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ENHANCED TERRAFORMING FOR BIOLOGICAL PLANETS

by Hazed

When a Founder founds a star system, the main planet in the system undergoes limited terraforming to make it nominally habitable. The work is carried out by Slarti's boys, girls and things, operating from their huge hollow asteroid Magrathea on the fringes of Sol space. The exact nature of the work done on new planets varies depending on the basic conditions of the world and the needs of the Founder, but it generally only covers a fraction of the available area on the planet. Anything more would be much too expensive and would put everything out of the reach of even the richest Financiers.

All of the infrastructure builds that you POs carry out on your worlds are confined to the terraformed area: canals, biodiversity, floating cities and so on can't be built unless the basic conditions are right.

However, the biological economic level opens up new possibilities, and one of those is enhanced terraforming, the chance to finish the job that Slarti started. Using advanced techniques only available to bio and leisure worlds, you can convert the remaining part of the planet so it can be fully exploited. This allows your population to expand, thus providing more workthings.

You can see the full details of the enhanced terraforming build in the Idiot's Guide.

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