StarCitizen:Terraforming
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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">Template:Cite RSI</ref> 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, Portfolio: Roberts Space Industries, 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">Template:Cite RSI</ref>
Terraforming 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">Template:Cite RSI</ref>
The Great Mars Tragedy
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>Template:Cite RSI</ref> It is also rumored that the catastrophe might be caused by AI failures.<ref>Template:Cite RSI</ref>
In StarCitizen:2157, Mars is officially classified as an oxygen-sustaining environment.<ref>Template:Cite RSI</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>Template:Cite RSI</ref><ref>Template:Cite RSI</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
Template:Main 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 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
In StarCitizen:2792, a terraforming corporation began to terraform StarCitizen:Garron II, a planet with pre-existing developing life-forms. The 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>Template:Cite RSI</ref>
Post-Messer Era
Fair Chance Act
Template:MainTemplate:For 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>Template:Cite RSI</ref>
Synthworld
Template:MainStarCitizen: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>Template:Cite RSI</ref> Currently (2950), the first artificial planet, StarCitizen:Synthworld is still in construction.
Genesis Terraforming
Beginning in StarCitizen:2954, the organisation known as Genesis Terraforming began an audacious effort to solve a long-standing issue: The inability to terraform StarCitizen:Smog planets 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>Template:Cite RSI</ref><ref>Template:Cite RSI</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 Kabal as a 'archaeologically valuable site', terraforming and settlement of all planets in the system are currently forbidden.<ref>Template:Cite RSI</ref>
Other Races
Xi'an
The StarCitizen:Xi'an possessing an unknown advanced Terraforming technology. Yā'mon III and Yā'mon II are currently terraformed by the Empire.
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