It showed up out of nowhere, made the most bank in history (for a movie), refused to explain and disappeared for like 15 years, then came back out of nowhere with a sequel movie, a AAA game, and like 3 more movies in the works.
Edit: I think it now has like a Lego line too?
Eyup. Pretty much. There was something about Pandora being the only planet with life they found, and since Earth cannot sustain life anymore…
This was explained in the second movie.
But the moon itself supports life just fine (we contaminated it back when we landed on the moon); we have grown plants on the moon successfully. Are the sci-fi writers explicitly ignoring what we have known for decades to justify a poorly thought out plan to do a search and replace movie?
The Moon isn’t a pressurised environment with a full ecosystem. And considering how developed and gridlocked Earth is, and that interstellar travel is possible, why do you assume the moon hasn’t already been colonised?
Or Mars? Or Titan?
An artificial ecosystem doesn’t, and will never, compare to an organically evolved one.
Honestly, a swarm of O’Neil cylinders would have more surface area than the planet Earth and need less mass than one of Mars’ moons. That would be vastly superior to even a duplicate Earth of nothing but nature preserves
Yes, but the last ship/vessel designated “O’Neil” was exploded to stop the Replicators. :P