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Y'ain't putting man nor beast nor machine anywhere near a pulsar planet with any semblence of operational functionality because of the insane amount of rads being hurled by the pulsar. Totally untouchable, even if we could travel to them.
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How can you be sure? Most pulsar energy is delivered from the magnetic poles which are likely though not necessarily aligned within 10 or 20 degrees of the rotational axis, and the planets are likely near the roational equator. I'm the only one I know of who's guessing that the planets survived the supernova that created the pulsar and only the life in the first 100 meters of the pre-pulsar version of the planets was destroyed or greatly reduced in quantity. The shell of exploding material probably passed by the planets in a few hours, and , for the slow rotators, if any, may not have completely destroyed all of the surface life, if any. The various combinations and permutations of the many possible configurations of the magnetic fields could possibly have even preserved (or added) some atmosphere---giving meaning to the Biblical phrase: "and a new heaven and a new Earth came to be".
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For those inclined to oppose human meddling with the structure of the universe or the composition and configuration of objects and groups of objects within the universe, consider:
Whether there is a limit to the magnitude of a modulation of chaos below which order remains invariant? Or, is order but a fiction invented by perspectives applied over finite, however large, time intervals?
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