KSP Interstellar: First Step

[Aghanim]

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The kerbalkind are bored of exploring their solar system, so they instead go....interstellar!

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*a phone rings on Bill's bedroom, and he reluctantly picked it up*

Bob: Bill, watch the TV now, set to Channel Kerbal

And then Bill turns on his television

Reporter: City 17 now are on strike! They declared that they doesn't want to go to other planets anymore! They have seen all the anomalies and now they are bored of it!

*explosion at the background*

Kerbals: Go Interstellar! Go interstellar!

Bill: Well they are telling KSP to go interstellar.... dV is too high, lets change it into other channel

Market analyst: Stock market are plummeting to 0.00, the lowest in history! Let go what market are affected by this. O.M.B Demolition Enterprises current stock is also 0.00! Same with Stedler Corp and Rockomax Inc, all of their workers are on strike

*Bill changes his channel again*

Scientist: Alright here is a model of a theoretical interstellar capable ship. To be able to go toward interstellar space, this theoretical ship must have a lot of delta V and optionally 1G thrust. To get out from Kerbol SOI, we need approximately 12 km/s delta V. However, to get out from our solar system at reasonable time, we need to get our speed at least 2% the speed of light. However, this needs a lot of fuel. And there still a problem with the Kraken...

Bill: Everyone are talking about interstellar, lets go to that religion channel

*Bill changes his channel again*

Monk: To achieve kerbalkind highest enlightenment, we need to get out from our Kerbol SOI and go interstellar

*Bill changes his channel again*

Astrobiologist: What is our probable planet for our first interstellar trip? I say we probably go toward this solar system with a medium brightness star. Our telescope has detected a planet with a lot of water, and some land. They also have a primitive space program. Without a probe, we couldn't know what species are in that planet

Several hours later...

Bill: Alright everyone, collect everyone from this planet that knows any slightest thing about interstellar travel. Drive developer, ship developer, R&D tech, life support system. I need several plan for interstellar ship ASAP!

Edited October 12, 2013 by Aghanim
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[Aghanim]

Now I'll will make the second story...

Bill: Alright engineers what is your plan for our first interstellar travel?

Engineer 1: I called my design the Orion Colonization Rocket. First we need to build ALL of the ship on the ground. Then we detonate a series of nukes below it and we ride out the wave.The engine with enough nukes and right type of nukes will have obscenely high dV to take off the ground

Engineer 2: I think that design is too wasteful. You m-still even doesn't say how they will refuel their ship at their destination. My design uses the Valkrie design, the engines are configured at the front, pulling the ship. I'm using fission fragment rocket with xenon afterburn fueled by kethane converter

Engineer 3: Well all of your solutions are too slow. I'm proposing to use one of our cool looking warship and retrofit them with plasma drive and warp drive, powered by antimatter reactor.

Engineer 1: FTL drive is only in science fiction! It doesn't even exist here

Engineer 3:It is. Our eggheads at Exotic Propulsion Research Center finished a working prototype of a spacetime warping FTL drive. However, when they are trying to scale it up there is a problem: There isn't any electric generator with extremely high density. They think at a point to use antimatter, but they still doesn't know how to create enough antimatter to power up the warp drive. However, another group of scientists finally found the solution. They think Kerbol's extremely high magnetic field power trap a lot of antimatter collected by the core and the solar/cosmic wind interaction, and it have a lot of sunlight, so we could spam solar panels there, creating antimatter by normal means

Bill: So your suggestion is to build a huge space station dedicated for generating antimatter orbiting Kerbol, yes?

Engineer 3: Yes. And here is my plan: We launch a rocket toward Moho containing a kethane and ore scanner and a seed extraplanetary launchpad and ore digger and kethane miner. After we successfully land that, we launch our space station building supplies from there. It save a lot of delta V. Then if the station is finished and it have enough antimatter, we retrofit one of our warship with warp drive, use its plasma drive to dock with the antimatter refueling station, fill its antimatter storage, and start its FTL engine to warp 5

Bill: That is the best plan. Now we need to find out our destination solar system