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Growing up some of my favorite stories were about generational ships. Ships that outlived their designers and builders. To become a home for a crew that will never know another. So when i started playing KSP i really wanted to create a ship I would feel comfortable sending into the inky blackness beyond the Kerbol System. So here it is, The Vanguard

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Stats:

Crew Capacity:

  • In Habitat Module: 256
  • In landers: 12 (shown) 76 (planned)

Length: 116.56 Meters

Part Count: 3324

Weight:

  • Full: 3080.6
  • Dry: 1544.6
  • Reserve Dry: 1280.6

Available Fuel:

  • Liquid Fuel: 168480
  • Oxidizer: 205920
  • MonoPropellant: 40150

Main Drive: 70 LV-N

Landers:

  • One Astron-class Tylo/Kerbin capable SSTO (6 Kerbal capacity)
  • One Sparrow-class Laythe SSTO (8 Kerbal capacity)

Berths for 4 Haul-U SSTO, Design Stolen from antbin (17 Kerbal capacity each - Not Shown)

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I used Crew Manifest to load the Spaceplanes and transfered them 16 at a time. only took 16 trips but i wanted to give them a smoother ride than a rocket-ship :)

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MechJeb on the landers because i like the landings to be very repeatable and i apparently cant do that by hand

I have a Tanker that will deliver 8 full Jumbos to a 400km orbit around Kerbin, which was used to refuel

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This has been a really fun project and I want to thank

Blizzue for letting me borrow his computer

antbin for making a really nice spaceplane that i borrowed for crew transfer

and Scott Manley whoes Tylo or Bust series got me started on this project

All I need now is to fly the spaceplanes back up to their berths, and we are ready to go!

PhotoBucket library of the build so far

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What! Over 3000 Parts that is way to much For my computer to handle. It would probably Burn my computer to a crispy piece of bacon

Did you cheat it into orbit or did you do it yourself?

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I already commented at the time, but yeah, this thing is still a marvel of KSP engineering. I wonder if you'll ever ever release at least the landers? Or make a step-by-step building album, the last time I checked it was a bit confusing to follow.

Rune. In fact, since the forum probably ate the rep I gave you for it, here you go again.

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  • 9 months later...
  • 8 months later...
Saw this in the motherships thread. I must say, it is a magnificence.

But did you take it anywhere?

This is a necro of this thread but i wanted to say i did take it to Jool to play with re-entry effects when they came out, I also attached a bunch of legs and parachutes and landed the habitat module on Duna :). I have started to build it again and bring it all back up to the current version of the game.

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