology. 

Though humans are still forbidden from

entering the inner Cities of Mars,
Martians have established joint bases

aboveground to work alongside the visitors. 

Martians wear "surfer armor" to protect

themselves from the elements and

because the Martian surface still has

pockets of unbreathable air

(despite decades of terra-forming).

There are two known types of martians,

known colloquially as "greens" and "clears".

Greens are opaque in skin tone

and regarded as a higher caste.

Clears, as the name implies,

have semi translucent green skin,

and are regarded as second class proletariat. 

As a fresh-faced, 18 year-old enrollee

in US Space Force, Rex Ganon

found himself 140 million miles from home.

He was tricked by a martian women

into removing his helmet for a kiss

and sustained heavy damage to his lungs.

It was only through an experimental emergency

surgery that his life was saved,

though he bares a mechanical torso for his folly. 

It has long been theorized that there is a direct,

sustained, vector portal somewhere on Mars

connecting to the Trilobyte Kingdom.

This hypothesis explains how Marson

was able to inure himself to the Trilobyte King,

without being a native of that dimension. 

A special garrison of Hyper Knights,

called Kaldors, patrol Mars for the King.

They are solitary types and prefer to

sleep outside rather than

interact at any of the aboveground bases.