"Biome" describes per-zone vegetation classification (Whittaker table).
"Planet class" describes overall planetary character. The conflation
caused the planet generator to misclassify ~270 bodies as barren.
Scope: systems.db column, schema SQL, Rust atlas code, wiki table
headers (Biome → Class), atlas proposal JSONs, all docs/decisions,
tooling scripts. Also normalizes atmosphere vocabulary (breathable →
standard) and expands planet class mapping to all 26 wiki values.
Unknown classes default to temperate for modder safety.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
F6V dead-end. 10k xenobotany research station, 12k+ documented
alien species (biochemically incompatible). Three centuries of
cataloguing life they can never use.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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