Patch ArcanaThis is your reminder that any geoengineering technology with the potential to terraform a world could also be used to restore the equilibrium of this one.
That's not to say you should never terraforming things I'm just a big fan of "put the fires out before you start building the new cabin" as a general rule of work ordering.
mos_8502 
🇨🇦@patcharcana Yeah but the people selling terraforming fantasies also want to burn down the earth and save only their chosen people.
@mos_8502 There's a reason Ecliptic Mariner's mars is a workers' union formed after a revolution and it's not just "Well they can't be Space America, Franck and Abraham did that already"
Giacinto Boccia@patcharcana
Who's Mars?
Who's Mars?
@g_boccia Eh, that joke was a little self-referential and probably not actually funny.
I have a setting I'm tinkering with called "Ecliptic Mariner" that happens to have more or less a worker's soviet kind of a thing in charge of mars. It was a dumb thing to say.
@patcharcana
I thought that you were referring to some cool Scy-fi franchise that I couldn't easily identify.
I thought that you were referring to some cool Scy-fi franchise that I couldn't easily identify.
@g_boccia I dunno about cool, but in a way I was.
The setting material (albiet a few weeks behind current) is available: