“There is no greater love for something living than having a hand in every beating pulse of water from a waterfall; touching every caress of wind upon the cheeks; holding every blade of grass between your fingers; measuring the exact distance for a happy sunset. You see a world full of people. I see a world full of life and artistry.”
~Elinor Deluwith, Last Humaran-Unicorn, Chief of Terraforming, A.C.E. Phoenix, Mother of Sliinkaa~

<Phoenix Terraforming Database v2.58:>
Entity:
Planet, M Class
New Data Point for Entity:
Sliinkaa
Known Origin Parameters:
7,918 Mi Radius
Mass 11.944 x 10^24 Kg
4.9035 m/s2 Gravity
Rotation Around Twin Suns is 640 Planetary Rotations
Standard Chronographic Setting 32 Hour Day (16 Hour Daylight Cycle, 16 Hour Night Cycle)
Solar Entities:
Twin Suns
New Data Point for Solar Entity 1:
Leo
New Data Point for Solar Entity 2:
Linus
Additional Entities:
Three Moons, Two Asteroid Belts
New Data Point for Entity 1:
Moon, Moresh, Logan’s Dream
New Data Point for Entity 2:
Moon, Inos, Schrodinger
New Data Point for Entity 3:
Moon, Arid, Uninhabitable
New Data Point for Entity 4:
Asteroid Belt, Juggernauts’ Garden
New Data Point for Entity 5:
Asteroid Belt, Atlas’ Train
<Database Now Updated>
<Scanning Entity Now…. Scan Complete>
<Terraforming Engaged>
<Atmosphere Stabilization ETA . . . . . . 50 Earth Years / 46 Sliinkaa Years>
<Continental Break and Oceanic Flooding . . . . . 75 Earth Years / 71 Sliinkaa Years>
<Species Integration and Genetic Re-sampling . . . . . 25 Earth Years / 21 Sliinkaa Years>
<Time to Planetary Colonization . . . 150 Earth years / 146 Sliinkaa Years>

Taken from the logs of Elinor Deluwith:

”I watched it develop like a fetus in a Humaran womb. An M class planet that was twice the size of earth with a wisp of fragile atmosphere over its barren rocky surface; Sliinkaa as it was named held the secret of life to it. Water was locked under the dusty rock plates of dead alien fauna and flora and that fragile atmosphere that bled oxygen and carbon dioxide into cold space. We worked for fifty years with the atmospheric plants to churn up and release stabilizing ozone, oxygen, carbon and various trace gases to support all walks of life.

As the atmosphere was stabilized and saturated to be breathable, we set our tectonic destabilizers to crack open the rock plates freeing vast oceans and setting loose a variety of continental shapes to work with over a span of seventy five years. We coaxed the new tectonic plates into a harmonious network of fissures across the planet; nudged and created mountains and volcanoes for internal planetary stress relief; combed and shaped the ocean floors like a child at play on a sandy beach. Once the atmosphere was ready and the planet terraformed to support the harboring of life, we released the gene seeds and replicants to start the adaptive phase of terraforming and culturing the planet for life for twenty five years. We never could have imagined the diversity of life our replicants would revive from the alien world and blend it with the gene samples we had sowed. Every known creature and plant we have on Earth now breaths and lives anew with added strengths and wonder from Sliinkaa’s dead inhabitants. The taxonomists are having a field day rapidly reclassifying all taxonomies and scientific names.

While I and my teams worked with the planet during the days, at night I spent most of my free time staring at the other planetary bodies around us. Sliinkaa will have abundant solar radiation from the primary yellow sun I named Leo; it reminded me of the majesty of a lion from the extinct Serengeti with majestic mane of solar flares. A cooling, more energizing silver light is shed upon the night surface of Sliinkaa by the sibling sun I named Linus; he was my silver tomcat that never survived the stasis sleep. He was like this silver sun, graceful, powerful but always content to purr in the shade and share his deep pool of calmness. Sliinkaa falls into a unique day and night pattern as the planets rotation is slower than Earth, making gravity only half of what the Earth’s rotation had provided. Sliinkaa has sixteen hour days that bask in Leo’s might and sixteen hour nights illuminated by Linus’ beauty. This slow rotation gave Sliinkaa roughly sixteen months to orbit the suns, each month consisting of an even forty days. Six months out of this year are cast in bitter winter darkness as the suns are eclipsed by Sliinkaa’s three moons.

Two of these moons have already been named before the course correction that spared our lives caused up to arrive late to the party. The closest moon, the size roughly of Earth is where we received transmissions from our sister ship, the Logan’s Dream. We have stopped receiving the transmissions from her, and if my grasp of engineering is correct this indicates a complete communication system failure of their ship. That moon was named Moresh by their captain, Ford Galand. From all observations, Moresh is a dense methane gas planet; habitable with some effort and adjusting to the Logan’s Matrices.

Between Moresh and the second moon is an asteroid belt holding several hundred thousand chunks of space debris; among that floating sea of rock, mineral and ice are mammoths of destruction, large enough to crush continents. We have taken a pool of votes and named this asteroid belt the Juggernaut’s Garden. This second moon, the farthest out to still maintain enough solar radiation for life is Inos. Inos is a planet kept in permanent snow and ice. That is where we heard a faint distress call from our other sister ship, the Schrodinger. We do not know if they lived. Our telemetry cannot view the surface very well of Inos as dense clouds shroud it in darkness.

Between Inos and the last moon is a second belt of asteroids. These asteroids are almost planetoid size, perhaps several predecessor planets not surviving their genesis orbits. The mass of them will easily deflect and absorb incoming meteors from other galaxies earning the name Atlas’ Train; I can imagine one of those battle hardened ladies to have asteroids attached to a wedding dress. Beyond Inos is the last planet, Arid. Arid is a lifeless planet that shows some promise of being heavy in minerals and ores but beyond our reach. Arid is kept in a permanent vacuum of icy death.

One hundred and fifty years have come and gone and Sliinkaa looks alive. Where barren rock once rotated unyielding to the stars vibrant plant life in hues of green, blues and reds now thrive. Thick clouds like cotton now swirl and circle in the stable atmosphere bringing shade during the day and releasing nurturing water at night. Waves now break upon beaches as life teams out of it in the hunt for daily sustenance. Winds now ripple along grasses and trees to stir birds of all types into the air. Mountain tops wear their white heads with grace as they stay to the task of breaking up the gales of wind, taming storms and bearing testament to the new world. It took us twelve thousand and fifty years to this day, but at last I can finally say that Humarans have found home once more. Oh my children who sleep in holds bellow, now is the time to wake to a new world of dreams and wonder.