Martian Map

by **Marion** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 6:15 pm

I recently found this map in a TV21 annual - apologies to those who have seen it before...

Close up of the 'Martian History details:

A close up of the area with the Mysteron City:

Fascinating, eh?

by **shaqui** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 6:47 pm

Note of trivia interest: Eden, the city in the State of Atlantis, is named after Eric Eden, the artist who drew this feature.

:wink:

by **Matt Crowther** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 8:41 pm

It's weird, well to me perhaps, but looking at the map seeing the Rock Snake Belt where it is near the Mysteron Complex. When I wrote The Vengeance Syndrome I involved a brace of snakes in the way of the Spectrum team as they fled the complex. I hadn't even seen that map before.
Now that I'm re-writing the story I can look at this map for basis.

A great find, Marion.

by **Skybase Girl** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 9:01 pm

What memories you've brought back, Marion ! Now that I've seen it again, I can remember that TV21 Annual, (which I would have bought when it came out ! ) although I wouldn't have a clue what else was in it.

by **MMK** » Fri Sep 14, 2007 11:37 am

Wow!

I wonder how long it took to come up with that

by **Parker Gabriel** » Tue Oct 23, 2007 8:18 am

Where is Valles Marineris on the map? I didn't see it.

by **chrisbishop** » Tue Oct 23, 2007 11:39 am

Valles Marineris was thus named after the passage of Voyager, around 1971-72. If that magazine was published before that, then it would explain why Valless Marineris doesn't appear on it.

For those of you who doesn't understand what it's all about or wants more information on the subject:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valles_Marineris

by **Parker Gabriel** » Tue Oct 23, 2007 5:25 pm

Apparently. I only learned that Valles Marineris is the suspected location of the Mysterons's complex thanks to the on-line novel The Concordian Legacy, which Clya Brown wrote. Beyond this, I have no idea whether to trust its reliability.

by **Marion** » Tue Oct 23, 2007 8:02 pm

As I mentioned previously, Fan Fiction is NOT fact, whoever it is written by, or how detailed the research they may have done, and not every author has access to - or wishes to use - the same information provided by the either 1960s publications, or the 1990s ones.
I am familiar with Clya Brown's story and I like it very much, as I do all his stories, and (BIG HINT Here) I know a lot of people are - just like me - waiting for what is colloquially known as 'Tina 3' with bated breath....

)
Any author can write whatever they chose about the characters, their equipment, their locations or their families, just as long as it does not openly contradict the information in the TV shows themselves - which was pretty limited.
This Martian map was in the 'Captain Scarlet and Thunderbirds' annual, published in 1969. It reflects what was known at that date about Mars AND the fictional adventures of the Anderson shows - which were made for children.
I doubt, if they realised people would be scrutinising their work so closely almost 40 years later, the authors and artists who produced this map, would have allowed their imaginations such a free rein. But they did, and I, for one, am jolly glad they did.
However, I do take most of it with just a pinch of salt... :wink:

by **Intensity Angel** » Mon Jun 16, 2008 10:46 pm

Those images are incredible!! I've never seen anything like tat before. What year was this?

by **The Beta Queen** » Tue Jun 17, 2008 12:19 pm

Intensity Angel wrote:

Those images are incredible!! I've never seen anything like tat before. What year was this?

Marion wrote:

This Martian map was in the 'Captain Scarlet and Thunderbirds' annual, published in 1969. It reflects what was known at that date about Mars AND the fictional adventures of the Anderson shows - which were made for children.

by **Intensity Angel** » Tue Jun 17, 2008 2:00 pm

I should've gone to Specsavers.

But still the maps are fasinating, and I thought my dad buying my mom an acre of land on Mars was bad enough.

by **hazel** » Thu Oct 30, 2008 12:14 pm

Necro-posting (rather appropriate for a thread about the Mysterons...)

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10/29/mars_opal_discovery/

Opals have been discovered in the Valles Marineris by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. So - could the Mysterons be using Opal Pulsators as well as Diamond Pulsators? :wink:

by **Marion** » Thu Oct 30, 2008 5:18 pm

NASA probe finds opals in Martian crevices. Mars became Australian... uninhabitable... later than thought. Most of Earth's opals come from Australia, a region which like Mars is remote, dry and predominantly red.

The Mysterons are Australian? That explains a lot. You know, I always thought Kangaroos looked a little alien... :wink:

by **Intensity Angel** » Fri Oct 31, 2008 3:36 pm

Maybe Kangaroos are actually martians then. That would be crepy, what if they took over the world?