For anyone into terraformation and solar colonization, Venus is where it’s at. Mars? Psh- that’s normie bait, living it up in cloud cities while we terraform the surface into habitability. FAR easier than colonizing, much less terraforming, Mars, which is the much better known terraforming candidate in popular science fiction. This includes the Elite universe unfortunately.
Now Mars getting terraformed before the much better candidate of Venus isn’t that implausable, public interest and all that, but for a universe like Elite with relatively low cost terraforming capabilities failing to do so after a millennium strains belief.
so I suggest one of three changes.
1: retcon Venus into a fully terraformed earthlike, same as mars.
2: retcon Venus into the subject of an ongoing, but unfinished, terraforming effort. Maybe with cloud cities.
3: make it an event where we as the community can bring winter to Venus. No retconning required, although this can overlap with option 2.
personally I’d be content with any of these options, but I’m interested in what the community thinks. Similar reasoning can also be applied to Saturn’s moon Titan, althoughSaturns magnetic field makes that somewhat more complicated, since Titan passing through van Allen belts isn’t gonna be pretty for any colonists. Not sure if that applies to Titan though, so getting it warmed up is the main factor to consider.
Now Mars getting terraformed before the much better candidate of Venus isn’t that implausable, public interest and all that, but for a universe like Elite with relatively low cost terraforming capabilities failing to do so after a millennium strains belief.
so I suggest one of three changes.
1: retcon Venus into a fully terraformed earthlike, same as mars.
2: retcon Venus into the subject of an ongoing, but unfinished, terraforming effort. Maybe with cloud cities.
3: make it an event where we as the community can bring winter to Venus. No retconning required, although this can overlap with option 2.
personally I’d be content with any of these options, but I’m interested in what the community thinks. Similar reasoning can also be applied to Saturn’s moon Titan, althoughSaturns magnetic field makes that somewhat more complicated, since Titan passing through van Allen belts isn’t gonna be pretty for any colonists. Not sure if that applies to Titan though, so getting it warmed up is the main factor to consider.