The Green Martians are one of the predominant races of Barsoom. They are green-skinned monstrous people who stalk the dead sea bottoms of barsoom. They are intelligent and capable of organizing themselves into a society, but they are almost to a man all brutish and cruel.
Biology & Attire
The green martians are the largest of the martian races, the males standing up to fifteen feet tall and females up to twelve. They have green skin, small antennae-like ears above the eyes, and large tusks, in the males these extend upwards to the level of the eyes. The eyes themselves are large with snowy white sclera and blood red irises, the eyes are on the side of their heads and are capable of moving independently. Female green martians differ in the fact that their skin color is light, the tusks of the females extend up to the level of their antennae, and also have vestigial finger nails.
Like all other Martian humanoids, they lay eggs; newly laid eggs being the size of a goose egg, the eggs grow in time, the young taking up to five years to hatch! The young are miniature replicas of the adults, standing 3 to 4 feet in height when hatched, the all have yellowish-green skin that darkens as they age. The most distinct trait of the species is their six limbs, two arms, two legs, and an intermediary set of limbs that can be used as arms or legs. They go almost completely naked, wearing only a harness and jewelry like most martians
History & Culture
History
The green martians saw their rise during the decline of mars, inhabiting cities abandoned by the more human races of mars.
Hordes
The green martians are divided into groups, these groups take the name of the dead city that they inhabit!
Culture
Understanding the culture of the green martians can be linked to understanding how they are born and how they spend their childhoods. Each year martian women bring forward up to thirteen eggs, the eggs that meet certain weight, size, and specific gravity tests are taken to a secret underground vault where it is to cool for incubation to occur. Each year a council of about 20 chieftains examines the eggs all but about 100 of them are destroyed, preserving only the most perfect for incubation. Once hatched after the five year period they hatch, any eggs that do not hatch on time are unwanted (it is also important to note that if one green horde comes across anthers incubator they destroy it and the eggs inside) . The large martian youths once born are scooped up by women of the community, if any of the children prove deformed or defective in any way they are promptly shot without a tear shed by anyone, the women raise them the only aspects of their raising being the teaching of language and use of weapons, which they are given during their first year. The Woman that raises the young martian develops no feelings or attachment, the children belong to the community and as a result parental love is completely unknown to them. From birth they know no father or mother love, they know not the meaning of the word home; they are taught that they are only suffered to live until they can demonstrate by their physique and ferocity that they are fit to live. It is likely that this horrible system is what resulted in the loss of the finer feelings and humanitarian instinct of the general population of their people.
Of course you also have to understand how they live their everyday lives. The people are barbaric, they have no art and no written language. Their sense of humor is cruel, laughing at death and suffering. they are constantly at war with the other green hordes of mars, and the red people. They detest mining and physical labor, all things of value are produced by the females of the species. Concerning law, they They make the them they are needed; a new law for each emergency. They are unfettered by precedent in the administration of justice. Customs have been handed down by ages of repetition, but the punishment for ignoring a custom is a matter for individual treatment by a jury of the culprit's peers.