Europa War - Blog Posts

map of europa with drawings of my fellow soldiers from back during the ice war

way back when I got promoted to sergeant my captain gave me the company guidebook on europan warfare and all these maps. neither of them were worth anything except as a canvas. thing is, ink and paint freezes in those tunnels, so I drew the other soldiers all in pencil. I've been going through these old sketches from my time on the ice and thinking I might share some of them, so I'll have a few more for you soon, because the ice was hell and this was the only thing that made it gentler

Source for map (Global Geologic Map of Europa by USGS in conjunction with NASA):

https://pubs.usgs.gov/sim/3513/sim3513_sheet.pdf

(I love USGS so much)

upon morning reflection I've decided the ice looks decent and the helmet looks kinda sick but I failed to convey the cosmic horror of the watchful eye of jove. but I think that's because no earthly medium can capture jove's pitiless face, and certainly not the crude colors of a veteran like me

we honor our fallen comrades beneath jove's unblinking eye

we honor our fallen comrades beneath jove's unblinking eye

You know I've been looking at this Europa war stuff. It's pretty cool. But I'm an aerospace engineer and I can't help but cringe a bit everytime someone talks about "freezing". You would not be freezing. Yes, Europa is cold, space is cold if you are in shadow, you? Oh, you are hot, very hot! On Europa, there isn't an atmosphere. You wouldn't have any way to shed heat, so the real problem wouldn't be keeping warm but keeping *cool*. In the tunnles? Sure if they are pressurized, cold as all hell. Anything else? Warm.