Appleseed I - an Eve sea level return vehicle with rover and waterbike

[ShadowZone]

This is a big one

First, it uses my Gigalauncher that can propell 1200 tons into LKO. And that is necessary, because the lander alone weighs almost 400 tons. The entire ship is around 1100 tons or something like that.

Lander is in the back, on the front we have a cargo bay with a rover inside.

Mission profile: Get to Eve, drop the lander close to the coast of a big landmass, drop the rover on that landmass. Release the Ion bike, ride it to the shore, explore Eve with the rover, gather all the science you can gather, get back to the bike, ride it to the lander, get back up to space, rendezvous with the mothership, get back to Kerbin, land the lander capsule (preferably on water), profit!

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Click here for the craft file. (Careful, 1680 parts!)

Why Appleseed? Well, it's Eve, and the biblical Eve was thrown out of paradise because of an Apple... so... yeah.

Actions Groups:

1- Toggle rover Ion Engines

2- Toggle lander can engines (turn off after docking with mothership!)

7- Toggle lander ladders

8- Release waterbike from lander

9- Toggle Solar panels (mothership)

0- Jettison cargo bay doors to release the rover

No idea if this will work with KSP 1.0

[Columbia]

I always love crafts that enabled people to do things such as return from Eve without the design complications.

Repped!

[ShadowZone]

Thanks! You can be sure that I will try out how this works in version 1.0