Disclaimer: War of the worlds and Stargate SG-1 is of no way claimed by me, they are owned by their respective owners, the only thing of claim to myself is the Kylandarian Empire, which is my own invention.
In the early years of the 21st century, mankind had complete dominion over its home planet, busying themselves about trivial day to day happenings and considering the most tedious and daily happenings the top priority, Only few believed that life indeed existed beyond our Earth, even fewer believed that life existed out there, in our own solar system, but no-one believed, or would have believed that life existed in the inner rim of our sun's gravitational pull, of coarse, a man has written about this possibility, about life on our sister planet, the Desert World of Mars.
Mars was a dead world, full of sand, its warmest period being the average day-to-day temperature of the south pole, and its lack of liquid water and the fact that it had been like this for so many years, more years than Man has walked the Earth with intellect and reason.
Yet, across the gulf of space, intellects vast, cool and unsympathetic regarded our planet with envious eyes, but this is the work of H.G. Wells who envisioned the future of many things, even the atomic bomb, the Tank and possibly the second world war.
But things are not always as we imagine it, we do not create history by observation and theory, it follows its own path, its own rules which have been set by the creator of all existence, a being we humans tend to call, God.
But across the gulf of space, intellects exactly like our own, regarded the Earth as a simple scientific curiosity, though very habitable, they could never attack or otherwise conquer the planet due to its various bacteria, viruses and other biological forms of life that swarm and multiply in a drop of water, the truth is far more horrible, they developed suits which were air-tight and similar to our Haz-Mat suits or spacesuits.
They called themselves the Southern Martian Confederacy, and were very much like H.G. Well's Martians from his world famous book, War of the Worlds, but they were also one of four tribes of Mars.
South, North, East and West were the tribes, each a different species with the northern species being unalike the other three.
The South was a race of legless squids, which had evolved to survive without water, but requires the blood of other species, even their own, the West were like the recent movie man conceived in honor of the book, Tri-pedal creatures with a shield like head with mechanisms to suffice terraformation, but water was required for their survival and they were all too aware of Earth's natural defenses of biology, but their "Red Weed" was a counter to this, it filled the blood of victims with poisons and chemicals that purged all sources of carbon based life, separating the water from the blood tissue for their sources of hydration and the weed itself was like a carrot or vegetable which also served as a source of meat based proteins, in short a food which met all of your needs.
The Easterns were from the early movies, with the magnetic legs and the disruptors, but disruptors are more gruesome, more like Star Trek and do not simply vaporize, they act as a catalyst for atoms and molecules causing the 20 square inches of the target radius to explode in pure energy, a blast that rips through objects like a conventional cruise missile, their "Heat Ray" was a dispersed rather than condensed beam of pure thermal energy, the magnetic legs could also suspend the machines over water by acting on the surface tension and preventing the war machine from sinking.
But the North did not build towering war machines, they were in all honesty, the loony toons martians from Duck Dodgers, but their "Centurions" were actually Martians in uniforms similar to Roman Legionaries, and instead of swords carried powder discharged kinetic weapons, or as we know it, Guns.
They also unlike the other tribes, had no intention to attack Earth because they were in the north of the planet, with the massive glaciers of frozen water towering to the heights of Mount Everest, they could mine their water and melt it down to drinkable levels, their source of nutrition came from trade with Earth's "Men in Black" and had a particular taste for Alaskan King Crab, Alaskan Opilio Crab and other sources of fish or sea-based life.
They were also immune to Earth's biology due to according to historians on their planet, "Ancestry from Earth." and their forces are focused on fleets of Interplanetary but not FTL Capable ships, such as "Cruisers and Dreadnoughts".
The facts bring on the table the truth, that we actually have a means to fight, This is not an extermination anymore then ants have the ability to exterminate men, this is a war on a scale we have never believed possible before.
This is a war of the worlds.
To be continued...