Talk:Phobos/@comment-76.127.138.168-20150407004457/@comment-74.83.241.74-20151106135310

It doesn't always have to be that way. It just demonstrates how incredibly powerful the original Orokin were to A) re-sculpt a single dinky asteroid into a dinky planetoid, B) get it to retain an atmosphere, and C) Coax complex life onto it's surface. That takes a mind-twirling amount of technology, centuries of hard labor, and a genetic manipulation capability that makes the stuff were doing with farm animals look like toddlers finger-painting pictures of helixes.