Irrational bunch of moderately high hippies with a glorified sense of mission and self-importance?
How can you not love that?
I hope this gets going well, Gaians are always interesting to meet because you never knew what to expect, partly due almost no vanilla lore, partly due to very different level of radicalism gaian characters have.
So I see you've decided to go full hostile to Cryer as well. That's all fine and logical, due to the nasty medical things that are done to gaian fauna on regular basis "for the greater good". Yet the origin of gaians is somewhat CRI, so I'd think there might be some difference in opinions among gaians regarding that.
What about Harris? It's kind of next-door to Edinburgh, and quite a stronghold of Planetform. And it's a fair deal closer to both Edinburgh and to the end of Terraforming than California Minor.
Oh, and Curacao? Considering gaians hate a single liner orbiting a planet, an entire planet of resorts is probably one's worst nightmare. Or has it been given up already?