Titan

Template:Infobox: MoonTitan is the first of Saturn's terraformed moons.

Overview

Once a frozen Ma-Class moon and the the only moon in the system with a thick methane atmosphere, the moon has since been transformed into a temperate Me-Class paradise. Titan is the last major trade route to the outer colonies. The first person to step foot on Titan did so during the Great Solar System Tour.forming began in 7251 since it was determined that no life existed in the methane oceans. Most of the methane and nitrogen was mined out of the atmosphere for use elsewhere throughout the system. Massive parabolic lenses were placed in orbit to warm the moon and engineered microorganisms were deployed to manufacture oxygen. At the same time many rocky asteroids and comets were diverted to speed up the rotation of Titan to give it an earthlike day and to create landmasses.

By 7931 Titan was thriving with engineered plant and animal life.

Population

Titan’s population is around one trillion and is the largest concentrated population on any moon farthest from the sun. Like most planets with a low gravity most get around with flight suits.

Climate

Titan’s climate is a few degrees cooler than Earth’s thanks to the vast quantities of greenhouse gasses released into the atmosphere. Genetically engineered plants and animals thrive in the spidery forests of the moon.

Because it orbits the ringed planet, Titan is a great tourist attraction for its view of Saturn and because of its massive tides which the more adventurous love to surf

Pre-Terraforming

Prior to terraforming, It was the only major moon of the Sol System to have a large atmosphere, and the only celestial body other then Earth to have had held natural surface liquid before human intervention.

Titan is one of the few bodies within the Solar System to hold natural, complex multicellular life, mostly located within its multitude of liquid methane lakes, however life has been discovered on both its surface, and within its subsurface water oceans.

Today, Titan stands as one of the most populace celestial bodies within the entirety of the Sol System, holding the fourth largest population behind the moons of Euorpa and Luna, as well as the planets of Mars and Earth.

Titan's surface mainly comprised of ice encrusted rock and dust, with many diverse geological features, including canyons, dunes, craters, dried lake beds and occasional hills, slopes, and even mountains. It's dynamic geography is one of the defining features of the moon when comparing to other moons of the Sol System, as it is more akin to a planet then your typical moon, sharing many similarities to surface features found on Mars and even Earth.

History

Titan has held a long and diverse history throughout the centuries after humans first step foot on the world, as it serves as one of the most important worlds within the whole of the Solar System due to the massive amount of liquid methane and ethane located upon its surface, making the moon both the fueling point, and launching point of spacecraft going towards the outer Solar System and beyond. Titan is the economical capital of the Saturian System due to the massive fuel plantations located throughout the moon's surface, and as a result, it is home to the "Free Merchants Guild of Wider Saturnalia," an organization formed to ensure certain protections to businesses and corporations founded within the Saturian System from taxes or levies inflicted by larger corporations or governmental organizations.

Discovered by astronomer Christian Huygens on March 25th, 1655, humanity has held interest in the strange world ever since its discovery. The first space craft to be set to the moon was the Pioneer 11 probe on September 1st, 1979, giving 20th century humanity an up close glimpse of the shrouded world.

However due to the primitive tech used on said spacecraft, it would take another two years until' more sophisticated instruments could be used to give a better look behind the cloud tops, with the arrival of the Voyager I and Voyager II space crafts from 1980 to 1981. Using spectrometers they were able to pierce through the thick atmosphere and map out sections of the moon's surface.

With the information gathered, it was believed by scientists at the time that possible surface liquid of methane was located in areas of Titan, however these were not proven to exist until' the Cassini-Huygens mission on July 4th 2004, with the discovery of liquid methane seas on the moon's northern and southern poles, along with the Huygens probe being the first manmade object to touch down on the surface of Titan.

The first human to set foot on Titan would be American astronaut Travis Marigold on August 2nd 2072, with the arrival of Cronos-V mission, who touched down on the shore line of the Ligeia Mare sea, 79°N 248°W. Travis in particular was selected due to his great appreciation of the moon throughout his carrier. He and his fellow astronauts would remain on the moon's surface for a total of five standard months, before being rotated out and sent back to Earth aboard the Cronos-V space craft in suspended animation.

Travis Marigold would make repeated trips to Titan throughout the remainder of his life, until' his death on August 2nd 2120, the forty-eighth anniversary of the Cronos-V mission. His body would be buried on the exact position he step foot on, with a large memorial being built in honor of the first Titanterrian being built around his gravesite.

Apart from Earth, Titan is the gem of any nations eye from within the Solar System, due to its optimal position to send missions to the outer Sol System and beyond, and more perinatally,