Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25936766-20170820043030/@comment-26018514-20170826232400

Sentry 616 wrote: I think he might have been talking about how long term to Dust mining procedures has been known to cause health problems, and two known major locations with large Dust deposits are curretly desolate wastes, though that is somewhat undermined by the fact that Vaccuo used to be a lush and fertile place, and if I recall correctly, there were spots on the map of the major SDC mining sites that had healthy looking ecosystems (lots of green from plants) despite having major Dust deposits.

No, I was refering to the fact that a permanently altered gravity state could dissuade plant life from attaching to it, while preventing organic soil or water from attaching to it, preventing soil erosion and basically being just a stone landscape... Plants cannot use dust, animals can... but would probably attempt to avoid such landscapes like animals IRL try to avoid Electro-magnetic fields to an extent... it wouldn't prevent life IRL or there entirely... but we're talking about a world where eldritch horror's can attack what life is left... it may be a land that Organic life itself barely has a foothold in... which would make it pretty much worthless except for the most desperate Settlers and special interests.