Machines
What is the name of the machine in WOTW?
Tripods/Fighting Machines/Walkers
Where do the alien is WOTW come from?
Mars
What animal inspired the design of the aliens and their machines?
Aliens were based around squids while the machines were based off crabs.
What are the Aliens called in the book.
Martians
What were the advantages the Aliens had over the humans.
Not a lot surprisingly, it was pretty even 50/50. (Heartys, Tentacles, Highground, Intelligence)
How many different machine types are in WOTW.
4 Machines (3 is an acceptable answer)
Why did the Aliens lose the war?
They did not take safety precautions and died of the common Flu.
Why did the Aliens bring Red Weed (The plant that covers the planet's surface later in the book)?
It was by complete accident. The aliens later used it to flush people out of hiding and to possibly remake mars.
Large heads (the size of a bear) with countless tentacles, a beak the size of a human body, and eyes with only pupals.
What were the weapons (3) that the Machines used.
Heat ray, Tentacles, Chemicals/Black Smoke.
What machine breaks down old machines to make new ones?
The Handling Machine/Crab Machine/Gatherers
Why did the aliens decide to go to Earth?
Mars ran out of metal and earth was the next best place, but humans were in the way.
How are the Machines described in the book?
The Tripod is left undescribed in the book
Handling machine is a crab with tentacles all over it
Flying machine as a dot with rings
What do the aliens eat?
The don't eat (Ish). They suck the blood from humans and use their blood as their own due to how fast their blood decays.
The inside of the machine was...
filled with human remains and a control panel along with a massive magnifying glass that could see very far. (Also the tripods are really easy to control, like a car almost)
What is the name of the machine that surrounds areas to make sure humans stay on land?
The Flying Machine/The Saturn Drone
Humans never discovered the aliens for what reason?
This is false, humans always knew the aliens existed, it only became a problem when the aliens started to land on earth.
What War in history inspired WOTW to become.
The battle of New Orleans
How many aliens conduct each machine.
Fighting Machine: 3
Handling Machine: 1
Flying Machine: Auto Piloted
How do the aliens charge their Heat Rays?
Simple batteries along with friction in the barrel.
Each machine is made of a different metal, list all of them.
Fighting machine: Aluminum
Handling Machine: Bronze
Flying Machine: Copper
What happened to the aliens after the war? (Hint: not all of them died)
Some of the aliens stayed on mars and upon word they lost the war they moved to Venus and plan another war but with more precaution in mind.
In the 2005 WOTW movie, where did the aliens come from?
It is unknown, its confirmed they are water creatures and Earth was the only other planet with water (Also their "Sun" exploded and forced them to leave).
Do the aliens want to kill humans?
No, and yes... They had no intentions of killing but they knew humans would be a problem and they can't communicate so they decided to kill anyway.
What was the only weapon in the book that did not change its role through the invasion.
The Black Smoke/Death Dust + The White Steam/Death Killers