A short epilogue envisages Earth many centuries later, after the sun has cooled and Earth has been depopulated, with humans now living on the terraformed inner planets.
Research team after research team rushed to the planet, soon uncovering the mysterious source of the terraformed planet.
"But there are a number of terraformed planets without water on both poles," Fredda objected.
"First, the natural oceans of Earth were far deeper than the artificial oceans of any terraformed planet," Lentrall said.
All the more reason to get him away from here-- if he lives through this night out there in that hell that passes for a terraformed planet.
Ariste Zhenling could have turned her terraformed planets into little Terrinas if she desired.
Jayme snorted, trying not to laugh at a stout colonist from the terraformed planet of Browder IV.
If we could let all terraformed planets have that long, colonists would have a much easier time.
And how did a terraformed planet apparently overpower a civilization capable of star travel, and revert to an almost pristine state?
The television series Firefly and its cinematic sequel Serenity are set in a solar system with about seventy terraformed planets and moons.