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Being able to see the stars and examine up close Jupiter and its other moons should help alleviate the claustrophobia of living beneath the ice. The colonists should also appreciate being able to more easily communicate with Earth by maintaining a permanent outcropping above the ice. A huge elevator shaft to the surface will be required, but that will make any further surface expansion easier.
Messages take at least three hours to arrive back and forth between Earth and Europa, so it makes holding a steady conversation impossible. Your next short missive from General Wigwe states "PROGRESS IS ACCEPTABLE." As work begins, Marcel Temaru, together with a hardcore cadre drawn from the aquanauts and marine scientists of the colony, chooses to begin working on building the submarine bay in their spare time.
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