title: Heliosphere: Future Shock (Volume 1)
author: Benjamin Jelter
description: Ben Jelter is a comic artist, game designer, and art instructor in San Francisco. His previous work includes "The Tumor" and "Moscow 38" Science and science fiction have been a passion for Ben ever since he played with his first Lego space-man.
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  ## Chapter Thirteen
  
  Captain Hew Mills, UN Space Arm, currently attached to the Solar System
  Exploration Program mission to the moons of Jupiter, stood gazing out of the
  transparent dome that surmounted the two-story Site Operations Control
  building. The building stood just clear of the ice, on a rocky knoll
  overlooking the untidy cluster of domes, vehicles, cabins, and storage tanks
  that went to make up the base he commanded. In the dim gray background around
  the base, indistinct shadows of rock buttresses and ice cliffs vanished and
  reappeared through the sullen, shifting vapors of the methane-ammonia haze.
  Despite his above-average psychological resilience and years of strict
  training, an involuntary shudder ran down his spine as he thought of the thin
  triple wall of the domeall that separated him from this foreboding,
  poisonous, alien world, cold enough to freeze him as black as coal and as
  bri