Hi All,
Star system 112.55/66GT/1 was discovered by a
passing Star Ship in the autumn of 2089 and bought from the Star Ship’s owners
by a Church of England led consortium of Anglican interests, incorporated as ‘COE 56 Property Development
Trust Ltd’ in 2090 for £535 billion (£214 billion for the Starship Company who
had the development rights and survey , £214 billion for the Isle of Man, where
the ship’s ‘home address’ was registered and who therefore had the Property
Freehold rights and £107 billion to the
Federal government who-because the Star ship was an Earth registered ship had the
automatic sovereignty rights,
which were charged as a form of stamp duty). The company sold off the gas giant
for £420 billion to the Far Texas Energy Company Inc ,one of the top ten Mega
Conglomerates which specialises in gas giant mining. The Far Texas Confederacy
consists of 560 of said planets, which they called ‘Lionheart’. While usually
there would be competition with the Jupiter Communion, because the primary
shareholders were religious in nature the philosophical and religious
differences between any of the old religions of Earth and the Jovians is
presently insurmountable. The other competition, Nibiru, said they ‘didn’t
believe the numbers’, in that they believed the budget allocated was far too
small for a decent return.
The next task for the new company was to
terraform the planet, which they named
‘Welby’s Reach’, it was twice the size of Earth, had two small moons called
Pole and Lanfranc, but with no magnetic field and little atmosphere, the planet
was divided into old shield volcanoes, large canyons and plateaus, dozens of
craters the size of Rhode Island, as well as extremely flat and smooth lowlands.
The work progressed quickly. First a portal was dropped into the sun and
another opened at Welby’s Core: the resulting intense flush of the Sun’s plasma
being ejected into a dense space melted the outer core and heated the inner,
kickstarting the planetary magnetic field. This in turn helping to warm the
planet up by volcanic activity and the melting of the polar dry ice at the
polar levels( i.e. carbon dioxide). Next hydrogen was pumped into the
atmosphere, from the gas giant via portal along with 22, 2 mile long near pure
nickel asteroids and meteoroids .
The hydrogen and the carbon dioxide, heated up
with a blast of solar plasma and with nickel as the catalyst, under the
Sabatier reaction produced water and methane, thus warming the planet even further
and producing rain on the planet. The introduction of Lime, reduced the acidity
of this water to acceptable levels, 800 ice bergs the size of Wales were
dropped through portals from the ice caps of the Ocean planet Mu, into the
various craters created numerous freshwater lakes and seas, as well as rivers:
the largest of which was twice the size of the Nile back on Earth. The flat plains were flooded and became seas and
oceans, although volcanic activity will in time create many new islands.
Specially modified coral was dropped into the waters and moss onto the lands,
acting as a carbon sink, before a variety of genetically modified evergreens
were planted. Next came the introduction of life into the sea. All in all this
left the planet with 60% land and 40% water, of the land about 300 billion
acres were set aside for development and the remaining 150 billion acres for
ordinary trees and wildlife parks, which were the next thing to be introduced,
before people began to arrive, in this case civil engineers, builders and
general contractors.
Unfortunately for the development company, the
Nibiru turned out to be better financial analysts than the Church of England as
they’d burned through all the initial equity and credit facilities. Something which was manageable as a one off. Unfortunately this was happening across the entire church portfolio and the Church of England Plc (Inc either 597 or 1556 AD), a financial crisis was brewing that could not only bankrupt the Church of England, but Earth itself...
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