AleksClark

can we get one of those 'this post will be gone when it's live' things?

He lives in a pineapple under the sea...

Solution: automated mass drivers. End game would consist of placing these mass drivers on different planets/moons, and they would extract specialized resources enabling you to build things like more mass drivers, etc. Fuel, ship building materials, etc, could be 'running out' on kerbin, caused by exponential population growth. But just a few mass drivers later...population is still expanding, and the race is still on. you need off-planet habitats, etc, until, one day, a genius working on distant Eloo comes up with the idea for a condom.

Totally ganked Temstar's idea. It's a real PITA to put this thing together on minmus tho. I launched sections using carriers similar to the refueling tower on the left, 4 sections per launch. This was put together with three launches (two module carriers, one crew hab. If you like this kind of base design, not that the kethane drills don't reach as shown. I can get kethane by raising the legs around the fuel bunker, then the whole base tilts towards that side Next base will be on duna, and should be much more complex....just going to dock several module carriers together and shove 'em out there with a bunch o NERVA