=The Court of Zeus= 
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Over ﬁfty irregular moons are found beyond the inner eight moons of [[Jupiter]], most no more than a few barren kilometers across. Some of them, however, have become home for a number of transhumans or are interesting in their own regard. Many of these are collected into groups with the same orbital characteristics (much like asteroid families).
==Aoede== 
A four-kilometer chunk of rock in the Pasiphaë group, Aoede is entirely unremarkable save for a weak radio signal emitted from the moonlet. Unpopulated since the Fall, access to Aoede has been restricted by the [[Jovian Republic]] and is enforced by a small group of tethered mini-killsats. Every time the moonlet emerges from Jupiter’s massive magnetotail, the frequency and content of the signal has changed. Recent transmissions include a part transcription of Shakespeare’s As You Like It, an elderly man’s voice reading the 1989 Skokie, IL telephone book, and the audio from the Golden Record of Voyager 1, played in reverse at half speed. Whether this is of transhuman origin, of TITAN design, or something else entirely is known only to the Jovian Republic, and they’re not telling.
==Aitne, Kale, and Taygete== 
This trio of moonlets, part of the Carme group, orbit Jupiter in roughly the same time, and comprise the Carme Compact, a micro-commonwealth in the shadow of the Jovian Republic. Between the three moons, the Compact has a population of about 8,000 transhumans, most of them synthmorphs and infomorphs. The small number of biological transhumans in the Compact live below the surface of the moonlets in small, cramped living spaces. The Carme Compact prides itself for riding out the Fall relatively intact and has been an annoyance to the Jovian Republic for some time. The truth of the matter is, though, that the Compact is simply not worth the effort and energy it would take to remove them from the Junta’s sphere of inﬂuence, so The Republic allows it to exist.
==Callirrhoe== 
Callirrhoe, also part of the Pasiphaë group, is an 8.5-kilometer-long moonlet that features a relatively new dome habitat at one end. The residents of this habitat are primarily conservative political refugees from [[Callisto]] and [[Europa]], having eschewed those relatively transhuman-friendly moons for an isolated settlement where they could better embrace the bioconservative ideologies of their new benefactors in the Jovian Republic.
==Carpo== 
Carpo is one of the few moons of Jupiter that is in its own group. This irregular moonlet is only about 3 kilometers in diameter, yet hosts a population of around 17,000 transhumans; over 98% of that number are infomorphs and the remainder synthmorphs. The Carpo infomorphs reside in a simulspace designed and managed by an infomorph calling himself Da5id. The simulspace itself is an alternate historical America, in which transhuman ethics and morality are being applied to 1800s sensibilities. Admission is very strict and seemingly completely arbitrary.
==Euanthe== 
Euanthe, a potato-shaped moonlet about three kilometers end to end, resides in the Ananke group and as such is tightly regulated by the Jovian Republic. While not part of the Republic itself, Euanthe acts as a toll collector for the Republic in this part of Jupiter’s orbit, and in exchange the Republic allows Euanthe to remain nominally independent. As such the population of Euanthe (around 2,000) is relatively prosperous and clings closely to Republic ideology.
==Helike== 
Helike, a moonlet also in the Ananke group, is an abandoned Reagan cylinder about four kilometers end to end. Shortly after the Fall, a number of powerful Jovian Republic ofﬁcials ﬂed here with certain unknown items of value, believing the Helike habitat was safe from TITAN activity. Once the group had secured the station from the bafﬂed residents, the entire station decompressed, exposing those inside to open vacuum. Rumors abound as to the cause of the incident and the alleged nature of the items the ofﬁcials were carrying. It is worth noting that the ofﬁcials all shared a similar ideology within the Republic’s decidedly narrow worldview; a political power-play is one of the more popular theories.

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