Fallow Earths

[ysabetwordsmith]

Here's a good discussion about colonizing planets with little or no life, rather than ones with a thriving biosphere.

Riiiiiiight.  Because humans are SO good at keeping their monkey paws off something attractive.

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[fayanora.livejournal.com]

The people of Traipah (who admittedly are not human) live in harmony with their environment. When they go out into space, like *really* go out into space, they colonize worlds that, for whatever reason, could have developed life but didn't. A few tweaks like restoring plate tectonics or altering the planet's mass, a few tons of genetically-engineered First Worms, 10 or 15 years waiting, and lots of tossing around seeds, insects, and animals later, and they've got a whole new world to colonize. And they follow the same "harmony with nature" credo as they did on the homeworld.