
Mineral Purification Plants and Mineral Purification Hubs buildings are removed. Districts are converted into Segments at a ratio of 5:1. Gestalt Consciousness unless Rogue Servitor. Districts are converted based on the current designation. Adds a Former Relic World planetary feature. All district slots filled with City Districts or Industrial Districts. The following decisions will terraform the world to a new class.ĭistricts are converted based on the current designation They can also build a holding on subjects' worlds to terraform those worlds.Ĭolonized planets can also be terraformed by certain decisions. Gaia Seeders: Idyllic Bloom empires can build special buildings that will terraform the world into a Gaia world. The Worm can terraform all planets and moons in the empire's capital system, habitable and uninhabitable alike, into Tomb Worlds only Gas Giants, Relic Worlds, and Ecumenopolises are spared. Deluge Machine Colossus: all pops without the Aquatic trait are killed, planet is terraformed into an Ocean World, owned planets can be targeted, if any pops remain, perpetrator gains ownership of the planet if not already owned. Javorian Pox bombardment: if the last pop is killed, the planet becomes a Tomb World, does not kill robotic pops. Armageddon bombardment: if the last pop is killed, the planet becomes a Tomb World. In addition to the regular terraforming mechanics above, certain events, special projects, decisions, or other actions can change a planet's classification. When and if terraforming a planet to Hive or Machine World, keep in mind that all planetary features, excluding a few rare ones that give access to rare resources, will always be removed.Īlternative terraforming methods Additionally, if there are any Pops on the planet without the Cybernetic, Mechanical, or Machine traits, they are all killed and an Organic Slurry deposit is added. If the planet is terraformed into a Machine World, the Paradise Made modifier is also removed. If the planet is being terraformed into either a Machine or Hive World the following modifiers are also removed: The following planet modifiers are always removed when terraforming a planet: Doing so inflicts a −20% happiness penalty on the planet for the duration of the procedure. It is possible to terraform inhabited planets if the empire has the Ecological Adaptation technology. Relic Worlds and Ecumenopolises can never be terraformed through the regular mechanics. The expansion planner screen can also be used to find these candidates.
Only habitable worlds or uninhabitable worlds that have the Terraforming Candidate modifier can be terraformed. The world must be surveyed and within the empire's borders. Terraforming is started via a button in Planet Detail view. Beyond that, instantaneous methods of travel are used unless traversable wormholes are discovered first.Terraforming requirements The emitted radiation is conical in shape, with a cone angle that depends on particle velocity and speed of light in the medium.īecause of the Big Bang and the fabric of space itself expanding, it seems that galaxies themselves move faster than light.įTL drives are significant for Type II civilizations. The displaced atomic electrons emit radiation to form a strong electromagnetic wave reminiscent of the sonic boom produced by an airplane traveling faster than the speed of sound in air. In glass or water, light typically travels around 70% of its speed in a vacuum, and it is possible for charged particles to travel faster than light in this medium.
Tachyons, particles whose speed have to be faster than light, are used once the new laws of physics are discovered.Ĭherenkov radiation is emitted when a charged particle, such as an electron, passes through a transparent medium, such as glass or water, at a speed greater than the speed of light in that medium. Ways around these problems had to found via technology to effectively travel "faster than light" using spacetime warp displacement, hyperspace lanes, or natural cosmological structures like wormholes. There is also increasingly severe time dilation experienced by the traveler approaching the speed of light, and everything else ages as you travel. Mass gains weight as it accelerates and as it approaches the speed of light, it becomes infinitely heavy. With the old laws of physics, Einstein's special theory of relativity says that only particles with zero rest mass (like photons) may travel at the speed of light. Superluminal is an adjective used for a speed or velocity exceeding the speed of light. Faster-than-light ( FTL) communications and travel are the propagation of information or matter faster than the speed of light.