Given the massive technological improvements of societies in transcendence, would not terraforming be a viable option? I mean, they did it with mars (or started anyways) back before the syrtian war and that was with far inferior technology.
Currently as I far as I know, the only habitable worlds in transcendence in the QZ are Earth (damaged by bombardment during the war, but still inhabited), and Incandescent(?) - the inhabited earth-like world in st.k's system. Mars was apparently at least somewhat habitable until earth/cw forces nuked it into oblivion in retaliation.
For that matter, there appears to be very little in the way of even colonized planets.
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I think that Ares Prime may be terraformed too.
TheLastBrunnenG wrote:Rumor: "The Light brought me a dream, not long after you arrived. I dreamt that I floated above all the stars of Humanity. I saw the fortresses of the Huari and the stations of the Commonwealth and the evil citadels of the Sung. I even saw Earth and the red-green world of Ares Prime.But every world I saw and every place I looked was devoid of life. Only the ruins and ashes of our lives remained. It was as if a blinding fire had cleansed the universe of us and all our works.” [spoken by Huari High Priest Apotamo]
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A culture that lives mainly in space might not see terraforming as being worthwhile, for the most part. Perhaps it's not so much that they can't do it but rather that they don't see a reason to.
Why build a new world in a deep gravity well, embarking on a process which might take centuries or more, when you can build a new world out of space habitats, which can be built small or big, expanded gradually, and with little limit to growth? You'd still colonize an Earthlike planet when you found one since it's there, and maybe occasionally terraform a somewhat Earthlike world, but otherwise it'd be easier to stay up in space.
Why build a new world in a deep gravity well, embarking on a process which might take centuries or more, when you can build a new world out of space habitats, which can be built small or big, expanded gradually, and with little limit to growth? You'd still colonize an Earthlike planet when you found one since it's there, and maybe occasionally terraform a somewhat Earthlike world, but otherwise it'd be easier to stay up in space.