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This is just a thingy for discussion ATM. If anybody wants to they can make it into a mod.
Also, credit to @Felsmak for the Voonian, Orbonean, and Naalean systems.

CONCEPT ART FOR BODIES (apologize for bad drawings)

New bodies are bolded, changed bodies italicised.

INNER SYSTEM OBJECTS                                           

It appears this object may need ridiculous amounts of Delta-V, and radiators, to get to. Orbiting four times closer than Moho does to the sun, Heet is the closest object to the sun. Better plan ridiculous slingshots to get there, because it is only 24km in diameter and has tidal locking, which, coupled with its proximity, makes its near side glow straw-hot.

Eve now has a larger moon. Adam is about 100km in radius and orbits not-really-that-close to Eve, and it has the same apparent diameter as the Mun does on Kerbin's surface.

Gilly is also no longer Eve's moon. It has been moved out to the Kiazzi belt with Dres, Usta, Qlass, and Kaspir, and has a tiny moon of its own, called Bark.

Minmus and Mun are now in similar planes, and have realistically eccentric orbits around Kerbin. Kerbin has also been given inclination and eccentricity changes, and Duna's orbit has been changed to match that.

Error is a NKO (Near-Kerbin Object). It has no danger for impact anytime soon, as it doesn't really cross Kerbin's orbit much. It's kinda high-inclination, so a Kerbin slingshot is recommended to rendezvous with it, as Duna doesn't have the gravity to make such a plane change. Its small moon is called Bug.

Just recently, two new moons of Duna have been discovered. Pike and Dike have orbits inward from Ike and therefore orbit faster than Duna rotates. They sometimes eclipse, occult, and/or transit each other and Ike. The Duna Soft Drinks Company, known for Ike cola, Pike lemon-lime soda, and Dike root beer, approves of the naming scheme.

The second-most massive asteroid in the Kiazzi belt, aptly named Usta, is truly a sight to behold...or not. It's kind of a less extreme version of Dres, so you might not find much there; its orbit is less eccentric, less inclined, closer to the Sun, but then again...some groups of craters look like snowkerbals. So that's a plus.

Kaspir was only recently discovered. A little bit smaller than Gilly, it appears to be alone and with nothing else to keep it company. It's also drab and won't change your trajectory much with a flyby, not even a grazing one.

This is Plane-Change Slingshot Qlass. If you want to get to Qlass, launch a rocket with extra Delta-V to get all the way out to Jool and fly over the pole, and then you will rendezvous. Class dismissed.

Comets really are interesting. We'd name it Thomas, but then again...Enjin actually sounded better in the long run. We don't know why. It's very small, smaller even than Gilly, but not as much as, say, Daphy (whatever that is) or Bark.

Tootoot is not a comet. It's an asteroid. It certainly has an orbit like a comet, though. It's shaped like a "bowling pin," and rotates like a "bowling pin" knocked over by a "bowling ball." No moons to be found here!

MIDDLE SYSTEM OBJECTS                                         

Jool has been found to have a large storm on it now, as well as a tenuous system of rings. With the rings, Animal and Throb, asteroid moons, have been discovered. They are what we call ring shepherds; they orbit within the rings and drive other ring particles away from it.

Laythe's water oceans are no more. They are now simply oceans of sulfur, same as its atmosphere...and volcanic plumes. It is also hot enough that you will need radiators there. It's also no longer this large moon we thought it was. We also used to think Tylo was larger and more massive. And now we recognize that it was actually parallax, and that both Laythe and Tylo are only slightly larger than Vall, based on Koyager data. You don't need much to land on them, despite the ridiculous myths surrounding its existence.

Klip is unique. Very unique. It looks almost like the space around it and is very hard to detect, and used to be thought of as a hole in Jool until the Koyager probes flew by it. Now it completes the 1:2:4:8 resonance that Klip, Tylo, Vall, and Laythe have.

Bop is an "irregular moon" of Jool, orbiting further outward than the KTVL resonant moons. It appears to be brownish and tiny. Just like Gilly!

Ion is also an irregular moon, in a kinda polar orbit around Jool, so the line is therefore blurred between prograde and retrograde moons. Some people say it is the namesake of the ion drive.

Pol is a lighter irregular moon, in color and mass. It is a retrograde-orbiter around Jool, too.

Voon is the larger of the gas giant planets of the system, being 1.5 times the size of Jool. It has only one more moon than Jool does, thus meaning it's a better target for exploration. It is kinda orange in color and has an expansive ring system.

Rocko is the innermost of Voon's moons. it is a reddish asteroid moon about a third the size of Sotus.

Daphy is tiny enough to be pretty much invisible. What is it, 500 meters? Jumping on it will send you into an orbit around Voon, so I'd advise you not do that. You can land on it using an ion engine, for Kraken's sake.

Eeloo has been moved in an orbit around Voon. It occupies the E ring of Voon.

If you took Klip, shrunk it down, and removed its white speckles, you get Sotus. It's kinda full of cracks and stuff you might not want to think about too hard.

Fonso is kind of like Voon's Laythe. Expect it doesn't have volcanoes. So yeah. It's just a boring piece of work that orbits outward from Voon. And has an atmosphere. Jeez, Voon must like ripoffs!

"D'oh!" is what we Kerbals say when we recognize that we have missed this moon all along. We used to think it was a spot on Fonso that made it interesting. And then we recognized it was a new moon and said "D'oh!" The name stuck. Now we call it Doe. It orbits further out than Fonso does, enough to be in a 1:4 resonance, also having a high inclination.

We have no idea why this is even called Potatus. Potatus kinda looks like a "potato," whatever that is. We're astronauts, not botanists! ...wait a second, where is that botanist from our recent Duna mission?

Ud has the appearance of a "walnut" or something. Voon, stop trying to give us terms that we don't understand!

Arre is certainly something. Though only slightly larger than Dres, it has been proven to have rings around it. If something has rings it must have shepherd moons, ergo it must have a moon system.

Bill was named after Bill Kerman II. There have been lots of Bill Kermans, to be honest. Also, it orbits retrograde and is highly inclined, so...unless it's close you better escape the system.

Orbo is something called an ice giant. It's reddish in color, and used to be thought of as a star before Bill Kerman I came along and disproved everything previously thought of about the solar system. Now people don't want to make any claims about this planet.

Nobody knows whether its name is Lucky or just plain Luck. So we at the Kerbal Astronomical society have given it both names, just because we can.

Ump kind of makes us laugh every time we say it. We don't know why, it just does. Maybe because it's so tiny!

Now this moon is actually interesting! Toop looks like Ud, except upsized and with a ridge not so giant in relation to its size.

Dack, in our honest opinion, is very cool. It has a crater with numerous rings, not unlike the other gas giants. Rings around the crater.

Give it up for Naal, the newest member of the Solar System. It is a little bit smaller than Orbo and has a purple atmosphere, not unlike Eve. It's not rocky, though! I don't get why anybody would think that.

Corn on the Cobb, anybody? Cobb is a cube-like moon that orbits closely to Naal, in fact close enough to maybe even crash into it someday.

Kyle...we have no idea where its name came from but this moon certainly was named after some character from a certain show. It orbits and rotates backward around Naal, and is believed to be a captured dwarf planet.

The name for this moon, Loopy, is self-explanatory. It was believed to have been thrown out of its original close orbit by Kyle's capture. Now its orbit is one of the most eccentric and inclined in the Solar System.

OUTER SYSTEM OBJECTS                                          

The largest Kipper Belt object, Ploon is also the largest dwarf planet. It orbits twice every time Naal does thrice. Its tenuous atmosphere is thick enough to need a heatshield, but still not enough to aerocapture. It is, however, useful for aeroslingshots. It does have a significant moon system, but only one is notable. Khan is that notable moon. Its gravity is strong enough to pull the barycenter, or center of mass, of the Ploon-Khan system outside of Ploon's surface. Both are mutually tidally locked like Duna-Ike, but the line wasn't blurred with that; Ike couldn't pull Duna out of the barycenter, so Ike is officially a moon of Duna. Now we at the Kerbal Astronomical Society can't figure out what a planet is and what a moon is!

Kenobi, Skywalker, Solo, and Organa are the four smaller moons of Ploon-Khan, in that order. We have no idea where the names came from but we know they sound cool. Maybe we watched too much "Star Wars" or something.

Hammy is odd, odd, odd, in more ways than one. For one, it spins fast. For two, it looks like a deformed "pancake", whatever that is. For three, it orbits seven times for every 12 Naal does.

Hack is the sole moon of Hammy. It's kinda beefy and strong enough not to succumb to tidal locking.

Mayma is a red object outside Naal's influence. No resonances, no moons, nothing. Just a slow-rotating red dwarf planet with a weird dark spot on it...wait a minute...

Ryths is actually Mayma's moon. At the moment it orbits edge-on to Kerbin so its orbit can't be determined, and its darkness makes it lost in the glare of Mayma. We need to send a probe there sometime!

Look, something's rising! The sun? No, Rise. Rise orbits very far out from the Sun, its periapsis just outside Ploon's apoapsis. Just know that its orbit is pretty odd, but kinda downplayed compared to Samm's. It has a moon even!

Nomon is Rise's only moon, a little bit smaller than Sotus, and very bright like Rise. Nomon is also very easy to spot if you look at Rise through a telescope...at Rise's periapsis. We were very darn lucky!

Now we have a record-holder! Samm's orbit is like Rise's taken 10 times further and exaggerated. It's also kind of a polar orbit, which is very odd, and is periapsis is between the apoapses of Ploon and Rise. We know there could have been Joolean slingshots involved. But Naal wouldn't have the gravity to do that. It could have been captured from another passing-by star. But we're way isolated...

Spoiler

Breaking news, we have officially found the darkest planet. It is very far out from this system and it looks like it may have been formed early in the Solar System's history. At the moment called Z, some people have nicknamed it "End", "Frontier", and "Night". We have also noticed that its surface is completely black, so unless we send a probe to it, we won't know if it's a planet larger than Kerbin, a planet like Naal, a planet like Jool, or one even larger than Voon. We are hoping this discovery will help gain us some much-needed money from the government to send a probe there.

 

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Nansuchao

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Maybe if you show some pics of the planet you want to create you'll gather bigger attencion. There are many wonderful planet pack thanks to Kopernicus. Just a concept (an interesting one IMO) isn't enough for judjing.

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I'm certainly interested in some of the ideas for the bodies, but not the ones that other mods can fill. So really only a few of the asteroids, dwarf planets, and moons.

 - Error (rename to.. something)

- Hammy (but rename it to Naal for... reasons)

- Cobb 

- Usta

Sedna and Eris analogs are too hard to get to. Haumea is the only TNO that isn't just a boring ball with a moon or two. That said, it's the best candidate for a modded planet analog.

Usta could be a Vesta - Pallas hybrid. Vesta is just a cratered potato like Dres, but making Usta a deformed triaxial ellipsoid with a large crater similar to Pallas' and with a somewhat-inclined orbit would certainly be fun.

The mod would have to require OPM, as Cobb should be a Proteus analog for Neidon. Thatmo is rather unfun and Nissee is too hard to access, but a tiny cratered rock is fun.

Error would be fun as an Apophis-1950DA analog that has some kind of unstable resonance with Kerbin. It would be half the size of Gilly. With Principia, you'd be able to watch it slowly change it's orbit until it makes a close encounter with Kerbin.

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On 5/31/2016 at 0:55 PM, _Augustus_ said:

I'm certainly interested in some of the ideas for the bodies, but not the ones that other mods can fill. So really only a few of the asteroids, dwarf planets, and moons.

 - Error (rename to.. something)

- Hammy (but rename it to Naal for... reasons)

- Cobb 

- Usta

Sedna and Eris analogs are too hard to get to. Haumea is the only TNO that isn't just a boring ball with a moon or two. That said, it's the best candidate for a modded planet analog.

Usta could be a Vesta - Pallas hybrid. Vesta is just a cratered potato like Dres, but making Usta a deformed triaxial ellipsoid with a large crater similar to Pallas' and with a somewhat-inclined orbit would certainly be fun.

The mod would have to require OPM, as Cobb should be a Proteus analog for Neidon. Thatmo is rather unfun and Nissee is too hard to access, but a tiny cratered rock is fun.

Error would be fun as an Apophis-1950DA analog that has some kind of unstable resonance with Kerbin. It would be half the size of Gilly. With Principia, you'd be able to watch it slowly change it's orbit until it makes a close encounter with Kerbin.

Yes, I think that Hammy/Naal would be a good addition to the system, as usual. :wink:

Also, maybe a hybrid analog wouldn't be a bad idea at all. :)

At first I thought this mod would be a rival of OPM, but it's fine if it is meant to work with it (if OPM is not installed with the mod, Cobb will be a moon of Eeloo and/or Jool). Maybe I'll also add RevSS, IPM, and XenonClave Planet Pack compatibility?

Oh, and I like the idea of Error being like Apophis! I was going for an Eros analog, but still, Apophis and 1950 DA are cool!

On 5/31/2016 at 3:24 PM, Nansuchao said:

This is becoming interesting now, congratulations! Would you mind to make a planet like Coruscant?

Hm...maybe Z could be like Coruscant...I wouldn't deny it! :cool:

On 5/31/2016 at 6:37 PM, Table said:

names are a bit on the cringey side

How can I make them less cringe-y? :huh:

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12 minutes ago, Table said:

did you name these planets with whatever popped up in your head?

i suggest you be more creative.

...kinda. :| Though really, thanks to Augustus, most of the objects are gone because some are purposeless...

Though really, I came up with the names of Usta and Qlass by removing the second letter of, respectively, Vesta and Pallas' names, and shifting their first letters forward one letter; Just like Dres. Though now Hammy's going to be renamed Naal and Error to something else.

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How about you rename Error to :

Jaho (JAH - HO)

Moa (MO - AH

 Kikah (KI - KAH)

Onor (OH - NOOR)

Pila (PI -LA)

Gupi (GUP - EE)

or Yimti (YIM - TEE),

and change Bug to:

Mata (MAH - TAH)

Saha (SAH -HAH)

Kio (KI- OH)

Pollus ( PALL -LUS)

Yuppo ( YUPP - OH)

or, Krallus (KRALL - LUS).

 

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18 hours ago, Fredbear12returns said:

How about you rename Error to :

Jaho (JAH - HO)

Moa (MO - AH

 Kikah (KI - KAH)

Onor (OH - NOOR)

Pila (PI -LA)

Gupi (GUP - EE)

or Yimti (YIM - TEE),

and change Bug to:

Mata (MAH - TAH)

Saha (SAH -HAH)

Kio (KI- OH)

Pollus ( PALL -LUS)

Yuppo ( YUPP - OH)

or, Krallus (KRALL - LUS).

 

Hm...they sound cool.

...well, I guess Onor and Yuppo it is!

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This thread seems more like begging for someone to do all the work and planning for a mod that is nothing more than a wild idea in your head at this point.. Not a mod you have any plans of actually making yourself. This isn't how development works.

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