User blog comment:USS Enterprise CVN-65/The New (And Improved) Official Roleplay Room/@comment-24787182-20160224195131/@comment-12161342-20160224234036

@harmon sit back and get schooled

1: terraforming takes a long time. a very very very long time. so no, it isnt done

2: earth got most of its oxygen from bacteria in the first place. I'm trying to bring mars to life, and replace its thin CO2 atmosphere with an earthlike atmosphere. I dont want to be waking up native martian bacteria that suddenly undo all of that by farting out CO2(which is what mars currently has)

3: bacteria and viruses and prions would wake up. and some of them would infect the settlers. and because we never encountered those illnesses before, itd be a collossal disaster. Think about how how many native americans were slaughtered by european diseases they had no resistance to. Now multiply that by a whole PLANETS worth of new pathogens. I dont want my goddamn settlers coming down with HerpEbolAIDS or some other martian illness.

note: retyped to be much less detailed because some arsehat hit a power pole and knocked off my power, destroying my first iteration of this post