Red Duna: Recreate the Red Mars Ares Mission

[onewatt]

I'm a fan of Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy, and wanted to recreate the Ares from Red Mars in Kerbal.

It's a HUGE ship, eight rights of six large tanks each, nuclear propulsion, room for 100+ Kerbals and their gear to get to Duna and setup a permanent base.

Here's the YouTube playlist with the trailer and the first two episodes, lots more recorded!

 

[DMSP]

Hey! Another Kim Stanley Robinson fan!

I've attempted to build the Ares before 1.1 dropped. I still have the file somewhere. The actual rings were made of custom Duna landers. I have pics buried somewhere.

[onewatt]

Landers for Duna are hard, and I need to setup mining infrastructure on Ike, planning to do a "Duna One" mission to test everything out before sending the Ares out with the full crew.

[Deddly]

Nice job, @onewatt! I moved your thread to Mission Reports since it's not really a challenge. Keep up the good work!