Terraform: Difference between revisions
Content added Content deleted
m (Mass update links) |
m (Mass update links) |
||
| Line 25: | Line 25: | ||
== Anime and Manga == |
== Anime and Manga == |
||
* ''[[ |
* ''[[Cowboy Bebop]]'' has numerous terraformed planets, moons and asteroids; it appears only small sections of Mars that are protected by some sort of force-field dome are livable, though on Venus the plants used to terraform could cause some people to develop "Venus Sickness" with such side effects as going blind. Ganymede is [[Single Biome Planet|completely covered in ocean]], while Titan is [[Single Biome Planet|all desert]]. |
||
** Not force fields, ''air curtains''. |
** Not force fields, ''air curtains''. |
||
** Terraforming has become a necessity since inversely, Earth has become almost uninhabitable due to the moon getting destroyed and debris bombardment that continues. |
** Terraforming has become a necessity since inversely, Earth has become almost uninhabitable due to the moon getting destroyed and debris bombardment that continues. |
||
* ''[[ |
* ''[[Aria]]'' takes place on Mars, which got mostly covered with water from the pole regions after terraforming and subsequently got renamed to Aqua. |
||
* ''[[Zone of the Enders]]'' also features a partially-terraformed Mars. in ''Dolores, i'', it's shown that some of the planet's oxygen supply is being generated by seaweed that has grown ''huge'' in the new environment, with fronds hundreds of feet long. You still don't wanna go out there for long without a spacesuit. |
* ''[[Zone of the Enders]]'' also features a partially-terraformed Mars. in ''Dolores, i'', it's shown that some of the planet's oxygen supply is being generated by seaweed that has grown ''huge'' in the new environment, with fronds hundreds of feet long. You still don't wanna go out there for long without a spacesuit. |
||
* It's in progress on Mars as of the first ''[[Armitage III]]'' OVA. In the epilogue to the sequel, it get's oceans courtesy of a lot of dropped comets. |
* It's in progress on Mars as of the first ''[[Armitage III]]'' OVA. In the epilogue to the sequel, it get's oceans courtesy of a lot of dropped comets. |
||
* In ''[[ |
* In ''[[Martian Successor Nadesico]]'', Mars is terraformed through the use of [[Nanomachines]]. How these machines affected native Martians becomes a major plot point later on. |
||
* The beginning of an attempt to terraform Mars is mentioned in the finale of ''[[Gundam Wing]]''. The sequel novel ''Frozen Teardrop'' has it completed roughly 20-30 years later thanks to an accident involving algae from Jupiter's moon Europa (previously studied but deemed too impractical). |
* The beginning of an attempt to terraform Mars is mentioned in the finale of ''[[Gundam Wing]]''. The sequel novel ''Frozen Teardrop'' has it completed roughly 20-30 years later thanks to an accident involving algae from Jupiter's moon Europa (previously studied but deemed too impractical). |
||
* ''[[Gundam AGE]]'' makes this central to the backstory. Around a hundred years prior to the series, a serious attempt at terraforming Mars was made. An unexpected and extremely deadly plague made the Federation give up, {{spoiler|in the process abandoning the settlers already there because they expected them to die out pretty quickly anyway, and sweeping the whole matter under the rug. A few colonists survived though, and formed a nation called Veigan... which is now attacking the Earth Sphere for revenge and is known to them only as the "Unknown Enemy", or UE.}} |
* ''[[Gundam AGE]]'' makes this central to the backstory. Around a hundred years prior to the series, a serious attempt at terraforming Mars was made. An unexpected and extremely deadly plague made the Federation give up, {{spoiler|in the process abandoning the settlers already there because they expected them to die out pretty quickly anyway, and sweeping the whole matter under the rug. A few colonists survived though, and formed a nation called Veigan... which is now attacking the Earth Sphere for revenge and is known to them only as the "Unknown Enemy", or UE.}} |
||
* [[Osamu Tezuka]]'s ''Mazin Garon'' is a [[Humongous Mecha]] with the ability to alter planets to mimic the conditions of any other planet, even going so far as to be able to control gravity. |
* [[Osamu Tezuka]]'s ''Mazin Garon'' is a [[Humongous Mecha]] with the ability to alter planets to mimic the conditions of any other planet, even going so far as to be able to control gravity. |
||
* Near the end of ''[[ |
* Near the end of ''[[Getter Robo]] Go'', {{spoiler|[[Humongous Mecha|Shin Getter Robo]] instantly terraforms Mars with a blast of Getter Energy. It does this so it can hibernate on the planet long enough to ''combine with it and become an even larger robot.'' }} |
||
* The world-settlers in ''[[ |
* The world-settlers in ''[[Trigun]]'' set out to terraform a new planet, but unfortunately ended up crashing onto a desert world (losing much of their tools and resources in the process) and what resources they still have are almost solely devoted to surviving. Due to this, the work has barely even started at the time of the series, and it's implied they'd already been there for several decades or more. |
||
* Almost all populated planets in ''[[ |
* Almost all populated planets in ''[[Kiddy Grade]]'' became inhabitable through terraforming. One episode even has Éclair and [[Lumi Ã]]¨re scavenge terraforming-equipment for usable parts. |
||
* ''[[ |
* ''[[Mars Daybreak]]'' features a Mars where terraforming has [[Gone Horribly Wrong]], somehow flooding the entire planet except for the peak of Olympus Mons. |
||
* The bad guys in ''[[ |
* The bad guys in ''[[Space Carrier Blue Noah]]'' want to terriform the planet Godom for their own needs. |
||
* In ''[[ |
* In ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'', {{spoiler|Negi's plan to save [[Magic Land|Mundus Magicus]] is revealed to be terraforming Mars so that it can support life.}} |
||
== Comic Books == |
== Comic Books == |
||
* In the [[Wildstorm]] universe, it's eventually revealed that Earth was in fact terraformed by technology created by the ancestors of the Kherubim, who were far more [[Sufficiently Advanced Aliens|Sufficiently Advanced]] than even the present-day Kherans were aware. This explains in part why humans and Kherans can [[Half-Human Hybrid|interbreed]]; our DNA is partially based on theirs. |
* In the [[Wildstorm]] universe, it's eventually revealed that Earth was in fact terraformed by technology created by the ancestors of the Kherubim, who were far more [[Sufficiently Advanced Aliens|Sufficiently Advanced]] than even the present-day Kherans were aware. This explains in part why humans and Kherans can [[Half-Human Hybrid|interbreed]]; our DNA is partially based on theirs. |
||
* But in ''[[The Authority]]'', another [[Wildstorm]] series, a totally different explanation was given at the end of Warren Ellis's run (not surprisingly, since it's Warren "[[What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made |
* But in ''[[The Authority]]'', another [[Wildstorm]] series, a totally different explanation was given at the end of Warren Ellis's run (not surprisingly, since it's Warren "[[What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made on Drugs?]]" Ellis). Here the Earth was placed in its proper orbit by what is, essentially, God: a pyramidal being the size of our moon with four thousand hearts and pores the size of Staten Island. God even placed some "watch spores" on the planet to make sure everything stayed perfect, then went off to wander the universe for a bit. In the meantime, a big chunk of something hit the Earth, then started orbiting, becoming our moon. By sheer chance, the watch spores were among the matter blown off by the impact. This tilted Earth's axis, altered the atmosphere, and eventually led to the development of life as we know it today. God eventually comes back to discover that its vacation home has suddenly developed a totally poisonous (to it) atmosphere and grown a six-billion-strong infestation. In order to return the planet to its "proper" state, God drops some disgusting organic machinery into the African veldt that begins restoring the original atmosphere. So it's not so much terraforming as ''un''-terraforming. |
||
** The Engineer even tries to come up with a term for it: |
** The Engineer even tries to come up with a term for it: |
||
{{quote| '''Engineer:''' What would you call that? Un-terraforming? Monsterforming? Disgusting stuff. Turdscaping.}} |
{{quote| '''Engineer:''' What would you call that? Un-terraforming? Monsterforming? Disgusting stuff. Turdscaping.}} |
||
* In ''[[Buck Godot Zap Gun for Hire]],'' the Prime Mover (a [[Sufficiently Advanced Alien]] and [[Obstructive Bureaucrat]]) is Terraforming a planet as a hobby, in his room, ''by hand.'' |
* In ''[[Buck Godot: Zap Gun for Hire]],'' the Prime Mover (a [[Sufficiently Advanced Alien]] and [[Obstructive Bureaucrat]]) is Terraforming a planet as a hobby, in his room, ''by hand.'' |
||
** In his defense though, he did have a really big bucket. |
** In his defense though, he did have a really big bucket. |
||
* Some of the ''[[Transformers]]'' comics written by Simon Furman have a variation of this: In the distant past, the war between [[Sufficiently Advanced Alien|alien gods]] Primus and Unicron was ended when Primus tricked them into eternal imprisonment in large metal planetoids. Over time, Primus terraforms his planetoid into the planet Cybertron (and creates sentient robotic life forms in the process), while Unicron terraforms his into a giant [[Transforming Mecha]] body. |
* Some of the ''[[Transformers]]'' comics written by Simon Furman have a variation of this: In the distant past, the war between [[Sufficiently Advanced Alien|alien gods]] Primus and Unicron was ended when Primus tricked them into eternal imprisonment in large metal planetoids. Over time, Primus terraforms his planetoid into the planet Cybertron (and creates sentient robotic life forms in the process), while Unicron terraforms his into a giant [[Transforming Mecha]] body. |
||
| Line 56: | Line 56: | ||
== Film == |
== Film == |
||
* ''[[Alien ( |
* ''[[Alien (franchise)|Aliens]]'' is notable for showing at least part of the process, huge atmosphere altering plants. |
||
* In ''[[Red Planet ( |
* In ''[[Red Planet (film)|Red Planet]]'', minimal terraforming efforts had been made to give Mars a breathable atmosphere. However, ''something'' went really, really wrong... |
||
* ''[[Total Recall]]'' does this to Mars, supposedly by rapidly melting the planet's icy core to flood the atmosphere with oxygen. [[Did Not Do the Research|All at once, with no harmful side effects to billions of tons of air suddenly blasting on to the surface faster than any tornado.]] A window gets broken, that's it. There's not even any dust kicked up. ''On Mars''. |
* ''[[Total Recall]]'' does this to Mars, supposedly by rapidly melting the planet's icy core to flood the atmosphere with oxygen. [[Did Not Do the Research|All at once, with no harmful side effects to billions of tons of air suddenly blasting on to the surface faster than any tornado.]] A window gets broken, that's it. There's not even any dust kicked up. ''On Mars''. |
||
** Maybe, it could have been [[All Just a Dream]]. |
** Maybe, it could have been [[All Just a Dream]]. |
||
* ''[[Titan |
* ''[[Titan A.E.]]'' had the Titan, which could completely and quickly remake a planet, just like the [[Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan|Genesis Device]]. Unlike the Genesis Device, though, the planet didn't collapse back on itself after a year <ref> ...as far as we know; It would be a good idea for the humans to wait a while before settling</ref>. |
||
** The Titan didn't so much remake a planet, as make a whole new planet using a local nebula for raw materials. They just happened to call it "New Earth". Besides, we all know it's really called Planet Bob. |
** The Titan didn't so much remake a planet, as make a whole new planet using a local nebula for raw materials. They just happened to call it "New Earth". Besides, we all know it's really called Planet Bob. |
||
* The Genesis Device from ''[[Star Trek II |
* The Genesis Device from ''[[Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan|Star Trek II the Wrath of Khan]]'' turns a nebula into an Earthlike planet. Sadly, the planet tore itself apart within a year. If it had been used on a rocky planet instead of a nebula, the planet probably wouldn't have fallen apart if that terraformed underground location Khan imprisoned Kirk and co. in was any indication. |
||
** In ''[[Star Trek III |
** In ''[[Star Trek III: The Search For Spock|Star Trek III the Search For Spock]]'', David Marcus admitted that he had used "Proto-matter" ([[Applied Phlebotinum|a highly-unstable element]]) in the design of the Genesis device. Even if Genesis had been aimed at a rocky planet, it would have fallen apart. There was never an explanation for the demonstration cavern. |
||
* Although it's not seen on-screen, the dialogue in ''[[Star Trek First Contact |
* Although it's not seen on-screen, the dialogue in ''[[Star Trek: First Contact|Star Trek First Contact]]'' suggests that the Moon has been at least partly terraformed by the ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation|Next Generation]]'' era. When Riker, a [[Fish Out of Temporal Water]], stands in awe at the sight of the 21st century Moon and Zefram Cochrane rolls his eyes and sarcastically asks whether they still have a Moon in the future, Riker answers that it simply looks "a lot different": in the 24th century, "Lake Armstrong" and several lunar cities are visible from Earth. This does contrast a few earlier episodes, where the 24th century moon put in an appearance and looked the same as ever. |
||
** It may just be possible that he was referring to it being colonized, not terraformed. |
** It may just be possible that he was referring to it being colonized, not terraformed. |
||
* An inversion in ''The Arrival''. An astronomer discovers that a worldwide rise in carbon dioxide levels and [[Space Whale Aesop|resulting global warming]] is due to aliens seeking to kill off humanity and make Earth more like their planet. |
* An inversion in ''The Arrival''. An astronomer discovers that a worldwide rise in carbon dioxide levels and [[Space Whale Aesop|resulting global warming]] is due to aliens seeking to kill off humanity and make Earth more like their planet. |
||
* Possibly occuring to parts of Mexico and the US in ''[[Monsters 2010]]''. Trees in the "Infected Zone" are being used to host alien spores. |
* Possibly occuring to parts of Mexico and the US in ''[[Monsters (2010 film)]]''. Trees in the "Infected Zone" are being used to host alien spores. |
||
| Line 77: | Line 77: | ||
* And in [[John Christopher]]'s ''[[The Tripods]]'' (which may well be an [[Alternate Universe]] sequel to ''[[The War of the Worlds]]''), anti-Terraforming is on the Tripods' agenda somewhere after Enslave Humanity. The alien Masters plan to replace the Earth's atmosphere with one like that of their own planet. |
* And in [[John Christopher]]'s ''[[The Tripods]]'' (which may well be an [[Alternate Universe]] sequel to ''[[The War of the Worlds]]''), anti-Terraforming is on the Tripods' agenda somewhere after Enslave Humanity. The alien Masters plan to replace the Earth's atmosphere with one like that of their own planet. |
||
* [[Isaac Asimov]]'s short story, "Founding Fathers," where a crew of multi-national astronauts crash-lands on an uncharted planet with just enough ammonia in the atmosphere to be unsuitable for human life. There are live plants on the ship, though, and if they can be coaxed to thrive somehow, a tipping point could be reached where the extra oxygen would wipe out the ammonia in a cascade. This is eventually done after a considerable time by burying the deceased humans in the crew into the soil. It is noted that the person who does this will not live to see the transformation finish (the ship's water supply got contaminated), and when this planet is discovered again, there would be no sign that there had ever been ammonia in the atmosphere... |
* [[Isaac Asimov]]'s short story, "Founding Fathers," where a crew of multi-national astronauts crash-lands on an uncharted planet with just enough ammonia in the atmosphere to be unsuitable for human life. There are live plants on the ship, though, and if they can be coaxed to thrive somehow, a tipping point could be reached where the extra oxygen would wipe out the ammonia in a cascade. This is eventually done after a considerable time by burying the deceased humans in the crew into the soil. It is noted that the person who does this will not live to see the transformation finish (the ship's water supply got contaminated), and when this planet is discovered again, there would be no sign that there had ever been ammonia in the atmosphere... |
||
* In one of [[Philip K Dick]]'s stories, Earth and Titan were in an uneasy peace because of a war that was held because humans terraformed Mars. There were already people of Titan on Mars, but they couldn't breathe oxygen. By the time the humans learned of the Titanians, the terraforming had already begun, and "you can't terraform just part of an atmosphere..." |
* In one of [[Philip K. Dick]]'s stories, Earth and Titan were in an uneasy peace because of a war that was held because humans terraformed Mars. There were already people of Titan on Mars, but they couldn't breathe oxygen. By the time the humans learned of the Titanians, the terraforming had already begun, and "you can't terraform just part of an atmosphere..." |
||
* Many of the planets in [[Lois McMaster Bujold]]'s [[Vorkosigan Saga]] have to be terraformed to a greater (Komarr: four hundred years of domed living, with another four hundred to come, while the solar mirror array and genetically engineered plants make the atmosphere breathable and warm enough) or lesser (Barrayar: dump Earth soil and Earth-descended plants in place and burn away the native stuff; well, at least until the butter bugs start working) extent. |
* Many of the planets in [[Lois McMaster Bujold]]'s [[Vorkosigan Saga]] have to be terraformed to a greater (Komarr: four hundred years of domed living, with another four hundred to come, while the solar mirror array and genetically engineered plants make the atmosphere breathable and warm enough) or lesser (Barrayar: dump Earth soil and Earth-descended plants in place and burn away the native stuff; well, at least until the butter bugs start working) extent. |
||
* In [[Larry Niven]]'s [[Known Space]] universe, most life-bearing planets were seeded with life by the Slavers; not to terraform, but simply to grow enough food for their vast and inefficiently-run empire. Specifically most planets only had a strain of yeast their prey animals enjoyed eating. When the Slavers War ends with the Suicide Night that [[Omnicidal Maniac|kills all life]] on the level of lobsters and higher in the entire Galaxy, the majority of life evolves comes from their yeast farms, which explains why we are biochemically compatible. |
* In [[Larry Niven]]'s [[Known Space]] universe, most life-bearing planets were seeded with life by the Slavers; not to terraform, but simply to grow enough food for their vast and inefficiently-run empire. Specifically most planets only had a strain of yeast their prey animals enjoyed eating. When the Slavers War ends with the Suicide Night that [[Omnicidal Maniac|kills all life]] on the level of lobsters and higher in the entire Galaxy, the majority of life evolves comes from their yeast farms, which explains why we are biochemically compatible. |
||
** The results of unfinished or untended Terraforming is a large feature in Niven's work. Earth was partly Terraformed by the Pak, with the issue there's not enough thallium for the Pak's final lifestage to complete. ''Ringworld'' has much of the same issue being explored with humanoids left alone on a mostly terraformed Ringworld until they differentiate into ecological niches. |
** The results of unfinished or untended Terraforming is a large feature in Niven's work. Earth was partly Terraformed by the Pak, with the issue there's not enough thallium for the Pak's final lifestage to complete. ''Ringworld'' has much of the same issue being explored with humanoids left alone on a mostly terraformed Ringworld until they differentiate into ecological niches. |
||
** In Niven's ''A World Out Of Time'', delivering biological terraforming packages to suitable extrasolar planets is the job given to the [[Human Popsicle|corpsicle]] Corbell. |
** In Niven's ''A World Out Of Time'', delivering biological terraforming packages to suitable extrasolar planets is the job given to the [[Human Popsicle|corpsicle]] Corbell. |
||
* In the [[ |
* In the [[CoDominium]] universe, New Caledonia is a formerly barren world still being terraformed; for already life-bearing planets, the process is more a matter of altering the local ecology to support Earth life (which is usually grossly simplified for story purposes). |
||
* ''Riverworld'' is set on a planet terraformed into one big twisting river valley, to maximize the surface area ideal for human habitation. |
* ''Riverworld'' is set on a planet terraformed into one big twisting river valley, to maximize the surface area ideal for human habitation. |
||
* The [[Robert A. Heinlein]] story ''[[Farmer In The Sky]]'' is about a terraforming effort... [[Science Marches On|on Ganymede]]. |
* The [[Robert A. Heinlein]] story ''[[Farmer In The Sky]]'' is about a terraforming effort... [[Science Marches On|on Ganymede]]. |
||
* Dan Simmons' ''Hyperion'' universe has in its backstory humanity terraforming all their worlds, regularly committing genocide against sentient indigenous species. This bothers pretty much no one, [[Humans Are Bastards|human]], [[AI Is a Crapshoot|AI]], or transhuman. |
* Dan Simmons' ''Hyperion'' universe has in its backstory humanity terraforming all their worlds, regularly committing genocide against sentient indigenous species. This bothers pretty much no one, [[Humans Are Bastards|human]], [[AI Is a Crapshoot|AI]], or transhuman. |
||
* The major theme of ''[[Dune]]'' is the back-and-forth attempts by humanity to terraform [[Single Biome Planet|the desert planet Arrakis]] inhabited by the various life-cycle stages of sandworms (which create an extremely necessary commodity) and by the (non-sentient) sandtrout phase of the worm species to counter terraform Arrakis (and later other worlds) ''back into desert''. |
* The major theme of ''[[Dune]]'' is the back-and-forth attempts by humanity to terraform [[Single Biome Planet|the desert planet Arrakis]] inhabited by the various life-cycle stages of sandworms (which create an extremely necessary commodity) and by the (non-sentient) sandtrout phase of the worm species to counter terraform Arrakis (and later other worlds) ''back into desert''. |
||
* ''[[ |
* ''[[Honor Harrington]]'' has a major factor in the economics of the various colonies being how well they were terraformed. This is largely a function of when you left Earth and how much money you had when leaving. Haven and Manticore were settled fairly late with good resources. Other planets like Grayson were settled by [[Sleeper Ship|cold sleepers]] who left very very early, had poor terraforming technology, and ended up on a planet full of heavy metal poisoning. |
||
** The state of the terraforming efforts combined with the cultural base also give planets such as the Albino Zulus whose gene engineered solution to a poor Ozone. |
** The state of the terraforming efforts combined with the cultural base also give planets such as the Albino Zulus whose gene engineered solution to a poor Ozone. |
||
** In Manticore's case it's stated that the only terraforming that was needed was the introduction of a few Terran plants, and that the unusual compatibility of the native life allowed a hybrid plague to develop. |
** In Manticore's case it's stated that the only terraforming that was needed was the introduction of a few Terran plants, and that the unusual compatibility of the native life allowed a hybrid plague to develop. |
||
*** And it's probably no coincidence that the most populous planet in the Manticore system is the one that doesn't have high gravity or turbulent storms. |
*** And it's probably no coincidence that the most populous planet in the Manticore system is the one that doesn't have high gravity or turbulent storms. |
||
* The [[Hitch Hikers Guide to The Galaxy|Magratheans]] seem worthy of a mention, taking this idea to its logical extreme by creating a custom planet-building business. |
* The [[Hitch Hikers Guide to The Galaxy|Magratheans]] seem worthy of a mention, taking this idea to its logical extreme by creating a custom planet-building business. |
||
* [[ |
* [[A. E. van Vogt]]'s Voyage Of The Space Beagle: Anabis, a galaxy-spanning consciousness that has terraformed all planets in its own galaxy by ripping a piece of its planets surface off and sending to to the target planet through hyperspace (called junglescaping). |
||
* Like the Magratheans two entries above, [[Roger Zelazny]]'s character Frank Sandow in ''Isle of the Dead'' and ''To Die in Italbar'' made a business of building planets, to order, or to his own design. Near the end of the first book, he has a vision of every planet he's built. After seventeen names, it trails off with "and so on." (He's over twelve centuries old; he's had time.) |
* Like the Magratheans two entries above, [[Roger Zelazny]]'s character Frank Sandow in ''Isle of the Dead'' and ''To Die in Italbar'' made a business of building planets, to order, or to his own design. Near the end of the first book, he has a vision of every planet he's built. After seventeen names, it trails off with "and so on." (He's over twelve centuries old; he's had time.) |
||
* In [[Robert Charles Wilson]]'s ''[[Spin]]'', when the Earth is placed under a membrane that slows down time (which means that for the people of Earth the Sun will expand in a few decades), humans successfully terraform Mars; a whole civilisation appears there within a few years (for those on Earth)/a few millennia (for the people of Mars - humans who have evolved slightly differently.) |
* In [[Robert Charles Wilson]]'s ''[[Spin]]'', when the Earth is placed under a membrane that slows down time (which means that for the people of Earth the Sun will expand in a few decades), humans successfully terraform Mars; a whole civilisation appears there within a few years (for those on Earth)/a few millennia (for the people of Mars - humans who have evolved slightly differently.) |
||
* The major plot element of the [[New Jedi Order]]. Picture a cross between [[Dragon Ball |
* The major plot element of the [[New Jedi Order]]. Picture a cross between [[Dragon Ball|Super Saiyajin]] and [[Star Trek: Voyager|species 8472]]. |
||
* ''Cthulhu's Reign'', edited by Darrell Schweitzer, is a [[Cthulhu Mythos]] anthology of short stories on what <s>life</s> existence on Earth would be like <s>if</s> when the Old Ones return. There are several references to the [[Eldritch Abomination|Eldritch Abominations]] 'terra-deforming' the Earth so it's more suited to themselves. |
* ''Cthulhu's Reign'', edited by Darrell Schweitzer, is a [[Cthulhu Mythos]] anthology of short stories on what <s>life</s> existence on Earth would be like <s>if</s> when the Old Ones return. There are several references to the [[Eldritch Abomination|Eldritch Abominations]] 'terra-deforming' the Earth so it's more suited to themselves. |
||
* In one [[Arthur C. Clarke |
* In one [[Arthur C. Clarke]] novel Mars is being terraformed by selection and spread of oxygen-generating plants native to Mars, as well as by turning Deimos into a coninuous thermonuclear explosion, effectively providing the planet more sunlight than the Earth gets for a hundred years. |
||
* In ''[[Helm]]'', Epsilon Erdani II -- known to its settlers as Agatsu. |
* In ''[[Helm]]'', Epsilon Erdani II -- known to its settlers as Agatsu. |
||
* In part three of Alexander Kazantsev's ''Destruction of Faena'', Mars' surface is made inhabitable by bombarding it with rockets made of ice, which melts, creating the first ocean. |
* In part three of Alexander Kazantsev's ''Destruction of Faena'', Mars' surface is made inhabitable by bombarding it with rockets made of ice, which melts, creating the first ocean. |
||
| Line 108: | Line 108: | ||
** Plus, terraforming often has unintended side effects, like the newly introduced atmosphere interacting with minerals or gases to cause a massive plague, and at least one planet is considered an uninhabitable "black rock" because the [[Blatant Lies|terraforming never took]]. |
** Plus, terraforming often has unintended side effects, like the newly introduced atmosphere interacting with minerals or gases to cause a massive plague, and at least one planet is considered an uninhabitable "black rock" because the [[Blatant Lies|terraforming never took]]. |
||
* In ''[[Babylon 5]]'', humanity is in the first stages of terraforming Mars. |
* In ''[[Babylon 5]]'', humanity is in the first stages of terraforming Mars. |
||
* ''[[Star Trek |
* ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation|Star Trek the Next Generation]]'' had a surprisingly good first season episode where the Enterprise was trying to help terraform a desert planet by pumping water for irrigation. Unfortunately, the planet was occupied by sentient lifeforms who were annoyed enough at the attempt to terraform to sabotage the drill. It took a while for everyone to figure this out because they were microscopic silicon lifeforms, and so were mistaken for parts of the sandy scenery. |
||
** However Federation Terraforming regulation require a planet to be devoid of any trace of life, so not even possible future species might be prevented from evolving naturally. |
** However Federation Terraforming regulation require a planet to be devoid of any trace of life, so not even possible future species might be prevented from evolving naturally. |
||
* ''[[Star Trek Enterprise |
* ''[[Star Trek: Enterprise|Star Trek Enterprise]]'' has Mars terraforming in-progress. They had the atmosphere thickened enough to allow people on the surface without pressurized suits, and that's about it. By 2155 you still need oxygen tanks and thick clothing to stay alive. |
||
* ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' has two whole galaxies full of planets terraformed by the [[Precursors|Ancients]] and the Goa'uld, complete with [[Transplanted Humans]]. |
* ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' has two whole galaxies full of planets terraformed by the [[Precursors|Ancients]] and the Goa'uld, complete with [[Transplanted Humans]]. |
||
** They also had a "pyroforming" species, similar to the Andromeda example above. |
** They also had a "pyroforming" species, similar to the Andromeda example above. |
||
*** Except these were [[Actual Pacifist|Actual Pacifists]], who wouldn't fight back when they were attacked by the Goa'uld. They have no problems "pyroforming" a world fill with plant and animal life, though. |
*** Except these were [[Actual Pacifist|Actual Pacifists]], who wouldn't fight back when they were attacked by the Goa'uld. They have no problems "pyroforming" a world fill with plant and animal life, though. |
||
* ''[[ |
* ''[[Red Dwarf]]'' did it twice, both due to Rimmer and both resulting in complete catastrophe. |
||
** The first episode, "Terrorform", was based on a sentient moon which formed itself based on the psyche of those who landed -- and it's long been established that Rimmer's psyche is not a good place to be... |
** The first episode, "Terrorform", was based on a sentient moon which formed itself based on the psyche of those who landed -- and it's long been established that Rimmer's psyche is not a good place to be... |
||
{{quote| '''Dave Lister:''' Remember, it's Rimmer's mind out there. Expect sickness.}} |
{{quote| '''Dave Lister:''' Remember, it's Rimmer's mind out there. Expect sickness.}} |
||
| Line 131: | Line 131: | ||
** Let's not forget about various asteroids, moons and the caves on Mercury. |
** Let's not forget about various asteroids, moons and the caves on Mercury. |
||
* In the ''Centauri Knights'' setting for ''[[BESM]],'' the planet being colonized has had its ecosystem wiped clean to the bedrock by [[Nanomachines]] made by the natives. The native ecosystem survives on a couple of still-working, but unoccupied, space habitats near the planet. One of the conflicts in the game's politics is: do we terraform the planet into a new Earth, rebuild its own ecosystem by transplanting from the colonies, leave it a barren desert and mine it for technology, or abandon it and go home? |
* In the ''Centauri Knights'' setting for ''[[BESM]],'' the planet being colonized has had its ecosystem wiped clean to the bedrock by [[Nanomachines]] made by the natives. The native ecosystem survives on a couple of still-working, but unoccupied, space habitats near the planet. One of the conflicts in the game's politics is: do we terraform the planet into a new Earth, rebuild its own ecosystem by transplanting from the colonies, leave it a barren desert and mine it for technology, or abandon it and go home? |
||
* In ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh]]'', there's a card called [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Terraforming "Terraforming"] that lets you search your deck for a field card. You literally make the environment more friendly to your creatures -- whether human, beast, angel, demon, crystals, etc. |
* In ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'', there's a card called [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Terraforming "Terraforming"] that lets you search your deck for a field card. You literally make the environment more friendly to your creatures -- whether human, beast, angel, demon, crystals, etc. |
||
* In ''[[Warhammer 40000]]'' this is done by two factions, and inverted by a third. |
* In ''[[Warhammer 40000]]'' this is done by two factions, and inverted by a third. |
||
** The Imperium either terraforms any worlds it settles that are not already inabitable by humans, or turns them into [[Single Biome Planet|polluted hyper-urban hive worlds]]. |
** The Imperium either terraforms any worlds it settles that are not already inabitable by humans, or turns them into [[Single Biome Planet|polluted hyper-urban hive worlds]]. |
||
| Line 149: | Line 149: | ||
** It turns out this isn't terraforming, it's just a massive mining operation. Tiberium sucks up all resources, then the Scrin collect the Tiberium and go home. They wouldn't have shown up yet, but Kane tricked them into arriving early. |
** It turns out this isn't terraforming, it's just a massive mining operation. Tiberium sucks up all resources, then the Scrin collect the Tiberium and go home. They wouldn't have shown up yet, but Kane tricked them into arriving early. |
||
** Its also an effective [[Depopulation Bomb]]. Tiberium devastates the environment and disrupts ecosystems, causing widespread famine and sickness. At the same time, it offers the native population plentiful resources to manufacture equipment and weaponry. Intense social pressures + massive availability of material to construct weapons = total implosion of the local population and devastating wars that crush the remainder of civilization. Generally, by the time the Scrin arrive, the locals have wiped themselves out or been killed off by the transformation of their planet. |
** Its also an effective [[Depopulation Bomb]]. Tiberium devastates the environment and disrupts ecosystems, causing widespread famine and sickness. At the same time, it offers the native population plentiful resources to manufacture equipment and weaponry. Intense social pressures + massive availability of material to construct weapons = total implosion of the local population and devastating wars that crush the remainder of civilization. Generally, by the time the Scrin arrive, the locals have wiped themselves out or been killed off by the transformation of their planet. |
||
* ''[[Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri |
* ''[[Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri|Sid Meiers Alpha Centauri]]'' has terraforming as a big part of the gameplay, even allowing you to decide how much you want to incorporate the native environment (which is a good idea, because this environment [[Genius Loci|fights]] [[Death World|back]]!). |
||
* ''[[Freelancer]]'' has no terraformed planets, but instead has ''terraforming'' planets like California Minor. It also shows a little bit of the process with Planetform, Inc., the company that handles terraforming operations, and by letting you trade stuff like terraforming gases, alien organisms that eat carbon dioxide and release oxygen, and H-Fuel to power these operations. The game also features the Gaians, a rebel faction of [[Well-Intentioned Extremist|Well Intentioned Extremists]] who firmly believe that terraforming is the same as ecocide. |
* ''[[Freelancer]]'' has no terraformed planets, but instead has ''terraforming'' planets like California Minor. It also shows a little bit of the process with Planetform, Inc., the company that handles terraforming operations, and by letting you trade stuff like terraforming gases, alien organisms that eat carbon dioxide and release oxygen, and H-Fuel to power these operations. The game also features the Gaians, a rebel faction of [[Well-Intentioned Extremist|Well Intentioned Extremists]] who firmly believe that terraforming is the same as ecocide. |
||
** Not that all these efforts are successful. A Planetform NPC in Bretonia mentions that the efforts to terraform a planet in Bretonian borders has had mixed results. Although habitable, the planet is mentioned to be suffering from bouts of extreme weather and the NPC mentions it ''will'' revert to its original state as soon as Planetform packs up and leaves. |
** Not that all these efforts are successful. A Planetform NPC in Bretonia mentions that the efforts to terraform a planet in Bretonian borders has had mixed results. Although habitable, the planet is mentioned to be suffering from bouts of extreme weather and the NPC mentions it ''will'' revert to its original state as soon as Planetform packs up and leaves. |
||
| Line 157: | Line 157: | ||
* The third game in the ''UFO'' series, ''Afterlight'' has this as much of the point. Humans, forced off of Earth, travel to Mars to create another habitable planet. Terraforming technology very slowly changes the red planet to a blue and green planet in real-time, and tactical combat maps change from red and deadly to green and (relatively) safe. In fact, if you fail to start the terraformation process shortly after the beginning of the game, the environmental hostility will quickly go out of control, and your space suits will not protect you. The terraformation is also shown in "stages", with the dead, red planet as stage 1, small "plant" organisms and cacti as stage 2, and the appearance of water and more complex organisms as stage 3. |
* The third game in the ''UFO'' series, ''Afterlight'' has this as much of the point. Humans, forced off of Earth, travel to Mars to create another habitable planet. Terraforming technology very slowly changes the red planet to a blue and green planet in real-time, and tactical combat maps change from red and deadly to green and (relatively) safe. In fact, if you fail to start the terraformation process shortly after the beginning of the game, the environmental hostility will quickly go out of control, and your space suits will not protect you. The terraformation is also shown in "stages", with the dead, red planet as stage 1, small "plant" organisms and cacti as stage 2, and the appearance of water and more complex organisms as stage 3. |
||
* Terraforming Mars is mentioned in ''[[Doom]] 3.'' You have to go outside a few times, [[Oxygen Meter|and you can last only a few minutes]]. |
* Terraforming Mars is mentioned in ''[[Doom]] 3.'' You have to go outside a few times, [[Oxygen Meter|and you can last only a few minutes]]. |
||
* In the first two ''[[ |
* In the first two ''[[Master of Orion]]'' games, terraforming goes on for much of the game. Together with the tech for planetary gravity generators, radiation shields, enriching biospheres and ''installing'' biospheres, it's possible to transform an empire into a verdant garden where previously inhospitable planets have between three and fifteen times their original population limits. In the second game it's then possible to fashion asteroid belts and gas giants into new planets and terraform them as well. It's great fun for [[Video Game Caring Potential|those who get attached]], and well out of place in games of galactic politics and warfare where genocide is what's for dinner. The third game has ''[[Spore]]'' -- like circles and something about "Terra approxima". |
||
** Interestingly, despite the ability to take a gas giant, squeeze it into a rock, and turn that rock into a lush world, you can't de-toxify a planet. Possibly, an oversight on the part of the creators. The only alternative is to [[Earthshattering Kaboom|destroy the planet]] with a [[Wave Motion Gun|Stellar Converter]] and then rebuild it into a world of your liking. |
** Interestingly, despite the ability to take a gas giant, squeeze it into a rock, and turn that rock into a lush world, you can't de-toxify a planet. Possibly, an oversight on the part of the creators. The only alternative is to [[Earthshattering Kaboom|destroy the planet]] with a [[Wave Motion Gun|Stellar Converter]] and then rebuild it into a world of your liking. |
||
* ''[[Galactic Civilizations]] 2'' gave various levels of terraforming, which would each make a planet slightly more habitable. In the later expansions, planets with extreme conditions were introduced which required special technology to be researched even to colonize. |
* ''[[Galactic Civilizations]] 2'' gave various levels of terraforming, which would each make a planet slightly more habitable. In the later expansions, planets with extreme conditions were introduced which required special technology to be researched even to colonize. |
||
* The old [[ |
* The old [[4X]] game ''Ascendancy'' had terraforming as something that could be done only after discovering a fairly high-level technology. In this game, all territory considered of "squares", which could be different colors, each color corresponding to its suitability to different tasks (green for prosperity, red for industrial, for example). Black squares were uninhabitable (except to one species) unless terraformed. Further, the Lush Growth Bomb project increased the maximum population of a planet. |
||
* Very mild degrees of terraforming take place in ''[[Mass Effect]]'', as the process is noted to be extremely expensive. Generally, the various species just look for planets that can sustain their biologies naturally, which are few and far between. |
* Very mild degrees of terraforming take place in ''[[Mass Effect]]'', as the process is noted to be extremely expensive. Generally, the various species just look for planets that can sustain their biologies naturally, which are few and far between. |
||
* Present in ''[[Spore]],'' where using various upgrades to your starship, or purchasing other, various, one-shot machines, you can improve the "T-score" of a planet (which range from T-0 to T-3), which allows it to sustain life better, which, in turn, allows you to plunder it for more Spice to sell. {{spoiler|It can also be used to kill all Grox on a planet by raising the T-score to at least 1.}} Colonized planets can only sustain a number of settlements equal to the T-score. T-0 planets can be claimed by placing a colony, but they will not be able to produce any spice until the atmospheric conditions are improved and then a basic ecology is introduced, establishing a T-score of at least T-1. |
* Present in ''[[Spore]],'' where using various upgrades to your starship, or purchasing other, various, one-shot machines, you can improve the "T-score" of a planet (which range from T-0 to T-3), which allows it to sustain life better, which, in turn, allows you to plunder it for more Spice to sell. {{spoiler|It can also be used to kill all Grox on a planet by raising the T-score to at least 1.}} Colonized planets can only sustain a number of settlements equal to the T-score. T-0 planets can be claimed by placing a colony, but they will not be able to produce any spice until the atmospheric conditions are improved and then a basic ecology is introduced, establishing a T-score of at least T-1. |
||
** It's also possible to deterraform a planet, lowering the T-score, reducing its habitability and extincting its indigenous lifeforms. Doing this on a foreign planet is considered an act of war (while improving a foreign planet's T-score can earn you their gratitude). It is, however, one of the simplest strategies for wiping out or conquering the home-world of a hostile race before your ship has top-tier weaponry available. Home-worlds are almost always T-3s with extra settlements (as many as 10 fully defended sites with fleets of defending ships). Using terraformer tools to lower the T-Score even a single level will wipe out almost all the settlements, leaving the place far more vulnerable to conquest or extermination and recolonization. |
** It's also possible to deterraform a planet, lowering the T-score, reducing its habitability and extincting its indigenous lifeforms. Doing this on a foreign planet is considered an act of war (while improving a foreign planet's T-score can earn you their gratitude). It is, however, one of the simplest strategies for wiping out or conquering the home-world of a hostile race before your ship has top-tier weaponry available. Home-worlds are almost always T-3s with extra settlements (as many as 10 fully defended sites with fleets of defending ships). Using terraformer tools to lower the T-Score even a single level will wipe out almost all the settlements, leaving the place far more vulnerable to conquest or extermination and recolonization. |
||
* ''[[Star Fox ( |
* ''[[Star Fox (series)|Star Fox]]:'' Andross apparently planned to terraform Venom, a rather barren planet with acidic oceans. In ''Command'', this becomes central to the better endings since these oceans are also the home of the hostile Anglar. In 2 endings, his invention is used successfully and causes Venom to be as fertile as Corneria. |
||
* The simulation game ''Outpost'' had terraform-buildings available in the late game. Of course, it took an inordinate number of turns for them to complete their job, and successful terraforming provided no real benefit over the life-support buildings you had since Turn 1. |
* The simulation game ''Outpost'' had terraform-buildings available in the late game. Of course, it took an inordinate number of turns for them to complete their job, and successful terraforming provided no real benefit over the life-support buildings you had since Turn 1. |
||
** ''[[Outpost 2]]'', in its [[Genre Shift]] to real-time strategy, made terraforming into the ''cause'' for the game's plot -- a huge increase of natural disasters and the unleashing of an all-consuming biological nightmare likely to be [[The End of the World |
** ''[[Outpost 2]]'', in its [[Genre Shift]] to real-time strategy, made terraforming into the ''cause'' for the game's plot -- a huge increase of natural disasters and the unleashing of an all-consuming biological nightmare likely to be [[The End of the World as We Know It]]. Second world, that is -- Earth was already gone by that time. |
||
* ''[[Perimeter]]'' has terraforming as important game mechanic. Not so much terraform the whole planet as local area, but idea's the same. |
* ''[[Perimeter]]'' has terraforming as important game mechanic. Not so much terraform the whole planet as local area, but idea's the same. |
||
* The [[Machines]]' primary function before they get into a war. |
* The [[Machines]]' primary function before they get into a war. |
||
* In ''[[Imperium Galactica]] II'' you can use Genesis-type devices on planets that explosively terraform them to your civilization's needs. |
* In ''[[Imperium Galactica]] II'' you can use Genesis-type devices on planets that explosively terraform them to your civilization's needs. |
||
* Another [[ |
* Another [[4X]] game, ''[[Sword of the Stars]]'', has terraforming as a mandatory part of colonization. You can get techs that boost terraforming speed and the range of environments that are cost-effective to terraform, though some planets will always remain out of reach. However, since up to five different races can live on a planet at a time, all with different ecological backgrounds, sometimes some population juggling is necessary. It's possible for a race to colonize planets that are completely inhospitable to another - and conquering these planets ''instantly'' pops their habitability zone right to yours (when using assimilation plague missiles). Useful when most planets are hostile. |
||
* The "aliens" in ''[[Hostile Waters]]'' embark on a great xenoforming project of Earth itself, starting with Greenland. Given that they are, in part, living universal constructors, it becomes of vital importance to stop them. |
* The "aliens" in ''[[Hostile Waters]]'' embark on a great xenoforming project of Earth itself, starting with Greenland. Given that they are, in part, living universal constructors, it becomes of vital importance to stop them. |
||
* ''Haegemonia'' has terraforming capabilities for all races. Planets can be sorted into four groups: for humans, the first group is gaia/terran/oceanic (can be colonized from the start), the second is forest/swamp/desert/arctic/plains/volcanic/rocky (needs research), the third is barren/acidic (needs more research) while the final one is gas (uninhabitable). Kariaks and Darzoks have different qualifications; for example, both like barren. If it's not good enough, it can be terraformed once which improves the quality of the planet; once the next level is researched, it can be terraformed again. For example, level 1 human terraforming can turn plains into forest while level 3 instantly pushes any planet to oceanic/terran. In the expansion ''The Solon Heritage'', spies can actually '''reverse-terraform''', causing an ecological catastrophe (talk about overkill...). |
* ''Haegemonia'' has terraforming capabilities for all races. Planets can be sorted into four groups: for humans, the first group is gaia/terran/oceanic (can be colonized from the start), the second is forest/swamp/desert/arctic/plains/volcanic/rocky (needs research), the third is barren/acidic (needs more research) while the final one is gas (uninhabitable). Kariaks and Darzoks have different qualifications; for example, both like barren. If it's not good enough, it can be terraformed once which improves the quality of the planet; once the next level is researched, it can be terraformed again. For example, level 1 human terraforming can turn plains into forest while level 3 instantly pushes any planet to oceanic/terran. In the expansion ''The Solon Heritage'', spies can actually '''reverse-terraform''', causing an ecological catastrophe (talk about overkill...). |
||
* ''[[Final Fantasy IV the After Years]]'' reveals that the Four Elemental Crystals that show up in so many games of that series are actually terraforming implements. They're a bit less reliable than slower methods though, given that their terraforming effects tend to wear off once they're removed or destroyed. |
* ''[[Final Fantasy IV the After Years]]'' reveals that the Four Elemental Crystals that show up in so many games of that series are actually terraforming implements. They're a bit less reliable than slower methods though, given that their terraforming effects tend to wear off once they're removed or destroyed. |
||
* Egosoft's ''[[X ( |
* Egosoft's ''[[X (video game)|X-Universe]]'' games have terraforming as the event that started the whole series. After a ''[[AI Is a Crapshoot|glitched software update]]'', the machines that man had sent out to terraform the system started terraforming ''everything'', including inhabited planets and ships. Mankind fights back, the terraformers swat them out of the way, and all seems lost until they're tricked into moving en masse to a distant part of the universe -- which they promptly start terraforming as well. |
||
* ''[[Escape Velocity]]'': [[Broad Strokes|In these games]], Mars was always the first planet to be terraformed. And it always [[Gone Horribly Wrong|went very, very wrong]], and the next few hundred years are spent trying to fix the mess. |
* ''[[Escape Velocity]]'': [[Broad Strokes|In these games]], Mars was always the first planet to be terraformed. And it always [[Gone Horribly Wrong|went very, very wrong]], and the next few hundred years are spent trying to fix the mess. |
||
** ''EV Nova'' also lets you see somebody get terraforming right in one quest line. And the [[Higher-Tech Species|Polaris]] have largely mastered it, with several planets listed as terraformed in the "communicate with planet" dialog box. |
** ''EV Nova'' also lets you see somebody get terraforming right in one quest line. And the [[Higher-Tech Species|Polaris]] have largely mastered it, with several planets listed as terraformed in the "communicate with planet" dialog box. |
||
| Line 181: | Line 181: | ||
** Fallout 3 featured one side-quest involving a mutated tree and it's offspring which are (thankfully) non-hostile and thriving in the wasteland. A small cult has sprung up around worshipping this tree and they believe it may eventually ''re''-terraform the entire planet (or at least the DC area) into a state more capable of sustaining life and human populations. |
** Fallout 3 featured one side-quest involving a mutated tree and it's offspring which are (thankfully) non-hostile and thriving in the wasteland. A small cult has sprung up around worshipping this tree and they believe it may eventually ''re''-terraform the entire planet (or at least the DC area) into a state more capable of sustaining life and human populations. |
||
* ''Star Wars: The Gungan Frontier'' has the player setting up a complete ecosystem on one of Naboo's moons so the Gungans can colonize it. |
* ''Star Wars: The Gungan Frontier'' has the player setting up a complete ecosystem on one of Naboo's moons so the Gungans can colonize it. |
||
* In ''[[Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds |
* In ''[[Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds]]'', much like the novel, the Martians engage in xenoforming with their red weed. |
||
* ''[[ |
* ''[[Champions Online]]'' features as a mid-level quest chain fights against the froglike Gadroon who are seeking to Xenoform Earth into a much warmer, swampier habitat -- starting in the middle of Canada. |
||
* ''[[Lost Planet]]'', though the original plan for making E.D.N. III hospitable would have fried the Akrids and more importantly the colonists already on the planet. |
* ''[[Lost Planet]]'', though the original plan for making E.D.N. III hospitable would have fried the Akrids and more importantly the colonists already on the planet. |
||
* ''[[Video Game/Sim Earth|Sim Earth]]'' has terraforming machines for its Mars and Venus scenarios. |
* ''[[Video Game/Sim Earth|Sim Earth]]'' has terraforming machines for its Mars and Venus scenarios. |
||
| Line 188: | Line 188: | ||
== Web Comics == |
== Web Comics == |
||
* ''[[ |
* ''[[Freefall]]'' is set on an alien world which is in the process of being terraformed. |
||
* ''[[ |
* ''[[A Miracle of Science]]'' has a terraformed Mars that has become a [[Hive Mind]] of post-human and AI inhabitants. |
||
** They also terraformed Venus and Europa to give the rest of [[The Singularity|pre-singularity]] Humanity more places to live. In the case of Mars and Venus the process is still ongoing: Venus is [[Cyberpunk |
** They also terraformed Venus and Europa to give the rest of [[The Singularity|pre-singularity]] Humanity more places to live. In the case of Mars and Venus the process is still ongoing: Venus is [[Cyberpunk with a Chance of Rain|constantly raining]], while one character (a Martian of course) works on a project to restart Mars' plate tectonics and make the atmosphere self-sustaining. |
||
* In ''[[The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob]],'' [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Butane, the planet of dragons]] is a terraformed world in the Kuiper Belt. [http://bobadventures.comicgenesis.com/d/20100109.html Jolly the Giantess] has been given the job of helping to maintain it. |
* In ''[[The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob]],'' [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Butane, the planet of dragons]] is a terraformed world in the Kuiper Belt. [http://bobadventures.comicgenesis.com/d/20100109.html Jolly the Giantess] has been given the job of helping to maintain it. |
||
* In ''[[ |
* In ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'' Mars, Venus, Europa, and Luna (Earth's moon) have all been terraformed. |
||
** This becomes a plot point when they visit a planet which hasn't introduced many oceanic species because its economy is based on tourism and ocean resorts. There are a few deaths which look like shark attacks, and the first suggestion offered by a character is that someone made a robotic shark with a robotic jaw to murder people. |
** This becomes a plot point when they visit a planet which hasn't introduced many oceanic species because its economy is based on tourism and ocean resorts. There are a few deaths which look like shark attacks, and the first suggestion offered by a character is that someone made a robotic shark with a robotic jaw to murder people. |
||
* ''[[Far Out There]]'' uses this to explain its habitable planets (as well as why [http://faroutthere.smackjeeves.com/comics/1027072/page-5-dun-dun-duuuun/ Trigger grew up in an underground bunker]) |
* ''[[Far Out There]]'' uses this to explain its habitable planets (as well as why [http://faroutthere.smackjeeves.com/comics/1027072/page-5-dun-dun-duuuun/ Trigger grew up in an underground bunker]) |
||
* In ''[[The Cyantian Chronicles|Campus Safari]]'' the Cyantians are terraforming Mars and Venus as gifts for humanity when they make [[First Contact]]. Their colony on Mars doubles as a [[Wacky College]]. |
* In ''[[The Cyantian Chronicles|Campus Safari]]'' the Cyantians are terraforming Mars and Venus as gifts for humanity when they make [[First Contact]]. Their colony on Mars doubles as a [[Wacky College]]. |
||
* In ''[[ |
* In ''[[Homestuck]]'', {{spoiler|[[Beethoven Was an Alien Spy|Betty Crocker]] }} tries making Earth more like her homeworld Alternia, introducing Alternian life and flooding the planet. |
||
** She also tries to subvert human culture to more closely resemble her species', but it fails miserably because of basic biological differences (''really'' basic differences). Her attempts to genetically alter humans to use the Alternian [[Love Dodecahedron|mode of reproduction]] and [[Fantastic Racism|blood castes]] results in complete extinction. |
** She also tries to subvert human culture to more closely resemble her species', but it fails miserably because of basic biological differences (''really'' basic differences). Her attempts to genetically alter humans to use the Alternian [[Love Dodecahedron|mode of reproduction]] and [[Fantastic Racism|blood castes]] results in complete extinction. |
||
| Line 204: | Line 204: | ||
** In some continuities Unicron was originally created as a quick and dirty terraforming engine by an alien named Primacron. He was meant to eat lifeless rocks and shit out planets suitable for habitation, but he decided to skip step two and absorbed planets of any kind into himself to increase his power. |
** In some continuities Unicron was originally created as a quick and dirty terraforming engine by an alien named Primacron. He was meant to eat lifeless rocks and shit out planets suitable for habitation, but he decided to skip step two and absorbed planets of any kind into himself to increase his power. |
||
* In ''[[Exo Squad]],'' Mars and Venus were terraformed. This is a key part of the [[Backstory]], since it's the job the exoframes and Neo Sapiens were invented for. |
* In ''[[Exo Squad]],'' Mars and Venus were terraformed. This is a key part of the [[Backstory]], since it's the job the exoframes and Neo Sapiens were invented for. |
||
* In ''[[ |
* In ''[[Aqua Teen Hunger Force]]'', the crappy clone of Master Shake made by the Plutonians is sent to Earth to "de-terraform" it. This plan is not well thought out. Not only does the clone not feel obligated to do so, it has no idea what "de-terraform" means, or how he'd do it, or if it is in fact a real word. |
||
* Mars has been terraformed in ''[[ |
* Mars has been terraformed in ''[[Futurama]]'', as explained in the opening quote. Later episodes, however, show that much of the planet is still desert. Oddly enough, the native Martians that still live there don't seem to have any negative effects from the wholesale transformation of the atmosphere. |
||
* In the ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'' episode "Moon Farm", the main characters decide to terraform the moon so that they can take cows there, and make the best ice-cream ever, [[Makes Just |
* In the ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'' episode "Moon Farm", the main characters decide to terraform the moon so that they can take cows there, and make the best ice-cream ever, [[Makes Just as Much Sense in Context|as detailed in the lost sacred stanza of "The Cow Jumped Over The Moon".]] |
||