MEANING
Creating habitable local regions beneath large pressurized structures without substantially changing a planet’s overall atmosphere.
Use it for
Local domed habitats on a hostile world, instead of changing the whole planet.Use for enclosed settlements on hostile worlds when full atmospheric engineering is impractical or undesirable.
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Rather than remake the thin atmosphere, the settlers began paraterraforming the crater beneath a pressurized roof.
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Word forms
- Base
- paraterraforming
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