The Terraforming Platform is deployed from a Terraforming Platform Ship.  Once deployed it allows you to inhabit planets that your species couldn't normally survive on.

• The terraforming platform does not allow you to colonize gas giants.  To colonize gas giants outside your normal range, you need both a terraforming platform and a gas giant settlement platform.
• Each level of platform provides one usable plot on the target planet.
• You may send as many platforms as you like to a target planet.
• Other players (or your other colonies) can send platforms to your planets to assist your growth.
• Like glyph buildings, while platforms take up a location on the surface, they do not take up a usable plot.
• Unlike glyph buildings, platforms may be upgraded once deployed.
• They start at the level of the lab on the planet that sent them plus one, and can be upgraded using resources like regular buildings.
• They can be built on a planet with a Level 1 Terraforming Lab, shipped in a cargo ship to another planet with a higher level Lab and sent from there.  This allows for cheaper ships with a higher level when they get to the colony.

Usage:

• To colonize outside your habitable orbit range you need:
  • University Level 18
  • Colony Ship (or Short Range Colony Ship)
  • Terraforming Platform Ship
• Send Both ships to the new planet.
• Once the Colony Ship gets to the planet you will have a new colony with -1 Plots (from the PCC).
• The Terraforming Platform Ship will appear as a Terraforming Plaform Plan in the PCC.
• The ships may both be in flight at the same time, they may come from different empires or planets, and they may land in any order.
• The first colony ship on the planet gets any plans anyone has put there.

Requirements

• Terraforming Platform Ship

Upgrade Requirements

• A sufficient supply of phosphorus from sources like Gypsum, Sulfur, and Monazite.

A Level 1 Terraforming Platform can be constructed in the Archaeology Ministry using methane, zircon, magnetite, and beryl glyphs.