At management's request, I took a shuttle and a survey team to Gallia to assess the most likely candidates for terraforming. We've done initial surveys of Vienne, Amiens, and Metz. Our findings will be attached to this report.
On a personal note, it feels strange being here after so many years of war. Still, the war is over, and we need to embrace the future or get left behind. Interspace has already moved in, taking over management of Versailles Station, and has made impressive inroads into the Gallic insurance and information markets. This is fortunate, since it's allowed myself and my team to use our corporate account with IC to take care of our expenses while we're here. It also indicates that Gallia is definitely open for business.
Before I get on with my reports, I'd first like to provide an overall impression based on my own surveys and the initial scouting done by Captain Blackburn and her crew. Though we initially had concerns that the end of the war would bring a new competitor for terraforming services into the market, I think we can lay those fears to rest. Though they did a minimally adequate job figuring out how to restart our operations on Harris, it's become clear that they do not possess similar technology or knowledge of their own. In short, they're centuries behind us at best. Gallic terraforming methods have already produced one botched world and they are repeating their failed methods on a second as we speak. Both of these worlds are included in my reports.
Planet Vienne Dauphine, Minarchy of Provence
This planet is a prime candidate for terraforming operations. Vienne's temperature range is currently on the lower end of habitability, roughly in line with New Berlin or Hamburg, though the extreme low tends about 20-30 degrees colder on Vienne than either Rheinland world. Vienne does possess a primitive ecology not entirely unlike the arctic regions of Saarbrucken. Unlike Saarbrucken, however, Vienne's atmospheric oxygen content is far too low to support human life.
Due to Vienne's unsuitable climate and atmosphere, we will need to begin at Stage 1. To bring the planet to a state similar to Anaheim, I estimate a time frame of 40-50 years. Though Vienne is in a better state now than Anaheim was as recently as 20 years ago, the planet lacks Anaheim's unusually vigorous geothermal reserves. We'll need to make up the difference with increased imports of terraforming gasses. To increase local involvement in the project, I recommend assessing native Gallic species for viability in engineering the planet's new biosphere. I would also suggest considering licensing the production of terraforming gasses to local producers, though that of course carries the risk of industrial espionage.
Planet Amiens Picardy, Republic of Gallia
This planet is, to put it mildly, a complete disaster. Amiens is a textbook example of everything that can go wrong in a terraforming operation, the likes of which I've never seen outside of simulations. Instead of a carefully managed introduction of terraforming gasses, they raised the planet's temperature through the unchecked introduction of industrial pollutants. Clearly whatever idiot made that decision was not well versed in pre-exodus history, or else they wouldn't have deliberately tried to recreate Earth's early 21st century climate disaster. Had they studied their history books a little better, what followed would not have come as a surprise.
They were unable to achieve a proper atmospheric balance at the desired temperature range and unchecked warming continues to the present day. Due to rising sea levels, three cities were completely destroyed when their sea walls failed. Additional cities and settlements are expected to flood in the future as the sea level continues to rise. People have relocated inland, and they've taken measures to prevent the loss of any more major cities, but if the disaster remains unchecked, Amiens will be uninhabitable within 150 years. It is not too late to reverse the damage, but the sooner we can begin, the better.
Due to Gallia's botched efforts, it'll be hard to slot this one neatly into our normal three-stage structure. Given that we're stabilising an already altered climate rather than altering it ourselves from scratch, I'd provisionally classify this one at Stage 2. Unfortunately, I must disagree with Captain Blackburn's recommendation on our course of action. Rather than introducing additional gasses into the atmosphere, I would recommend applying the same experimental technology currently in use on our Forres project. Capturing carbon from the atmosphere will help lower the planet's temperature back into an acceptable range, and the oxygen produced as a byproduct can be exported to Viennes. As the temperature drops, the planets ice caps will begin to reform, lowering, or at least stabilising, the sea level and increasing the planet's albedo, lowering the temperature further still.
Planet Metz Lorraine, Grand Duchy of Burgundy
Metz is currently in a habitable state, not unlike New Berlin or Hamburg, and is in fact currently inhabited. As with their earlier project on Amiens, however, they are hoping to make the planet warmer to increase the usable surface area and improve local agriculture. They clearly learned nothing from their earlier attempt Amiens, however, as they are currently in the process of importing large quantities of gasoline and setting it on fire to release carbon into the atmosphere. We will need to intervene and put a stop to this stupidity very soon if we're to avoid another botched terraforming effort.
For this world, I concur with Captain Blackburn's recommendation. As the planet is already habitable and hosts a partial biosphere, we can proceed directly to Stage 2. In place of burning gasoline, I recommend the construction of geothermal towers and the introduction of terraforming gasses, as per standard company procedures. Their use of orbital mirrors to introduce more sunlight is primitive but workable, and I see no reason not to continue using them, if only to avoid wasting invested resources and not make the locals feel like total idiots. Gallic methods of deacidifying the soil through capturing and scrubbing rainwater is inefficient, but may be workable if we supplement it with more advanced methods.
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