Jovian project

The Jovian project

The Jovian project was a massive, joint federal-corporate colonization effort to colonize 6 of the Jovian moons. Six one way colony ships, launched in three waves, doubled as transportation and first colony habitats. The six colonies compose the Jovian neighborhood, a series of interconnected colonies composing one massive, near-simultaneous exodus to the stars.

The six colonies were set up as a main population planet, a mineral mining planet, an oxygen and water mining planet, two transfer point planetoids in opposing orbits around Jupiter and a small ship production center.

Celestial Objects of the Jovian neighborhood

• Europa (est. 2195), Federal Holding - Most oxygen rich moon around Jupiter, settled in the first wave of the Jovian project to grant access to large quantities of life supporting substances.
• Io (est. 2195), Corporate Holding - Most volcanically active moon, an experimental colony built on shock absorbent stilts to allow easy access to surface Scordite deposits.
• Callisto (est. 2195), Corporate Holding - The most easily populated of the Jovian colonies, settled to allow a greater number of people to form the population base of the Jovian project.
• Sinope (est. 2196), Federal Holding - transfer point Sinope is a cargo and personnel transfer point, a giant storehouse and dock that allows starships to dock with it. In effect a giant space station, though it's surface is not entirely covered. Retrograde orbit.
• Elara (est. 2196), Federal Holding - transfer point Elara is a cargo and personnel transfer point, a giant storehouse and dock that allows starships to dock with it. In effect a giant space station, though it's surface is not entirely covered. prograde orbit.
• Eukelade (est. 2197), Corporate Holding - Corporate small spacecraft manufacturing colony, built on a tiny planetoid in order to facilitate easily increasing the number and quality of the ships required for the Jovian neighborhood colonies to have an interdependent economy.