We know the Anunnaki have, and likely still do, use Mars as a base for some operations. Did mining on Mars destroy the relatively thin and fragile biosphere it possessed? Did Mars ever have its own native species of sentient being? Were there ever true “Martians,” or would those simply be enslaved humans who were brought there and the descendants of them?

The ecological disasters that stripped Mars of its lower life forms was not due to mining operations there, but due to the Anunnaki world coming into the solar system in too close a proximity and gravitationally stripping away much of the atmosphere, so it is an example of a reckless disregard for other life forms these corrupted beings suffer and many other civilizations vulnerable to their manipulations. The continued survival of intelligent Martian beings will be portrayed as an act of benevolence by the Anunnaki in rescuing them from a certain dark fate following the disruption of their planet, but this was entirely cynical and self-serving on their part as the Anunnaki are loveless beings and will exploit anyone and anything that suits them and will destroy anything in which they lose interest. In this case, they have no interest personally in the Martians, but the Arcturian Greys who have studied them for many thousands of years have a desire to keep this going, just as they do with humans, and this is being indulged as a kind of reward for them. So in a sense, the hapless Martians are like lab rats for the robotic soulless Grey artificial intelligence.