Epilogue

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[2045]

Pasadena Control: It's looking good. It's going good We're getting great pictures here at NASA Control, Pasadena. The landing-craft touched down on Mars 28 kilometers from the aim-point. We're looking at a remarkable landscape, littered with different kinds of rocks - red, purple. How 'bout that, Bermuda?

Bermuda: Fantastic! Look at the dune-field!

Pasadena Control: Hey, wait. I'm getting a no-go signal.

Now I'm losing one of the craft. Hey, Bermuda, you getting it?

Bermuda: No, I lost contact. There's a lot of dust blowing up there

Pasadena Control: Now I've lost the second craft. We got problems.

Bermuda: All contact lost, Pasadena. Maybe the antenna's- *NO SIGNAL*

Pasadena Control: What's that flare? See it? A green flare, coming from Mars. Kind of a green mist behind it. It's getting closer. You see it, Bermuda?

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PaSaDeNa CoNtRoL: Come in, B-bbbrermuda! Housttt- .... on, come in! What's going on?Tracking station 43, Canberra, come in, Canbbb-..erra!Tracking station 63, can you hear me, Madrid? Can anybody hear me? Come in, come in!


???: We have failed our second invasion but we will launch a third one, the problem is of course, the humans..

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