The Deathworlds Ranking Index. Great Places to Visit But Would You Want to Live There?
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Bassoe
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Hella from David Gerrold's novel of the same name. Local life is all capable of biochemically synthesizing the equivalent of spider silk proteins and consequentially is insanely durable, with kaiju-sized organisms whose bones have the tensile strength to hypothetically support space elevators being commonplace.
Scooby Doo
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Not Catachan's an 8
Dayglow is a 9.
You need more skills and resources to survive in Day Glow than Catachan.
In my humble opinion in accordance with the OP.
Blame the Greens and EnviroWeenies who don't want us to eradicate the native hostile flora and fauna on a biblical scale or endanger Catachans only worthwhile export by burning too much!
Scooby Doo
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You don't even need to burn that much, just burn a state sized area of land and leave the rest of Catachan alone.
Catachan's pop is too small to need to burn more than that. Plus any decent space empire would be feeding their enviroweenies to the devil Catachan.
Burning that much will still have the wildlife grow.....You don't even need to burn that much, just burn a state sized area of land and leave the rest of Catachan alone.
And no, according to Husky, catachan beats out dayglow.
Scooby Doo
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Yeah and? They can clear all threats with sufficient fire.
He also rates the investment far better with Day Glow.
But personally I find radiation more dangerous than predatory fauna.
You can't see killer radiation and you need special equipment to cleane areas of radiation mean while on Catachan a forest fire will solve all your problems.
How aoukd Nocturne from 40k be?
The home of the salamanders
PsihoKekec
Swashbuckling Accountant
Silent World
Human population is tiny, so the world would welcome immigration, but only gradual and selective one, only immigrants who test immune would be welcome, though exceptions might be made if there are not enough. Reclamation of the Silent World is a gradual process that can't be rushed as going too fast opens the safe areas to incursions by trolls, beasts and giants. The human enclaves do have basic industry that can be expanded upon, for example they can still make vehicles like the cat tank and circular saw train.
Full reclamation of the world remains doubtful though, current methods only apply to areas that have winter temperatures under freezing points, so it's possible that the infection and it's monsters is a problem that is to blight the world forever.
Human population is tiny, so the world would welcome immigration, but only gradual and selective one, only immigrants who test immune would be welcome, though exceptions might be made if there are not enough. Reclamation of the Silent World is a gradual process that can't be rushed as going too fast opens the safe areas to incursions by trolls, beasts and giants. The human enclaves do have basic industry that can be expanded upon, for example they can still make vehicles like the cat tank and circular saw train.
Full reclamation of the world remains doubtful though, current methods only apply to areas that have winter temperatures under freezing points, so it's possible that the infection and it's monsters is a problem that is to blight the world forever.
Bassoe
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Two examples from short stories freely available online.
Kesri-Sequoia II from Jay Lake's West to East. An otherwise-earthlike planet with a superrotating atmosphere like venus. Aka, all hurricane-force winds, all the time, always blowing the same direction. The local life is adapted, being either aquatic, airborne, heavily armor-plated against flying debris and suckered to the ground, sessile and filter-feeding the wind and so forth and so on.
Anywhere infected with the Predation Plague from Peter F. David's Embrace the Suck. The plague is a mutagenic virus which converts infected organisms into obligate carnivores, they can only digest raw meat, their instincts are reprogrammed to consider it appetizing and their teeth fall out and a new and sharper pair grow to replace them. Technically it doesn't alter the minds of its victims to force them to become cannibalistic, but when an entire ecology suddenly has no herbivorous secondary producers and lots of starving apex predators, the end result tends to be that anyway.
Kesri-Sequoia II from Jay Lake's West to East. An otherwise-earthlike planet with a superrotating atmosphere like venus. Aka, all hurricane-force winds, all the time, always blowing the same direction. The local life is adapted, being either aquatic, airborne, heavily armor-plated against flying debris and suckered to the ground, sessile and filter-feeding the wind and so forth and so on.
Anywhere infected with the Predation Plague from Peter F. David's Embrace the Suck. The plague is a mutagenic virus which converts infected organisms into obligate carnivores, they can only digest raw meat, their instincts are reprogrammed to consider it appetizing and their teeth fall out and a new and sharper pair grow to replace them. Technically it doesn't alter the minds of its victims to force them to become cannibalistic, but when an entire ecology suddenly has no herbivorous secondary producers and lots of starving apex predators, the end result tends to be that anyway.