Ax: <The Yeerks would take our world and make it as barren as their own. As they will to your planet unless they are stopped.>
Cassie: What... what are you saying? What do you mean about making the planet barren?
Ax: <The usual Yeerk pattern. Once a planet is under their control, they alter it to suit their own desires. They will leave enough plant and animal species to keep the host bodies fed - humans in the case of Earth - and the rest they eliminate.>
Cassie: What... what are you saying? What do you mean about making the planet barren?
Ax: <The usual Yeerk pattern. Once a planet is under their control, they alter it to suit their own desires. They will leave enough plant and animal species to keep the host bodies fed - humans in the case of Earth - and the rest they eliminate.>
—Animorphs #4: The Message
By the end of the Dark Crusade, Kronus was a tomb world once more. Just as the marching Necron armies cut down all their opponents, so did other fiendish devices work on the planet's very ecosystem: scarab swarms scoured the lush jungles of the south and the fertile plains of the north, while pulses of loathsome energy killed even microscopic bacteria. The seas died and the air itself became rarefied and poisoned. Soon, sterile sand and dust swept across the Kronusian landscape, broken only by black monuments to the Nightbringer.
—The Necron Ending, Dawn of War: Dark Crusade
Lucius: Pyrovilia is lost. But there is heat enough in this world for a new species to rise!
The Doctor: Yeah, I should warn you, it's 70% water out there.
Lucius: Water can boil, AND EVERYTHING WILL BURN, DOCTOR!
The Doctor: Yeah, I should warn you, it's 70% water out there.
Lucius: Water can boil, AND EVERYTHING WILL BURN, DOCTOR!
"She may have spawned a new subspecies, evolved to reshape, if not eradicate existing ecosystems according to their own needs. It's a tactic employed by all invasive species, including humans. Why find an empty niche to inhabit when you can carve out your own?"
— Emma Russell on the MUTOs, Godzilla: Aftershock
Sinclair, First Officer's log entry two-zero-three-two-kappa. The air is changing in composition. Radiation levels are shifting, altering in frequency and power. Something's growing in the rocks. The ground is scabbing over, shuddering with intense fungal infection. It's freezing. Humans couldn't live in an environment like this. Oh... God... That's the point!
— Sinclair, Hostile Waters: Antaeus Rising
Zod skimmed through it and saw the usual readings. Atmospheric composition, geological elements, temperature and weather conditions. But as Zod continued reading, he realized what his scientist was so interested in. By itself any one of these readings was irrelevant but taken together they showed a world that truly perfect for Kryptonians to settle on. Add the nurturing radiation provided by the local star and you have the best prospect for terraforming. No wonder Jor-El sent his son here. This was world was perfect for them to start anew and with the codex they could do just that.
Emil Hamilton: Oh my God. They're terraforming!
Calvin Swanwick: Turning Earth into Krypton.
Carrie Farris: But what happens to us?
Emil Hamilton: Based on these readings, there won't be an us.
Calvin Swanwick: Turning Earth into Krypton.
Carrie Farris: But what happens to us?
Emil Hamilton: Based on these readings, there won't be an us.
Zero: The planet has been terraforming around us.
Rok-Tahk: It's trying to scare us?
Gwyn: No. Terraforming. It means the planet is changing. Usually to become more habitable. But in this case, it's sending us in circles.
Rok-Tahk: It's trying to scare us?
Gwyn: No. Terraforming. It means the planet is changing. Usually to become more habitable. But in this case, it's sending us in circles.
— Star Trek: Prodigy, "Terror Firma"
McCoy: What if this thingnote were used were life already exists?
Spock: It would destroy such life in favor of its new matrix.
Spock: It would destroy such life in favor of its new matrix.
The end of the Earth began in the autumn of 1933. It was first observed in the jungles of the Philippines, but quickly spread to Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and India. By the end of that year, it was in Australia and Africa. By the autumn of the next, it was everywhere. No one of that era had the tools or the knowledge to understand what was happening. It was described as a virus, a plague, a kind of strange new mutation, or a punishment from God.
The first report from the League of Nations labelled it an 'unnatural outgrowth', but there was nothing that could capture the unprecedented nature of the surreal, eldritch process that was taking place. From Brazil to the Solomon Islands, Earth's rainforests were being devoured. In the outgrowths, ecosystems that had survived for millions of years were quickly being replaced by inexplicable forms of life without any parallel in the natural world. No expedition survived more than a few days in the new environments that were emerging in the outgrowths. Recovered journals and last transmissions described swarms of exotic insects and arachnids, tentacled monstrosities, and other horrors, all hidden within a dense fog as noxious as mustard gas. But it was the lights that were the most intriguing and concerning: deeply beautiful melodies of color that burned as brightly as the sun, piercing through the mists from somewhere deep within.
The first report from the League of Nations labelled it an 'unnatural outgrowth', but there was nothing that could capture the unprecedented nature of the surreal, eldritch process that was taking place. From Brazil to the Solomon Islands, Earth's rainforests were being devoured. In the outgrowths, ecosystems that had survived for millions of years were quickly being replaced by inexplicable forms of life without any parallel in the natural world. No expedition survived more than a few days in the new environments that were emerging in the outgrowths. Recovered journals and last transmissions described swarms of exotic insects and arachnids, tentacled monstrosities, and other horrors, all hidden within a dense fog as noxious as mustard gas. But it was the lights that were the most intriguing and concerning: deeply beautiful melodies of color that burned as brightly as the sun, piercing through the mists from somewhere deep within.
