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Gray Lady Down On Europa

Alternate 1970: Europa, the Jovian moon with liquid water as much as 60 miles deep. The latest place in the Solar System to send a manned expedition in the current year of 1970. Finally, we will know if there’s life in Europa’s water.

It all started on March 24, 1943, with Project Hermes, the Tesla Dimensional Translation Device, and the U.S.S. Goldsborough DD-188, equipped with the TDTD, which proved near-instantaneous intercontinental travel a reality. A crash program to convert Landing Ships, Tank, aka LSTs, into Continental-hopping, war-winning transports and train their crews and pilots for this task was approved minutes after a second successful demonstration. 14 months of trial and error, and the rescue of the USS LST-336 from Low Earth Orbit by Seaman 1/c Francis “Frank” Black, later Commander, USN. Black was awarded the Medal of Honor and a field promotion to Ensign for this action.

Later on June 6, 1944, TDTD-equipped ships landed Anglo-American Commandos and Rangers at the Berghof in Southern Germany where General Patton personally shot Hitler.

That was shown in his biopic. George C. Scott deserved the Oscar.

Other landings captured German and Japanese Headquarters. Patton’s cousin, Colonel Lewis B. “Chesty” Puller, USMC, captured Emperor Hirohito in the Imperial Palace in Tokyo a week later.

Stalin’s Spies tried to get the secret of the TDTD. They failed. They got the secret to the Atomic Bomb. Stalin devised a plan to send 50 airliners, each with an atomic bomb to the World’s major airports. A Russian defector warned the CIA. A week later, it was over. Stalin and his supporters were arrested and tried at the UN for crimes against humanity. They were sentenced to imprisonment. That prison was on Luna.

China has been relatively quiet.

Now we have bases on Luna, Mars, Ceres, Io, and now on Europa.

The TDTD-equipped U.S.S. TRITON went under the Ice on Europa and all contact has been lost. Your briefing starts soon.

You will be briefed because you are a member of a special ops team that performs a variety of missions. Not the least of which is search and rescue. You are part of a team of experts who have been on more than a dozen ops in all kinds of conditions. This is the first time you will be underwater on another world.