Finally made an O'Neil Cylinder Colony Ship, The STL Copernicus!

[Vin__]

This craft has over 979 parts. 10000x1000 meters in length, and outspanning the whole KSC Center. Weighs over 88 TRILLION kg. These colony ships are used to colonize the moons of any planet. There are 2 O'Neil Cylinders called Fiye, and Repue. I took inspiration off a post on reddit, showcasing a pretty big colony ship. Showcased below.

https://imgur.com/a/hY4pY2b Photo Album showcasing my craft.

 

I've tried my best to replicate something similar to the ISV Sovereign, but WAY smaller. My laptop would really hate me if I built it bigger.

I want more ideas building these massive megastructures. I already caught a few on Neil Blevins book, "Megastructures."

At first, I didn't know how to actually make a craft that massive. If it were built in real life, it could create it's own gravitational pull. The craft took about a day or two to build, but eventually I got the idea of it. I used custom parts from mods like Paraterraforming, Tweakscale, Procedural parts and many more. I also had to take reference from many other concepts and art depictions of these such megastructures. If you got any ideas people, I will build them. It will take a while though. I'd like to ask for some mods though if possible to make something like these crafts work.

[Tecorian]

I´m just wondering, which materials would stand the gravitational forces, when this vessel beginns to spinning around the long axis to gain gravitation

1.475 trillion tons is - very heavy...

But - very big respect and gratulations to build this monster of ship.

 

[Vin__]

43 minutes ago, Tecorian said:

I´m just wondering, which materials would stand the gravitational forces, when this vessel beginns to spinning around the long axis to gain gravitation

1.475 trillion tons is - very heavy...

But - very big respect and gratulations to build this monster of ship.

 

it's all just visuals. Trust me.