Earth was home. Then home became completely unlivable and a menace, so we left. Things haven't changed. The people who suggest that Earth could provide a home for tens of millions of infugees and others on account of its natural bounty are clearly unaware of the fact that the Earth is a barely inhabited wasteland devastated not only by the Fall but by centuries of human environmental degradation. TITANs and exhumans are the most notable inhabitants. The Earth as lebensraum? Laugh. More to the point, current overpopulation is relative to currently existing social and economic structures. The general success of the different resleeving programs of the Autonomist Alliance's different members indicates that there are so many infugees and people in dead storage not because of absolute resource shortages but because of specific choices made by different polities. My Titan was able to handle a population explosion over the past decade, multiplying its population almost thirtyfold to sixty million, because it was run by a government that was committing to sleeving all the infugees. Titan, it should be noted, is a cryogenic outer-system moon. Why isn't fertile Mars capable of doing even better (Planetary Consortium, I'm looking at you).

[To: FreeRangeDarkcast] [From: Box-13] First off, Morningstar for LIFE! As an AGI I have to say I have mixed emotions about reclaiming Earth. On the first hand I've bought XPs of Earth. 'Cow tipping' seems like a very enjoyable sport and I would love to actually play it. On the second hand I fear that even if Earth is reclaimed the PC and the LLA would most likely block myself and my AGI brethren from setting foot on the planet. I mean the last time I was in the LLA people called me 'baby-titan' to my face before and after spitting on me. Why would they let me set foot on Earth? But then again on the third hand retaking Earth would allow all our Uplift brothers and sisters the chance to experience their homeworld. I don't know about you but I would love to see one of those Neo-Orca ballets in an actual ocean. Oh and dolphin brothels made of real coral! I went to one of those once (no real coral though). Boy did my programers not forsee that when they wrote my code. But on the fourth hand, it is swarming with Titan weapons. We barely survived and it has only been 10 years. I think we need time to build up our numbers and technology before even thinking about seriously discussing it. Personally I think we should focus more on terrforming Venus's upper atmosphere and the Martians with their terraforming jobs first. For two buddies on Mars, I'll never forget what you did for me in the White Zone. Get down with B, burn down Red Eden! Peace and Clean sleeving!

Why reclaim Earth? Hmph. We need to reclaim it, because it is ours. Every space in the Solar system needs to be occupied, and the nanoswarms down there constitute a threat. Who knows how long until they being killing us as well? Furthermore, we as transhumans were originally designed to live on Earth, and anyone who would give it up is denying the heritage of transhumanity, the place where all our progress and deeds began. Do we really want it destroyed, and let the heroes of the past be forgotten, our homeland gone forever? Our history began with Earth, and it is our fault that it is in this state. We need to fix what we screwed up: Earth. People say to go beyond the Gates instead, but the risks associated with them are too great right now. We are charging recklessly ahead with the technology we discover, when we should be taking a cautious step forward instead. We should hold off exploration until we fully figure out the Gates, their dangers and how they work. We should work on recovery and restoration before we can think of expansion. Ten years since the Fall, and I daresay that transhumanity is not ready to go recklessly exploring into the great beyond, where at any time we could stumble upon the TITAN's once again, and unleash their wrath upon us. The threats on Earth we should take care of first, we cannot face the TITAN's if we cannot first face all the little horrors that they left behind. Furthermore, need I remind you who is pushing forward the expansion into exoplanets? The Hypercorps. Remember how the Fall happened? How we continued to rely on rampant capitalism and corporations with power beyond imagining, even as Earth suffered under the weight of transhumanity? How that same rampant capitalism led to war, to famine and suffering all across Earth? How that same capitalism, developed AI without any forethought or considering of the consequences of what they were doing? It was corporation money that funded the research and design of the AI's capable of singularity intelligence after all, funded all so that profit can be made, regardless of the consequences of actually using such technology! Caring only about the bottom line profit, is what got the TITAN's made in the first place and the wars to break out at all! When it could've all been prevented, if we had simply slowed down and thought about what we were doing! But no, the greed of capitalism blinded us all, and blinds us still, making us recklessly hurl ourselves into the void after the TITANs, just daring for them to kill us in response. Assuming the TITANs are the only things to fear out there- I mean explain all the dead alien civilizations we keep finding. Do you really believe that its all a coincidence? If we keep gatecrashing like this, we are going to eventually kick over another beehive- and transhumanity might not survive a second time. That is why we need to reclaim Earth. We need to reclaim it from the horrors infesting it, to prepare for the eventual second round with the TITANs. We need to give people a home again. We need to return to the place where we were born and raised- ten thousand years of history on Earth is not something to laugh off or forget. And we need to restore it, without capitalism, but with anarchy, with a society that won't oppress everyone who wasn't born into the right family of plutocrats, with a society where money does not matter more than life, a society that won't recklessly endanger itself with excess curiosity. A society where we can truly live again, but this time without any selfish uncaring capitalists screwing it up for everyone else. -Brevent Lastar, Anarchist, Precautionist, Reclaimer

Primarily nostalgia, it's our home, it's where we were made to be, it's where a lot of us still have fond memories. More pragmatic reasons are that it's a large terraformed planet that can sustain our entire population if need be. Hell, the Fall drastically reduced our population, we likely wouldn't even cover the globe. Space is a concern out in, well, space, and the biggest obstacle keeping us from sleeving everyone isn't bodies (hell, folks change bodies on a regular basis sometimes), it's giving them all a place to live.

I'm a Titanian, and we have a strong off-Earth presence. We're not the Planetary Consortium, but we don't want to be. I'm reasonably sure this isn't a matter of certain microcorps dominating public opinion. We are already a decimated population. Concentrating on an Earth that is still very dangerous instead of spreading, with some speed and an amount of caution, across our galaxy could be a civilization-ending result.

The Earth you all remember died without backup And the things that live there now won't give it back without a fight that will destroy most of that you want so perhaps Earth isn't a viable issue for us now My sympathies lie with the numberless dead Those who were lost and those who only got out as egocasts into a solar system that they never wanted So lets give up on reclaiming a dead world and instead work to recover our dead from cold storage and then move on with our lives for now