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Originally Posted by whswhs
Isn't every planet with life a planet with murder?
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The underlying assumption behind the Murderworlder setting is that Earth has higher gravity, more violent weather and tectonic activity and more aggressive animal life and diseases than the bulk of the life bearing worlds in the galaxy. The ecology of the paradise worlds has never been adequately explained to my knowledge, but it probably involves the animal life having far fewer offspring without disasters, predators and disease to worry about. But this of course digresses from the subject of the thread.
One thing about cyberpunk is that traditionally it is urban, overcrowded in fact. Export the same predatory capitalism and iffy law enforcement into a start-up colony and the result ends up looking more like a spaghetti western than a noir detective or crime drama.