Martians were people like us, so to speak. They had cities and villas, feelings and philosophy, a way of living true to the world and themselves. Telepathy eased it up, as well as a tens of thousands year-old civilization. Then men arrived from Earth, one rocket and one crew at a time. They arrived with their American way of life, their newly found atom power already brewing new wars on Earth. And the Martians disappeared, leaving behind themselves the epitome of their civilization for us to discover, for the few ones to be able to. And Mars worked it through, changing earthlings from within, making them the new Martians.
