Talk:Terra

Terra's Oceans

I don't get why there's an argument about how terrible it is that Terra doesn't have oceans when the Imperium has atmospheric controllers. I'm very certain they'd have installed a few of those on Terra to prevent that sort of situation from happening. -- Triacom (talk) 03:44, 1 February 2017 (UTC)

It became an irradiated desert during the Age of Strife/Old Night. There were a few seas left, but no where near the modern day. Maybe they tried to fix things post-Emp, but he was pro-Hive planet. By 40K, the only water is the sea that makes the Navigator HQ an island and the icecaps.--107.77.216.127 05:02, 1 February 2017 (UTC)

I'm not saying they do have oceans, I'm saying that they'd have installed the atmospheric controllers to do the jobs that the oceans used to. -- Triacom (talk) 05:13, 1 February 2017 (UTC)

• My main argument in this logical fallacy is the issue of the tectonic plates. Unless the Imperium has some Dark Age magic that keeps the plates from intersecting each other to prevent interfering with the incredibly dense urban environments of Terra's hive cities then quite frankly, infrastructure development would be a colossal nightmare if an earthquake occurs. That is without getting into other problems such as the rupturing of magma from intersecting plate tectonics and decreased movement in the continental plates without the aid of the ocean currents acting as a lubricant. One must wonder what would happen if a new land mass suddenly pops up from underneath one of the industrial areas. Sure atmospheric controllers could mitigate some of the greenhouse runaway affects which prevents Terra turning into Venus, but half of the artwork and descriptions of Terra describes it as a barren and polluted husk of a planet whilst the other half paints Terra as a planet with clear blue skies that recovered from the Horus Heresy. So either the atmospheric controllers aren't working as intended or Terra would only have clear skies during certain periods of the day. I maybe overthinking this, but it kind of bugs me to no end. Derpysaurus

Maybe the moving of the plates really is the reason that half the time it looks terrible, and half the time it looks good. It could be that in the case of it looking good that's the area in which the atmospheric controllers are whereas other parts lacking said controllers will just have to put up with how the planet actually is. As for lava coming up underneath things, well that's just life on a hive world. Sometimes you get to live like a rat in a maze and sometimes your home becomes a volcano. -- Triacom (talk) 19:25, 18 April 2017 (UTC)

• Hmm..that could be a good point. But home refurbishment is going to be a nightmare on Terra. Derpysaurus