Suggestions for cargo for my modular colony ship

[ixolate industries]

Recently I have been constructing a modular ship in Kerbin orbit with plans to send it to duna to start a base.

Unfortunately I have been stuck as to what I'm actually going to send there.

If anyone can give me any suggestions or even craft files that would be great.

[Technical Ben]

Fuel?

That design has given me an idea. Might try for the largest fuel tug I can muster.

As to cargo. Hmmmm. A self contained lander? Something the size and shape of the hitch hiker pods. But flyable.

An atmospheric craft is always sweet too.

[Jeb Cubed]

Maybe coms center, mobile base, rover, (could make a mobile base and have a small rover bay) ummm what else. Oh a defence system. Hope these ideas help!

[tweda4]

you might probably want to add on a node which has all the different sized docking ports so that you can have some probes to go down planet-side first to find a good landing site for a base to land, and for some larger maybe SSTO's to link up to this main orbiter move resources from land to space and vice-versa

[ixolate industries]

Thank you for all your ideas I am really considering the possibilities you have suggested.

[Wjolcz]

-Rover

-Lander

-Living cans

just as I did: http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/showthread.php/36214-Manned-Extraplanetary-Vessels

Don't be stupid like me and take with you some kind of unmanned transport so you can ascent from Duna with all your crew in one go. I forgot about that and now I can't send them back to Kerbin.

BTW I like the design. How did you make the Sr. docking ports tilt like that?

Edited June 23, 2013 by Veeltch

[Spaceisbeautifulul]

I think if your bringing rovers, then you should take a couple tunacan-tanks with a docking port so your rover can transfer fuel between rockets?

That would be pretty awesome.

Oh, and atmosphere gliders/planes (remember jet engines don't work on Duna) would be nice too.