Martian (War of the Worlds)

The Martians were a cephalopod-like species from the planet Mars who invaded Earth at the dawn of the 20th century. (PROSE: Travers & Wells, The Book of the Enemy, AUDIO: Goodbye Piccadilly)

According to one account, the Martians were defeated by the Torchwood Institute, and H. G. Wells helped cover up the invasion by writing his novel, The War of the Worlds. (AUDIO: Goodbye Piccadilly) Subsequently in the Land of Fiction, used Professor Moriarty's headband to destroy the Sisyphean Society with Martian tripods. (COMIC: Character Assassin)

According to another account, the defeat of the Martians took place during the reign of King Edward VII. The Martians then established an uneasy peace with Great Britain, though the British Empire were uneasy with allying with such recent would-be invaders, but it was generally thought slightly preferable to an alliance with the Germans. Mars' great scientists inspired a 1905 reorganisation of Russia's government into a paragon of rationality and enlightenment. Sherlock Holmes and Tom visited the Martian Embassy in Stepney. However, the invasion and its aftermath was erased from history, along with Martian civilisation, by the action of The Book of the Enemy during the War in Heaven. After erasure from the timeline, its events were captured in the novel The War of the Worlds. (PROSE: The Book of the Enemy)

Another account indicated that the Martians who used tripods were the Ice Warriors (PROSE: The Dying Days) or the Meercocks. (PROSE: Verdigris)