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You’ve probably not been wondering where I’ve been for the past 4-5 months, but it’s been a lot of grand strategy games and NMS and a little bit of SR2
So what have I been working on? Well I said I’d work on a project where I’d recreate the ISV venture star interstellar vehicle from Avatar. 2 years ago and never really got around to that, well I recently whipped a prototype together of my own rendition of the ISV Venture star since I couldn’t really find any good proportions or anything.
It’s called ISV Washington. (The state. not George Washington)
Above: Early test model mounted with unused and outdated HG-2 engines which were later replaced entirely with the powerful Tesseract-2 engines
skip this if you don’t care about the “lore”
Despite being about half a kilometer long it’s still smaller than the actual ISV venture star. This model will be used for trips to Alpha Taurus and the Centauria system. Alpha Taurus which is 4-5 lightyears (I forgor). And the slightly more distant Centauria system 6 ly away. Both colonizing respective moons Alpha Taurus. Ab3 and Athena.
This chonker is massive and carries large 3D printers for vehicles using on-site resources, food, medication, tools, electronics, people, and 2 atmospheric landers for transporting people and supplies to the surface all in one mission.
It’s a little expensive at 1.3 trillion dollars which is about the gdp of mexico (yikes)
It’s insane price is for the twin matter/antimatter engines needed to power the impossible trip and return within a lifetime. The engines’ thrust is relatively low despite its immense power requirement and heat output, but it is insanely efficient and rarely needs a refuel. The twin radiators on the ISV help dissipate the immense heat caused by the engines. The engines require a 4-5 month acceleration phase at 2Gs and vise-versa for deceleration.
It has since done missions to Alpha Taurus and most recently the ongoing Centauria system mission.
Above: ISV Washington starts acceleration displaying its magnificent plume that is several kilometers long
@NellEngineer Wdym how much time do I need? If you mean time to make the base models then don’t worry about time and just take your time.