Zhandar appreciation post
from PlanetJam 2, a new KSP planet mod: https://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/index.php?/topic/211156-v10-central-fire-planet-jam-2-armstrongs-limit-homeworld-in-the-ilio-pyri-planetary-system/
Zhandar’s appearance in telescopes.
Zhandar is a gas giant planet orbiting Pyri at such a distance that it might actually be comfortable to live at, for a change. The discovery that it was made in large part of hydrogen and helium helped bolster the ancient and well-respected theory that the universe is made up of concentric shells orbiting a Central Fire, made of lightweight ethereal matter that doesn't unbalance the cosmos too much. The fact that all that lightweight, ethereal hydrogen gas added up to be more than a dozen times heavier than Armstrong was, somehow, considered unimportant. Unfortunately, due to its water and hydrogen-rich composition, Zhandar doesn't actually have a surface you could land at and walk on, so mission planners see it instead as a huge mass that a spacecraft could do a gravity assist off of.
Such trans-Zhandar trajectories would allow access to the rest of the Pyri system, and even the Ilio system, with considerably less rocket fuel than if it were avoided altogether.
Approaching Zhandar with the NA-03 “Spirit” probe.
Spirit detaches its atmosphere probe on a collision course with Zhandar’s trojan, Beddul-Dopale.
Haut-Oklo to the left, Beddul and Dopale are the distant worlds in the center of the image near the spacecraft.
Arrival at Beddul-Dopale. BUT THIS AIN’T A BEDDUL-DOPALE APPRECIATION POST, IS IT!
HERE IT IS IN OUTER WILDS STYLE FROM THE ART MY FRIEND WOLF-RAYET @thefallencomet MADE.
reddit likes it, which i honestly didn’t expect!












