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== The aliens are really super-modified [[Planet of the Apes Ending|humans from the future.]] ==
They found some of [[The Time Machine|The Time Traveler]]'s work (or independently discovered the secret), and when future-Earth's resources started becoming depleted, they realized that a relatively easy solution would be to colonize a past version of their own planet. (Cavorite doesn't help with crossing interstellar distances.) Pretty standard twist, but it helps explain why [[No Biochemical Barriers|Earth diseases]] [[It Was His Sled|killed them]].
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* If that is true, the Martians must also be idiots, since an [[Death From Above|orbital meteor bombardment]] would be far cheaper and more effective at the whole wiping-out business.
** In the original version, Martian space travel was too primitive to allow them to steer asteroids- they were limited to payloads about the size of what a Saturn V or its immediate (hypothetical) successors could throw, and they didn't manage to launch very many.
** As to why they didn't use nukes, again, because the author didn't think of them (yet). The weapons used by the Martians were quite reasonable as advances on technology that already existed at the time: poison gas (used in [[World War
* Humans didn't have computers back then, so if they were afraid of our technology, they must have based it on something else.
** Our computer processing was doubling every eighteen months. Try a doubling series sometime. It would be about forty-five years between this story and UNIVAC. There was two billionths of a computer's worth of processing power back then - hardly enough to notice, but it quickly became a threat....
*** How would the Martians know we were going to invent computers that would double in power unless they already ''had'' computers? In which case they'd be ahead of us in the doubling cycle and have no reason to fear us.
*** Martian technology is advanced [[Steampunk]], as befits the fact that it's a story dating to the end of the Victorian era. By modern standards, Wells's Martians ''didn't'' have computers, though they might well have electromechanical analog computers of the sort humans used during WWII. They're not afraid of computers, though; computers simply do not exist in Wells's setting.
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*** If the Martians were amphibious (which makes sense, judging from their [[Starfish Aliens|octopus-like appearance]]), then they might not have invented the wheel. Wheels don't work that well underwater. Instead, they might have made the tripods much later on to help them move on land.
▲== The Martains are the precursors to the [[Gurren Lagann|Anti-Spirals]] ==
A continuation of the theory above: it was the rapid growth of humanity that caused them to fear other spiral races (such as humans) in the first place.
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And since Britain was still in their [[Humans Are the Real Monsters|Full swing imperialistic Bastards period]] they most likely forgot that they weren't the most powerful nation on earth (or in the universe) anymore and used this reengineered tech (ie, [[Steampunk]] prototype Nightmare Frames) to start colonizing other lesser advanced countries en masse. At some point afterward the Royal House of Windsor was overthrown in a military coup led and or funded by a family of nobles calling themselves Britannia.
After that, [[It Got Worse|things go downhill for the rest of the world from there]]: more countries are annexed by Great Britain and are included in their now vastly growing "Britannian Empire" and probably around sometime in the mid 20th Century since they had taken over so much new property Britain began to designate various countries/land sectors as numerical "Areas" to easily keep track of all they owned. However this led to [[Fantastic Racism|extreme forms of racism and discrimination]] by the British public now referring to the native population as their countries respective numerical designations not by the nation they originally came from.
Japan was Probably taken over and Annexed at some point in either the 1960s or 1970s and designated as Area 11. As for Geass itself it might be a form of reverse engineered Martian genetics as Wells himself wrote that the Martians probably did use some from of telepathy to communicate with each other.
If anyone else has anymore theories on this please feel free to add...
== The Martians were genetically engineered lifeforms. ==
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== The 1938 broadcast was real. ==
[[Orson Welles]] [[The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension|was trying to root out the real aliens, but they got to him and
== The Tripods in the movie were [[Lost Technology]] created by [[Church of Tropology|The Galactic Confederacy]]. ==
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