Culturally, the traditional Marzian way is to deal in facts, although several ‘creation’ myths do exist, some even being taught in school as part of a broader understanding of Marzian history, most of the time the Red Planet resolutely maintains a 1 + 1 = 2 attitude to existence. On the whole Marzians pay little attention to these ‘old stories’, but a small number of devotees think otherwise, passionately maintaining they are based on real events. Curiously, one such founding saga claims that Marzians only arrived on the Red Planet after they were expelled from their original home millions of years ago. Forced to wander the stars for decades, the Marzians of those far off days thought all to be lost until they discovered an uninhabited world they promptly named Marz in their own honor. At first it was tough to colonize, but eventually they conquered all (so the story goes) and began to prosper on what became known as the Red Paradise (even if it is, in reality,  more of a dark pink).