A Successful Mars Civilization

== Prologue ==
== Background ==
In 5231, humanity finally terraformed Mars, decided to mine every bit of uranium on Earth, secret built 51 large nuclear bomb containing the remaining nuclear weapons with the yield of 10 billion Hiroshima bombs that contains roughly the energy of the asteroid impact that ended the age of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. Except, it's also nuclear, bury them underground in each of the heartlands of one of each of the founding nations of the UN, with one buried underneath a secret criminal hideout in the Brazilian section of the Amazon rainforest, and sent 196 groups of 216 people bearing one of any of the 36 skin colors as according to von Luschan's chromatic scale: 36 children (18 boys and 18 girls), 36 young adults (18 men and 18 women) and 36 transgenders (36 adults and 36 children; each group of people being from any of the 196 countries and dependencies.) to the now habitable planet with the Venusian civilians tagging along, and detonated the bomb; all successfully. 
The underground piles exploded in fireballs stretching so high into the sky that it's visible from parts of the world, with so much power that the ground just splashes like water forming craters 100 kilometers across. Bedrock on the scale of whole mountain ranges got vaporized in an instant, while thousands of tons of material was catapulted away with such speed, that it was ejected into space. 
Some left Earth forever, while most of it came raining down as hot, burning debris that heated up the atmosphere to oven-like temperatures, killing most big animals and causing fire storms all over the world. The Earth's crust rung like a bell struck by global earthquakes stronger than anything in recorded history, decimating cities and metropolitan areas around the world, while hurricane-force winds flattened every single tree worldwide, and wildfires consumed the continents. The abundance of hydrocarbons in the forests burnt to form ash, flying into the atmosphere, darting the sky and keeping sunlight from reaching the surface, dropping temperatures to near freezing worldwide. The ensuing global winter lasted for decades, resulting in the extinction of every large animal species, humans included. We could also mention that every corner of the planet was covered with radioactive fallout, but at this point, it doesn't matter that much anymore. 
This was humanity's extinction event. The astronauts aboard the International Space Station got to enjoy a great view for a while, but it was not unlikely that the spray of rocks blast into orbit destroyed the Station. Those lucky enough to be in bunkers, or in submarines deep below the ocean surface, survived the longest before they exhausted their food supplies, and had to venture out for more, finding the world a charred, frozen, radioactive wasteland. 
== Aftermath ==
The planet or its former human population, themselves, didn't care at all, however. 
After just a few million years, the once small Martian community evolved into a civilization consisting of a few million people, and the wounds of the explosions on Earth have healed and life was thriving again, arguably even more so than when humans were around. 
Intelligent life emerged again, working out what happened. When they started studying geology, they found a bizarre and very thin layer of rock covering the entire world, enriched in radioactive elements like uranium, and the other nasty things it decays to mixed with rare earth metals and plastics that humans used. 
They became very, very confused.
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