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* ''WesternAnimation/AngelWars'':
** Humans have begun to do this in-universe; one of the robots being smuggled to the moon in one episode was labelled as a terraforming robot.
** Morg attempted to weaponize this: a [[MacGuffin Foundation Stone]] he'd managed to steal back from another demon was stated to contain "the promise of a new world", and he used demonic magic to turn the stone into a ''missile'' that was aimed [[OmnicidalManiac at Earth]]. Arianna managed to sabotage the missile and detonate it while it was still launching from the moon without triggering its terraforming effect.
** Humans have begun to do this in-universe; one of the robots being smuggled to the moon in one episode was labelled as a terraforming robot.
** Morg attempted to weaponize this: a [[MacGuffin Foundation Stone]] he'd managed to steal back from another demon was stated to contain "the promise of a new world", and he used demonic magic to turn the stone into a ''missile'' that was aimed [[OmnicidalManiac at Earth]]. Arianna managed to sabotage the missile and detonate it while it was still launching from the moon without triggering its terraforming effect.
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* ''VideoGame/{{X}}'' has terraforming as the event that started the whole series. The Terraformer fleets at first worked very well, but after a ''[[AIIsACrapshoot glitched software update]]'', the Von Neumann machines that man had sent out to terraform the [[PortalNetwork gate system]] started "[[ColonyDrop terraforming]]" ''everything'', including inhabited planets and ships. Mankind fights back, the Terraformers swat them out of the way, and all seems lost until they're tricked into moving en masse to a distant part of the universe -- which they promptly start "terraforming" as well.[[note]]Planets found in Terraformer-controlled areas are often incapable of supporting life, usually because the Terraformers ruined their environments.[[/note]]
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* ''VideoGame/{{X}}'' has terraforming as the event that started the whole series. The Terraformer fleets at first worked very well, performing terraforming work in years what would have taken humanity centuries to do manually, but after a ''[[AIIsACrapshoot [[AIIsACrapshoot glitched software update]]'', update/possible sabotage]], the Von Neumann machines that man had sent out to terraform the [[PortalNetwork gate system]] started "[[ColonyDrop terraforming]]" ''everything'', including inhabited planets and ships. Mankind fights back, the Terraformers swat them out of the way, and all seems lost until they're tricked into moving en masse to a distant part of the universe -- which they promptly start "terraforming" as well.[[note]]Planets found in Terraformer-controlled areas are often incapable of supporting life, usually because the Terraformers ruined their environments.[[/note]]
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A SpeculativeFiction staple, the act of turning an otherwise human-unfriendly environment into an Earth-like, or "Terra-formed" planet. Narratively, this is done to give the cast a place to go outside the ship (off Earth) that won't require them dressing in SpaceClothes constantly. Within a given setting, it's often done to showcase humanity's drive to explore and [[SettlingTheFrontier colonize new places]] for the famed trifecta of God, Gold and Glory. (Hey, [[TabletopGame/Warhammer40000 at least one]] setting actively proselytizes, at gunpoint!)
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A SpeculativeFiction staple, the act of turning an otherwise human-unfriendly environment into an Earth-like, or "Terra-formed" planet. Narratively, this is done to give the cast a place to go outside the ship (off Earth) that won't require them dressing in SpaceClothes constantly. Within a given setting, it's often done to showcase humanity's drive to explore and [[SettlingTheFrontier colonize new places]] for the famed trifecta of God, Gold Gold, and Glory. (Hey, [[TabletopGame/Warhammer40000 at least one]] setting actively proselytizes, at gunpoint!)
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* ''Literature/ChildrenOfTime'': Colonists fleeing a dying Earth make their way to a planet already terraformed by one of humanity's earlier projects, started when humanity was in its hey-day before it almost managed to destroy itself. Unfortunately for them, a rogue scientist's plan to fast-evolve sapient monkeys hadn't exactly gone to plan ([[GiantSpider giant sapient spiders]], anyone?). In the course of the story, they also end up visiting a world where the terraforming attempt had gone horribly wrong and created a world covered in GreyGoo.
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* ''Literature/ChildrenOfTime'': ''Literature/ChildrenOfTime2015'': Colonists fleeing a dying Earth make their way to a planet already terraformed by one of humanity's earlier projects, started when humanity was in its hey-day before it almost managed to destroy itself. Unfortunately for them, a rogue scientist's plan to fast-evolve sapient monkeys hadn't exactly gone to plan ([[GiantSpider giant sapient spiders]], anyone?). In the course of the story, they also end up visiting a world where the terraforming attempt had gone horribly wrong and created a world covered in GreyGoo.
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** In the past, the krogan homeworld Tuchanka suffered from global warming triggered by a nuclear war. This would have eventually caused mass extinction had the salarians not set up [[https://masseffect.fandom.com/wiki/Codex/Technology#The_Shroud the Shroud]], a gathering of trillions of tiny lenses at the planet's L1 Lagrange point. These shade the planet and keep the temperature livable.
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* ''TabletopGame/{{Battletech}}'': Practically every settled world in the setting (excepting Terra) was at one point terraformed to one degree or another. During the initial expansion phase of humanity heavy terraforming was often required to make the planets [[AllPlanetsAreEarthLike sufficiently Earth-like for human habitation]], and even then some things, like the emissions of the local star or the planet's orbit or general size or rotation speed, are beyond the human ability to fix and can at best be compensated for. Notably, within Sol system itself, Venus and Mars are both terraformed to be livable. Well, Venus ''was'', until the Star League CivilWar when [[BigBad Emperor Stephan Amaris]] repurposed the planet's solar shades in an attempt to use them as a solar-powered DeathRay and causing it to regress to its original state.
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* ''TabletopGame/{{Battletech}}'': ''TabletopGame/BattleTech'': Practically every settled world in the setting (excepting Terra) was at one point terraformed to one degree or another. During the initial expansion phase of humanity heavy terraforming was often required to make the planets [[AllPlanetsAreEarthLike sufficiently Earth-like for human habitation]], and even then some things, like the emissions of the local star or the planet's orbit or general size or rotation speed, are beyond the human ability to fix and can at best be compensated for. Notably, within Sol system itself, Venus and Mars are both terraformed to be livable. Well, Venus ''was'', until the Star League CivilWar when [[BigBad Emperor Stephan Amaris]] repurposed the planet's solar shades in an attempt to use them as a solar-powered DeathRay and causing it to regress to its original state.
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