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Old 05-03-2015, 04:49 PM   #14
whswhs
 
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Default Re: What TLs you need to have and sustain a ecumenopolis

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Originally Posted by tbrock1031 View Post
*nod* Especially if - like on the examples I used - there are no visible water-masses. EU sources in the SWU have entire sections of Coruscant (such as the Works) dedicated to maintaining the artificial ecology: air scrubbers, waste recycling, etc. From space, all of those worlds I listed have large circles visible from space (at least in the movie version, for Geidi Prime; not sure about the miniseries) that appear to glow as though they were volcanic.
Splendid Wisdom, in Kingsbury's last novel, has had the planet's oceans entirely appropriated by human engineers and brought into the planetary plumbing.
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