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"The designers didn't know it, and the UN didn't know it; but the ramrobots were programmed only to find a habitable point. Having located a world at the right distance from the star to which it was sent, the ramrobot probe would drop and circle until it found a place at ground level which matched its criteria for atmospheric composition, average temperature, water vapor, and other conditions. Then the ramrobot would beam its laser pulse back to the solar system, and the UN would respond by sending a colony slowboat.
"...So Plateau was colonized. For the innermost world of Tau Ceti is like Venus in size and atmosphere, save for one mountain. That straight-sided mountain is forty miles tall, and its nearly flat top is half the size of California. It rises out of the searing black calm at the planet's surface to the transparent atmosphere above; and that air can be breathed."

- The Ethics of Madness, Larry Niven

Done in Blender and GIMP.

Description
"The designers didn't know it, and the UN didn't know it; but the ramrobots were programmed only to find a habitable point. Having located a world at the right distance from the star to which it was sent, the ramrobot probe would drop and circle until it found a place at ground level which matched its criteria for atmospheric composition, average temperature, water vapor, and other conditions. Then the ramrobot would beam its laser pulse back to the solar system, and the UN would respond by sending a colony slowboat.
"...So Plateau was colonized. For the innermost world of Tau Ceti is like Venus in size and atmosphere, save for one mountain. That straight-sided mountain is forty miles tall, and its nearly flat top is half the size of California. It rises out of the searing black calm at the planet's surface to the transparent atmosphere above; and that air can be breathed."

- The Ethics of Madness, Larry Niven

Done in Blender and GIMP.