Gaia Planet Services
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Gaia Planet Services was a private human terraforming company. Key sections include History.
Gaia Planet Services was a private human terraforming company.
History
During the land rush of the early 26th century, many planetary prospectors operated outside the protocols of the Office of Land Development because the fees and delays attached to legal land claims could be costly. In 2530, Gaia Planet Services followed this practice and began terraforming a world in the Pallas system without authorization. The company had failed to properly scan the system before attempting to terraform Pallas III.
The planet was not uninhabited. While the terraformers were assembling their equipment, a previously unknown species, later identified as the Xi'an Empire, arrived at the site. The Xi'an captured the entire crew and held them under guard, releasing only the foreman, Charles Baxter, as a gesture of good faith. Baxter was brought before a subcommittee on Earth to account for the incident, with 275 of his colleagues still detained.
The episode in the Pallas system nearly triggered an interspecies war between humanity and the Xi'an and contributed to growing calls for stricter regulation of land development. A few years later, in 2547, Imperator Ivar Messer declared eminent domain over the United Empire of Earth, requiring any party to apply to the Office of Land Development before settling or developing a parcel of land.
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