Will a world that's being terraformed ever transform into an earth-like world?
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Nope. Then again I imagine the process would take generations, certainly longer than the lifetime of the game (unless the LEP proves to be worth a hella lot more than most of the depressed moaners here indicate).
In "Aliens," it didn't take that long. Drop a few fusion reactors planet-side, right? Would be kind of cool if it were a thing here and system state factors influenced the terraforming's development.
I'd side with the takes too long argument. It's a game though, and there's scope for some fun gameplay with great visuals. Think I'd be happen with unrealistic timescales for the sake of an awesome community goal.
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Didn't take that long? The process is a 20 year job.
https://alienanthology.fandom.com/wiki/Terraforming
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Not to mention this isnt the Alien universe, this is the Elite Dangerous Universe.
Robert Maynard
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There's not much between a terraforming device and a weapon of mass destruction, apart from intent....
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When I use the DSS and scan bodies, I imagine I'm nuking them from orbit — just to be sure.
When we can finally go to Polaris me and 50 other explorers are juat going to bombard the thargoid homeworld with probes
This is a game, we received a completely new discovery scanner and codex in a server tick with no lore explanation so realism is a good reference that should come with a lower priority compared to the fun.
Terraforming could become a process of a week. I made a proposal some time ago.
The only strong cons I see is that this would require manual intervention on the stellarforge engine because to replace a Terraformable HMC into an ELW at the moment would require manual intervention. Alternatively it would require some new coding to make it automatic.
Another big cons is the requirement of Atmospheric Planets (so this would be a new content dedicated to that).
To make it short my proposal involved:
1. Exploration: find a planet that fulfills the requirements (it needs to be out of the bubble), sell cartography to a faction specialized in terraforming and they provides you a terraforming kit (3 land probes and an atmospheric generator to be placed on the surface)
2. Analysis: Go back to the planet, land at the poles and the equator and place the land probes. The probes will tell you where on the surface you have to place the atmospheric generator.
3. (NEW MODE) Hauler/Airliner: Transport commodities and workers to the planet to create an outpost and start the planet colonization.
When the outpost is built, Stellarforge converts the planet to ELW.
- The planet/colony is disconnected from the BGS
- You can use this base as your own
- It provides you a weekly salary
- Time to time you receive private missions asking you to transport commodities or people to and from the colony with special bonus reward.
- You can set the Colony independent (you lose the salary and the bonus missions) and get a big reward instead. You can still use the base to store your ships and modules.
Limitations:
You can only own one colony. So if you want to terraform another planet you need first to set the current colony independent.
Terraforming could become a process of a week. I made a proposal some time ago.
The only strong cons I see is that this would require manual intervention on the stellarforge engine because to replace a Terraformable HMC into an ELW at the moment would require manual intervention. Alternatively it would require some new coding to make it automatic.
Another big cons is the requirement of Atmospheric Planets (so this would be a new content dedicated to that).
To make it short my proposal involved:
1. Exploration: find a planet that fulfills the requirements (it needs to be out of the bubble), sell cartography to a faction specialized in terraforming and they provides you a terraforming kit (3 land probes and an atmospheric generator to be placed on the surface)
2. Analysis: Go back to the planet, land at the poles and the equator and place the land probes. The probes will tell you where on the surface you have to place the atmospheric generator.
3. (NEW MODE) Hauler/Airliner: Transport commodities and workers to the planet to create an outpost and start the planet colonization.
When the outpost is built, Stellarforge converts the planet to ELW.
- The planet/colony is disconnected from the BGS
- You can use this base as your own
- It provides you a weekly salary
- Time to time you receive private missions asking you to transport commodities or people to and from the colony with special bonus reward.
- You can set the Colony independent (you lose the salary and the bonus missions) and get a big reward instead. You can still use the base to store your ships and modules.
Limitations:
You can only own one colony. So if you want to terraform another planet you need first to set the current colony independent.
There have been a few CGs to "bring equipment to complete the final stage of terraforming" that converted the planet from "being terraformed" to "terraformed ELW".
We haven't had one for a while, but it does happen occasionally.
We haven't had one for a while, but it does happen occasionally.
Off on a slight tangent. Mars has been terraformed and is now the Federation Homeworld. But is it believable? In our time, Mars has no magnetosphere, it's thought it was lost millions of years ago as the planet core cooled and solidified, which is why the solar wind stripped away the atmosphere, it's surface liquid water boiled away to space, and it became the barren corpse we are familiar with today. Earth of course is larger than Mars, the core is still liquid, and the planet's magnetic shield is still very much alive. Hence... our existence here.
Seems to me any attempt to terraform a world like Mars would be futile. Unless of course the process involves some very advanced tech for rekindling a solidified planetary core, and kick-starting a magnetosphere.
Seems to me any attempt to terraform a world like Mars would be futile. Unless of course the process involves some very advanced tech for rekindling a solidified planetary core, and kick-starting a magnetosphere.
Well... the loss of the atmosphere would have taken millions of years once the magnetosphere faded, so a terraforming process taking hundreds of years could just replace it faster than that.
There might also just be a massive pair of electromagnets, one at each pole. We'll have to wait for ELW landings before we can check, of course.
Matter or mass cannot be destroyed, merely "re-organised".
Robert Maynard
Volunteer Moderator
.... except that was not the meaning of mass used in the context of the specific, somewhat well known, phrase used....
