User:XW3 AR3 L3GION/Genesis Device

The Genesis Device is key to the Genesis Project and intrumental to the re-colonisation of the Terran colonies 'glassed' during the Terran-Covenant War. The Genesis Device is the pinnacle piece of technology from the Joint Sangheili-Terran Technologies Department.

History
As the Terrans rebuilt on Terra, the need to expand once again rose its ugly head so the UNSC made plans to push back into Occupied Territory. However, twenty three out of twenty eight of the Terran original colonies were 'glassed' and therefore rendered unhabitable for Terrans or any other species. So the Joint Sangheili-Terran Technologies Department, one of the many interspecies organisations made up of Sangheili Technical Experts and Human Scientists were tasked with purpose of making these ‘glassed’ inhabitable again.

While many ideas were formed, a stunning young physicist and ecologist named Harry Lanfield and a Sangheili, whom was an expert in Forerunner translations named Niko ‘Vadum constructed the Genesis Program. Using Forerunner data taken from Installation 00 or the Ark, Niko 'Vadum managed to translate enough to discover about advanced terraforming. This information was then used by Doctor Lanfield, to create the Genesis Device.

Usage
The Genesis Device is three hundred meter long column that is fired from orbit and effectively crash lands at pre-designated co-ordinates. From there the Device releases millions of hydrogen and oxygen particles and a specific amino acid which dissolves the mineral called lechatelierite that covers the planet. While the forming a basic atmosphere, the oxygen and hydrogen mix to form rain and becomes tainted with the amino acid.

Slowly the 'glassed' surface is washed away and dissipates into the soil, with only an alkali residue left over which can be easily altered afterwards.