A Kerbal's Guide to our solar system

[NovaSilisko]

I Hope The Admins Make The Kerbol Solar System Like This

IHTAMTKSSLT shall be my new slogan.

[NovaSilisko]

Also, distant view update:

And a silly render of Eve\'s surface in TG2:

[RavingManiac]

Just to clarify: Will there be a mars-like planet in the Kerbol system? The game really could use one, and it is where humans will land next IRL.

I don\'t think anyone would mind if it completely resembled mars, as opposed to being an icy/purplish/gaseous variation.

[Guest Flixxbeatz]

'Alright KSC, let\'s roll...'

[Tiberion]

Just to clarify: Will there be a mars-like planet in the Kerbol system? The game really could use one, and it is where humans will land next IRL.

I don\'t think anyone would mind if it completely resembled mars, as opposed to being an icy/purplish/gaseous variation.

Egar is 'Mars' - it used to be the next planet out - now it\'s a moon of Meander

[NovaSilisko]

[RavingManiac]

Egar is 'Mars' - it used to be the next planet out - now it\'s a moon of Meander

But it\'s icy. I don\'t like icy

Also, it needs to be large enough in proportion to Kerbin to have 1/3 Kerbin gravity. Not sure if a moon that size will fit around a gas giant.

[Lunniy Korabl]

Also, landing on a moon/mun (are they muns even when they\'re not the mun?) of a gas giant will be quite a bit more difficult than going to a mars-like planet. The design of the solar system should reflect the baby steps it takes to get the hang of interplanetary travel before doing something more complex.

In the current layout, I for one will be sending my first interplanetary mission to Eve, hopefully in less tries and more softly than the deceptively named Venura 3. It\'d be great to have another interesting and relatively inexpensive terrestrial target to play with before attempting orbital musical chairs with a gas giant system. It\'s funny watching people new to the game shoot straight for the mun and totally fail because they didn\'t first figure out orbiting kerbin properly. Baby steps.

Anyway, aside from that, I like the way it\'s looking. Can\'t wait to start exploring a diverse selection of muns around Juniper, aerobraking with a ballute like in 2010. I hope there\'s one that looks a bit like Iapetus!

[RNSP]

Also, distant view update:

where is Egar??

[Sbowyer28]

Nova Does Egar Have A Thin Atmosthere

[Sbowyer28]

Ohyus I Cant Wait For The Fire Star *Jeb Puts Sun Glasses On* YEEEEEEEEEEEEHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[MC3craze]

Nova Does Egar Have A Thin Atmosthere

I think Egar does have an atmosphere similar to mars.

[Taverius]

Getting to Harvest might be ... interesting.

Kerbin -> Solar -> inclination change -> Harvest?

I guess you could put yourself in a wide circular around Kerbin and get caught, but you need to be space-side on the kerbin orbit just as Harvest goes by ... maybe I need to actually study orbital mechanics, mmm ...

[thorfinn]

Also, distant view update:

Nice. Shouldn\'t 'Harvest' come closer to the star to be called a comet, though?

Also, why not adding another inner planet? It would be a nice change from our solar system, be somewhat in line with what is known about dwarf star systems (which seem to have lots of large rocky planets nearer than habitable zone) and maybe more importantly, it would help to reach the Fire Star by making more gravity assists possible...

(And what if there is another system at 30-40 billion kilometers away, around a companion star? )

[Taverius]

(And what if there is another system at 30-40 billion kilometers away, around a companion star? )

Then it\'ll take a bloody long time to get there and you better hope we have game saving/resuming by then, although Harv could \'just\' give us increasingly large time compression ratios once we go past the outer planets.

[ultrasquid]

Could Egar maybe have a temperate narrow equatorial zone, just so the whole thing doesn\'t have to be icy?

[NovaSilisko]

Could Egar maybe have a temperate narrow equatorial zone, just so the whole thing doesn\'t have to be icy?

I can do that.

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[ultrasquid]

I can do that.

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Lookin\' good!

[Slew]

I can do that.

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If the atmosphere is thin and cold like Mars, I don\'t think you\'d see clouds like that.

Actually, puffy clouds should only ever be visible on Kerbin. Other planets would be completely covered (e.g. Venus, Titan) or have no clouds at all (e.g. Mars).

[NovaSilisko]

If the atmosphere is thin and cold like Mars, I don\'t think you\'d see clouds like that.

Actually, puffy clouds should only ever be visible on Kerbin. Other planets would be completely covered (e.g. Venus, Titan) or have no clouds at all (e.g. Mars).

I was thinking that Eve would have an atmosphere roughly equivalent to Kerbin, and Egar have the thin one, so I guess I\'ll remove the clouds on Egar.

[thorfinn]

Then it\'ll take a bloody long time to get there and you better hope we have game saving/resuming by then

I was thinking saving/resuming AND nuclear plasma engines (Or antimatter-catalysed microfission )

[CardBoardBoxProcessor]

where is planet X?

[thorfinn]

where is planet X?

This is the job for us

[ultrasquid]

I wonder what a planet with oceans full of this stuff would look like…

[CardBoardBoxProcessor]

a jello planet would be nice.

I still thing two planerts of the exact size rotation around each other while rotating around the sun would be fun for landings and orbits