What is "terraform"

Usage examples of "terraform".

As a pilot, Defoe had to believe in terraforming --starships needed places to go.

Space Gamers finished terraforming Mars it would be turned over to the Burroughs Bibliophiles.

With the aid of their robots, the Spacers terraformed fifty worlds and created a culture of great beauty and refinement, where all unpleasant tasks were left to the robots.

The Settlers set out to colonize the galaxy in earnest, terraforming endless worlds, leapfrogging past the Spacer worlds and Spacer technology.

In his time, the schism had been between those who wanted to study the Amarantin and those who wanted to terraform Resurgam, thereby establishing the world as a viable human colony rather than a temporary research outpost.

Nearly five thousand people had died in Klameth Canyon, including some of the region's best expertise in animal husbandry and terraforming biogenetics.

The cat's-eye stones the local people were wearing-which were more properly called chrysoberyls - were not only beautiful and sacred, according to Nadhari's lesson on Makahomian culture, but also very useful in the mining and terraforming industries across the universe.

Ball normally inhabited Gal-3 but had been away conferring with the leaders of other terraformed colonies when the illness struck.

Once he had his political organization going, he ran another analysis of the profiles in his databanks and organized a Terraforming Committee.

With parts of Barrayar itself still undergoing active terraforming, and with the planet of Sergyar drawing off immigrants from both the worlds damned near as fast as they can board ship, some members of the government are wondering openly why we are spending so much Imperial treasure dinking with such a marginal world as Komarr.

DI sent out the infobursts that spread Dreamtime to the expansion processors in other systems, sent the initialisation code to set the drones to terraforming the other worlds they found once the Dreamworlds were finished.

The greening of Mars required two different kinds of planetary engineering: crude terraforming, to raise the surface temperature and atmospheric pressure to a plausible threshold for life, and ecopoiesis: using microbial and plant life to condition the soil and oxygenate the air.

Scrith underlies all of the terraformed and contoured inner surface of the Ringworld.

They have a plan to terraform these moons that will take them five thousand years.

Hell, Sax and a lot of others used to talk about doing anything possible to terraform as quick as possible-driving a bunch of asteroids directly into the planet, using hydrogen bombs to try and start volcanoes-whatever it took!