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Questionable Questing

Plotvitalnpc
Plotvitalnpc
They have the technology to efficiently meet all the needs of their society in their artificial, 'deadworld' habitats, in part by ruthlessly exploiting the mineral wealth of their lifeless rocks. A biosphere doesn't give them anything new, except for a view.
Plotvitalnpc
Plotvitalnpc
Meanwhile, the proper stewardship of the biosphere would require the limitation of vast externalities born of their industrial practices, which can be utterly avoided by not having a biosphere to begin with. Their quality of life is actually lower in natural biospheres because they have to reduce their productivity in order to preserve said biospheres, and because they have less control over things.
Finagle007
Finagle007
Sounds like the Grox from Spore.
Plotvitalnpc
Plotvitalnpc
Yeah, but the grox are omnicidal lunatics. These are...environmentalist consumerists, who've decided to preserve the environment by picking ones that're dead to begin with, so they can CONSUME to their heart's content.
Plotvitalnpc
Plotvitalnpc
Also, the Grox /need/ the lack of a biosphere. This race just doesn't need the biosphere, and finds it more convenient without.
SamPardi
SamPardi
My SI!Commander, Nu, essentially fulfills those requirements. Her MO in already inhabited systems is to take Venusian planets as her main base and develop deep underground. When given her own system she chose the next planet out from the Garden world and developed there keeping the garden world as a nature preserve.
pepperjack
pepperjack
Spore spoilers. Sporilers.
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