terraform v.

He had been the original claimant of Obania, forty years ago; and Drake was the young spatial engineer he employed to terraform the little rock, only two kilometers through—by sinking a shaft to its heart for the paragravity installation, generating oxygen and water from mineral oxides, releasing absorptive gases to trap the feeble heat of the far-off Sun.

Rick was impressed to discover that Pallas, capital of all the Mandate, was not yet completely terraformed—although the city and a score of mining centers had their own paragravity units a few miles beneath the surface, there was as yet no peegee installation at the center of gravity.

Once old Bruce O'Banion…hired Jim Drake to terraform it.

The middle two planets are inhabited, both terraformed by First Empire scientists after Jasper Murcheson.

We build worlds, we don’t just terraform planets. Robots could do that. We build places where the imagination of human beings can find an anchor.

Well, it’s no secret that life at Arsia Base was rough. Always will be rough, or at least until someone gets around to terraforming Mars, which is a wild-eyed fantasy if you ask me.

So they can take it to an inhabited world, of course. Instead of finding an uninhabited planet to terraform and colonize.

I studied engineering at Newcastle-on-Tyne, and I thought terraforming Mars from the Oort was the biggest, most wonderful idea anybody ever had.

You’d have enough energy not just to terraform the nearly habitable planet, but make it over completely.

Mercury, long considered too expensive to terraform, had been purchased and partially destroyed, doctored rock and iron fashioned into a fleet of enormous orbiting solar collectors.