stock interstellar possibilities

[Oscentlian Crumagen]

Could there be any chances that we will be seeing stock interstellar bodies sometime?

[Ozymandias_the_Goat]

On 3/4/2019 at 7:50 AM, Oscentlian Crumagen said:

Could there be any chances that we will be seeing stock interstellar bodies sometime?

Don’t think so. The odds of more bodies being added even to the stock solar system are slim (not everyone wants them, and there are myriad excellent mods which fill the need for more planets). Extrasolar bodies are not on most people must have lists, and even then, mods exist to fill this need. Not to mention that it would be very difficult to reach other solar systems with the stock propulsion technologies.

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[Tyko]

Agreed with @Ozymandias_the_Goat - IIRC most players never even leave the Kerbin local moons and go interplanetary. Going interstellar is just not in scope for this game.

Also, even at the game maximum 100,000x time acceleration it would take something like 7000 hours of actual playtime for a craft moving at New Horizons' speed to reach Proxima Centauri - our nearest neighbor.

[KerikBalm]

Which is why most mods that have multiple star systems have some sort of binary system or companion star.

If you were in orbit around Alpha Cen (a or B, or the common barycenter, take your pick), and wanted to go to Proxima cen, it wouldn't be so long.