>And then I compounded my error by assuming that in the UF universe,
>much like in our universe, the 19th and 20th centuries were filled
>with all kinds of stories and tropes about Martian invasions (which
>you'd imagine would, in fact, make native Martians a little annoyed)
>when the more logical assumption is that those stories never actually
>even occurred in UF.

Actually, one rather imagines they were, in sort of the same way that the pop culture of the late 20th century had a lot of Nazis in it. Heck, there was another Earth-Mars war in the early 21st century, though, to be fair, we invaded them that time. A lot of the same framework is there, so to speak, but the cultural context is different.

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