[ WP ] An alien race starts to colonize Mars . They completely ignore humanity on Earth and just go about their business .

The first indication something was going on was Europa breaking up. 
 
 The moon had held our interest for a number of years now, as it had been composed primarily of water. Sure it was intensly cold, and carbonated water, but it was liquid water. 
 
 But then over the course of three weeks in a sunny July the scientists at NASA had watched their monitors in awe as the moon broke apart. 
 
 The chunks seemed to hang in the sky of their mother planet for a day or two and then, to the shock of all watching began to move out of orbit and into deeper space. 
 
 The headlines spread across the globe, mystery in space, rogue planet!, everyone was watching as the chunks or ice and rock slowly made their way across space and began arriving at mars. 
 
 It was breaking so many laws of physics that a few noted physacists killed themselves in disgust. 
 
 
 The chunks slowed as they approached mars and then settled into a lazy orbit. Every human on the planet that had so much as aset of binoculars was trying to look at what was going on in mars. 
 The first smaller chunks bagan to crash themselves into the red world. 
 
 The imacts were fast, but not fast enough to be catastrophic. The heat was just enough to melpt the ice chunks. 
 
 After a month of the small chunks being broken into the atmosphere the landers saw what no one thought they would ever see. 
 
 It was raining on Mars. 
 
 All the soil samples, all the atmosphere gauges, they all had to be re configured. The atmosphere on mars was getting warmer, it was getting wetter, and the equipment was n't designed to deal with that. 
 
 The planets mass had grown in accoradance with the additional bulk from europa. The gravity was almost earth normal, and the temperature ranges were starting to normalize along earth lines. 
 
 Earth finally had a sister planet, a true second blue gem in the heavens. 
 
 The celebrations did n't last long. There had been plans on sending seed pods to mars, to kickstart a new eden... 
 
 but someone else beat us to it. The long black ships began appearing as soon as the tectonics settled down. The ships zoomed across the face of the new mars spraying an aerosol that was rich iwht nutrients, and strange alien seeds. Within a week grass was growing across the fresh fertile martian soil, and what looked to be the beginings of alien trees were appearing. 
 
 They never contacted us. They never made an attempt at our already suitable planet. But Mars was theirs now. 
 
 It's been 10 years. there are gleaming crystal cities on Mars. There are orbital bases, and 2 artificial moons. We estimate the alien popuation in the trillians. No contact is ever made. we can listen to their broadcasts, we can watch their entertainment, but all signals from earth are ignored. We have sent probes, we have sent landers, but all are shown the same indifference. 
 
 The last mars lander we sent sat in what appeared to be a farmers field for six months. The strange green 4 legged farmer ignored the probe and simply worked around it. Moving the probe into the town produced the same results. the strange advanced aliens simply ignored humanity. 
 

