Project Expanse 2365

[marble wadi]

A reimagined path of the Kerbal kind

Here is a Roadmap you can follow to see future updates and features as well as what's already done.
https://trello.com/b/3QKHBsMv/ksp2-project-expanse-2365

[tribal flume]

ooo, ambitious

[marble wadi]

Yeah. Would say its almost as a passion project.

[flint violet]

https://tenor.com/view/senator-palpatine-anakin-skywalker-phantom-menace-gif-10607636

[coral vapor]

uh oh let's hope he doesn't fall into lava

the roadmap looks awesome, definitely hope to see it finished!

[flint violet]

It's my dream to have an Expanse-like settings in KSP. Imagine multiplayer with colonies across the entire solar system. Good luck with this!

[marble wadi]

or hang my self haha. It will be developed at the pace of KSP2 features. Like colonies and interstellar. Wont rush parts that dont have a feature yet.

[marble wadi]

thats why im doing this 😄

Its somethign that will hopefully explode KSP2

any talented Modelers and coders are welcome to help on this

Me and my buddy will be lead Art department basically. We both got around 8 years in the gaming industry as 3D modelers.

[flint violet]

that's great!

also, ||Stage7: Ring Network|| 🙂

[marble wadi]

hahaha sooo true. Right after Conflict

laser targeting and rail guns plus rockets

this will be suck an awesome mod

and its also vanilla friendly af because the Expanse is based on real life physics

[marble wadi]

honestly if they add black holes which they hint at a little bit then this will work.

[flint violet]

I have a hunch that the Mun Arch will be revealed to be some sort of star gate when interstellar comes. They already have teleportation implemented.

[marble wadi]

oh shit

[tribal flume]

I'd actually not like that

I don't want teleportation tbh

[marble wadi]

arent worm holes a type of teleportation lol

[flint violet]

I mean in a star gate sense. Connecting 2 star systems, I see it as pretty viable.

[tribal flume]

So just fly your craft through the mun arch and your somewhere else?

[marble wadi]

on a different moon in a different system with a different arch

[flint violet]

In principle. They could also add a bunch of requirements to unlock that and for it to have a cost in exotic resources for example

Mining super rare resources on an outer celestial body and then use that resource for a star gate crossing. I think it sounds fun

[marble wadi]

also fits in to the expanse universe with other planets and mining exotic recourses hahah

[flint violet]

sure

[ashen rock]

If thats what interstellar is, I will probably just stop playing and modding the game.

[marble wadi]

Tell that to them. We can’t loose you

[nimble niche]

Yeah if they did that the community would riot

[silk marten]

oooh, I just finished reading the books recently, this sounds exciting 👀

[silk marten]

didn't they already tease that there are actual engines designed for interstellar travel?

[coral vapor]

yeah, that's definitely happening one way or another

but I think it would be kind of interesting if for example completing the primary missions campaign in another star system opens a gateway as a shortcut

basically at the end of your exploration save

[shadow ledge]

Portal lets the kerbals find another star system, realise it's not kerbol, but only a kerbal can go through, and so they need to invent interstellar travel to get there <-- what I would guess as the end of the Kerbol part if the portal does go.

[flint violet]

Yes, that's my idea as well. There's often a mechanic in games when you finish some quest line that you get a fast traveling shortcut.
I wouldn't like to teleport everywhere, I agree with that. But some kind of situational shortcut would be nice.

For example in the Expanse series they got a ring/portal on the far edge of our Solar System, not really accessible from Earth if we're talking about KSP mechanics, but as a reward for completing some difficult story line, completing a base in another solar system or similar, that would be nice

[flint violet]

I finished the books recently also, about a month ago 🙂

[coral vapor]

I really need to get them too, sounds exactly like my kind of thing

[flint violet]

They're really good, enjoyed them a lot, can recommend.

[golden venture]

I dont realy understand this mod , is it like a story mod ?

[coral vapor]

you can look at the planned features in the link in the original post

looks mostly like a large parts pack

[silk marten]

with parts inspired by The Expanse series on book/TV

it's some top tier sci-fi, relatively realistic far-future technologies - should map well to KSP

[marble wadi]

So basically this is a completely reimagined parts mod together with an expanding story.

It has a start mission and start parts to get you going. With for science you will be able to unlock new parts that are mission dependant, following along the lore and some custom missions to play nicely together with the gameplay.

Just like in the show you will discover new technologies and ships and missions with events similar to the show. It’s basically gonna be a dynamic gameplay loop of sorts with lots to discover and a huge amount of various ship designs, stations, outposts and colonies to build.

From one ship you can make different classes.

Interceptors
Explorers
Haulers
Transporters
Destroyers
Etc

There will be a base hull and (upgrades) you can on to it. Connecting different modules to the hull like gun units, explorations units or service units.

Everything is still a clean slate and has room to expand. I will be sharing some screenshots after new years definitely 🙂

[ashen rock]

very Expansive I see