Europa, an ice covered moon of the planet Jupiter, has been hypothesized to possess a massive ocean under its frozen shell. Scientists consider Europa’s oceanic interior to be the most likely location for extraterrestrial life in our solar system.

RIME is a new work that imagines a NASA probe, called a cryobot, which travels to Jupiter’s moon in search of microbial life. Instead, it finds a planet engulfed in civil war between nomadic frost burned outlanders and a pelagic polycephalic porpoise prince.

Will protagonists Viscount Kemperhawk, Frumos, and Wasabi Guy penetrate the Europan ice shell and accost Balaur and his frothing porpoise hoards and cease the oppression of Europan outlanders?