Jupiter

The first of the gas giants whose planetary systems were colonized by humans in Sol, Jupiter has been a place of intense interest from even before the Warp War. With many moons that made excellent candidates for terraformation and a great wealth of natural resources both in orbit and within Jupiter's atmosphere itself, colonizing Jupiter's planetary system was a dream of humanity since the first space shuttle left Earth's atmosphere. Initially, a single space station was built in Jupiter's orbit, called Euterpe Station, an enormous multi-level platform of spinning discs which was first constructed and then abandoned in the late 21st century following the start of the Warp War. During the 2130s, during humanity's great expansion across the solar system, Euterpe Station was recolonized and altered significantly to generate gravity using negaton drives. The station was then used as a base during the terraformation of Jupiter's Galilean moons. By the 2200s, the Jupiter system had become one of the most important regions in Sol, both politically and economically, and it has remained so ever since.