Edmond Hamilton - Captain Future's Worlds of Tomorrow 05 - Mars

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ARS, the third planet from the Sun, is the oldest

world in the whole System. The crimson sphere has

an ancient history that antedates that of any of the other

planets.

Scientists agree that human civilization rose on Mars

long before it did so on any of the other worlds. Planetary

archaeologists calculate the date of the first appearance of

real civilization on Mars as at least 290,000 B.C., reckon-

ing by Earth chronology. That date marks the beginning of

the First Dynasty -- the era of the first kings who ruled

over all the known, inhabited parts of the red planet.

Our information concerning the first five dynasties of

Martian rulers is very vague. We know that even in that

prehistoric time Mars was a drying, desert world, its life

maintained only by the periodical melting of its polar

snow-caps. Scientists speculate that the sharpening of

adverse conditions probably stimulated the first real

upburst of Martian scientific progress. That atomic power

was known by the time of the Fifth Dynasty is a fact of

which we are certain.

The Sixth Dynasty, circa 234,000 B.C., is known in

history as that of the Canal Builders. It was the great kings

of that regime who initiated and carried to completion the

vast project which doubled the habitable area of Mars by

bringing the water of the snow-caps carefully far south and

north in underground aqueducts. Even with the primitive

atomic power they possessed, the project must have been

one of Herculean undertaking.

Next followed a period of prosperity in which occurred

the most glorious epoch of Martian history -- that of the

Seventh Dynasty. Known to legend as the Great Kings,

those rulers reared titanic structures and cities whose

remnants in the desert now form ruined cities which still

awe the curious interplanetary traveler. Martian scientific

progress reached its peak during the Seventh Dynasty.

The Land of Storms

The Eighth Dynasty, of the Lesser Kings, attained a

magnificence unrivaled by previous generations. It was

during the reign of the Lesser Kings that Martian exploring

expeditions were sent to Jupiter, Saturn and other worlds

of the System. So was inaugurated the first period of

interplanetary commerce and travel. This period lasted for

a few centuries. Then, unaccountably, it faded and was

completely forgotten until the Earthmen, long later, re-

opened the space-ways.

It was in the Ninth Dynasty that disaster interrupted

Martian progress. Out of the unknown reaches of the area

in the south called the Land of Storms -- a vast region

considered impenetrable because of the terrific sandstorms

which scourge it -- came a mysterious race of invaders,

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ARS,thethirdplanetfromtheSun,istheoldestworldinthewholeSystem.Thecrimsonspherehasanancienthistorythatantedatesthatofanyoftheotherplanets.MScientistsagreethathumancivilizationroseonMarslongbeforeitdidsoonanyoftheotherworlds.Planetaryarchaeologistscalculatethedateofthefirstappearanceofrealcivilization...

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