terraformation n.

The idea of terraformation did occur to me, but I rejected it.

India…announced from Gandhi-opolis-on-the-Grand-Canal that the terraformation of Mars had begun.

Lichens would drench Mars in one green-gold tidal wave of life. They would creep irresistibly from the moist craters of the iceteroid impacts, proliferating relentlessly amid the storms and earthquakes of terraformation.

Life begins relatively close to a star and…in red-giant time, retreat to the outer regions would involve such extensive terraformation as to be prohibitive.

It would be the logical means for intelligent species to use in beginning the colonization of other worlds—what used to be called Terraformation.

When the tower fell, it severed the connection that Rann-Korr was using to manipulate the terra-sphere. With that connection gone, we used the Tardis as a conduit to reverse-engineer the terraformation.

Terraformation is the ultimate example of long-term planning, as even optimistic estimates predict it would take centuries of effort and patience before a human could walk unprotected on the surface of Mars.