the start to some doujinshi thing i may or may not finish

WELCOME BACK INTEGRITY

We will always choose Earth.

For All Mankind.

GO INTEGRITY, GO ARTEMIS II!

holy shiiiit i need to vograce my stuff

'm reaallllyyy happy that realistic interstellar travel is becoming commonplace in modern sci-fi.

No hate to Star Wars or Star Trek (their my goats) but they paint this picture that space travel is only possible with impossible technology; it isn't.

It does a round trip with a crew of 100. No, they are not in stasis— in total, they feel 7 years (3.5 on entry due to relativity, 2 in Proxima, 3.5 back home)

3 of these are built in the 2080s (heavy alt timeline stuff) under the UNOOSA-led Beyond Home Project.

Instead of Cool Handwavium (Astrophage) I use Plausible Handwavium (matter-antimatter beam core engine).

My ISV goes at a top speed of 0.8c at 1.5gs, burning for 180 days to Proxima Centauri. It makes this same maneuver for braking into the Proxima system.

I read Project Hail Mary. It's peak. I have no other words to describe how peak it is.

also realized how many similar choices i made in my own ISV design (shameless self plug)

"there's something wrong with the AI"
"....so your saying there's some sort of Three Body Problem"

"We have determined your hearing loss is not service related."

long march 10 #gijinka

My fat chud son

Aged badly

*NEXT

their both launching this month btw

I do have it written in this setting that there's a push for fusion engines to take over, especially with the colonization of the outer planets for clean(ish) He-3 fusion

With how spread out lunar He-3 is in the moon, it is more economically feasible to invest in a fission-powered fleet to the ice giants and harvest it there instead of mining the moon.

He-3 at a max of 50 PPB on the Moon. That is 50 tons of He-3 for every billion of lunar regolith you sort through.

Mars, however, is a terrestrial planet, and it once had the same geologic processes as Earth. This means it should have deposits of accessible uranium and thorium.

Venus also should fit these prerequisites, but I don't think I need to tell you why Venusian surface mining isn't a good idea.

The thing about that is that the moon generally doesn't have "veins" or deposits of material. It simply doesn't have the mass for the geological processes required. This is why lunar He-3 mining is good on paper, but in reality you'd have to sort through gigatons of regolith for any actual product.

One of the last things good ol terrestrial mining's good for, fissionables. Mars should supposedly have them too, though..

Dreamchaser sort of exists... slated for launch in 2027 :(

SpaceX Starship is a weird blend of spaceplane and rocket. So is ESA's SUSIE.

made my LANCER char in blender

The nuclear torpedoes of this space force are closed-cycle gas core... so it's not so bad?

Most ships in my setting use a nuclear salt-water rocket. Like the other person said, *your radiation poisoning is not service related*.

A BC-046 "Dragon King" launches a nuclear gas core torpedo, propelled by a solid kick stage.

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Artemis II edit YouTube video by bobatesomemayo

www.youtube.com/watch?v=teiL...
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#space #nasa #artemis