Valkyrie Development
-KSP-
The Challenge
- Lunar Habitat Challenge:
As a lone participant, you are tasked with single-handedly designing, building, and presenting a lunar surface habitat capable of supporting a minimum of two crew members. This competition emphasizes your ability to efficiently manage resources, safely construct a functional lunar base, and justify why your design is optimal for long-term deployment.
- Capacity: Must accommodate at least four (4) Kerbals.
- Energy Independence: Include a self-sufficient energy system, such as solar panels or alternative renewable sources.
- Communication System: Ensure a reliable communication system for regular contact with Earth, or a lunar gateway.
- Minimum Weight: The lunar habitat must weigh atleast ten (10) tons.
- Must adhere to the maximum budget limit of two (2) million.
- You are expected to monitor and present a detailed account of your expenses during the project.
- Resource Utilization: Earn extra points for incorporating resource utilization, exploring the potential use of local lunar resources in the habitat's construction or functionality.
- Creativity: Unique solutions, novel approaches, Innovation, and creative elements that contribute to the overall ingenuity and uniqueness of the project
- Kerbal Well-being: Features ensuring the physical, and mental, safety; and overall well-being of the Kerbal inhabitants.
- Showcase your ability to simulate proven capabilities. For example, if you have successfully launched twenty (20) tons into space with a specific launch vehicle, as long as the same launch vehicle is used, you can simulate teleporting any payload under that weight that is relatively similar in volume or smaller into space (This is subject to judges ruling).
Lunar Habitat Design Constraints
Budget Constraints
Bonus Points Criteria
Simulation of Demonstrated Capabilities
- Important Notes:
- Blueprints: You are not allowed to use any vehicles besides your own designs.
- Recording: You are required to record the entire process of the challenge, if it's not recorded its invalidated.
- Simulation: You must request from the judge to simulate proven capabilities.
CKAN Mod pack link.
CKAN Executable Download, it requires .NET.
Phases
- Design, Construction, and Execution:
Overview: You, the sole planner and designer, will focus on designing and building your lunar surface base. Consider budget constraints, payload optimization, and innovative solutions in your approach. Any reusable components or technologies will contribute to reducing the overall cost.
- Presentation:
- Budget Breakdown: Transparent allocation of funds for construction, systems, etc.
- Vehicles Constructed: Showcase the transportation vehicles you built, including details on tonnage, delta-V, and other pertinent information that highlights their efficiency.
- Long-Term Deployment Justification: Explanation of why your lunar base is optimal for long-term deployment.
- Overview of the Lunar Habitat: Provide a comprehensive overview of your lunar habitat, explaining the design rationale, capacity for crew members, and any other relevant information. Include details on why you designed it in a particular way.
- Landing Location: Provide justification for your chosen site by explaining the reasons behind your selection.
Overview: Concise details of your lunar base's key features and objectives.
Winning Criteria:
- Sustainability:
Points awarded for incorporating systems and practices that enhance the habitat's long-term sustainability (0-20 Points).
- Efficiency:
Evaluation of how efficient and safely resources are utilized in the design and construction of the lunar habitat. Considerations include streamlined construction processes, optimal energy usage, and effective space utilization (0-20 Points).
- infrastructure:
Evaluation of the entire infrastructure, encompassing both the lunar habitat and associated facilities, with emphasis on completeness, redudancies, and overall resilience. This includes assessing structural integrity, energy distribution, communication networks, and any other essential components contributing to the comprehensive functionality and robustness of the entire infrastructure (0-20 Points).
- Budget Requirement:
Points are allocated based on how effectively you manage your budget and whether you adhere to the maximum budget limit of two (2) million (0-20 Points).
- Innovation:
Extra points for innovative use of resources in the process of construction and functionality. (0-10 Points).
- Presentation:
Points awarded for the clarity, effectiveness, and overall quality of the solo presentation. Considerations must include the coherence of the overview, transparent budget breakdown, and compelling justification of the design choices (0-20 Points).