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Finally starting to get close to the late game, which is the part I'm really looking forward to. I always think of the line between mid and late game as the first kermanned landing on Duna, and that should happen within a couple more updates (the window is coming up). This also means I'm getting to the point where I'm able to start having some more fun with the designs; whereas the early spacecraft were mostly just bare-bones functional, the next generation of spacecraft are aiming to be at least a little bit stylish as well.

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TL;DR: Tech tree done.

 

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Space station Persistence in Munar orbit with Defiance 3 and Bravado LC-1 docked.

 

Persistence: a new kind of space station.

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Defiance 3, first mission to station Persistence.

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Bravado LC-1: prototype Duna lander.

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Bravado 2 underway.

 

Bravado 2: first kermanned mission to Duna.

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Space station ops and Munar exploration.

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Sagacity 4 and 5: probes to Vall and Moho.

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It's definitely got enough fuel to orbit and return with the lander. If it turns out the orbiter by itself doesn't have enough to get back, the crew can either cancel the landing and use the lander's fuel to get home, or land anyway and wait in Duna orbit for an Aqualung to be sent out from Kerbin at the next window.

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This is the point where things should start to get more interesting. I've been playing KSP since 0.90 (end of 2014), and since then I've explored the Kerbin system pretty thoroughly, but beyond Kerbin's sphere of influence I have a lot less experience. I've visited Duna, Ike, Gilly, and Moho with Kerbals only a couple times each, most everywhere else only once, and I've never landed on Tylo or Eeloo at all.

From here on out the H. S. P. is going further and further into unknown territory.

 

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Bravado 2 arriving in the Duna system.

 

Bravado 2: first Kermen on Duna.

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My general rule for this save is to stick to one major kermanned mission at a time (having several going at once got confusing fast in my last career), but life in the Kerbin system goes on while the crew of Bravado 2 are waiting for the return window, and probe launches continue as well.

 

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Janbe in the cockpit of the H-202 spaceplane in Kerbin orbit.

 

Probe launches and arrivals.

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H-202: the Space Program's first SSTO, and some anomaly hunting.

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Uffish, Brillig, and Sanity: new launch vehicles and ore prospecting.

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Exploration of the Mun and Minmus.

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The fifth kerbonaut class with a prototype six-kerman rover. Back row, left to right: Gilbree, Erithis, Darina, Corrick, Vasya, Jate. Front row: Erigee, Wenmy, Statha, Gledia, Joelin, Chadgan. (OOC: In an alternate universe, Erithis was the first Kerman to circumnavigate Minmus.)

 

Defiance 3 through 7 and the end of Project Intrepidity. (This ended up being kind of a long one--normally these would just be routine crew rotations, but something interesting ended up happening on just about every flight.)

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Munar exploration and a new rocket.

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Sagacity 4: a Joolian grand tour.

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Bravado 2 departing Duna orbit.

 

Hotaru Star Lines flight 1: the first space tourists.

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Bravado 2 departure from Duna.

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Bravado 3 and 4: continued exploration of the Duna system.

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  On 2/16/2017 at 9:20 PM, DunaRocketeer said:

Great looking screenshots. Looks like Duna is your focus for the moment - any plans for rovers/bases there to do more extensive surface ops?

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Thanks! The current plan is for a new self-propelled space station, Permanence, to be sent to Duna at the next window, along with more Aqualungs and some surface hardware. It will support more extensive exploration of the Duna system while the focus of the Bravado program shifts elsewhere.

Here's Gledia with a more mature version of the rover prototype from a couple posts ago, during a test drive on Kerbin:

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Once the hardware necessary for surface refueling is ready, one of these will go to the Mun for further testing, and (if that goes well) another one will go to Duna.

 

 

 

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@EvilEmotaku Neither have I, although I've only landed on Duna maybe a dozen times up to now (even counting probes) and never really explored it. My guess is it has something to do with the site, which was in the Midland Sea region (3°S, 84°W) at quite low elevation whereas all my previous landings were on higher terrain. I suspect the lowest layer of SVE dust storms is at very low level, so below most of Duna's terrain, meaning thick dust storms only occur at elevations less than about a kilometer.

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@EvilEmotaku The deeper red is from GEM FX, which @Andem put me on to a couple pages ago. It's an external program that does post-processing effects, dirt on the lens, film grain, that sort of thing. One side effect of it is that reds get a lot richer and more saturated while blues and greens get kind of washed out. So Duna looks spectacular, but Kerbin and Laythe don't look as great--I still need to play with the settings to try and fix that.

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Boring stuff:

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TL;DR: installed Bon Voyage (background rover ops) and some QoL mods.

 

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The prototype Mark IV rover during a test run in the deserts of Kerbin.

 

Defiance 5C and 7: aerocapture experiments.

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Brevity: a kermanned rover on the Mun.

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Mark IV rover: a test drive on Kerbin.

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Lucidity 1: Jool probe.

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Bravado 2 return to Kerbin.

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