Ilya KSP Posted November 23, 2020 Share Posted November 23, 2020 Hello everyone! I think everyone heard about interstellar travel in KSP2! What's your opinion on this question? How will we build interstellar spaceships? What will be the name of the 2nd star? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
computercat04 Posted November 23, 2020 Share Posted November 23, 2020 I think there will be a group of stars we can go to. In the trailer, you can see in some shots that there are interstellar engines, like the Daedalus Interstellar Engine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OvinandRusk Posted November 23, 2020 Share Posted November 23, 2020 yeah Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starhelperdude Posted November 23, 2020 Share Posted November 23, 2020 this little maneuver is gonna cost us 1000 years -Me, 23.11.2020 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kosmix1 Posted November 23, 2020 Share Posted November 23, 2020 Theres the daedalus engine as we can see in the trailer and the torch drive that hasnt been revealed yet. I think the torch drive is gonna be an antimatter engine, if so its potential speed may be up to 60% the speed of light. Producing these antimatter engines is probaly gonna be very hard and probaly requires many kilometer long space stations or bases. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starhelperdude Posted November 23, 2020 Share Posted November 23, 2020 9 minutes ago, Kosmix1 said: Theres the daedalus engine as we can see in the trailer and the torch drive that hasnt been revealed yet. I think the torch drive is gonna be an antimatter engine, if so its potential speed may be up to 60% the speed of light. Producing these antimatter engines is probaly gonna be very hard and probaly requires many kilometer long space stations or bases. this wouldn't be actually that hard because the actual materials aren't that costly or heavy, the problem with most antimatter Engines is the management of heat, so the engine should be realllly long (I'm absolutely no expert sry if I'm wrong) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
computercat04 Posted November 23, 2020 Share Posted November 23, 2020 38 minutes ago, Starhelperdude said: problem with most antimatter Engines is the management of heat, so the engine should be realllly long Also, antimatter is VERY, VERY, VERY expensive! Only one gram of antimatter costs 62.5 trillion US dollars! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kosmix1 Posted November 23, 2020 Share Posted November 23, 2020 14 minutes ago, computercat04 said: Also, antimatter is VERY, VERY, VERY expensive! Only one gram of antimatter costs 62.5 trillion US dollars! Thats true, but with how far into the future ksp 2 technology is they probaly found some way to produce antimatter more efficiently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
computercat04 Posted November 23, 2020 Share Posted November 23, 2020 39 minutes ago, Kosmix1 said: Thats true, but with how far into the future ksp 2 technology is they probaly found some way to produce antimatter more efficiently. Maybe they will add some fancy way of extracting antimatter from a nearby star or something like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K^2 Posted November 24, 2020 Share Posted November 24, 2020 8 hours ago, computercat04 said: Maybe they will add some fancy way of extracting antimatter from a nearby star or something like that. Antimatter will react instantly and destructively with absolutely any matter in its proximity. Even entire star system consisting of antimatter isn't plausible, because interstellar space isn't empty enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popestar Posted November 24, 2020 Share Posted November 24, 2020 I would like to see the use of black holes as gateways to other stars/solar systems. I'd like to see people having to send probes to gain science points and then unlock tech tree nodes to travel through them. I'd also like to see it be where you'd have 2 holes -one from Kerbol to another system, and one from the inherent system back to Kerbol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K^2 Posted November 24, 2020 Share Posted November 24, 2020 1 hour ago, Popestar said: I would like to see the use of black holes as gateways to other stars/solar systems. That's going too far down the sci-fi route, IMO. KSP2 has some tech planned for it that's speculative at best, but black holes as gateways may as well be magic portals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ilya KSP Posted November 24, 2020 Author Share Posted November 24, 2020 19 hours ago, computercat04 said: I think there will be a group of stars we can go to. In the trailer, you can see in some shots that there are interstellar engines, like the Daedalus Interstellar Engine. How does this engine work? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vv3k70r Posted November 24, 2020 Share Posted November 24, 2020 (edited) 49 minutes ago, Ilya KSP said: How does this engine work? Like setting a nuke in the b... back and ignite, ther again and again. We already have heatshields that can deal with this. But it is not as effective as other solutions. And all are still not enough energy dense to make sense of sending human away. But sooner or later somene baptise his child as Jeb and we gonna have a pilot to try. Edited November 24, 2020 by vv3k70r Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ilya KSP Posted November 24, 2020 Author Share Posted November 24, 2020 9 minutes ago, vv3k70r said: Like setting a nuke in the b... back and ignite, ther again and again. We already have heatshields that can deal with this. But it is not as effective as other solutions. And all are still not enough energy dense to make sense of sending human away. But sooner or later somene baptise his child as Jeb and we gonna have a pilot to try. How do you think, will they have an antimatter engine? I saw something interesting in the trailer. I mean an engine with strange white and black dots in the nozzle. Can it be an antimatter engine? I will send you this photo later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vv3k70r Posted November 24, 2020 Share Posted November 24, 2020 2 hours ago, Ilya KSP said: How do you think, will they have an antimatter engine? Magic engine You say? HogwarthSpaceProgram? 2 hours ago, Ilya KSP said: Can it be an antimatter engine? I never seen such engine working. So it is pure fantasy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 24, 2020 Share Posted November 24, 2020 2 hours ago, Ilya KSP said: How do you think, will they have an antimatter engine? I saw something interesting in the trailer. I mean an engine with strange white and black dots in the nozzle. Can it be an antimatter engine? I will send you this photo later. If you're talking about the engine of the huge ship departing from the Jool shipyard, the one with the lasers, that's the Daedalus, basically an open ended fusion engine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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