 How was Quest able to survive and grow up on Jupiter?
This e-text was produced from Amazing Science Fiction Stories March 1959. 50 THE JUPITER WEAPON By CHARLES L. FONTENAY He was a living weapon of destruction— immeasurably powerful, utterly invulnerable. Trella feared she was in for trouble even before Motwick's head dropped forward on his arms in a drunken stupor. It was a squalid saloon in the rougher section of Jupiter's View, the terrestrial dome-colony on Ganymede. A woman could not possibly make her way through these streets alone to the better section of town, especially one clad in a silvery evening dress. Perhaps she could call one of Motwick's friends; she had no one on Ganymede she could call a real friend herself. Trella swung with her whole body, and slapped him so hard he nearly fell from his chair. The dark man moved in on Trella again as Kregg overtook his quarry and swung a huge fist like a sledgehammer. She had the impression that Kregg's fist connected squarely with the short man's chin before he dodged to one side in a movement so fast it was a blur. It smashed on Kregg's head, splashing the floor with liquor, and Kregg sank stunned to his knees. The dark man, who had grabbed Trella's arm, released her and ran for the door. Trella ran to the unconscious Motwick's side. The gravity of Ganymede was hardly more than that of Earth's moon, but the way the man picked up the limp Motwick with one hand and tossed him over a shoulder was startling: as though he lifted a feather pillow. He followed Trella out the door of the Golden Satellite and fell in step beside her. The transparent dome of Jupiter's View was faintly visible in the reflected night lights of the colonial city, but the lights were overwhelmed by the giant, vari-colored disc of Jupiter itself, riding high in the sky. “No one has ever landed on Jupiter. But his ship was drawn into Jupiter and lost.” “It was drawn into Jupiter, but he landed it successfully,” said Quest. “He and my mother lived on Jupiter until the oxygen equipment wore out at last. I was born and brought up there, and I was finally able to build a small rocket with a powerful enough drive to clear the planet.” He was short, half a head shorter than she, but broad and powerful as a man might be who had grown up in heavy gravity. “If Dr. Mansard succeeded in landing on Jupiter, why didn't anyone ever hear from him again?” she demanded.
 Quest's father programmed his DNA for survival
 Quest's DNA is mutated  Quest is an android  Quest's father programmed his DNA for survival  Quest did not actually grow up on Jupiter