Here I reimagine asdf as taking place in the Near Future on Enceladus (Saturn’s moon with a global subsurface ocean). The idea is to swap Victorian secrecy for near-future space engineering.
# Engineering In this future Nautilus is a **nuclear-powered under-ice submersible** rides down through the ice in a melt-probe (**cryobot**) and pays out a fiber-optic tether for comms to a lander and orbiter. Once in the ocean, inertial + acoustic navigation and occasional seafloor beacons replace sextants; power comes from an RTG or compact fission unit
# The Mission The science package targets **hydrothermal-vent chemistry**, organics, and biosignatures near the “tiger stripe” fractures. Verne’s chapters remap neatly: the “monster hunt” becomes tracing odd sonar reflections and plume-borne particulates; the salon window becomes a **sapphire pressure dome** looking onto vent “chimneys”; the “undersea forest” becomes **mineral gardens** and microbial mats; the Antarctic ice trap becomes a **brinicle-like freeze-in** near a fissure; the squid attack becomes a violent encounter with ice boulders in a tidal current (or a swarm of autonomous micro-sub drones gone awry).
# Visually Visually, you can **lift composition and lighting from the public-domain Neuville/Riou engravings**—keep the cross-hatched chiaroscuro and heroic staging—and translate plates one-to-one: squid → ice-shard vortex; forest walk → vent-field EVA; salon panorama → Saturnlight through blue ice. The result is a faithful, science-plausible “Verne on Enceladus” that your gen-AI can render with stylistic continuity from those 19th-century illustrations while grounded in real mission architecture and planetary-protection constraints.