Rebel galaxy antimatter probe mod#
Rebel galaxy antimatter probe series#

Entire industries emerge to mine and ship it. All interplanetary trade relies on the fuel. These engines rely on Deuterium and Helium3, which plays a vital role in the interplanetary economy much like crude oil does in the real life global economy. Nuclear Pulse engines also have sweeping effects on the economy. In practice, only the largest governments and corporations are able to possess fleets of this size. With a large enough fleet, it's theoretically possible for a single bad actor to inflict a thermonuclear holocaust on a planet. The effect would be very similar to a high altitude nuclear weapons test. A single vehicle striking the atmosphere could produce a field of charged particles strong enough to damage unprotected satellites for years. Even at this speed, you can still do some heavy damage. The speed limit within Kerbin controlled space is 0.1% the speed of light. The governments of Kerbin and Laythe each implement their own interplanetary licensing system for the sale of relativistic vehicles. At 0.2% the speed of light, a run-of-the-mill 1000T freighter (shown here, in real time) has a kinetic energy equivalent to the largest nuclear bomb ever detonated. For one thing, they present regulatory challenges. Nuclear pulse engines have sweeping effects on society. Some craft also feature adjustable radiators for use in the inner system.įuel range: 1.5%c (with recommended payload) They feature smaller fuel tanks, bigger engines, and oversized RCS thrusters mounted on a foreward facing 'docking bus'. The interplanetary ships (example shown here) are modified versions of Star Boom 1's upper stage. Only half of the ship is fuel, and most of that is spare. Nowadays, a trip to Urlum can be done in under a month, and that's with 300 tons of payload and a crew of 74.

More than 90% of the ship was fuel, and the ship would need to refuel for the return journey. Nuclear pulse engines kickstart a revolution in interplanetary trade.ġ00 years ago, a one way trip to Urlum took 3 years, with 40 Tons of payload and a crew of 8. Though nuclear pulse engines were originally designed for the interstellar mission, they have since found use around Kerbol. Kerbalkind has not stood still in the intervening 70 years. The flyby was the culmination of a mission that began almost 70 years earlier. Its distance was manually tweaked to replicate the Δv requirements of a real mission to Alpha Centauri. It hosts three stars and many habitable planets.

Rebel galaxy antimatter probe mod#

The flyby probe was sent to the nearest star system, 'Nova Kirbani.' Nova Kirbani is an Alpha Centauri analogue from the 'Kerbal Star Systems' mod by StarCrusher96. 2 with the following mods:Įxtraplanetary Launchpads (backported from latest version)Ħ years ago, the Kerbals of Laythe conducted the first ever interstellar flyby. Throughout the album, we'll occasionally draw parallels to a real life real life starship proposal first drafted by nanotechnologist Robert Freitas, which you can read here: The mission here has the same Δv requirements as a real world analogue. Interstellar Flyby: | Craft and save files for all episodes can be found here: It seeks to colonize the stars using only well known physics and nonexotic matter (no antimatter, warp drives, EMdrives, etc.).

Rebel galaxy antimatter probe series#

This album is a part of a series I'm making. Kerbalkind assumes type 1 status on the Kardashev scale. It is the distant future, 250 years after the founding of the space program. The mission is called 'Star Boom 2,' and consists of 2 acceleration stages and 2 deceleration stages that let it reach Nova Kirbani (from Kerbal Star Systems) in just a few Kerbin decades.ĭeuterium and Helium-3 mined from the atmosphere of Urlum (from the Outer Planets Mod) with a larger version of the aforementioned nuclear SSTOĪrriving at a small moon (captured asteroid) in another star systemĪn 'interplanetary explorer' manufactured within the system, designed to carry landers to other planets. I've never seen anyone do anything like this before, and it deserves more attention. And now, they've made an interstellar probe that slows down at the target star, using a small miner to build bigger miners, which are then used to build exploration probes and copies of the interstellar spacecraft itself. First visiting Jool and the planets from the Outer Planets Mod (which inspired me to revive my KASDA thread), then conducting a Daedalus-style interstellar flyby ( 'Star Boom 1') with a fusion-powered spacecraft assembled using Extraplanetary Launchpads and KSP Interstellar Extended and fueled using a Jool SSTO with nuclear turbojets - that's right, it enters Jool's atmosphere to scoop Deuterium and Helium-3 (although it would take days of real life time, so save file editing was used), then returns to orbit. This person continues to top their previous missions listed in the album.