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Far beyond the contested and anarchic habitat communities and mining stations of the asteroids lay a lifeboat of civilization before the quiet abyss of the outermost giants Neptune, Uranus, and a lesser degree Saturn. Relative civilization, at least. Jupiter and its moons were slowly settled from the 2150s to the 2180s, initially by freelance spacer companies leaving the chaos of the inner solar system for the uninhabited rimward worlds, followed by a continuous streamer of settlers from Earth and the asteroids consisting primarily of belters displaced by violence and former businessmen and ideologues of all stripes. They hoped to flee persecution, real or perceived, by the new world government that had rapidly consolidated from the various democratic workers' governments and labor federations that overwhelmed the Earth and Luna.

These migrants settled into the clouds and rocks in and around Jupiter over the years. Even after society in the inner system had stabilized, growth continued around Jovian space as communities began to specialize, economies grew in complexity, and diversified. A local microcosm developed, with pre-existing independent spacer companies establishing or helping to establish private banks and stimulate financial exchanges through broad investment while suppressing financial co-ops. These companies, holding great power within the economy of Jupiter and its moons, developed into a proto-metanational system, directly governing Jovian gas extraction operations while exerting influence over the moons' fledgling governments, centralizing political power in exchange for monetary stability and capital investment. Io and its abundant tidal heat energy became specialized for food production and heavy industries, Europa, with its unique indigenous subsurface biosphere, attracted significant pharmaceutical and bioscience developments, Ganymede for chiefly chemical production and refining, while outermost Callisto became a hub for the local financial exchange and a center for light industry.

Corporate hegemony over Jovian space persisted until the 2240s when rising internal factionalism between hereditary and non-hereditary business leaders led to a schism and a full-scale war breaking out in the clouds and space around Jupiter. The moons themselves became fully self-governing and rapidly diverged from each other politically. Due to the immense scale of Jupiter, fighting has continued, off and off, for the past eight decades. A fifth shooting war is currently ongoing.

State Security Organization concerns primarily lay in the frigid ocean-moon Europa, undergoing violent civil war between a burgeoning Neomarxist 'Yiropya Liberation' movement and the reactionary-military government entrenched there. World Party functionaries concede the necessity of constructive collaboration and support toward like-minded revolutionary-progressive forces in the continual, historic struggle to liberate humanity's parcel of the cosmos from the mountainous burden of our cruel and unjust history. See; SSO Jupiter Branch - Europa special operations.

Additionally, socio-analysts fear volcanic Io to be the flashpoint for a large-scale fascist movement as its plutocratic government has centralized in recent years, adopting increasingly discriminatory rhetoric, political repression, a program of economic corporatization, and industrial militarization.

The SSO Jupiter Branch socio-analytics committee views the public discrediting, or careful elimination, of charismatic Ionian parliamentary leader and de facto dictator "ROHAN KERMANI" as the principal means to dissipate fascist social momentum within the Jovian orbital sphere. Likely maintains close, personal relationships with same-sex partners and connections within the non-hetero-sexual underground. Comrade [REDACTED - see Positive-Anonymity Clause] has successfully advanced their 'toxified-masculinity defense' analysis as part of Kermani's ability to galvanize Ionian lumpenbourgeoisie and lumpenproles; suggests attempts to emotionally "OPEN UP" R.K. to the scrutiny of his predominantly homophobic socio-political base. (Note: "How did this proposal get through three sub-committees? What, we get an asset with a bomb up its rectum or a micro-cam lens under its retina to vaporize R.K.'s political status? Is this someone's netfic? Fucker's putting Sikhs up on meat hooks—we're dealing with a real, modern-day Hiendara, not some high-strung, grass-munching fruit baron from rural Brasil." — Comrade C.)

Non-state extremist terrorism is a secondary concern within the Jovian sphere. Prominent terror groups include the Buddhist militant Path of the Serene Storm (Serenites), Christian-heterodox 'Those of the Gloried Blood' ('Gorbluds'), and the regressive-revolutionary trans-planetary Army of the Outer System (Outies).

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Once again, credit to for making the planetary graphics and star-field. This is also from early April, in the same setting as the post-revolutionary solar system:

Description
Far beyond the contested and anarchic habitat communities and mining stations of the asteroids lay a lifeboat of civilization before the quiet abyss of the outermost giants Neptune, Uranus, and a lesser degree Saturn. Relative civilization, at least. Jupiter and its moons were slowly settled from the 2150s to the 2180s, initially by freelance spacer companies leaving the chaos of the inner solar system for the uninhabited rimward worlds, followed by a continuous streamer of settlers from Earth and the asteroids consisting primarily of belters displaced by violence and former businessmen and ideologues of all stripes. They hoped to flee persecution, real or perceived, by the new world government that had rapidly consolidated from the various democratic workers' governments and labor federations that overwhelmed the Earth and Luna.

These migrants settled into the clouds and rocks in and around Jupiter over the years. Even after society in the inner system had stabilized, growth continued around Jovian space as communities began to specialize, economies grew in complexity, and diversified. A local microcosm developed, with pre-existing independent spacer companies establishing or helping to establish private banks and stimulate financial exchanges through broad investment while suppressing financial co-ops. These companies, holding great power within the economy of Jupiter and its moons, developed into a proto-metanational system, directly governing Jovian gas extraction operations while exerting influence over the moons' fledgling governments, centralizing political power in exchange for monetary stability and capital investment. Io and its abundant tidal heat energy became specialized for food production and heavy industries, Europa, with its unique indigenous subsurface biosphere, attracted significant pharmaceutical and bioscience developments, Ganymede for chiefly chemical production and refining, while outermost Callisto became a hub for the local financial exchange and a center for light industry.

Corporate hegemony over Jovian space persisted until the 2240s when rising internal factionalism between hereditary and non-hereditary business leaders led to a schism and a full-scale war breaking out in the clouds and space around Jupiter. The moons themselves became fully self-governing and rapidly diverged from each other politically. Due to the immense scale of Jupiter, fighting has continued, off and off, for the past eight decades. A fifth shooting war is currently ongoing.

State Security Organization concerns primarily lay in the frigid ocean-moon Europa, undergoing violent civil war between a burgeoning Neomarxist 'Yiropya Liberation' movement and the reactionary-military government entrenched there. World Party functionaries concede the necessity of constructive collaboration and support toward like-minded revolutionary-progressive forces in the continual, historic struggle to liberate humanity's parcel of the cosmos from the mountainous burden of our cruel and unjust history. See; SSO Jupiter Branch - Europa special operations.

Additionally, socio-analysts fear volcanic Io to be the flashpoint for a large-scale fascist movement as its plutocratic government has centralized in recent years, adopting increasingly discriminatory rhetoric, political repression, a program of economic corporatization, and industrial militarization.

The SSO Jupiter Branch socio-analytics committee views the public discrediting, or careful elimination, of charismatic Ionian parliamentary leader and de facto dictator "ROHAN KERMANI" as the principal means to dissipate fascist social momentum within the Jovian orbital sphere. Likely maintains close, personal relationships with same-sex partners and connections within the non-hetero-sexual underground. Comrade [REDACTED - see Positive-Anonymity Clause] has successfully advanced their 'toxified-masculinity defense' analysis as part of Kermani's ability to galvanize Ionian lumpenbourgeoisie and lumpenproles; suggests attempts to emotionally "OPEN UP" R.K. to the scrutiny of his predominantly homophobic socio-political base. (Note: "How did this proposal get through three sub-committees? What, we get an asset with a bomb up its rectum or a micro-cam lens under its retina to vaporize R.K.'s political status? Is this someone's netfic? Fucker's putting Sikhs up on meat hooks—we're dealing with a real, modern-day Hiendara, not some high-strung, grass-munching fruit baron from rural Brasil." — Comrade C.)

Non-state extremist terrorism is a secondary concern within the Jovian sphere. Prominent terror groups include the Buddhist militant Path of the Serene Storm (Serenites), Christian-heterodox 'Those of the Gloried Blood' ('Gorbluds'), and the regressive-revolutionary trans-planetary Army of the Outer System (Outies).

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Once again, credit to for making the planetary graphics and star-field. This is also from early April, in the same setting as the post-revolutionary solar system: