The world ended centuries ago. Repopulate it and save Kerbalkind

[Fireheart318]

Kerbalkind would go interstellar soon, the preparations were made - crew trained, target acquired, calculations made, spacecraft built. The only things left to were get the warp drive in orbit and then bring the crew up...

The warp drive sat on the launchpad. 5... 4... 3... 2... 1... IGNITION! The engine clusters lit up with a roar and the colossal spacecraft rose slowly from the launchpad on a pillar of dazzling blue fire, building speed as it gained altitude.

BLAM!

Something caused a booster to snap off and hit the lower stage, setting off a chain reaction that destabilized the warp drive. All the brave (and not so brave) kerbals on Kerbin perished, so did the Munans. Kod had mercy on the Minmians, however, sparing us and our tiny, self-sustaining base.

Due to our self-sustaining nature and Minmus's low gravity, we were the main supply line of water and metals to the Munar kolony, mining it from the rich, icy surface, but then our families, friends, history, and potential all vanished in an instant.

That was several centuries ago.

We survived and slowly grew on the little blue snowball, but scans of Kerbin from an old satellite that survived the blast indicate that the radiation levels have dropped to the point where some areas of the planet could be considered safe, if not habitable again. We must rediscover old technologies and rebuild our once-great civilization. It won't be easy, but then again, nothing is easy here.

 

Your mission -

Part 1 - Build a fully-functional Extraplanetary Launchpads base on Minmus and populate it with kerbals. The more the better. I'd have at least 60, but it's up to you. After part 2, you cannot get more, so make sure you have enough to last. You cannot have kerbals just standing around, they have to be in a crew container. Remember, even though you can make breathable air, solar radiation is still a threat

Part 2 - Destroy the space center, save for the VAB and SPH. You can still design craft, just not launch them. They must be built on Minmus

Part 3 - Re-kolonize Kerbin and build a fully-functional Extraplanetary Launchpads base on Kerbin where the large impact krater is (It's to the west of the desert near the equator. You can't miss it. There are complicated reasons for the base being here, but I'll boil it down to resources and environmental hazard reasons. The warp drive was nuclear. That was the logical-sounding reason. The real reason is that it's pretty but nobody ever goes there for some reason) and populate it with some kerbals from the Minmus base using only craft built on Minmus.

Part 4 - Build a fully-functional Extraplanetary Launchpads base at the North or South Pole and populate it with kerbals. The crew and parts for this base can be built at the Krater Base or the Minmus Base.

Part 5 - Rebuild the Astronaut Complex and Runway/Launchpad at the KSC. The population on Kerbin is increasing somewhat-rapidly now. Only crew-carrying craft can be built, and they must be destroyed once the crew are where they need to be (the crew are being born, not transported, so the craft don't "exist", but there's no population growth mechanic in KSP, so they have to get there somehow). I won't put restrictions on the number of kerbals that can be made, but keep it at a sane level. I don't want to see a kolony of 15 kerbals suddenly become 1,500 in a day or two. The crew must be inside a crew container, not just standing around. Remember, even though Kerbin is "safe", maybe even "habitable", it is still dangerous

Part 6 - Return the population on Minmus to the original amount. The base cannot support more crew than there were when you left.

Part 7 - Build a third base on Kerbin anywhere but near the KSC or a pre-existing base. I won't place any restrictions on this, but keep in mind that you're trying to spread out and the land near the KSC is still uninhabitable and will be for a while. The parts for this base must come from a pre-existing base but the crew can come from anywhere

Part 8 - Send a drone over to the KSC and mine some ore from there. Bring that ore back to a base for study

Part 9 - Build a fully-functional Extraplanetary Launchpads base near the KSC. The craft for this base must come from a pre-existing base but the crew can come from anywhere

Part 10 - Fully rebuild the KSC

Part 11 - Bring the Minmians home.

Part 12 - Set up a communications network around Kerbin

Part 13 - Put a satellite in a polar orbit around the Mun to search for survivors. You find nothing (or do you?)

Part 14 - Outlaw all uses of radioactive material in or related to space travel

Part 15 - Immediately ignore Part 14 and place a fully-functional Extraplanetary Launchpads base on Laythe with at least one RTG and/or nuclear generator

 

Rules - All mods are allowed except cheaty mods like HyperEdit. No cheats menu. Please leave links to screenshots of all steps in the comments

A fully-functional Extraplanetary Launchpads base is a base that is capable of building and fueling spacecraft with the Extraplanetary Launchpads mod. This includes mining ore and refining it into various fuels and then storing them, mining metal ore and refining it into rocket parts and storing them, building spacecraft with the Extraplanetary Launchpads mod.

Off-planet craft building mods can be used alongside or instead of Extraplanetary Launchpads. This includes KIS/KAS and Ground Construction. Vessel Mover can be used to spawn and/or deliver crew at bases and move modules around if they touch down in the wrong place or you just want to re-arrange the base. It cannot be used to transport base modules, even if they have crew in them.

 

Extraplanetary Launchpads mod -

 

Edited February 27, 2017 by Fireheart318

[CosmoCat]

  Huh; seems like a really complicated challenge, and yet I have no doubt that it may be a fun one. If I had more free time I'd gladly take part, but I don't so... I guess I'll just wish the rest of you confident forum-goers luck and watch for the initial trickle of entries.

[TheKorbinjer]

Very complicated. Do you require mods to build spacecraft on another body?

[Planetace]

Your attempt?

[Fireheart318]

4 hours ago, TheKorbinger said:

Very complicated. Do you require mods to build spacecraft on another body?

Yes. It's the Extraplanetary Launchpads mod linked at the bottom of the post

[nascarlaser1]

8 minutes ago, Fireheart318 said:

Yes. It's the Extraplanetary Launchpads mod linked at the bottom of the post

would ground construction also work for the later challenges?

[Planetace]

16 minutes ago, Fireheart318 said:

Yes. It's the Extraplanetary Launchpads mod linked at the bottom of the post

YOUR

ATTEMPT?

[Fireheart318]

7 minutes ago, nascarlaser1 said:

would ground construction also work for the later challenges?

Yes. I didn't know there were other non-space center building mods other than KIS/KAS. I'll add that to the rules

[RA3236]

11 hours ago, Galacticvoyager said:

YOUR

ATTEMPT?

Tone it down a little please? It is not required that a user post their attempt. (Though I haven't been on the forums that often so it might have changed.)

[septemberWaves]

3 minutes ago, RA3236 said:

It is not required that a user post their attempt.

Not required, but it's generally considered good practice for a challenge author to at least try the challenge they post. Especially with a very complex challenge or one that doesn't look obviously possible.

[Alpha 360]

This will require time and time only. If I hadn't just uninstalled KSP, I would be working on this challenge this instant(and probably making a story of it to post in the Mission reports section, giving me a load of rep)

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Edited February 28, 2017 by Alpha 360
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