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Realistically, this would only apply to (certain) organic lifeforms. Depending on their respective technological standings, post-singularity nations are likely to disregard preemptive terraforming entirely because a forgiving planetary atmosphere isn't necessary for their hardened synthetic bodies to function properly. Some species might opt to construct their metropolitan centers deep below a world's surface. 

And then there are fleet-bound and station-bound factions to consider. 

Honestly Wilson, the rules that you're peddling here aren't exactly compatible with a universe where dyson shells, gravity generators, positron cannons, exawatt pulse grasers, and relativistic railguns exist. 

What you want is a science fiction RP where Project Orion became the standard after the Korean War and superluminal travel was discovered during the Gulf War. 
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Then you can not talk and just leave it alone, if you think it's not perfect scifi. Oh, saying "It's science! Do whatever!" is nice and all, but it gets ridiculous after a while. I'd rather have something a bit more organized and reasonable. Everyone doing everything gets old. And since war and the like is inevitable, I would really like to have war for a reason, not... well, just cause. And I'd like there to be an actual reason. Planets in the liquid water zone with their own atmosphere would be rare, and would likely only require a few terraformers to make it all nice and pretty. Everyone there will be happy with an actual sky while they go work. Meanwhile just living in an underground steel box might get a tad depressing. But then again, that doesn't matter, now does it? Not to you, then, but to me, it does. 

Go read a scifi book. How many times could it been so much 'better' if they were 'realistic'? You'd probably say always, but having something that holds people back and makes thing [i]valuable[/i] is nice, in my opinion, since a do-whatever-with-whatever scifi nrp doesn't really have anything of real value, besides what we make up and decide to shoot other people for. 

Right now, this is you. 
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Now leavemealone