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Originally Posted by Apache
The Martians probably had lunar bases (on Earth's Moon as well as their own 2 satellites).
Unless there was something already there, of course.
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True, the same automated ships could have put jump stations on the Moon, too.
Regarding Phobos and Deimos, it's likely enough that the ancient Martians would have put something interesting on them...
Their big, main base for Earth would probably be on Earth proper, though, where there's a viable biosphere and atmosphere. Much easier to manage and much more pleasant.
The question would be 'where'? The Germans probably would not discover the main base, it would make better story sense for them to have found one of the subsidiary stations. So the main base could be in some remote, dangerous, exotic part of the world, some place exotic even by the standards of the men who ended up on Mars...
The teleport system I describe could have gotten the Martians all the way to Mercury by stepping-stone method, but reaching outward past the asteroids would be a bitch, Mars never gets all that close to Jupiter, and the orbital periods of the asteroids aren't helpful.\
Maybe that's What Happened. The Martians were building a super-duper jump station that could send a party to Callisto or Ganymede. Their robot ships had built the receiving base, but when they turned it on it Blew Up Good and wrecked Mars.