Post by xaxiuscolnier on Apr 20, 2022 6:57:09 GMT
(bit of story blurb explaining how i see miners being used in universe as a guerilla force alongside Native Americans and hinting at the way i see the natural barrier of the grand canyon being used as a hiding place and fortification to help hold the west)
Mining companies, in order to maintain their workforce and productivity but still abide by the American militia mandates, formed their own militias.
made from a combination of their security personnel and teams of miners they have become pivotal in the defense of the western united states. skilled in excavation and armed with rifles and dynamite they have proven invaluable to the defense of the Grand Canyon, aided by the prospectors and native guides they pass through the difficult terrain of the mountains with relative ease to hidden cashes of arms and explosives scattered in the many mines of northern Arizona and launch raids on the Martian redoubts. Using tunnels and dynamite to open pits or blow charges under the Martians they cripple the Martians ability to build up strong enough forces to assault the defensive lines around the canyon where the Native Americans and Arizonans shelter and receive resupply by river down the Colorado. this bastion of resistance has prevented the Martians from being able to make any lasting headway against the western defenses in the southern united states for the Martians dare not go into the mountains where the miners hide. For they will only fall to pits and avalanches set by the miners, or to assaults by miners and natives who deftly attach dynamite charges to the legs of the tripods as they pass. and the black smoke and green gas does not even prove an effective tool, for the miners are well versed in protecting themselves from poisons and vapors they encountered in the mines.
(fun fact the grand canyon is or was sacred to many native american tribes in the area and was used as a place to shelter by some in times of trouble so it wouldnt be unreasonable that many would have fled here during the invasion and its natural defenses would have made it verry difficult for the martains to assault, if you add the miners into the equation and the lawrence of arizona idea it would make the forces hiding here a terror and perpetual thorn in the side of the martains)
