Duna X - Challenge

[Phafor]

Hey guys,

The Duna X Challenge

Introduction:

Space K has been thinking about colonising Duna (with atleast 2 Kerbals). But they don't know how to!

The president of Kerbin has announced that the first to colonise another planet will get Minmus for all their dessert needs!

No time to waste you screamed loudly to your own PC, you drove to the KSC on the way there you downloaded all the mods you needed and started building! (Don't use cheaty mods and yes, you know what I mean)

Free Minmus dessert is the best kind of dessert.

What does it entail?

Create a Kerbal colony on Duna.

Be creative! You can do anything you want!

Examples:

-Rovers

-Satellite network

-Planes

How will I be rated?

How creative is your colony?

Are the rockets realistic? (Not like the typical 0.19 space station rockets with like 10 poles with docking ports dangling on the side)

How big is your colony?

Leaderboard:

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10.

Debug menu and config edits are NOT allowed

Everybody can rate eachothers colony (Please do this on a scale from 1 to 16,7)

I will take everybody's rating into account!

I will try to answer every question there is ASAP!

Tips/Suggestions are always welcome!

Good luck engineers!

Edited July 25, 2015 by Phafor

[HoloYolo]

Debug menu and config edits are allowed? I don't see a rule not allowing them.

[Phafor]

Fixed it, thanks

[HoloYolo]

Is there a limit to how small the colony is? I wanna do a 2-man colony. A small one, mind you.

[Teilnehmer]

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Debug menu and config edits are allowed? I don't see a rule not allowing them.

Wouldn’t it be better to disallow debug menu, editing config, and other cheating methods by default in the forum rules.

Only if the author explicitly writes they are allowed, they are allowed.

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Edited July 29, 2015 by Teilnehmer

[Phafor]

Atleast 2 kerbal are needed to make a colony, I agree with you Teilnehmer

[juanml82]

Ok, here's my entry.

Capacity for twelve, including the spaceplanes.

The mining outpost has a lab as well. I will be replacing it with one with fuel cells by the next transfer windows. Also, the service bay is troublesome. I think it would fall apart without KJR.

Both spaceplanes have enough fuel to fly all over Duna, and can return to Kerbin as well, in case some of the kerbonauts begin to miss their Minmus made deserts.

It's not a massive base, but I like to keep part count as down as possible to avoid drag. I am missing rovers, which I'll send in the next opposition. For the time being, transportation is done by spaceplane. There is a mining outpost at Ike.There is an orbiter with capacity for five, currently without a crew, currently on Ike's orbit, as it has finished recovering the Ike lander. It will double as a space station, once I put it in Duna's orbit