The objective of this design is to start a game on a 1-1-1-1 inventory vanilla server or one of the standard servers operated by Keen with the standard Earth-like drop pod and get a permanent base established on an asteroid in space in the minimum amount of time in a single launch. The micro-base established on a 1-1-1-1 server is shown in one of the pictures and includes the survival kit from the drop pod.

This is a ship which is relatively easy to maneuver and can be used to make multiple trips to and from the Earth-like planet after the asteroid base has been established and bring up additional materials for expansion. I have been able to establish an asteroid base within 60 minutes, but even with difficulties in finding ice for fuel it should not take much longer than that. All that is required on the planet's surface is the construction of an energy source (wind turbine) and a basic assembler (for the battery components).

It is not necessary to construct a basic refinery since the "ship" has only two thrusters, (8 metal grid from the drop pod) but is still relatively easy to pilot in gravity or in space. It was purposefully limited to 2 thrusters so the time to launch from the start of the game is minimized by using only the metal grid in the drop pod, avoiding a search for cobalt (not extracted form stone) and avoiding the construction of a basic refinery to further shorten the time to orbit. All of the required resources except ice for fuel can be obtained from stone and refined in the survival kit.

On servers with frontier economy mod it will permit the sale of very low cost ships to newcomers who can then quickly leave the planet and build in space. There is also a much smaller version with a reactor, no solar panels and no batteries that can be sold for less in frontier economy but would extend time to space in a vanilla game with earth drop pod since it requires reactor components and uranium.

The design includes a solar panel for charging the batteries, but because small batteries start with such minimal charge (5%), a large small grid battery was constructed for temporary use and the small batteries placed in "recharge" mode for 10 minutes. The bigger battery is destroyed since it is not needed for normal operating use.

The ship model is NLC1001b, Nano Launch Chair vehicle. NLC1001 has the same function but has a slightly different layout. However the solar panel is larger than I had thought and so it had to be moved to fit the required dimensions.

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