WE'RE CIVILIZED: Taking Mars In The Name Of Earth And God | #MidnightInTheMacabre

A Western Alliance ship circles Mars at the equator and again from pole to pole, and Captain Thomas H. Griswold, already picturing his name in the history books, finds no buildings and no ruins below, only iron ore and long straight canals that the young civilian expert aboard calls evidence of something.

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Midnight In The Macabre (MITM), originally aired: October 13, 2026

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