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My thinking is that Megaclite ("meg-a-kly-tee") was colonized by Americans from Europa, so the stripes are there because Murica. The red is replaced with orange because Jove. The blue is mostly there to give a good background for the the black hole in the middle of the field.

The Megaclite Industrial Zone is a habitat complex built around a Ceres-mass micro black hole named Scylla. Helium and hydrogen mined in Jupiter's upper atmosphere is pumped into Scylla's accretion disk, and nucleosynthetic reactions convert these light elements into heavier elements, which are always in high demand in the Jovian Cluster, where Io is normally the only cheap source of the stuff. These exothermic reactions generate large amounts of energy, most of which ends up being exported to other parts of the Jovian cluster.

The people of Megaclite gambled when they voted to let the Europa-based Roland Corporation turn their home into the site of the first industrial-scale micro black hole (the governments of Helike, Arche and Callirrhoe were asked, but all declined). The moon was disassembled entirely in the 2160's and was rebuilt into the ring-shaped MIZ (a dynamically-supported zerogee ring on the edge of the accretion disk, with four rotating cylinder habs facing away from Scylla), by the 2180's. That gamble has turned out to have been very profitable, and while Megaclite is still under Europan administration, and the Megaclitean government only co-owns Scylla alongside RolCorp, by the 2250's, the "Black Hole Moon" was able to break Io's monopoly on metal production. Io still vastly outperforms Megaclite, but as of 2285, a few places only get their metals from the MIZ.

Description
My thinking is that Megaclite ("meg-a-kly-tee") was colonized by Americans from Europa, so the stripes are there because Murica. The red is replaced with orange because Jove. The blue is mostly there to give a good background for the the black hole in the middle of the field.

The Megaclite Industrial Zone is a habitat complex built around a Ceres-mass micro black hole named Scylla. Helium and hydrogen mined in Jupiter's upper atmosphere is pumped into Scylla's accretion disk, and nucleosynthetic reactions convert these light elements into heavier elements, which are always in high demand in the Jovian Cluster, where Io is normally the only cheap source of the stuff. These exothermic reactions generate large amounts of energy, most of which ends up being exported to other parts of the Jovian cluster.

The people of Megaclite gambled when they voted to let the Europa-based Roland Corporation turn their home into the site of the first industrial-scale micro black hole (the governments of Helike, Arche and Callirrhoe were asked, but all declined). The moon was disassembled entirely in the 2160's and was rebuilt into the ring-shaped MIZ (a dynamically-supported zerogee ring on the edge of the accretion disk, with four rotating cylinder habs facing away from Scylla), by the 2180's. That gamble has turned out to have been very profitable, and while Megaclite is still under Europan administration, and the Megaclitean government only co-owns Scylla alongside RolCorp, by the 2250's, the "Black Hole Moon" was able to break Io's monopoly on metal production. Io still vastly outperforms Megaclite, but as of 2285, a few places only get their metals from the MIZ.