Terraforming

[Steve]

This is something I was recently wondering: how would one write up terraforming as a power?

[dmjalund]

This is something I was recently wondering: how would one write up terraforming as a power?

A very large gradual transform of course

[L. Marcus]

Star Hero 5th ed has examples written up as Change Environment.

[DShomshak]

Why would you write it up as a power?

 

SS: Terraforming and a great deal of equipment would seem more appropriate.

 

Perhaps a Base with a lab and a whole lot of territory. (Possibly a whole solar system's worth, if the terraformers are doing things like moving iceteroids from the Kuiper belt to supply a planet with volatiles.)

 

Dean Shomshak

[L. Marcus]

Call it an intellectual exercise.

[Lucius]

Terraforming: (Total: 172 Active Cost, 9 Real Cost) Summon 150-point Base (Planet), Slavishly Devoted (+1), Time Limit (1 Century +, Planets are built to last and last., Once established, the ecosystem should endure for generations if someone doesn't screw it up.; +3 3/4) (172 Active Points); Increased Endurance Cost (x10 END; Energy Intensive (but expended over many years); -4), Extra Time (25 Years, Only to Activate, -3 1/2), 1 Charge (Recovers Under Limited Circumstances; Once committed, can you afford to give up on a planet and try again in another system?; -3), OIF Bulky Unbreakable Expendable (Extremely Difficult to obtain new Focus; Extremely resource-intensive project; -2), Required Multiple Users ([129-256] people; -2), No Conscious Control (Only Effects cannot be controlled; Climate and Ecology find their own balance; -1), Limited Power Only "Task" is to exist as a habitable planet (-1), Summoned Being Must Inhabit Locale (Suitable Star System, Suitable Planet, etc; -1/2), Side Effects (So much could go so wrong; -1/2), Costs Endurance (Only Costs END to Activate; -1/4), Restrainable (Only by means other than Grabs and Entangles; Can be sabotaged; -1/4) (Real Cost: 9)

 

Lucius Alexander

 

Welcome to Planet Palindromedary! Great place to live now but we had to bust our humps to get it like this.

 

edit: This is probably not the best way to do this.....for one thing if 250 people just spent 9 pts directly on a base they could afford a much nicer planet....

[Steve]

Some methods of terraforming are more stable than others. The Genesis Device from Wrath of Khan was what initially got me thinking about it.

[bigdamnhero]

Star Hero 5th ed has examples written up as Change Environment.

It's in 6ed SH too. The assumption there is that terraforming is something that has to be maintained or renewed every century or so. If you're looking for a one-and-done, like the Genesis Device, then Transform is probably the way to go.

[Nolgroth]

I would recommend finding a "How Much Body to Destroy Earth" thread and  change from Killing Attack to Major Transformation (rocky planet to rocky plant suitable for species).  It didn't take long, just a few minutes of screen time, so I might by it as Damage over Time spread out over 5 minutes or something to accurately represent what it did on screen. Good thing Star Trek had Plot Reactors to generate the sheer energy it would take to terraform a planet in just a few minutes. Too bad they never made a Wave Motion Gun for their ships. Or even mass-deployed Genesis devices as cluster torpedoes.