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Proxima Centauri is the nearest star to our own, Sol. With a 4.2 lightyear gulf separating Earth and the rocky exoplanet Proxima Centauri b, traversing such a massive distance is substantially more difficult than simple interplanetary missions. Proxima b, in this video, is theorized to have a thin atmosphere, be slightly larger than Earth, and have a very flattened, weathered surface due to the lack of tectonic activity and near-tidal locking to its home star.
Filming this mission has been a journey in and of itself. I've actually filmed 3 other, unique, ready-to-release versions of this mission, but I decided not to release them because I simply didn't believe that they lived up to my standards. I'm really happy to release this one and I hope you enjoy it.
Ground operations on Proxima b were inspired by ‪@reach6898‬ in their Proxima colonizing mission.
Kerbal Space Program 1.12.3
Mods (non-exhaustive list):
Real Solar System (Changes the stock system into our own)
Real Exoplanets (Adds confirmed exoplanets)
Realism Overhaul (Makes things significantly more realistic)
RSSVE (Better visuals)
Parallax by Linx
The Near Future suite by Nertea
Stockalike Station Parts Redux by Nertea
Far Future Technologies by Nertea
Planetside Exploration Technologies (Rover parts)
KSP Interstellar Extended
KAS/KIS (Altering crafts in-flight)
Extraplanetary Launchpads (Building things offworld)
DeepFreeze (Freezes crew for the journey to avoid life support stress)
Music used:
Age of Wonder by Scott Buckley - www.scottbuckley.com.au
The Seeding - Geoff Knorr
The Titan - Andreas Waldetoft
The flag used in this mission is from Dermot McDonagh:
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Disclaimers:
The debug menu was used during this mission to avoid nasty bugs caused by being on an exoplanet among other problems, though rest assured that the only times I used the debug menu were for getting around these bugs. Additionally, I custom-configured many parts to function properly with Realism Overhaul and to meet the requirements for my mission. Do not expect your game to behave the same way with the same mods I used.
Also I'm aware that in the thumbnail I wrote "Nearest Star," what I mean is the nearest star to us other than Sol.
Do not reupload this video near to or in its entirety on other platforms without my written consent.

[@EntropianVFX]

I've been getting a LOT of questions about torque cancellation from the rotating habitats, so here's why they both rotate in the same direction: Both habitats are from a mod, and the mod includes counterrotating counterweights on each of the centrifuge parts, individually canceling out the torque on each centrifuge. There was no option to remove the counterweights on the parts, so I didn't bother making both centrifuges counterrotating as it didn't matter torque-wise and was easier to launch.

[@CODTerracraft]

Cant wait to see what you’ll achieve with KSP 2

[@ericgolightly8450]

How long did it take to get to proxima centauri?

[@STAROMEGA54]

question the mods i downloaded made by Nertea dont seem to work the for me at all. any help would be appreciated.

[@52memor]

@@ericgolightly8450 current technology 6,300 years !!!!

[@nakoda1610]

also if it diddnt do that, and you had them counterrotate, there would be a small torque wich would push the craft off-axis

[@Amadeus2054]

Here’s me being proud of finally pulling off a crewed Duna landing and return in stock… this is just insane

[@EntropianVFX]

Thank you!

[@AdamwithaW]

Once you've successfully returned from Duna you can pretty much go anywhere, it's just about scaling up at that point

[@light_gladiator4047]

Uh… I play with life support and I killed Jeb Bill and Bob….. so now we got Val and Bob Jr. along with Oswald leading the program, Bob Jr. and Oswald being the children of Bob and Bill…. Damn I made a story out of this…. Welp off to reddit

[@victor_silva6142]

@@light_gladiator4047 Your roleplay is strong buddy! Kudos on you!

[@shadowgaming2313]

In many rocket simulator or something i haven't landed a rocket nor make a proper orbit

[@BigIronEnjoyer]

Nice to see Stellaris fleshing out the early game more!

[@EntropianVFX]

xD

[@tytyguy1able]

This entire video=the first 3 mouse clicks of a stellaris game

[@Therealspacemonke]

@@tytyguy1ableStellaris was the best childhood games we played

[@breadtoast1036]

@@Therealspacemonke heh childhood found it at 20 and to this day finally reached 10000 hrs and my god its almost a totally different game compared to several years ago

[@TovenDo.O.Video-]

I know I'm old when a game I played when I was 25 is someone else's childhood game

[@shawngaetz8161]

This video inspired me to try this game. In 4 days I went from barely able to get in orbit. To sending a crazy cool event horizon style ship to the moon. Dropping a lander. Getting back to moon orbit. Docking. Going home and at the same time rendezvous and docking with my 2 part space station around kerbin.... This....game....is.....AWESOME!!!!

[@EntropianVFX]

That's awesome!

[@05yr1s]

Welcome to the fold my friend.

[@user-lp7tx1fe6t]

And it’s just the beginning

[@djw7141]

How did u get that good in 4 days I’ve been playing for months and making manoeuvres are still too hard for me

[@operatorchakkoty4257]

Just wait until you start doing manual DeltaV and TWR calculations at work because you want to play KSP so bad

[@bakedhawaii]

That is literally insane. Eyes just wide open the entire time. KSP players are really built different. Why is this video so underrated?

[@altairkenway5436]

KSP players are better than most engineers, never get into an argument with a KSP Player on the issue of Engineering

[@viscounttudon68]

@@altairkenway5436 bruh

[@ZephinorYT]

​@@altairkenway5436 bruh

[@Therealspacemonke]

@@altairkenway5436u mean a kerbal?

[@Therealspacemonke]

@@altairkenway5436also bruh

[@veramae4098]

"We will go to the Moon. We will go not because it is easy, but because it is HARD.." JFK Still inspires.

[@camerongcarpenter]

do you remember it happening live?

[@justinmorgan2126]

Of course he could have just been honest and said we need to beat the Russians at something in space... didn't get, first man, first woman, first animal, first spacewalk, first orbit, first lunar orbit, first space station, list goes on... Oh, and Russia has been doing all the heavy lifting into space for the past 40 years.

[@moss_fetttt]

@@justinmorgan2126 we got to the moon though!!!!! MERICA RAHHHH 🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅

[@jebes909090]

also jfk "we'll do this that and the other thing....."

[@aaronlong4892]

​@@justinmorgan2126not anymore it's into the private sector which is almost entirely American

[@butterbread7907]

WOW, interstellar missions in ksp are just something else, good job!

[@raidermaxx2324]

soon ,they will be par for the course for everybody in ksp 2

[@73_65]

@@raidermaxx2324 Soon(tm) And I doubt interstellar missions will be mundane affairs even in KSP 2.

[@AHHHHHHHH21]

​@@73_65yeah, you'd probably have to have at least an hour probably more to even unlock the tech

[@rexi1414]

Just shock and awe. Looks like hundreds of hours sitting, tweaking retrying, calculating, thinking, engineering, planning. What the actual. I remember how I felt like a little kid getting his first toy when I first time managed to land on Mun, then on Minmus, then building a working rover and landing it on Mun and Minmus and then... When I actually did my first rendezvous mission and started to use landers rather than stages to land on bodies, and not to mention how my satelite network evolved as well. From antennas stuck up a basic module to sophisticated carrier rockets with 3 satellites to achieve a triple geo-stationary network... My best achievement in that playtime was to send a satellite carrier to Duna in preparation for a landing mission. I never got to that landing mission before I quit playing the game. I just needed a change, didn't have what it takes to play so long in one game even if it's fun. Respect to you though!

[@ddandymann]

I can't even imagine the amount of quick saves that were loaded during this mission because of Kraken attacks.

[@eimane2u]

Honestly, the parts mods used here are surprisingly stable. Those big anular trusses are very rigid and work great for this application

[@KrakenIsMahB]

Kraken attack happen because of bad design or some parts clipping, thats my mantra. Recently I had Rcs thrusting at robotics hinges, causing oscilations and Kraken attack. Disabling and removing said RCS solved the issue. Veterans of KSP know ho to soothe and prevent the Kraken

[@iantaggart3064]

Up ahead was Pandora. You grew up hearing about it, but I never thought I'd be going there.

[@RichardMeikle]

I really need to see a long let's play of how this is done. It can be 20hrs long. I would watch it.

[@philiplongee1149]

I would fly on it! Let's go!

[@raidermaxx2324]

wait- i thought thats what this was gonna be!! :(

[@30Salt]

Haha, it won’t even be close to 20 hours. Think again!

[@sfsvoid9616]

Me, at half the video: imagine if this turns out as a base, would be cool me, 3 minutes later: DUDE NOO WAAYYY

[@IshijimaKairo]

I love it when instead of sending dozens of research missions you jump straight to colonization. Saves a lot of time.

[@notjebbutstillakerbal]

Breakthrough Starshot missions would do reconnaissance

[@davidherrington7878]

As a 73 year old who has been playing KSP since its release and still has problems docking anything in space, I am super impressed with your ship and your movie. Well done and thankyou for taking the time and trouble.

[@Opusss]

This is freaking incredible and must have taken hundreds of hours to do. Well done!

[@Asterion_Moloc_1]

I did something similar myself except I didn't need to freeze my crew **Laughs in Warp Drive module** **Cries in how much power it drains to the point where you need a singularity reactor not to mention it adds an Anti-Gravity effect to my ship when it's fully charged with Exotic Matter** and I also never left the sollar system... GOD DAM

[@johnybrah800]

Imagine being the astronaut and asking yourself "Now that that's done, how do we get back?".

[@q_nx2321]

@H.A.W.K INDUSTRIES damn, I actually Don't mind living my life on an alien planet at another star, At least a whole planet with no tiktokers

[@andrewblake8286]

“That’s the funny thing, you don’t.”

[@giorgospapoutsakis5271]

​@starmanrblx dawg stop being toxic

[@giorgospapoutsakis5271]

That's the neat part,you don't

[@Rexithedud]

@@q_nx2321 dream of evry human

[@DadbrosGarage]

To think, this is all possible if we spend our whole defense budget on NASA instead of the military industrial complex

[@Thicbladi]

As it is even if we spent all the worlds money we would not be able to do this we would need a minimum of a few hundred years it seems to be able to do this

[@juicyhambooger2298]

@@Thicbladi I believe that in 2100 we will send robots or humans to Alpha Centauri, as our technologies will progress. We have small but major breakthroughs in fusion energy and can get fusion energy by 2040 or 2050 at most.

[@mythicallegendary3992]

@@juicyhambooger2298 hmmmm, alpha? Maybe 200 years, but def possible if we don’t wipe ourselves out first

[@harveyrichard2007]

@@juicyhambooger2298 Be very careful not to confuse technology with magical thinking. I love space, I love astronomy, am a sucker for rover mars pictures, been a buff for decades, a real sucker for all of Apollo and the first moon exploration... But I frankly, and with all my respect, do not get why on Earth there are so many people dreaming of this 'space-faring species' non-sense. Because at the very least, avoid being so optimistic.

[@juicyhambooger2298]

@@mythicallegendary3992 OH I meant Proxima mb

[@jamespinder6465]

I have just spent 12.06 absolutely mesmerised by this, I just cannot imagine the time and effort you must have put into this project fantastic work well done.

[@2150dalek]

Proxima Centuari....Even if it had a thin atmosphere, the stability of such a planet is inviting. I guess it's Sun would provide Solar power, maybe enough for healthy plant growth. Whereas limiting yourself to going to Jupiter's Europa, the sunlight would be so dim.....But the ice fishing would be unmatched. :p

[@Glizzygripes]

Hopefully within our lifetime

[@dawood121derful]

Nope

[@_xxClaudiaxx_]

We might crack life extension soon. Depending on your age now you might see it. Here's hoping at 16🤞🏾

[@CASA-dy4vs]

Life extension is wild because I already estimated the year I die with a realistic age

[@branch4747]

Because of gen alpha brain rot we will all be dead by the time these exist

[@cbass7283]

It will probably at least take 200 years before we meet the energy requirements to operate a lentz soliton warp drive other wise with our present technology it could take 1000s of years to get to proxima centauri

[@bakersbread104]

I like the fusion engines being attached by like 3 clothes hangers taped together

[@zh-vulkan5023]

Like Reach's mission, quite epic!

[@APPLEJUlCE]

Two things: 1) No way in hell can you convince me that this is KSP 2) I now have a brand new very high standard for KSP 2 if this shit is KSP 1

[@Ph33NIXx]

I love that you build it with "realistic" payloads - instead of just making an unrealistically massive rocket to put it up. The confinement's of the rocket also means you need to build smart. Your Vehicle reminds me a bit about the ISVs from Avatar - except it pulls its payload were you pushes it, and the ship only uses the rotating habitat modules when coasting, and in the burn and deacceleration phase accelerate at a constant 1.5g to make the gravity... and ofcourse it uses a photon beam and a huge sail to accelerate and deaccelerate on the tour from and to earth. (But that is beyond the scope of Kerbel i gather xD ) Cool video.

[@73_65]

Solar sails and laser powered equivalents have been in KSP mods for years now

[@Ph33NIXx]

@@73_65 big planetary lasers?

[@73_65]

@@Ph33NIXx Have you never used KSP interstellar extended with tweak scale? You aren't even limited to having your big lasers on planets, you can put them basically anywhere you want as long as they fit and you can get them there.

[@Ph33NIXx]

@@73_65 Ive only ever played vanilla.. never got to a point were I was good enough i felt like exploring outside it. I seek out that pleasure from watching good KSP players on KZbin.

[@73_65]

@@Ph33NIXx I've been using mods about as long as I've been playing KSP, if your computer can handle it, I would certainly recommend playing KSP with some mods.

[@starvr]

@Entropian Your videos are very high quality, well edited and great choice of music, Stallaris music goes with anything to do with space. I really can't wait for you to get your hands on KSP2. Keep up the great work.

[@londonspade5896]

Amazing work, looks like how I imagine KSP2 in my mind. The bar for KSP2 is even higher now!

[@bruh1322]

haha lol

[@londonspade5896]

@@bruh1322 Yeh I'm disappointed to say the least.

[@arcosprey4811]

@@londonspade5896 Yikes 😭

[@boijone8440]

Aged like milk

[@glidingsprxy]

This did not age well 💀

[@Castielj]

I'm sure I'm not the only one who noticed the major design flaw in this starship, namely after turn-around and beginning to slow down, the circular shield is now at the back of the ship !

[@oliverlemmon9052]

I really like the use of stellaris music in this edit, it perfectly fits the theme

[@MGGAMES]

Yeaaah the vibe is 😍🤌

[@CASA-dy4vs]

If Stellaris showed your armies and science ships landing and surveying in mini animations like this the game would be 5 quadrillion times better

[@tomjcarroll]

Absolutely stunning. Count me as skeptical that KSP2 can get to this point by 2025.

[@Ingwar121]

Cinematic and technical masterpiece. Game such covered with mods, that if somebody will told me that it's not the game - just rendered 3D cinematic - I'll believe. Can't imagine how hard it must be, and how many tries you must fail until the result. You're God I say.

[@sculptor682]

I love how FAST the "low g" centrifugal modules are spinning right as it clears Luna. It's like Hal is just crushing all the passengers to death for the lols.

[@qpwodkgh2010]

Wow! That's an achievement on KSP indeed. In real life, the only changes to it would be thousands of ships in fleets (to better guarantee success), and the shield would be many and they would fly in formation millions of miles ahead for protection (if a particle the size of a grain of cigarrette smoke hit the ship, the gamma radiation produced would kill everyone). Pretty minor tweeks really. You nailed it.

[@hobogrifter]

hence the particle shield

[@qpwodkgh2010]

@hobogrifter: No, that shield as designed is worse than none. Go take a read on the Newtons conservation laws, your answer is there. Here's a hint: Try flying several shields millions of miles ahead of the ship with people. Also, why only send one ship when you can fly a fleet of ships for safety and redundancy?

[@bravoalpha101st]

...And in Elite this mission can be performed with a small vehicle in less than a minute. Nice video!

[@kubaskupiewski2168]

Elite Dangerous?

[@bravoalpha101st]

@@kubaskupiewski2168 ofc

[@victor_silva6142]

Man! He finished KSP2 whithout even playing it!

[@52memor]

4.2 light years current technology it would take us 6,300 years to get there have a look and 6,300 to return Wow they'll be old and just think of how many episodes of their soaps they'll miss

[@Venture5002]

The music, editing, visuals, it's all top notch as always.

[@awsumguy-bh9pz]

i like how they are still using starship hardware like 80 years in the future

[@Golinth]

This is the kind of stuff I hope to be possible in stock KSP2. Amazing work!

[@The_cgull]

The way you assembled that vehicle reminded me of that one space game in wii play motion 😂

[@vill824]

In the top three list of ships I have seen in KSP! Very impressed!

[@FortressCube]

2:22 I was sipping my drink and nearly spit it out, thats a chonky boi lol

[@totipotens8128]

good choice of music! The seeding fit nice to the launch out of kerbol !

[@EntropianVFX]

Thank you! Ever since I started making KSP cinematics, I've wanted to use it for something like that, as I've also played quite a bit of Civ:BE.

[@jaypaint4855]

It’s actually the Sun because it’s RSS

[@7_d1ddy]

Idk how yall do it, i can barely launch my first rocket with that modpack and here you are going to another star system. Amazing work

[@landerverheyden1652]

Wow. I'm kind of speechless. I first tought it was ksp2's new vidio to show some of there colonisation on planets. Now I have even greater expectations for ksp2 sins it has to be better than this as a base game. Sins apparently mods makes ksp1 look like ksp2. I can't wait for ksp2 and the hopefully even better vidios in ksp2 that you will make in the future. Love the vidii verry much. Keep up the good work. Your 1 of the few vids that I gave a like, that's verry rare. I hoop you grow in to a big channel.

[@EntropianVFX]

Thank you! I really appreciate it!

[@Meowzofficial]

r/Hadastroke

[@greecevstheworld]

You are waiting for ksp2 while I am still waiting for you to spell video correctly

[@landerverheyden1652]

@@greecevstheworld in my language it's the correct spelling so don't mind me if I mix to word that are so alike.

[@ramazantopkaya7974]

So this is how Sky People returned in Avatar 2 ? :)

[@caturlifelive]

Me : trying to sleep at 04:29 AM and accidentally open yt on my phone Yt : wanna see rocket video? Me : ok, why not

[@stekra3159]

It is the year XXXX our bosstes make the old sturn look tiny jet we still launch awsome missions form 39 A for traditions sake.

[@samirdevechi8589]

ANOTHER COLONISING ALPHA CENTURI VID!!! HELL YEAH MY DAY HAS BEEN MADE!

[@polishkerbal6920]

Proxima centauri

[@samirdevechi8589]

@@polishkerbal6920 oh yeah my bad lol i was just too happy to think

[@Keplerian_Industries]

@@polishkerbal6920 The star system that Proxima Centauri is in is called alpha Centauri it’s a triple star system

[@polishkerbal6920]

@@Keplerian_Industries it is a proxima centauri colonizing video, aloha centauri A has 1 planet thats a hot jupiter or something like thag

[@Mamorufumio]

and to think all this modded stuff, will be standard in the new game

[@ne9d133]

The editing is really well done, good job 👍

[@laminekkeita6034]

J'espère vivre assez longtemps pour voir l'exposition de l'humanité dans l'espace. Ce jour serait le plus beau de ma vie et un accomplissement pour l'humanité

[@LooMTee]

Small nitpick on an otherwise great video. The rotating segments of the ship should spin opposite directions as in reality they would induce a torque on the ship. If they were to spin the same direction said torque would cause the ship itself to spin rather than the rings. Seriously impressive mission though!

[@nickczarnecki5783]

This is literally my only nitpick as a student studying astrophysics... this video is amazing

[@NorseGraphic]

A water tank absorbing incoming particles in front seems practical. Both as shielding and as mass used to accelerate the spaceship by the heated fusion-reaction.

[@linecraftman3907]

I think you won the game. What an amazing feat to pull off!!!!!

[@jealouselephant4139]

Excellent video, very cinematic. From a physics perspective, I think the simulated gravity rings should rotate in opposite directions.

[@nicklausgutknecht6226]

ALL of this just for 1300 vies bruh, this needs way more

[@Texas_fan101]

Kerbal 1: it’s a- what would you call a sunny day here? Kerbal 2: a sunny day Kerbal 1: but it isn’t the sun Kerbal 3: he has a point --------------- Average conversation on Proxima Centauri B

[@xander2853]

That is one hell of an ISV It looks amazing

[@morenofranco9235]

Impressive, Entropian! Now we just have to get past the Mars stuff, which is merely proof of concept, and get our collective arses into gear - and move on with the next BIG PROJECTS.

[@MinerBat]

nice! this is the kind of mission i hope to do one day!

[@carlosgrosso8690]

Refuerza mi esperanza de que, en alguna vida futura pueda admirar, o quizás participar de logros como éste.

[@Emperor_counsil334]

God Speed And Stay Safe! To You're Journey! 😎😎😎👏👏👏

[@KerbSpace]

ты молодец, это очень круто! я даже представить не могу как это работает. Я в rss+ro даже на орбиту выйти не могу, а в стоке максимум с экипажем долечу до дюны и обратно.

[@martianbuilder5945]

It looks a lot like the ISV Venture Star from Avatar!

[@stefanbirlog4622]

Well not really actually

[@N800-q1b]

it does

[@man-from-2058]

It doesn't really look similar

[@vadernation1233]

@@man-from-2058 yeah it does. It doesn’t need to be an exact recreation to look similar. It’s got the spindly mid-section, the massive circular fuel tanks, the particle shield, and the shuttle docking on it. The similarities are there.

[@doltBmB]

The venture star is based on the real life concept design of the "valkyrie" in the film, the shuttle is called valkyrie, and in real life a similar concept shuttle was called venture star, for some reason they switched the names

[@smokeysky]

if i could go to sleep for a month... Cant wait for KSP 2

[@thesquirejoosh4088]

my fellow is playing ksp 3 and this is awesome!

[@LeastNationalistPole]

you are an absolute genius. i was trying to design a plausible proxima B colony that could be created in the next 100 years, but i had big problems with the engines. i was thinking about the ISV using a antimatter torch drive but antimatter is way too expensive... and i was stupid enough to not think about using MULTIPLE other engines smh...

[@soleenzo893]

Looking forward to you making videos with KSP 2, going to be a whole other level of amaze i feel. :D

[@73_65]

I dont think KSP 2 will really surpass what was shown in the video, most likely just make such feats more widely available and less likely to fail because the devs never bothered to fix the game's physics them selves.

[@theh0ff58]

I love how KSP2 is a thing on the same timeline with this video.

[@svetchannel2998]

Civ Beyond Earth + Avatar. Great job and masterpiece

[@EntropianVFX]

Thank you!

[@trainenthusiast5199]

Certified Venture Star classic

[@AmtrakCitiesSprinter64]

Now we have a self-sustaining colony on Proxima Centauri b!

[@draftymamchak]

how did you make Far Future Technologies and Interstellar Extended work together

[@triple-gq6mn]

Mankind was born on earth, it was never meant to die here.

[@aliensoup2420]

The particle collision shield doesn't protect the ship after it turns around to decelerate. You need one on both ends. Of course the engines will still be vulnerable, but maybe the outward thrust will deflect any colliding objects.

[@oblivion_2852]

one on both ends? xD or you could just move it halfway

[@theerandomdude2375]

Or even a second pair of engines that can stick out beyond the shield

[@bobfree]

Great conceptual presentation! Interesting to note that it's assuming SpaceX-like reusability, payload capacity, and launch cadence. It's unlikely that humans would be sent until automated research/mapping, resource capture missions would be completed first. Given the time it takes for communication to reach Earth, it'd be decades (depending on the engine tech used to get the pre-missions there) before human were sent - unless we staggered launches with the assumption that the pre-missions would be successful. We are not envisioning domed habitats on Mars (due to thin atmosphere and minimal magnetospheres). For similar reasons, it's unlikely that we'll assume domed habitats will work on PC planets until investigated. If we do send humans, we'd likely send at least 2 shuttles, not just one. It's unlikely that a single mission would be able to send enough manufacturing infrastructure to sustain a self-reliant colony. The conceptual presentation is wonderful - but it would be more likely that we would robotically build a working, self-sustaining city before sending our first human there - making the process centuries in the making. I'm all for making this happen - and videos like this will be instrumental in energizing our youth to pursue this. That said, it's unlikely that I'll be around when we our first unmanned mission arrives and reports back. In the mean time, looking forward to colonies on Mars!

[@bromanned7069]

props to the cameraman for traveling all the way to alpha centauri to bring us this masterpiece

[@othkrfjlgght4t7hj]

Wow thats just something else thats one of the best vids i ever seen at the end i Was a little bit sad because it was so good!

[@lelandwilt1565]

6:20 slight inaccuracy, the centrifugal rotators would be spinning in opposite directions to balance out the torque, them spinning in the same direction would offset it and tear the space craft apart with the amount of force being exerted on either side. EDIT: My bad I didn't see the pinned comment before replying with this comment. At least this will serve as a more in depth explanation for why it wouldn't work irl for others scrolling through the comments.

[@NoPulseForRussians]

Pretty cool! The crew shuttle would've launched to orbit in a heads down configuration tho due to the mass offset on the 2nd stage. But besides that, pretty cool 😎

[@bobologic6849]

what was the flight time for the crew? What was their average speed in route? was it a one way trip?

[@benjamingilmore6442]

Hearing Stellaris music a few minutes after I stopped playing Stellaris is one of life's small but meaningful joys

[@anguscovoflyer95]

What % of the speed of light did you get up to and how long did it take you to get there?

[@stormyaudio9969]

the Centauri system is 4.1LY, at 50% the Speed of light it would have taken apx 10-12 years factoring in acceleration and deceleration

[@marcusaureliusantoninusaug2161]

I don't know about in-game, but in reality 0,1c might be possible to reach within the next 100 years, meaning the trip would roughly take about 44 years.

[@dirzz]

Looks 100 times better than KSP 2. Only thing better in ksp 2 is particle/plume effects, albeit with tremendous lag spikes

[@spatrk6634]

for now

[@arieldario3849]

Did you used Life support mods? Im currently planning an intersetellar mission in stock, but i had to uninstall my LS mods as i didnt find a way to do it without making my designs looks ridiculous. Your work is very INSPIRING BTW!!

[@EntropianVFX]

Thank you! I did use life support, though I bypassed a lot of the requirements for an interstellar journey by using DeepFreeze.

[@arieldario3849]

@@EntropianVFX Thanks! DF is great, but i still didnt realize how to create a self sustaining LS chain, so even with Deep Freeze i faced the same problem haha Im trying again with Snacks! mod...

[@dragonking3431]

Which LS mod are you using?im currently preparing my interstellar mission with USI-LS,it seems to be possible,what exact problem did you run into?I might be able to help

[@arieldario3849]

@@dragonking3431 Sorry for the late reply, i thought i already answer to you lol I was using Snacks! mod as i mentioned before, the problem i still get, is that im not able to produce snacks faster than my kerbals consume it. I also tried USI but it seem too intricate and honestly, it likes me, but due his learning curve, is probably for another moment...

[@dragonking3431]

It’s relatively simple once you have it figured out once,the main factors are habitation and supplies,for habitation there’s 2 values that determine how much of it a part gives,multiplier and months,months just simply adds more time to the hab timer for the amount of Kerbals it affects,multiplier multiplies the habitation of all things on the ship,generally you want a good balance of the 2,most parts have that automatically though so you don’t really need to worry about it,generally the best option to get more hab time is spam the atlas module from SSPX until you reach 50 years with your desired amount of Kerbals,once it reaches 50 years it goes to infinite.for supplies first you have the normal consumption,every Kerbals consumes a certain amount of supplies per day(I don’t know it right now,you can look it up on the USI wiki though),this can be drastically reduced using recyclers though,you should have enough of them to affect every Kerbal,you can set the SSPX greenhouse modules to life support mode and they will become great recyclers(for my own mission I need to support 400 kerbals on a 20 year trip though,so I made myself a very large recycler part,most recyclers have a relatively low number of crew affected and tweakscale doesn’t work on them).then you have the greenhouses,they use fertilizer and mulch(which is produced by kerbals as they consume supplies,you don’t have to worry about it at all),producing supplies using fertilizer is much more efficient than just simply packing them,you get ~10x more supplies out of a given mass of fertilizer than you get if you normally packed them,essentially pack as much fertilizer as you need for the with fertilizer readout on the mods menu to be long enough for your mission,then make sure your greenhouses supply production can keep up with the rate kerbals consume it at(I usually just launch the vehicle,test if it can keep up then revert flight,you can calculate it but the numbers are hard to work with and there are way too many modifiers involved)

[@thekidwhodraws]

Giant orbital assembly ships are so elegant. Like a blue whale or something

[@CMDR_RileyAngel]

I wonder, how many FPS you got with this monster ship? And I always confused how that thing didn't get kraken'd.. It's huge, it's laggy and very unstable. Other than that, it's amazing! Nice to see. :)

[@EntropianVFX]

Around 5-15 depending on the situation. It did get krakened multiple times, but I just reloaded quicksaves to avoid it.

[@tigertank370]

So basically an interstellar ship has to be built in space ?

[@gabrielalejandrodoldan4722]

Obviously

[@fork9001]

Could you potentially do a base expansion and crew replacement mission? And how fast was transit from Solar System to Proxima Centauri system?

[@EntropianVFX]

Base expansion for sure. At this point, the only limits are my imagination and the exoplanet buggyness, as I have a fully self-sustaining system set up that can expand upon itself. Crew replacement, however, would be sort of unnecessary, as I sent enough crew/passengers to ensure that they could produce the next generation of crew.

[@fork9001]

@@EntropianVFX And how long was transit from Solar System to Proxima Centauri system? How many %c could you get out of the craft?

[@EntropianVFX]

@@fork9001 I think it was just under a century, but I don't remember what %c it achieved.

[@fork9001]

@@EntropianVFX nice

[@chloekaftan]

i love how the shuttle looks like a cute little baby turtle 😊

[@Olconer]

2:57 that's such a beautiful shot... how t f*** you only have 4k subs , this is just a masterpiece of a video , can't imagine actually setting all this up , great job !

[@phoenix-qr3ln]

Nice, man I had the other solar systems installed in my RSSRO playthrough but I quickly gave up actually getting to them, even with Near/Far future propulsion. that and transmitting science that far seemed expensive

[@El_Zapatito]

Amazing work ,the design of the ship is amazing, is that a waterfall config for Interstellar Extended?

[@EntropianVFX]

Thank you! I think it's waterfall, yeah.

[@zencrypt2583]

interstellar extended works in 1.12.3?? in ckan it shows that it doesn't support version 1.12.3

[@EntropianVFX]

@@zencrypt2583 KSPIE is terribly janky at best but most of it works in 1.12.3. Just whitelist its supported version in CKAN and it will enable installation.

[@danielherman9406]

This video is the best I have seen from KSP. Beautiful work. Well done

[@efcerwinka]

Amazing! How long did it take in-game to reach Proxima?

[@abbarahamredacted2623]

I few seconds the warp drive in the game is insane one speed

[@stonedmountainunicorn9532]

Holy mod list, getting it all the work is a game in itself I'm so hyped for KPS 2

[@Lewy94999]

What's KSP 2?

[@lukethenuke10]

Kerbal space program 2

[@blaineyaboicarlton3329]

Hey how big was the ship in the video

[@EntropianVFX]

IIRC around 2 football fields long

[@blaineyaboicarlton3329]

So basically around 750 ft loong

[@blaineyaboicarlton3329]

*long

[@blaineyaboicarlton3329]

Us the length for the launch vehicle of the ship

[@EntropianVFX]

@@blaineyaboicarlton3329 I'm not entirely sure how long the longest launch vehicle was. 750 feet for the mothership sounds about right.

[@jellybeaniac152]

The music, The visuals, the feat, this is mind blowing, I am in awe and shock as a new player seeing that this is possible is incredible

[@mariasirona1622]

Epic

[@dykytsenko]

it almost a guarantee that the first intersterllar trip will be done by robots/ AI