I stooped and turned him over to feel for his heart and his face leaped upon me. I saw a sturdy man, his head bent under his body, crumpled close to the fence, as though he had been flung violently against it. I saw between my feet a heap of black broadcloth and a pair of boots. Near the top, I stumbled on something soft. I made my way towards the brow of the hill, using the fence posts. When the Martian Tripod appeared, I made my way through the Maybury Estate towards East Hill. We’ve very sad to report the death of the barman of the Princess of Wales in Maybury, who Bodkin caught up with earlier.īodkin found his body crumpled against a fence barely an hour ago. We have been ordered to leave and are planning to head north-east, making cover of the trees about the Maybury Estate and Norfolk Farm, and the West Byfleet Golf Course towards Weybridge.”
Where I hide right now, many are near despair. It looks like the pit had been enlarged, and ever and again puffs of vivid green vapour stream up, whirl, break and vanish with pillars of fire about Chobham. Three of the metallic giants stand about the pit, their cowls rotating as though they are surveying the desolation they have made. Here and there some object has escaped the fury - a white railway signal here, the end of a greenhouse there, white and fresh amid the wreckage. Where flames were there are now only streamers of smoke but the countless ruins of shattered and gutted houses and blasted and blackened trees stand out now gaunt and terrible. Refugees are already heading towards London with guns set up around Chertsey and Shepperton and Weybridge to try to prevent the Martian spread towards the capital.įinnerty has sent this from Maybury Hill:
A notable version from this class was the "Goliath" the first of the new Achilles Class and which was named after the Tripod's immense size by Captain Eric Wells.The order has been made for anyone left alive in North Surrey to be evacuated. The Tripods were named after Achilles - a near-invulnerable warrior who became a hero in the Trojan War in Ancient Greece. They are A.R.E.S most powerful Tripods and the best hope of beating the Martians and their Fighting-machines. As well as having better armour than its predecessor, it also possessed more powerful and numerous weapons.Īlthough not as fast as the smaller Hermes-Class or Spartan-Class Tripods, this new Achilles class can reach a top speed of 25 miles per hour. The Achilles-Class of Tripods - primarily referred to as 'Achilles' - were steam/dieselpunk vehicles created by A.R.E.S.īuilt to improve upon the already formidable earlier variants of the Achilles-class, the new Achilles-class stood at 70-75 feet tall, is powered by a diesel-fueled steam and combustion engine and was piloted by a crew of six.
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