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[[File:Terraformers Broken Moon.jpg|thumb|right|Atmo-Processors orbiting [[Taranis II]] ]]

'''Terraforming''' is a process to make a [[StarCitizen:planet]] habitable for [[StarCitizen:humans]] by converting the atmosphere of a planet to a sustained [[StarCitizen:oxygen]] environment.<ref name="robertsspaceindustries.com">{{Cite RSI|text=Comm-Link:2113 - When Do We Go Too Far?|int=Comm-Link:2113 - When Do We Go Too Far?|url=https://robertsspaceindustries.com/comm-link/spectrum-dispatch/12668-2113-When-Do-We-Go-Too-Far}}</ref> [[StarCitizen:Terraformation platform|Terraformation platforms]] are a core part of the process.

==History==
===[[StarCitizen:Human Overpopulation Era]]===
====Invention of the Atmo-Processor====

In [[StarCitizen:2113]]-04-21, [[StarCitizen:Roberts Space Industries]] announced the world's first Atmo-Processor (commonly referred as terraformer).<ref name="robertsspaceindustries.com" /><ref>[[StarCitizen:Dave Haddock]], [[StarCitizen:David Ladyman]] and [[StarCitizen:Ben Lesnick]], [https://robertsspaceindustries.com/comm-link/transmission/16120-Jump-Point-Now-Available ''Portfolio: Roberts Space Industries''], [[StarCitizen:Jump Point (magazine)|Jump Point]], vol. 5, no. 9, pp. 43-46, 2017-09-15.</ref> Since then, it has gone through years of simulation and tests to prepared for the first terraforming effort in mankind history - [[StarCitizen:Mars]].<ref name="ReferenceA">{{Cite RSI|text=Comm-Link:2120 - Give These People Air|int=Comm-Link:2120 - Give These People Air|url=https://robertsspaceindustries.com/comm-link/spectrum-dispatch/12670-2120-Give-These-People-Air}}</ref>

====Terraforming Mars====

{{Main|Mars#History}}
[[File:Comm-Link-2120.jpg|thumb|right|Surveyors exploring Mars]]
In [[StarCitizen:2120]], after years of simulation and tests, the [[StarCitizen:UNE]] started to the attempt to terraform [[StarCitizen:Mars]]. Teams of surveyors were dispatched to [[StarCitizen:Port Renatus]] to generate topographical maps of the planet surface, to decide Atmo-Processor placement, and test surface samples for possible contaminants to the new oxygen environment. It was the first full planetary exploration of mankind other than [[StarCitizen:Earth]].<ref name="ReferenceA" /><ref name="ReferenceB">{{Cite RSI|text=Comm-Link:The Observist - Mars|int=Comm-Link:The Observist - Mars|url=https://robertsspaceindustries.com/comm-link/spectrum-dispatch/13243-News-Update-The-Observist}}</ref>

=====The Great Mars Tragedy=====

{{Main|Great Mars Tragedy}}
[[File:Comm-Link-2157.jpg|thumb|right|Terraformed Mars in 2157]]
In [[StarCitizen:2125]], Mars was in the final stages of terraforming. An oxygen-sustaining environment had been in place for two weeks. However, tragedy struck when the planet was two days before officially declared secured. A chemical miscalculation in the planetary atmospheric processors made the artificial atmosphere unstable, and led to a planet-wide atmospheric escape. 4,876 scientists and technicians died as the people of Mars had already stopped using breathing apparatuses, the loss happened so fast that "no one was able to sound an alarm or seal the ventilations of the various installations around the planet".<ref name="ReferenceB" /><ref>{{Cite RSI|text=Comm-Link:2125 - A Dark Day|int=Comm-Link:2125 - A Dark Day|url=https://robertsspaceindustries.com/comm-link/spectrum-dispatch/12672-2125-A-Dark-Day}}</ref> It is also rumored that the catastrophe might be caused by AI failures.<ref>{{Cite RSI|text=Comm-Link:New United - Will We Never Learn?|int=Comm-Link:New United - Will We Never Learn?|url=https://robertsspaceindustries.com/comm-link/spectrum-dispatch/12977-News-Update-WILL-WE-NEVER-LEARN}}</ref>

In [[StarCitizen:2157]], Mars is officially classified as an oxygen-sustaining environment.<ref>{{Cite RSI|text=Comm-Link:2157 - Blue Skies on Mars|int=Comm-Link:2157 - Blue Skies on Mars|url=https://robertsspaceindustries.com/comm-link/spectrum-dispatch/12675-2157-Blue-Skies-On-Mars}}</ref>

==== Nexus II ====
The [[StarCitizen:United Nations of Earth]] used [[StarCitizen:Nexus II]] as a testing ground for the terraforming of smog planets. The project's high costs were a partial reason why the UEE later sold the mining rights of the system exclusively to the [[StarCitizen:Hathor Group]].<ref>{{Cite RSI|url=comm-link/transmission/15131-Galactic-Guide-Nexus|text=Galactic Guide: Nexus}}</ref><ref>{{Cite RSI|url=https://robertsspaceindustries.com/galactapedia/article/RegKl43g9M-nexus-ii|text=Galactapedia: Nexus II|accessdate=2022-10-15}}</ref>

===Messer Era===
Terraforming was hardly regulated in the [[StarCitizen:Messer Era]]. Performed under inadequate working conditions and organized by several dubious companies, i.e. [[StarCitizen:Gold Horizon]]. While most terraforming attempts succeeded, some of them irreversible damaged the planet and its inhabitants or left them nearly uninhabitable.

==== Project Vespa on Tayac I ====
{{Main|Project Vespa}}
The goal of the project was to modify the terraforming process as an effective weapon of mass destruction. Test object was [[StarCitizen:Tayac I]], which was terraformed and again de-terraformed. The Project started under [[StarCitizen:Ivar Messer I]] and was abandoned in 2750 without any known progress.

====Taranis II====
[[StarCitizen:Taranis II]] was chosen in the 2560s for terraforming by [[StarCitizen:Orphion Incorporation|Orphion Inc.]] albeit being classified as a poor choice. Experimental terraforming platforms were installed and harnessed the energy of its orbiting moon, [[StarCitizen:Taranis 2a]]. Sub-standard parts and slave-like working conditions created a foreseeable disaster. Taranis 2a mantle cracked and released deadly debris which leaves the planet uninhabitable.

====Oberon II, Uriel====
The surface of [[StarCitizen:Uriel]] froze after a failed terraforming attempt. Settlers introduced the [[StarCitizen:chestnut beetle]] as a food source in the 27th century with another catastrophic outcome. Every seventy years the aggressive beetles emerge and eat almost everything on the surface. The native population of the the planet lives now in underground warrens.

====Fora III, Hyperion====
Terraforming left [[StarCitizen:Hyperion]] in a state of perpetual '[[StarCitizen:HyperClay]]' dust storms.

====Corel IV, Castor====
Failed Terraforming on [[StarCitizen:Castor]] lead to a 'barely breathable atmosphere'.

==== Pyro VI ====
A terraforming station (today known as [[StarCitizen:Ruin Station]]) was build in the orbit of the dead protoplanet [[StarCitizen:Pyro VI]] by [[StarCitizen:Gold Horizon]], but later abandoned.

====Massacre of Garron II====
{{Main|Massacre of Garron II}}
[[File:GarronIIMassacre.jpg|thumb|right|The Massacre of Garron II]]
In [[StarCitizen:2792]], a terraforming corporation began to terraform [[StarCitizen:Garron II]], a planet with pre-existing developing life-forms. The [[StarCitizen:Terraformation platform|Atmo-Processors]] wiped out much of the planet's indigenous life, including a pre-industrial race. Although the corp denied that the aliens were sentient, footage obtained by environmental activists clearly demonstrated that the aliens were capable of rational thought. A series of protests broke out in [[StarCitizen:UEE]] systems, and it ultimately overthrew the [[StarCitizen:Messer XI]], ending the [[StarCitizen:Messer Era]].<ref>{{Cite RSI|text=Comm-Link:2792 - The Tide Rises|int=Comm-Link:2792 - The Tide Rises|url=https://robertsspaceindustries.com/comm-link/spectrum-dispatch/12715-2792-The-Tide-Rises}}</ref>

===Post-Messer Era===

====Fair Chance Act====

{{Main|Fair Chance Act}}{{For|a list of planet under FCA|Fair Chance Act#Systems and planets protected by the Fair Chance Act}}
In [[StarCitizen:2795]], '''Fair Chance Act''' (FCA) is a legislated by the reformed UEE government to prevent similar incidents as Massacre of Garron II happen in the future. The aim of FCA is to protect the lives and well-being of species, who live on planets who have not developed but possess the reasonable capacity for evolution into intelligence, based on the responsibility of human beings for their fellow creatures.<ref>{{Cite RSI|text=Comm-Link:2795 - A Kinder, Gentler Human|int=Comm-Link:2795 - A Kinder, Gentler Human|url=https://robertsspaceindustries.com/comm-link/spectrum-dispatch/12717-2795-A-Kinder-Gentler-Human}}</ref>

==== Synthworld ====
{{Main|Synthworld}}[[StarCitizen:Project Archangel]] was started under the reign of [[StarCitizen:Corbyn Salehi]], in 2872. The building of artificial planets was supposed to replace the need for terraforming.<ref>{{Cite RSI|url=https://robertsspaceindustries.com/galactapedia/article/RLMmAnr4gj-project-archangel|text=Galactapedia: Project Archangel|accessdate=2020-04-26}}</ref> Currently (2950), the first artificial planet, [[StarCitizen:Synthworld]] is still in construction.

==== Genesis Terraforming ====
Beginning in [[StarCitizen:2954]], the organisation known as [[StarCitizen:Genesis Terraforming|'''Genesis Terraforming''']] began an audacious effort to solve a long-standing issue: The inability to terraform [[StarCitizen:Smog planet]]<nowiki/>s and other planets with atmospheres laced with chemicals that similarly prevented terraformation. Using [[StarCitizen:Nyx I]] as the testbed for their experiment and their newly developed terraformation platforms, Genesis has so far made good progress.<ref>{{Cite RSI|url=https://robertsspaceindustries.com/en/comm-link/spectrum-dispatch/14365-Galactic-Guide-Nyx-System|text=Galactic Guide: Nyx System|accessdate=2025-11-12}}</ref><ref>{{Cite RSI|url=https://robertsspaceindustries.com/galactapedia/article/V3GxjndyDa-nyx-I|text=Nyx I|accessdate=2025-11-12}}</ref>

== Terraforming candidates in the UEE ==
* [[StarCitizen:Kabal II]] is a terrestrial planet in the green band of the system. Due to the status of [[StarCitizen:Kabal system|Kabal]] as a 'archaeologically valuable site', terraforming and settlement of all planets in the system are currently forbidden.<ref>{{Cite RSI|url=https://robertsspaceindustries.com/galactapedia/article/0n13MP3lMv-kabal-ii|text=Galactapedia: Kabal II|accessdate=2022-09-05}}</ref>

== Other Races ==

=== Xi'an ===
The [[StarCitizen:Xi'an]] possessing an unknown advanced Terraforming technology. [[StarCitizen:Yā’mon III|Yā'mon III]] and [[StarCitizen:Yā’mon II|Yā'mon II]] are currently terraformed by the Empire.

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