Paleoterra

Paleoterra is a large planet famous for its Silurian ecosystem.

It was discovered in the late 21st century, and was theorized to be a possible home to extraterrestrial life. Later missions though revealed that, while it was barren of life, it had oceans of liquid water. This was not the first planet to be discovered with oceans of water after Earth, however. The early 27th century saw the first manned arrival to the planet, where it was discovered that it was the closest planet yet to be discovered to early Ordovician Earth. Terraforming of the planet was immediately put forward, however, after the success of the planet Lazarus, some scientists questioned whether it would be possible to reconstruct a Paleozoic ecosystem on the planet. This turned into a full out legal battle, and made people questioned who got to decide what happened to exoplanets. The case was eventually brought forth before the Galactic Confederacy, which voted in the scientists' favor.

After much discussion, the late Silurian was chosen as the select ecosystem to reconstruct, and work began immediately on reconstructing the genomes of extinct species known to have lived then (because of the rapidity of DNA degradation, the scientists were forced to make a “best guess” of the species, which turned out to be surprisingly accurate.

Today, the planet is not very densely populated, with a total population of just under 60 million people. The planet has a fishing and tourism based economy.