Pure solid diamond planet does not exist in the natural world...
"pure" is very important key word..
the discovery is "a large part of this strange world will effectively be diamond" This is possible... but not pure diamond. The surface of a planet does not have the condition for diamond to form. It's either a layer of other-wisely formed carbon or gas.

Anyway, whereas pure carbon planet can exist(and therefore diamond planet by "force"), to say that all volcanic planet to be made of pure carbon is a really big stretch and a huge assumption to make. In fact, it's much more likely that a volcanic will cool off into a barren or even metal. It have about same chance as becoming a crystal.
And I'm not so sure if a pure carbon planet can sustain volcanic activities...
That's why I'm against volcanic to diamond, because even if it's possible, it only represent a small portion of volcanic, and therefore does not make logical sense that you can use the device on ANY volcanic planet.

easy solution to the Size controversy, make the artifact unable to be used on colossal oceanics, and a simple explanation for it, this is the error message that would appear "cannot be used, planet size is too large, increasing it further would cause planetary instability"

v massive icy 15x + melter=
17x mega collosal oceanic+ your new terra artifact=
20x mega colossal terra+ gaia seed=
a 21x amazing planet i like it

ye sonds good to me to

I did have two topics, Planet Transformers and Planet Transformers (Remix) that had ideas for Oceanic and Metallic planet transformers: (And others!)

A mission after Potent Residuum: Mercuric Research

Metallic Discharger
Turns a Metallic planet into a Mercury planet, +1 Size, +2 Resources, +450 Attack+Defense. Cannot be used on metallic planets greater than massive size.

(Mercury is liquid metal, everyone should know that already)

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And for pure, natural Oceanics (not made by Hydroshifter):

Mission after Mercuric Research: Ocean Weather -OR- CT-Lab Blueprint

Oceanic Condenser
Turns an Oceanic Planet into a Storm Planet, increasing size by 1 and all resources by 2. Cannot be used on Natural Oceanics larger than Massive size. (Such as a Quasi-Spacial Expander used on a natural Massive Oceanic planet)

Planet transformation should be done in following ways:
state: such as gas to plasma, icy to oceanic
relative movement: terra to gaia
exterior modification: metal to dyson
molecular: barren to crystal

NOT atomic, which includes volcanic to diamond AND metal to mercury.
Mercury is a SPECIFIC METAL ELEMENT that have LIQUID STATE under "ROOM TEMPERATURE"
1. The liquid state of all the OTHER metals are NOT called Mercury
2. Mercury is NOT always liquid. ROOM TEMPERATURE is just the normal on EARTH. In space, it could very well be a SOLID
don't try to show off your "knowledge" when you haven't even passed grade school, please.

Can we change things on a atomic level? yes, but except "seeding" a natural nuclear reaction(which you only have a chance of on plasma/gas, which you can ONLY use to blow it up) it requires huge amount of energy and bit-by-bit effort to do so.
What does that translate to?
well, energy aside, if you had the luxury of transforming an entire planet in the atomic level, you would have the luxury of collecting ALL the remaining resource on the planet. Simply speaking, you have already manually sifted through ALL the atoms on that planet.


Keep this in mind, some tranformation might sound "cool" but it is NOT logical.

Bah. Where's the alchemist in you? My ship has reactors which work on what happens in supernovas. I have the weapons and defence tech researched to play with entropy (QCBs and TEDs). One set of installed defence can slip me slightly out of the time stream. My old hull is made of the material which neutron stars are made out.

Rearranging a few sub atomic particles to turn a metallic into a mercury planet? My dumbest android scientist could do that in their sleep. They've already developed a hyperterraformer.

I never said u can't, in fact I specifically said: "Can we change things on a atomic level? yes"
but you need to understand just because you CAN do it, and can easily do it on a small scale, doesn't mean it can be easily done on a large scale.
Again, with the same amount, or less, the effort of transforming a planet on an atomic level, you could simply HARVEST the entire planet. Because it's not a seeded/chain "automatic process" that you can just start off at some place and let the process run by itself, you would have to go through the entire planet all by yourself to do this process.
If you had the ability to do that, won't it be simpler to just collect everything of value in the middle then dump the planet?

Here is a weird analogy to this:
Say the original condition is a giant pile of clay, with some useful stuff in it that you can extract.
now, the post-transform condition is a pile of clay figures, where the useful stuff is concentrated on the head portion of the figure, so it would be easier to extract(as u can just take one, rip off head, and go to another, instead of whatever process in the former case)
Now, can you transform pile of clay to figures? yes, and very simply, just take one, take out the concentrated part as head, and squeeze it into the right shape.
BUT, if you had the time and effort to do that, won't it be easier to just not make the figure and just take the “would be head” part?
even if u made an automatic machine for the transformation, won't it be an ez trick to add a "after make figure, rip off head" part to the machine?

That's why I'm against it. I never said it's impossible, just that it makes no logical sense. If you can do it, then there must be "better" things that can be done

Let's say I use a magic beam weapon which destablises sub atomic particles. When fired at an metallic planet it causes neutrons to destabilise releasing an electron and turning the neutron into a proton. It's fired from a satellite at the planet. Massive energy is released so it liquifies the planet as the process goes along. It's not an instant transformation but stuff can be harvested from this liquid metallic planet as the process goes on. This adds +2 to resources and +1 to size of a metallic planet. Planet structures cost twice as much to build because of the high heat and volatile environment.

This is a science fiction game and we can imagine what might be possible. Just look at some of the tech that's available. Our hull can be made from the material of neutron stars. What device would be able to cut a material so tough? What ship would be able to bring the material back or survive being crushed by the massive gravitational forces at the surface of neutron stars?

1. "liquid metal" is not mercury, quit mixing the two ideas.
2. some metals have more protons than mercury, some less. A ray of this form is very unlikely, but let's say it's possible.... this technology would allow me instant KO planet defence that's short of the "planet shield" tier. It should also instantly KO any type of a ship that have its shield taken out.
3. The energy of this thing is unreasonably big. For a rough idea, Mass Surface melter uses energy from let's say 100 Paws, well, this thing would have to go into a task chain that asks for about 100,000 paws. The task can be called “charge the beam” for 5 energy, 100 paw per round, 1000 round per completion. have fun with that.
4. effect wise, as per the only way this can work in my mind(a ray that cause instability of atomic structure, hence each atom will randomly fission/fusion with others, until a specific stable condition, the condition of mercury atom, is reached) it would probably +4 mineral, +2 research -all art, -1 size.


and something to note: If such a ray exist which would "converge" the proton count per atom toward mercury(if it doesn't, again the name fails, liquid metal is NOT mercury), than it would be able to be used on all planets, not just metal. There is no property in metal that makes it easier to convert on an atomic level than any other substance. Granted.. gas/plasma might be an exception.
On a side note..... I think you are making more likely a "radioactive" planet than anything else....

well i do hope Dan and his team do make it and one for a diamond planet as i think both are good ideas but down to them if thay like them or not

Ahem... cough* Already solved this problem a while ago....

http://galaxylegion.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=13707&hilit=Tectonic+Upheaval+Device

How about a Magma Tesseract Container? This can be something that is extremely difficult to make in the CT-Lab. After you create it, you must place it on a Volcanic planet for 5 days so it can collect. When it is done, a green flashing dot will appear next to the planet, kind of like a homing beacon. It contains enough magma in it to create a continent, it even throws out enough magma so far to create a few islands as well. But if you use it on a planet x amount of times(dependent on planet size, average will last 5 times) the planet becomes Barren and loses 1 size and 1 resource.

how about this barren -> Metallic
Artifact could be called: Surface Crusher (destroying the surface to get to the core)

+3 mining, +1 artifact, -2 research, -1 size (if more add artifact mining etc.)

How about going the other way? Terra to Oceanic? The device can be called something like "The global warmer".