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the planetary natives by granting any mining or other
concessions near the mysterious ruins which the Jo-
vians held sacred. Within five Earth years, ships were
traveling from Jupiter back to Earth and Mars, heavily
laden with grain, new hybridized Jovian fruits, super-
valuable radium, uranium and other rare metals, and a
variety of miscellaneous Jovian products.
Robert Caswell, the first governor of Jupiter, was an
ambitious explorer and mapped large portions, not only
of South Equatoria, but of the neighboring continents of
North Equatoria and Torridia. Of course, he was able to
chart only the main continental outlines, and the great
part of Jupiter's actual surface remains unexplored to
this day. Caswell was killed in a crash-landing in the
jungle outside Jovopolis, in 2012.
A MINIATURE JUPITER
The colony prospered, however. Expeditions were
sent to Europa, Io and Ganymede, the other three of the
four great moons, to explore. Europa was found to be a
miniature Jupiter, jungle-covered and quite habitable,
though lacking valuable minerals as far as could be as-
certained. Io, on the other hand, was as harsh and for-
bidding as Callisto, though uninhabited by the crystal-
creatures that tenant Callisto's wastes. Ganymede, the
fourth moon, is still a mystery. Three expeditions sent
there have failed to return, and further attempts at ex-
ploration there are temporarily prohibited.
In 2015, the Jupiter-Earth ship-lines were terrorized
by radium bandits who held up the craft carrying back
the precious metals to Earth. Development of the
colony was set back for a time. But as the Planet Police
got the radium bandits under control, colonial develop-
ment prospered again, and was destined to meet no fur-
ther danger until there suddenly developed the dark, un-
believable menace of the atavism horror - a menace
that seemed fated to sweep Earthmen from Jupiter for-
ever.
THE WORLDS OF TOMORROW
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