How Does Kerbal's Solar System Compare to Real Life?
xen-42
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The Kerbal Space Program planets are mostly 1:1 analogues to real life planets, with some exceptions, but the moons are where they get creative.
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I was inspired by Bogue's modded KSP videos to put the analogue description text on screen for each planet you should go watch his stuff its good @boguekerbal
I had like a 20 minute long script prepared but it was just burning me out trying to edit it and keep it interesting, and since the KSP wiki is down half the time it was getting really annoying to try and double check information. In the end I decided to keep only the most interesting part, which is how the moons are so weird and how KSP merges multiple real world planets into one to make for unique worlds to explore. Apparently KSP 2 took this even further with Dres becoming a ringed Iapetus analogue and a lot of the moons getting facelifts to look more like their real world counterparts but unfortunately I don't own and will never own that game considering its unfortunately now abandonware.
If you read this far comment uh "Good video but why didn't you mention Eve's second moon Grimbo?"
Content:
0:00 - Intro
0:47 - The moons are weird
4:50 - Outro
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2:50 I like habitable moons for gas giants, but personally, when I found the Cyran mod (which adds an exotic new gas giant to the game) and saw that it had a volcanic moon, I made it switch places with Laythe. That way, the volcanic moon would represent Io, and Laythe would be an exotic moon for an equally exotic planet.
5:20 Once again, I have a way to make Dres interesting with planet packs during my playthrough. There's a mod called Corelian which adds a planet similar to Saturn in the orbit of Dres, thus Dres is its moon. Although this planet would likely destabilize the whole Kerbal asteroid belt (if there is one) and thus is unrealistic, I like it.
Edit: I forgot to mention that Laythe does have Sulfur in its atmosphere, but Kerbals are Acid resistant and the water is likely infused with a special chemical that makes it physically impossible for the water to react with sulfur.
OPM has analogues for the outer gas giants, while MPE (the goat) adds like 10+ minor bodies present irl but not ingame. Notable dwarf planets and major comets primarily, though there's also 1-2 oort cloud objects. Sedna gets an analogue and it's the longest journey I've ever undertaken in the game. You drift for close to a century doing your hohmann transfer, it's bonkers.
Kind of makes the system unreasonably large (and vanilla parts do NOT suffice) but I find it fun
Jokes aside, i think that a mod for ksp that makes jool like giant's deep would be really fun!
How Does Kerbal's Solar System Compare to Real Life?
xen-42
30,227 views
The Kerbal Space Program planets are mostly 1:1 analogues to real life planets, with some exceptions, but the moons are where they get creative.
Join my Discord server: Discord: discord
Consider supporting the channel: Patreon: xen42
Outro music by Ardeo: https://ardeomusic.bandcamp.com/
I was inspired by Bogue's modded KSP videos to put the analogue description text on screen for each planet you should go watch his stuff its good @boguekerbal
I had like a 20 minute long script prepared but it was just burning me out trying to edit it and keep it interesting, and since the KSP wiki is down half the time it was getting really annoying to try and double check information. In the end I decided to keep only the most interesting part, which is how the moons are so weird and how KSP merges multiple real world planets into one to make for unique worlds to explore. Apparently KSP 2 took this even further with Dres becoming a ringed Iapetus analogue and a lot of the moons getting facelifts to look more like their real world counterparts but unfortunately I don't own and will never own that game considering its unfortunately now abandonware.
If you read this far comment uh "Good video but why didn't you mention Eve's second moon Grimbo?"
Content:
0:00 - Intro
0:47 - The moons are weird
4:50 - Outro