Habitation Torus Bk II

Small Block II change to the Habitation Torus - the glass passageways have been changed from inlets to fairings so your Droods can move freely through their balcony areas. Just don't stage too many times or they'll get pooped out into space.

Tired of your Droods complaining about having to live in a windowless can for months?

Welcome home! This toroidal space cabin has room for 4 Droods to live in style. You can use this for long-term manned space stations, or for deep space missions. A built-in motor rotates the torus for artificial gravity.

Each Drood gets their own private cabin, with a private glass balcony to watch the stars pass beneath their feet. The balcony even opens so they can get some fresh space, or go for a walk.

Also included is a basic space truck to drive the habitat into position, but you can get rid of it if you don't need it. Part count without the space truck is 88 (not including inhabitants) and the gross mass is about 26 tons. You can save 2 tons by removing the battery directly below the docking port and solar panels, and 4 tons by removing the docking port and building it directly into a station. It's not meant to be operated by itself, so aside from limited power, there's no command chip or propulsion of its own (command is in the space truck).

I did experiment with launching it into space - it's not very heavy, so it's doable, but the fairing has to be pretty humongous.

If you make this into a subcomponent so you can use it with your other craft, the exit positions will likely be reset to default so your astronauts will get pooped out into space instead of the balcony. You have been warned.

You're free to use it how you like, but I had to break symmetry so it wouldn't have a bazillion extra cameras. Sorry.

As always, the model has been painted in a custom livery, but the downloadable has been repainted with stock Europa colors.