HMS Thunder Child "Star Vikings", shows the influence of the Jeff Wayne image of the ironclad, combined with a 19th-century image of the Martian war machine. Details also appear in the TNE products "Path of Tears" and "Reformation Coalition Equipment Guide". A novel by Nick Pope, concerning the UK's response to UFOs, is named "Operation: Thunder Child". There is an adaptation novel set in the Victorian UK of 1898. It is called, "The Last Days of Thunder Child" by C.A. Powell. HMS Thunder Child HMS "Thunder Child" is a fictional ironclad torpedo ram of the Royal Navy, destroyed by Martian fighting-machines in H.
HMS Thunder Child ironclads of the main Channel Fleet to arrive. The fate of the third Martian fighting machine is not revealed by Wells, but the battle did enable the civilian shipping to escape. As depicted in the book, "Thunder Child" is the only human artefact competing with the Martian fighting-machines on anything like equal terms. In the novel the episode concerning HMS "Thunder Child" is in "Chapter Seventeen: The 'Thunder Child'", ending "Book One: The Coming of the Martians". HMS "Thunder Child" is commonly omitted from adaptations or replaced with technology more appropriate to the updated setting. In Orson Welles's famous 1938