Not exact matches
Terra Formars — With Earth quickly becoming uninhabitable due to a swelling population, humans develop a project to terraform Mars, one that
involves leaving cockroaches on the
planet's
surface.
The «sandbox» I was getting at is the one that
involves a single or multiple
planets where you explore and populate the
surface in the perspective of a single character.
I think the total
surface area
involved is not so great as to have much impact of the
planets total storage of heat.
One proposed solution to the first question
involves the outgassing of massive amounts of carbon dioxide by volcanoes, which could have warmed the planetary
surface rapidly by enhancing the
planet's so - called greenhouse effect, especially given that major carbon dioxide sinks (rock weathering and photosynthesis) would have been dampened by a frozen Earth.