The Vanguard

[erendrake]

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

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)

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

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

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

[dex7491]

It's beautiful. I love it.

[Mekan1k]

I am glad this did not die

[PopCap]

This is huge!! North Korea is jealous xD

[Climberfx]

To big to my machine!

Edited April 18, 2013 by Climberfx

[Zanis]

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?

[Reaper Black]

Wow. That is an epic ship. If only there were some female kerbals to make the next generation or do they reproduce by mitosis? If not they may discover a major design flaw in their generational ship when there's only old kerbal men left.

[KissSh0t]

That is so amazing.... and here I am trying to get a simple capsule into orbit without exploding (゜-゜)

[Scoundrel]

Someday I shall own a computer capable of handling that ship.

Someday.

That said, epic design. I'm absolutely amazed it doesn't shake itself to death whenever you fire up the engines.

[ReconXPanzer]

Wow, truly wow,

I wonder how much FPS you get from that? I usually get 15 on a 12 part rocket let alone 3000 odd

I am truly blown away by your truly amazing handiwork excellent job

[Rune]

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.

[Monkeystador]

A beautyful beast.

[astropapi1]

My laptop cries when a ship has 200+ parts. Not even NASA's and the Army's computers combined can fly this ship at a normal FPS rate.

[Tw1]

Saw this in the motherships thread. I must say, it is a magnificence.

But did you take it anywhere?

[The Error]

O_o

My PC is heating up just looking at this magnificence.

[erendrake]

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.