Europa

**Europa Spaceworks** is a US based private spaceflight research firm that specializes in civilian transport spacecraft and probing missions to moons and other celestial bodies, alongside assisting with colonization efforts. A team with incredible experience in aerodynamics, fuel, general electricity and aeronautic technology, Europa's incredible strengths in performance and defense are offset by slightly poorer than average acceleration, agility, and extremely weak weapon systems.

## Important People

### Key Figures

Marian Rossian (Race Engineer)Andrew Danil (Mechanic)

### Known Drivers

Markus Andreas (#1 Driver)Yoshimiru Kurusu (#2 Driver)

## History

**Europa Spaceworks** was founded in 2010 by a group of rocket scientists with one mission: probe and research Europa, one of Jupiter's moons and one of the most likely places to find extraterrestrial lifeforms due to the majority of the planet's surface being compromised of ice and water. With short funding, "Europa"'s team had to rely on cheap but tried and tested ways of accomplishing their goals, managing to pass the moon with only a cheap probe and a few solid fuel thrusters due to their incredible aerodynamics knowledge allowing them to preserve massive amounts of fuel during the flight. With this demonstrative test flight started rolling in investment offers: "Probe and extract samples of water", "establish a wheeled drone on Europa", so on and so forth. With all the extra funding in the world, they were capable of something much further than just space exploration, and with most of their offers working smoothly, having their probe spacecraft return with crucial data of the moon, they decided to see if a typical land car could stand up to the conditions on Europa.

Sending a heavily modified S15 Silvia coated in AZ-93 to protect it with space-grade shielding by a long distance rocket, Europa's team left it there for 3 months, returning with next to no damage at all. With this experiment complete, they had... nowhere to use this car, other than displaying it as a trophy, but luckily, that year, the Super Modified League announced a pretty major venue to their roster: Array 7, a Space Satellite Array that Europa had been using for 10 years since 2047. With a few shrewd ideas and a realization, Europa had decided to join the league as both a promotional stunt and a show of technology to future investors: "If we can make a car that can handle both Europa's cold and tough environment and one of the roughest and fastest racing leagues in the world, you can trust us that we can get almost anything done with spacefaring matters." As such, they geared up for what seemed to be a simple challenge, but with the competitive and high speed nature of the league, and no actual race drivers or mechanics... or any racing staff during their first outing in the closing of the 2057 season's final event, one year before Array 7's grid would be opened, they were consistent mid-pack finishers due to their performance and strong shielding, but not much else was of note, other than the weak weapon systems barely causing a dent in many systems.

However, for their actual major debut, they finally caved in and hired dedicated members for maintaining and piloting their racecraft. With ample funding, a friendly and achieved team of researchers, and incredible vehicles to work with, many, MANY amateur drivers applied to race with Europa in 2058, but they instead chose to simply train their own drivers to get a perfect pair that can handle their "shuttle-like" racing vehicles. With a bright outlook and predicted high place finishes on their debut race on Array 7's Tycho Circuit, their future looks to be shooting for the stars.

## Super Modified Info

> *"Europa have jokingly described driving their cars as "riding a space shuttle" and you can see where they get that assumption from. A solid all around team with a higher speed parameter, Europa have a powerful track toy with good stats with a bias for speed, but barebones any weapon power in turn... since you don't need much to damage something out of the atmosphere, after all."*
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Europa has a strong mix of traits that aren't too extreme, but they take a small bit longer to get rolling compared to other teams, much like an actual spacecraft. Though their acceleration starts slow, it can start to build up into more and more speed, and with quite decent control and high shielding at their disposal, Europa can compound that into an advantage. However, weapon based defense is quite poor, so focus on your speed and avoid damage to keep that speed up. The good shield power allows for generous afterburner use as well. Well rounded with a bias for speed, this team won't let you down if you can handle them at full thrust.

## Team Stats

### Strategy

* **Use Afterburner.** On a straight or out of a turn, if you sacrifice a small bit of your shield energy, you can get back up to speed.
* Compensate for understeer by allowing the car to slide a small amount during turns to give you just enough angle to make it.
* Reduce your speed loss as much as possible, getting back up to Europa's incredible top speed is difficult in a vehicle that has midway decent acceleration and handling.

## 2058 Background

*Touted as one of the best private spacecraft research firms in the past 50 years, Europa Spaceworks has decided to join the Super Modified League in hopes of making an impact on both investors and audiences alike with a unique approach to racing, utilizing space-grade methodology to create an incredibly aerodynamic vehicle with strong, high power engine tuning to supplement the increased top speed capabilities of their vehicles.*

*Though their first outing into the league was met with a mediocre performance at the end of the 2057 season, their debut coinciding with Array 7's first event makes it critical that they prove their worth then and there, with the shakedowns done before the season attempting to prove their mettle as a racing team and spacecraft research company alike.*

## 2058 Message

**Jack Rossian, Array 7 Launchpad, April 30, 2058**

Hello, one and all, to the official debut of the Europa Spaceworks Racing team. We are here to simply prove that we're more than meets the eye, we aren't JUST a bunch of nerds with knowledge on how to make a craft go to space, but we can make a car go fast and look good doing it too. We have achieved much over the past 48 years, and winning the league's tournament here on our home turf can, and will become another shining star on our track record.

We have, of course, coated our carbon fiber bases with AZ-93 for high heat resistance, to supplement our space-grade safety shielding. This should give us the defensive edge over other drivers, and give anyone at home one hell of a show as we wipe the floor with a few other teams, especially one who attempted to buy us out just a few months ago. We see you, and we're not buying. We're one week away from the debut of the season, and we are ready to rock.

## Gallery

The EXACT S15 Silvia they sent to space, being used in the Super Tuner Class.Europa's Brabham BT62, used in the Super Modified ClassAn alternate scheme for the Europa Brabham BT62 in Super Modified Class.
## Trivia

* Europa takes basis off of SpaceX, but as AG-S says it, "if it was cool".
	+ The color scheme takes a basis off of AG-S' preferred color schemes for rockets: cold steel blue, grey, and white.
* This is the only team purely established as an American team.