Eden Terraforming Module

An Eden Terraforming Module is a device that the Unified Earth Government had created to make uninhabitable worlds habitable again. They were used on some moons in the Sol System, as well as larger collections of asteroids in the Kaiper Belt.

An Eden Terraforming Module is, at it's core, an extremely large bomb. When it detonates, it releases self-replicating magical nanites that reform the planet, down to it's very core, into whatever the E.T.M. had specified in it's programing. The Nanites self-terminated after their purpose was served. The process takes one year for earth-sized planets, less for smaller bodies. Anything currently on a world when an Eden Terraforming Module is activated will be killed if it cannot escape the planet before the Nanites consume and convert it into a new form.

The E.T.M. can successfully seed life where there was none, form or reform atmosphere and remake a hydrosphere where none were present earlier, manipulating matter down to sub-atomic particles to reformat matter as needed.