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| | '''Jupiter''' is the fifth planet out from Sol. It is the largest gas giant in the system and is actually two times larger than all the other planets of the Solar system combined. It is composed of Helium and Hydrogen in similar ratios as Sol itself, suggesting that Jupiter may have been on the road to becoming a dwarf star, but never achieved the mass to ignite. A Jovian day lasts approximately 10 standard hours, while a Jovian year is almost 11.9 standard years long. Jupiter is known for the multicolored bands and massive storms that are visible on the top of the planet’s atmosphere. The most well-known feature of Jupiter is its Great Red Spot, a massive hurricane many times the size of Earth that has been raging for centuries. Jupiter has more than 67 moons in total, though only the Galilean moons (Europa, Ganymede, Io, Callisto) are home to outposts that serve more as tourist destinations than actual military installations. Settlements on the gas giant are giant floating cities that grace the upper atmosphere, held aloft by massive, reinforced zepplins. Jupiter is the second largest source of tourism for the Solar system. |
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| The only natural satellite of Earth, Luna is the oldest colony of humanity and has fascinated humanity since long before the dawn of space travel. Luna is humanity’s oldest colony and one of its wealthiest, due to the moon’s significant corporate presence. Cities on Luna are often partially underground due to the planet’s lack of an atmosphere, but many great domed cities exist on Luna as well. The primary language of Luna is either Sol Common or Tradeband, depending on which Lunarian you ask. | | The combined population is 1.4 million people. |
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| ==History== | | ==Jupiter's Moons== |
| While humanity has been obsessed with Earth’s moon for untold millennia before the invention of the most primitive spacecraft, historians generally regard the modern era of Luna as beginning on 16 July, 1969 - when American Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were the first humans to ever land upon another celestial body. These pioneers were quickly followed in late 1970 by the Soviet N1/L3 Soyuz 7K-LOK “Pervoprohodets” mision, which landed the third group of humans on the Moon. The “Moon Race” would continue for the rest of the 20th century and result in the first permanent settlement on Luna by the early 1980s - the Soviet “Zvezda” moonbase. The Moon Race ended in an arguable draw in the early 21st century, due to increasing economic instability on Earth.
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| Luna was mostly ignored by a humanity more obsessed with survival at home until 2070, when colonists from United Orbital Enterprise (a unified space agency between the USA, China, France, and Mexico) landed on its light side. Colonists from Cosmonaut Enterprises (a successor to the Soviet space program of the 20th century) landed on the dark side of Luna in 2072. With this the colonization of Earth’s moon had formally begun, and it would see significant use as a waystation for other points in the Sol system over the course of the upcoming decades and centuries. Due to its low gravity, the Soviets and UOE used Luna as a major shipyard and proving ground for deep-space equipment.
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| | Probes to Europa around the time of Mars colonization verified there were in fact, evidence of microbial life in its waters, which prompted more intensive probing which lead to the discovery of shrimp in both 'lakes' trapped closer to the surface in pockets of ice, and the bigger ocean underneath. The most astonishing fact about these translucent purple shrimp is the size, averaging around 1.5 feet (45.7 cms), with some observed cases of up to 4 feet(121.9cms). This is a large margin above terrestrial shrimp,. Their primary source of food seems to be rather large masses of bioluminescent algae, that seem to thrive in the typically low-light conditions of the waters darkened by thick layers of ice. |
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| Further colonization to Luna took place during the 21st and 22nd century as climate damage gradually worsened, with many wealthy families and companies simply moving offworld to Luna when able to do so. The booming economy of Luna - supposed by Helium-3 and titanium mining efforts on it - helped create the environment for the foundation of humanity’s first megacorporation, Einstein Engines, in 2155. Luna’s prosperity has continued since then, and it remains one of the wealthiest planets in the Sol Alliance to this very day, despite its small size and small population. The Luna of today is, in many ways, the ideal colony. Rich, prosperous, and unfailing in its loyalty to the Sol Alliance.
| | The ice-encrusted-ocean moon around Jupiter houses several facilities, most of them owned by '''[[Idris Incorporated]]''' and most of those are recreational and tourist attractions. Of the Idris facilities, the Jovian Jewel, a partially underwater casino/aquarium/fine undersea dining facility located closer to the south pole of Europa, is widely acclaimed for the aforementioned functions. The shrimp there are often served with the many other ingredients grown with hydroponic equipment present. Among the casino functions, it has well-watched biannual poker tournaments, and Jupiter's Red Storm themed roulette wheels. |
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| ==Environment==
| | Another facilitiy present on the moon with a large amount of prominence is a genetic research facility, the ZHRS Zhenbing, studies the evolutionary process of the shrimp and algae present on the moon, trying to determine the how and why they evolved the way they have. |
| Luna is a barren rock with almost no atmosphere to speak of, and its surface is extremely cold. To perform activities outside without a spacesuit is suicide, and much of its population lives underground or in massive “dome cities” on its surface. The moon is tidally locked to Earth and takes 28 days to make a full rotation, leading to it possessing both a light and dark side. The Lunarian surface is also home to heavy amounts of helium-3 and titanium, which have made it an ideal target for mining. Less populated areas often feature huge strip mines where materials for humanity’s expansion into the greater Orion Spur have been retrieved from the Lunar soil, with the resulting strip mines simply left unfilled - particularly on the dark side of Luna.
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| ==Life on Luna== | | ===Io -=== |
| The population of Luna is minuscule compared to that of Mars and Venus, with roughly 1.3 billion permanent residents scattered across its surface. However despite its small population the residents of Luna are, on average compared to the rest of the Sol Alliance, wealthier and happier than anywhere else. Menial labor has been taken over by IPCs produced by Einstein Engines, which dominates the economy and politics of most settlements on Earth’s satellite.
| | As opposed to its more icy sister-moon, Io is bathed in lava and radiation, both being able to be pinned on Jupiter's influence, the former on its gravity and the latter on its magnetosphere. While the radiation and other electromagnetic interference present have made drones less than optimal in attempts to explore the moon, and the manned expeditions finding nothing worth the hassle of attempting to setup on the moon as it stands currently, it has been left largely left unmolested by human hands. |
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| Unlike elsewhere in the Sol Alliance Lunarian, culture retains connections to Earth itself despite the mish-mash nature of its settlements. As a result of this many locations on Earth’s satellite proudly boast of their connections to the Blue Planet while striving to maintain a culture similar to their Earthbound origins, though some cultural drift has occurred over the past centuries. Physical drift has occurred as well, with Lunarians typically being taller, thinner, and paler than their Earthbound counterparts as a result of their existence in artificial gravity slightly lighter than that of Earth itself due to the widespread usage of artificial gravity on Luna. Some Lunarians view this as a point of pride, with a tall stature being viewed as desirable amongst its plutocrats.
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| Most cities on Luna are actually located on its surface, particularly those descended from UOE colonies. The oldest typically use large shielded domes that remain clear due to the materials used in their construction - generally made of super-reinforced glass microthreaded with titanium - centuries ago. More recent domes utilize phoron-reinforced glass for a better view of the outside, and improved durability, and some domes even use solely force fields created by superheated plasma to create miniature atmospheres. The uniquely spectacular views provided by these domes are a point of pride amongst Lunarians, with the best views (particularly those of Earth) being reserved for the most elite of Luna’s elite.
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| | Colonized in 2100 by the Cosmonaut Enterprises' Balandin, establishing the colony of Miestobra in the Zu Fossae. It's chief function was to allow engineers building settlements over Jupiter a reliable supply source. Over time it became a large source of agricultural goods from it's massive hydroponics program, even going so far as to establish a notable prominence in the Sol Alliance as a large quantity (and reasonable quality) alcohol provider, usually in vodka and kvass, a popular beverage of the first colonists there, and still today in Miestobra. |
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| '''Ethnic Groups:'''
| | Of even larger note than the influence of Miestobra in the region and it's history, is the evidence of shrimp similar, if not exactly the same as those on Europa. They have been found and noted by geologists/miners working on establishing what caused the light, unmarked by crater terrain to the darker, more heavily pocketed areas. There are a few cases of them having been excavated along other materials, frozen in the icy crust. No alive specimens have been recovered yet, though it's theorized that there are more present in it's subsurface ocean, especially with recent evidence pointing to the existence of some kind of algae similar to that present on Europa as well. |
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| * 9.2% Non-Lunarian humans
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| There is no truly unified “Lunarian culture” beyond wealth and pride in their close connection to Earth due to the diversity of its small-yet-rich population, but there are some common traits beyond having an average familial wealth greater than entire colonies on the frontier.
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| One of these is Danza de la Luna, an extremely popular holiday on Luna said to date back to the 2070s. The holiday is originally rooted in the Chinese New Year, itself imported by Chinese immigrants to Luna, but has since grown to be a common holiday designed to celebrate the success of humanity’s first interstellar pioneers.
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| Apollo Day is another common holiday, taking place on the sixteenth of July. Similarly to Danza de la Luna, this holiday celebrates the success of humanity’s interstellar pioneers. However, this one celebrates the success of Apollo 11 specifically rather than explorers more generally. A variation on Apollo Day named Pervoprohodets Day is instead celebrated in Soviet-colonized areas, with this holiday instead taking place on the fifteenth of December - the date the USSR’s LK lander touched down on the Lunar surface.
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| Lunarians are, as a general rule, a tightly-knit people due to the barriers associated with entry into what is considered by some outsiders to be the "ultimate gated community." Loyalty to one's family is seen as a desirable trait, and the standing of a family in the pecking order of Luna can be relatively static due to what prestige is often based upon: how long the family has resided on Luna for. Some of the wealthiest and most prestigious families on Luna are the descendants of rich climate refugees from the late 21st century that have dwelt on Luna for as long as humanity has maintained offworld colonies.
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| As a result of their typically-esteemed pedigrees Lunarians are known across the Solarian Alliance - and human space more generally - for their immense pride in their home and mind-blowing wealth, with some families rumored to be richer than entire member states of the Coalition of Colonies. Due to this Lunarians are often stereotyped as haughty, arrogant people that look down their noses at others - even other wealthy Solarians such as Cytherean Venusians - and brag incessantly about their origins on humanity's first colony. A common joke in the Coalition of Colonies is that you always know a Lunarian: they'll tell you they're one very quickly after meeting you.
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| '''Harmony City''' is the official capital of Luna, with a population of roughly ten million, and is situated in the Sea of Tranquility near where Apollo 11 landed centuries ago. Notable locations within the city include the AESCO-L Museum of Aeronautics and Astronautics, which preserves the original Apollo 11 landing site within itself. Another major feature in Harmony City is Einstein Engines’ headquarters. Harmony City is located on the light side of Luna, and is regarded as one of the Sol Alliance’s wealthiest areas. It is viewed by Lunarians as a highly desirable as a location to live.
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| Located outside Harmony City, the '''Einstein Engines Robert H. Goddard Administrative, Commercial, and Research Facility''' is large enough to be considered a separate municipal area from Harmony City itself. The facility is one of the largest, and one of the most well-guarded, corporate buildings in the Orion Spur, and dates back to the founding of Einstein Engines. Dr. Noella Lopez-Zhang, the current CEO of Einstein Engines, has her office at the peak of the facility’s tallest spire.
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| '''Gagaringrad''' is the largest and greatest dome founded by Cosmonaut Industries. Most of the “dome” is actually underground, leading to it being seen as very unattractive by Luna’s plutocrats. Despite this Zavodskoi Interstellar - perhaps attracted by the nearby colonial-era weapons testing facility at Shajin Crater - has a significant presence in Gagaringrad, and is the dome’s primary employer. Like Harmony City, Gagaringrad has its own slice of Lunar history - a museum centered around the Zvezda moonbase, one of the first permanent settlements on Luna.
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| '''Nouvelle Caen''' is one of the largest and most modern domes, located in the Mare Serenitatis on the Moon’s light side. Its usage of phoron-reinforced glass in its dome allowed for a larger dome than Harmony City’s, and it has remarkably managed to create an artificial “sea” inside of the Mare Serenitatis, which has become the only body of water on Luna itself. Nouvelle Caen is seen by the Lunarians as the peak of luxury on Luna and is regarded as the premier location to live on the moon, despite not being its capital. Many corporate higher-ups have penthouses here with the notable exception of Hephaestus CEO Titanius Aeson, who still resides in his Martian apartment. | |
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| Corporations are just as present amongst the elites of Luna as they are in the rest of the Sol Alliance, but the age and wealth of Earth’s only natural satellite has led to corporations being treated slightly differently here than on New Hai Phong or Silversun.
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| '''Einstein Engines''' is the undisputed hegemon of Luna, with Governor Kristen Anuja thoroughly at the beck-and-call of its CEO and most non-plutocrat Lunarians employed by it.
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| '''NanoTrasen''' has a fairly small presence on Luna, with offices in Harmony City and not much else. The local government is extremely hostile towards the megacorp, due to the local dominance of Einstein. | |
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| '''Hephaestus Industries''' maintains small presences on Luna, particularly in Harmony City.
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| '''Zeng-Hu Pharmaceuticals''' remains the primary sponsor of the venerable Lunar University of Medical Science, and maintains some research facilities on Luna dating back to its early colonization that are used for low-gravity experiments.
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| '''Zavodskoi Interstellar''' maintains a presence on the dark side of Luna, where its weapons testing is less likely to cause a disturbance.
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| '''Idris Incorporated''' can be found throughout Luna, due to its consistent focus on luxury in all things.
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| ==Character Examples==
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| '''Characters from Luna are likely to:'''
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| * Be involved with a major megacorporation at the management level.
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| * Be extremely wealthy and well-educated.
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| * Be taller and paler than average.
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| * Have strong connections to Earth.
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| * Be more comfortable around IPCs than most Solarians.
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| '''Here is an example character from Luna:'''
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| * Lavrentiy Valentinovich Likhachyov, 62, is a corporate liaison for Zavodskoi Interstellar currently operating in Tau Ceti. He is regarded by his colleagues in Z.I. as goal-orientated, but has a reputation in NanoTrasen as pushy.
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| * Lavrentiy is 6’2” and is moderately built for his age - quite the feat in the lower gravity levels of Luna.
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| * Lavrentiy holds a MBA from Moscow State University, and has been employed by Z.I. since graduation. He lives in company-sponsored housing in D10, a short walk from the company shuttleport.
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| * Lavrentiy views IPCs as useful tools, unathi as useful idiots, tajara as worthless, skrell as rivals of Zavodskoi, and vaurca as freakish abominations. Of course, he doesn’t air these views publicly.
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| * Lavrentiy speaks Tradeband, Sol Common, and Tau Ceti Basic at proficient levels.
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| '''Here is another example character from Luna:'''
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| * Marie-Claire de Marigny, 85, is a research director employed by NanoTrasen. She is poised and elegant, though whispers that she is arrogant and haughty have followed her to the Aurora. She is originally from Harmony City.
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| * Marie-Claire is 6’ flat with a thin, slender build. She has invested a massive amount of money into maintaining her appearance, and appears to be in her late thirties due to extensive gene therapy.
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| * Marie-Claire is a graduate of École Polytechnique on Earth, and holds a doctorate in molecular and cellular biology. She regards herself as the best of the best.
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| * Marie-Claire lives in an expansive “vacation home” in district four of Mendell City with several shell servants, but prefers her family residence in Harmony City.
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| * Marie-Claire enjoys speaking with skrell and IPCs, but views tajara, unathi, and varuca in a negative light.
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| * Marie-Claire is exceptionally well-educated, speaking Tradeband, Sol Common, and Tau Ceti Basic with ease.
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| * Custodian Unit #895, 1, is a baseline-frame IPC owned by NanoTrasen and contracted aboard the Aurora as a janitor. CU-895 was manufactured with customer service as its top priority and prides itself in it.
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| * CU-895 is 5’ flat, to better fit into maintenance shafts. Its TV displays a smiley face at times, to “better personify” it.
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| * Like thousands of identical baselines, CU-895 was produced by Terraneus Diagnostics - a subsidiary of Einstein Engines - for use by megacorporations looking for cheap labor.
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| * CU-895 holds no strong views on alien species, or on anything at all really. It would make it a less desirable product.
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| * This unit of the CU series IPC is programmed with Encoded Audio Language, Sol Common, Tau Ceti Basic, and Tradeband. Please report any audio deficiencies to Terraneus Diagnostics.
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| | Callisto is home to the SAOD Dosahobra, originally founded by Cosmonaut Enterprises and 'acquired' by the Sol Alliance after the USSR (and by extension, many of the countries in CE) collapsed financially. Now it serves as a primary port for travel to and from the Sol System, outside of use by the warpgate. The location was chosen for the potential to be used as a good location to gravity assist ships both heading to the outer and inner system. The technique is still used effectively to save fuel, especially for smaller ships. |
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Jupiter is the fifth planet out from Sol. It is the largest gas giant in the system and is actually two times larger than all the other planets of the Solar system combined. It is composed of Helium and Hydrogen in similar ratios as Sol itself, suggesting that Jupiter may have been on the road to becoming a dwarf star, but never achieved the mass to ignite. A Jovian day lasts approximately 10 standard hours, while a Jovian year is almost 11.9 standard years long. Jupiter is known for the multicolored bands and massive storms that are visible on the top of the planet’s atmosphere. The most well-known feature of Jupiter is its Great Red Spot, a massive hurricane many times the size of Earth that has been raging for centuries. Jupiter has more than 67 moons in total, though only the Galilean moons (Europa, Ganymede, Io, Callisto) are home to outposts that serve more as tourist destinations than actual military installations. Settlements on the gas giant are giant floating cities that grace the upper atmosphere, held aloft by massive, reinforced zepplins. Jupiter is the second largest source of tourism for the Solar system.
The combined population is 1.4 million people.
Jupiter's Moons
Europa -
Probes to Europa around the time of Mars colonization verified there were in fact, evidence of microbial life in its waters, which prompted more intensive probing which lead to the discovery of shrimp in both 'lakes' trapped closer to the surface in pockets of ice, and the bigger ocean underneath. The most astonishing fact about these translucent purple shrimp is the size, averaging around 1.5 feet (45.7 cms), with some observed cases of up to 4 feet(121.9cms). This is a large margin above terrestrial shrimp,. Their primary source of food seems to be rather large masses of bioluminescent algae, that seem to thrive in the typically low-light conditions of the waters darkened by thick layers of ice.
The ice-encrusted-ocean moon around Jupiter houses several facilities, most of them owned by Idris Incorporated and most of those are recreational and tourist attractions. Of the Idris facilities, the Jovian Jewel, a partially underwater casino/aquarium/fine undersea dining facility located closer to the south pole of Europa, is widely acclaimed for the aforementioned functions. The shrimp there are often served with the many other ingredients grown with hydroponic equipment present. Among the casino functions, it has well-watched biannual poker tournaments, and Jupiter's Red Storm themed roulette wheels.
Another facilitiy present on the moon with a large amount of prominence is a genetic research facility, the ZHRS Zhenbing, studies the evolutionary process of the shrimp and algae present on the moon, trying to determine the how and why they evolved the way they have.
Io -
As opposed to its more icy sister-moon, Io is bathed in lava and radiation, both being able to be pinned on Jupiter's influence, the former on its gravity and the latter on its magnetosphere. While the radiation and other electromagnetic interference present have made drones less than optimal in attempts to explore the moon, and the manned expeditions finding nothing worth the hassle of attempting to setup on the moon as it stands currently, it has been left largely left unmolested by human hands.
Ganymede -
Colonized in 2100 by the Cosmonaut Enterprises' Balandin, establishing the colony of Miestobra in the Zu Fossae. It's chief function was to allow engineers building settlements over Jupiter a reliable supply source. Over time it became a large source of agricultural goods from it's massive hydroponics program, even going so far as to establish a notable prominence in the Sol Alliance as a large quantity (and reasonable quality) alcohol provider, usually in vodka and kvass, a popular beverage of the first colonists there, and still today in Miestobra.
Of even larger note than the influence of Miestobra in the region and it's history, is the evidence of shrimp similar, if not exactly the same as those on Europa. They have been found and noted by geologists/miners working on establishing what caused the light, unmarked by crater terrain to the darker, more heavily pocketed areas. There are a few cases of them having been excavated along other materials, frozen in the icy crust. No alive specimens have been recovered yet, though it's theorized that there are more present in it's subsurface ocean, especially with recent evidence pointing to the existence of some kind of algae similar to that present on Europa as well.
Callisto -
Callisto is home to the SAOD Dosahobra, originally founded by Cosmonaut Enterprises and 'acquired' by the Sol Alliance after the USSR (and by extension, many of the countries in CE) collapsed financially. Now it serves as a primary port for travel to and from the Sol System, outside of use by the warpgate. The location was chosen for the potential to be used as a good location to gravity assist ships both heading to the outer and inner system. The technique is still used effectively to save fuel, especially for smaller ships.
