Some city-states aggressively embarked on conquest, others fortified their walls in a defensive posture while others withdrew from all outside contact. The red men were now the stewards of a dying planet. To stave off disaster, engineers turned their attention to constructing a vast canal system to irrigate precious farmland. Major changes to man’s physical make-up were made: egg-laying replaced live birth, resulting in earlier maturity of infants.Ī group of red men scientists was tasked to create the technology to produce breathable air, which resulted in the creation of the great atmosphere factory. The white race interbred with the stragglers to create the red race or aysismad in order to survive the shrinking of the oceans and the onslaught of the green men. Many of the First Born retreated to the south polar regions, the yellow race to the north. Half-dried seas surrounded by muddy plains no longer protected the cities from roving hordes of green barbarians. Appendix A details more information about ancient Barsoom.Īnd then it happened: the oceans began to recede and the atmosphere to thin. Barsoom was a place of rare and wondrous beauty mountains, rivers, lakes meadows and sun-kissed gardens. Great fleets sailed the five oceans cultivating trade and colonization. Illness had been conquered and life spans increased to a thousand years. Eventually, the white race dominated the planet and there was peace. Millennia passed civilizations rose and fell. The next races of men to develop were the white race or thermad, the yellow race or ilissmad and the green race or torismad.
The other species of fauna and flora evolved from these four progenitors. The black race claims that the first men were dark-skinned, hence their preferred name – the First Born or Ee-ay. The first creatures were the plant men or tahmad, the sixteen-legged worm or silkis, the white ape or athurth and man or mad. According to myth, all Barsoomian life originated from the Tree of Life in the Valley Dor around 23 million years ago.
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