atmospheric dissipation theme
The atmosphere on a planet disappears and civilization collapses.
Examples
Worf's unruly brother Nikolai save a group of Boraalan villagers from certain death in a rapid atmospheric dissipation event on their homeworld in tng7x13 "Homeward".
5 total · 3 major · 2 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| movie: Missile to the Moon (1958) | major | The Moon women's civilization was on the verge of collapsing because the the oxygen levels in the cves they inhabited was diminishing to critically low levels and they had to find a new planet to live on. |
| shortstory: The Man Who Saved the Earth (1926) | major | Professor Williams explained to Charley about how the Earth's "water gas will gradually lose out into sidereal space" rendering the Earth into an uninhabitable desert. The Martians tried to steal Earth's water to replenish their evaporated oceans. |
| tng7x13 | major | Boraalan :: Boraalan atmosphere suddenly dissipated away |
| movie: Cat-Women of the Moon (1953) | minor | The Cat-Woman civilization went extinct because the atmosphere of the Moon dissipated away. |
| shortstory: The Retreat to Mars (1927) | minor | The Martians sent colonists to Earth because their atmosphere was gradually dissipating away into outer space, and their civilization doomed as a result. |