' Wrote:About planetform. 1: I don't think there should be more terraforming projects than there are. They likely cost trillions, and take hundreds of years.
That's four bases, where Planetform is actively engaged in doing terraforming, each in a different stage. In Bretonia, there are some very late stage planets, Ayer and Harris...these should be buying for rather a lot things like fertilizers, alien organizms (and new commodities, plants and bacteriums). Their exports, other than possible waste products, I cannot imagine. The Liberty terraforming should involve moving Oxy, Water, and terraforming gasses, and probably high ammounts of HFuel to the worlds. Again, exports toxic waste.
The biggest problem is of course the fact that terraformed planets are themselves products...they don't exactly produce things.
Perhaps Scientist? As the terraforming project winds down, the scientists and other civilians would leave the planet so colonists can start replacing them. Also, why is the planet being terraformed in the first place? Sell some mined resources or whatever the planet is known for. (or should be known for)
I would think that terraforming planets would need plenty of gold as well in order to protect the new atmosphere from cosmic rays. (Which could be an interesting route from Dublin, do I smell BMM partnership?)
"The thirteen saloons that had lined the one street of Seney had not left a trace. The foundations of the Mansion House hotel stuck up above the ground. The stone was chipped and split by the fire. It was all that was left of the town of Seney. Even the surface had been burned off the ground.
Nick looked at the burned-over stretch of hillside, where he had expected to find the scattered houses of the town and then walked down the railroad track to the bridge over the river. The river was there."
