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How and when does Terraforming Engineers' replace power work?
The designer (Tom Lehmann) answered this directly on BoardGameGeek.
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It is an additional power used during the owner's settle step (it does not need a regular Settle action) and cannot be combined with other settle powers such as Improved Logistics, so no settle draws trigger for the replacement and Terraforming Guild/Robots do not draw. If a takeover is pending against the target, the replacement is announced but waits: if the takeover fails the replacement proceeds, otherwise it fails. The replaced world is discarded but keeps its powers until the end of the phase; the new world is not treated as newly placed, so it can be a takeover target. A world just settled this phase cannot be replaced.