Martians

Martians are the dominant species of the planet Mars, and make up entirely of the human survivors of the T-virus.

As Humans:
Before the martians came the space colonies of earth that the modern Martian knows today as the "ancient humans". These colonies were planned during the year 2021 and consisted of international communities joining forces to colonize earth and expand humanity's galactic presence. These colonies were spread across the map and the first one was just against the terraformed Luminare Sea. Zenith was the largest of these colonies and served as a "capital city" for the rest of the colonies.

Unfortunately, a side affect of human terraforming created the mutation of the T-virus, an incredibly fatal disease that all but a select few could survive. However, those humans who did survive underwent an intense mutation themselves: their skin would turn green, they would lose their hair, and would gain the ability to breathe without the aid of any oxygen tanks: at the cost of their memories as humans.

The Fenguli Tribe:
The fenguli tribe were martians before the enlightenment of the Ascended, humans that were able to overcome the devastating T-virus by uploading their consciousness into robotic bodies. The fenguli, while unified as one tribe, lived in smaller, decentralized communities consisting of like-minded martians or family members in order to survive.

Fenguli society was reduced to a Neolithic community where the primary concern was surviving the Martian wilderness. According to the Interkingdom Museum of the Martian People: Fenguli society was typically composed of small, spread out settlements that would hug the coasts of the Maiorem and Luminare Seas, but inland communities were not unheard of. Artifacts discovered included very basic pots, bows, herbs used for medicine. While no formal written language was ever discovered, Lucien discloses that the first fenguli he met would speak in a mix of various human languages.

The fenguli would then soon enter an age of enlightenment when Doxerd the sage, a famous intellectual of the tribe. would come into contact with an abandoned laboratory and awaken the dormant Ascended within: Lucien.

Enlightenment:
Doxerd the Sage, upon investigating a laboratory in search of resources, found themselves in Lucien's chamber upon which he re-activated. Doxerd was amazed at what they saw, but lucien asked the curious fenguli what the fate was of the rest of the humans. With some differences in Dialect, Doxerd explains that the humans of old are extinct and they have never saw one. Lucien was saddened at the fate of his people, but had hope he was not the only ascended out there. Lucien offered to teach Doxerd, and the rest of the fenguli about the knowledge of the humans, along with how to properly use the old colonies' infrastructure, but in exchange Doxerd must help Lucien find other ascended and to inform him of the outside world.

Doxerd learned many things from the ascended and helped bring in a new age of culture, art, language, science, and technology to their people. Doxerd was considered a hero to the fenguli and was given the role of monarch for their achievements. This led to a spiritual worship of the ascended and the "ancient humans" as the wise ancestors of the past who's wisdom has done a great service to the martian species, and inspired other martians to explore and find their ascended as well to ameliorate the living standard of your community. Those explorers would then be the ancestors to the current players of the game (if I could break the fourth wall here for a moment).