The largest planet in the solar system, orbited by moons that serve as critical locations in human expansion. Its moon Io housed Mao-Kwikowski's secret protomolecule hybrid research facility. Europa, another Jovian moon, is home to a major UN naval base. Ganymede, the breadbasket of the outer planets, was devastated by a protomolecule hybrid attack that triggered a humanitarian crisis and pushed Earth and Mars to the brink of war. Jupiter's massive gravity well makes it a strategic chokepoint for transit between the inner and outer solar system.