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I meant light blue, yeah. Halnie flew the Hermes Orbital Tug for station assembly, no EVA necessary. However, she has since been reassigned to the Mun base. Jeb, Bob and Bill are still on the station awaiting an upcoming Duna mission.

Yeah, if the isotope wasn't radioactive, you would have no fission. It's a bit like asking for non-flammable gasoline.

In the near future I think the ideal would be solar with a nuclear base for stability and for where solar isn't feasible. In the far future, if we can solve the energy transportation problem, orbital solar would be perfect. Superconducting cable running down a space elevator maybe?

Yes, Halnie's suit should probably be white. The only thing I can think of that would be read as feminine in Bill is that I gave him long hair. I specifically set out trying to avoid culturally constructed gender signifiers and as such did not want Halnie to have the longest hair of the four. I did give her the roundest facial features (so far as Kerbals have facial features) and broad hips vs broad shoulders, but I wanted to avoid pink girl vs blue boy syndrome. I imagined Bob as modest and friendly, likes people to underestimate him and is actually smarter than he looks. Bill is meek and analytical and generally more of a planner than a doer. Sort of an anti-Jeb.

Haha, well, that wasn't my intention but I identify with Bill the most so I may have done it unconsciously

That was pretty much what I was going for

The famous trio and my hardest working randomly generated Kerbal. She assembled my Kerbin station while the other three hung out in the hab module eating snacks. I gave Jeb the classic Kerbal hairstyle and tried to mix it up a bit with the other three.

Solar panels in KSP are a bit odd, in that they don't obey a proper inverse-square law. The power they generate is interpolated between three points, one of which, as mentioned, is zero power.

All FTL travel has the potential create causality violations for certain reference frames and is therefor equivalent to time travel. See here: FTL, Causality, and Unsolvable Paradoxes

I don't know why everyone is saying LV-N is not a good lander engine. All my 2+ kerbal landers for airless worlds* use LV-Ns. Even on relatively small craft the ISP makes up for the weight and by attaching them in pairs to the sides of your lander, the length isn't an issue and you can use the bottom of the lander for a second docking port. * I haven't been to Tylo but I suspect the TWR of the LV-N would be insufficient there.

Surface pressure on Titan is about 50% higher than Earth, which is perfectly survivable assuming breathing and temperature are taken care of as you say.

It's about 30% the surface area and 15% the volume. Mars has the a similar land area to Earth, but Earth is of course 70% ocean.

I wouldn't call the conjoiner drives reactionless. Their source of fuel/propellant is just, erm, novel, and effectively unlimited. But they definitely throw stuff out the back to accelerate, as demonstrated by things being destroyed by the drive flame as in mid-way through 'Revelation Space', or at the beginning of 'The Prefect'. I'm just starting to read Peter F. Hamilton now. His stuff is harder than 'Star Trek' but softer than Reynolds IMO. FTL has been pretty much hand-waved so far.

Comparison to our own Solar System scaled so that Earth = Kerbin. Got pretty cluttered at the low end of the scale so I didn't include anything smaller than Uranus' moon Titania. I will note that Gilly is about the size of Neptune's moon Nereid and still way bigger than Phobos or Deimos at this scale.

My understanding is that the SAS module is anti-rotational only. It'll use its gyros to stop you spinning, but won't help you turn like the gyros in a pod or probe body will.

Should be noted that Blindsight is available for free as an ebook under a Creative Commons license. I believe Stross's Accelerando is similarly available.

I second the Revelation Space series recommendation. Reynolds has a new series that qualifies starting with Blue Remembered Earth and the soon to be released On the Steel Breeze. Also the stand alone Pushing Ice and House of Suns (the latter is very very far future so it runs headfirst into Clarke's 3rd law but I would still call it hard-ish). I'd also recommend Charles Stross. Singularity Sky and its sequel Iron Sunrise have FTL travel but the causality implications are acknowledged. Accelerando and its sequel (not really but set in the same universe) Glasshouse are really good too but Glasshouse deals very little with space travel if that's what you're looking for. Saturn's Children has a good premise but I did not enjoy it as much as his other work (the American edition also has a rather embarrassing cover).

Just trusting the official Wiki to be correct about the equatorial radii. I should probably verify with the new info panels in-game.

I made this primarily to get an intuitive sense of the relative size of the planets and moons of the Kerbol system. I was surprised how large Laythe is. Bop is also larger than I assumed.

I like the colors on the last one.

My KSC fuel truck and crew shuttle bus: (credit to pa1983 for the fender idea)

Kerbol is still unofficial I believe. In game it's just called "The Sun". I'm not a huge fan of the 'K' names but I think Kerbon works pretty well. On another topic, Squad needs to rename "Liquid Fuel' since when used in a NERVA it's not the fuel, it's only the propellant. The Blutonium is (or will be) the fuel.

Turn RCS off when it's not required. Even when you're docking, turn RCS off in between bursts of thrust and let pod/probe torque keep your orientation.

Pendulum rocket fallacy only applies if your craft is rigid. Pushing a big train of docked modules can be like trying to push a string.

You'll have to send a big ship with a separate (and extremely beefy) lander vehicle. Look around the forum for Eve landers, they're really big with lots of staging and usually use aerospikes because they do well in atmo. 3 Kerbals will require a heavy pod but fortunately you have another option now. Use a probe body and 3 rover seats or a 1-kerbal can and 2 seats to save mass. You'll need about 11500m/s Delta-v in the lander on the surface if they are at sea level. Eve is the most difficult planet to return to orbit from so I wish you luck.