Ameros
(2008 Core, 0408 Ameros; B110542-G)
About 50 years ago,
the famous financial/banking megacorporation
Hortalez et Cie, LIC
underwrote one of the most ambitious terraforming projects to date in
the
Imperium
on the world of
Ameros.
The goal of the pilot project is to completely transform
the surface of Ameros from a barren airless rock into a world
with a thin
atmosphere and a 10% hydrosphere in less than 100 years. If
successful,
the project will pave the way for comfortable colonization of otherwise
inhospitable moons and planets.
The progress on Ameros so far has been disappointing:
its atmosphere is only up to a trace level from its original vacuum
state
and its hydrosphere has been increased to a mere 2%, all of which is
currently
in the form of ice. Hortalez et Cie has expressed some concern
over the
discouraging progress; the research team on the world has assured the
banking
firm that the project is actually closer to being on track than it
appears.
They contend the last 25% of a terraforming period is when the most
dramatic
results appear.
-TD8 core