Apr 21, 2025
Very small selection of some of my favorite europa posts from the past 48 hrs
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Very small selection of some of my favorite europa posts from the past 48 hrs
War Forever
News about the Europa Ice War, from the guy who started it
For context in case someone missed it: this past week has had an explosion of fiction and art being posted to Twitter and to a lesser extent a few other social media sites, accounts and memoirs of a brutal eternal conflict on Jupiter's icy moon Europa.
At first people thought this was a spontaneous fic situation like Goncharov, but it turns out to have been viral marketing for an (upcoming?) tabletop roleplaying game zine that got wildly out of hand (up to and including some indirect acknowledgment from a NASA social media account).
So it's less unreality and more, fanfic I guess.
...And now I really badly want to get my hands on that zine, I was already starting to brainstorm how to translate the thing into an RPG and turns out I won't even have to lmao.
Yeah, drop pods skid straight off the ice a lot these days.
President of Terra keeps sending up more and more kids with less and less training. Hard enough to stick the landing in a pod, harder on just 3 week boot camps worth of drop sims. seems every rotation at least 2 of em skip straight into a slow orbital decay around Jove. Heard rumors of some squads making bets on how many clicks from the eye they get. If they even survive the Gs from the slingshot...
One of our engineers started talkin' to em, when they skipped. Small stuff. Talking about home. Tellin 'em how to vent the reactor so they at least get to feel warm one last time before they get crushed by Joves embrace. Hell she even made up that fuckin phrase. One of the warmies in a pod last week even said theyd heard about her back on Terra. Say the booties call her the "Angel of Europa". Said even getting to hear her voice made him feel like it was all worth it.
Poor kid...
That one got to 'er I think. She got real quiet after that. In all these rotations I aint ever seen her cry after a skipped pod before.
Just last week one of her greasers snapped. Ice Madness gets to all the long term vets down in the caves eventually. He blew a heat generator, sayin shit about letting the cold take over, saying it was too warm.
She got caught in the blast... Body froze before the smoke even cleared. Lost half the engineering wing too.
Whelp, drop pod skipped again today. Her radio clicked, kids askin where she was. Couldn'ta been more than 14 neither. We all just sat there... None of us really knew what to do. CO finally stood up, picked up the com
"Sorry kid. Nothin but Jove now. Don't worry, You'll see your Angel soon."
Like the signs of the cosmic The crush of the eye
By Jove
My contributions to the twitter Europa War world-building shitpost.
Second image description: Ground forces escape the thermal blast of a Glorious Vision. Designed specifically for Europa, these orbital bombs never hit the ground, but produce a heat so intense it instantly and explosively evaporates the surface. This is known as a "ThunderMelt" effect.
still remember the first time i saw a ski-gunner under the sky of europa