Thread:Hiromichi/@comment-1471931-20141203174836/@comment-1471931-20141203202314

here, let me help you. Barsoom is a name given to the planet Mars in the film John Carter itself. Carter was transported there when he first encountered a human-like species called the Thern. After the Civil War, John Carter is dragged back into fighting for the Barsoom kingodm of Helium.

Therns are a race that travel the universe, organizing and feeding off the destruction of planets, manipulating civilizations in order to do so. It is his and the Therns' purpose to do so, however, as Shang mentions at one point that he and the Therns have been doing it for billions of years.