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As far back as the twentieth century, scientists guessed that we might find life on Europa. That was their first guess, at any rate. Enceladus was another possibility after the early twenty-first-century fly-by of Cassini. Their first guess was right, though. They also figured that any life they found would be some kind of undersea types of creatures, and that panned out too. Shot the ice-mining operations all to hell and gone, that discovery did. Still, at least Enceladus is clear.
History
History
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When Earth Went Dark
When Earth Went Dark
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I'm Not Saying It Was Aliens… But It Was Aliens
I'm Not Saying It Was Aliens… But It Was Aliens
The first contact between mankind and non-terrestrial life was probably a disappointment to anyone who'd been harboring hopes of extraterrestrial intelligence. When the Europans were first discovered, though it proved that we weren't alone after all, it barely made the news-services. Microorganisms weren't… sexy enough, really, for the media cycle to treat them as more than a curiosity, even if they did glow somehow. The shutdown of the ice-mining operations there got more attention, since it would have more impact on the lives and livelihoods of much of the Belt population.
Rumors started up, unsurprisingly, that Hepæstus knew more about the aliens than they let on — one of the more common arguments along those lines boiled down to asking why they'd bother with the kind of quarantine and lock-down that they put in place if there wasn't something going on beyond what made it to the news. The fact that it's still a heavily-secured installation adds some weight to that conjecture, for some at least. The fact that literally anyone can apply to visit, and have a good chance of being allowed to, barely makes a dent in the hard-core conspiracy-nuts.
And then there are the rumors that staff from the facility have been "infected," though there doesn't seem to be any consistency in those stories about just what, exactly, that means.
Europa Now
Europa Now
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Aspects and Troubles
Aspects and Troubles
Aliens are Real: They're weird, mysterious, and not at all human. More like glow-in-the-dark microorganisms, really. But that's weird and mysterious enough that people have wildly different thoughts, concerns, and even fears about them.
Kazimir Smits: The Head of Operations for the Europa Aquatic Life Studies group of Hephæstus, and a fairly common name in the media. Smits is surprisingly open about what's going on there, but there are some things he won't talk about.
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