USSE Endeavor

USSE (United States Space Exploration) Endeavor // QX-CKK.3384481 Endeavor Diameter: 67 meters Power Supply: 4 Tokamak fusion reactors, Solar cells, Fuel cells Drive Type: Hybrid Variable-impulse Chemical/Plasma Engines (12) Crew Systems: Long-term Habitat Module, Air / Water Recycling, Cryogenic Hibernation Pods, Artificial Gravity (via Rotation). ——— DESIGN: The Endeavor is a modular ship composed of several boxy mission modules connected by tunnels, arranged in a ring 67 meters in diameter. The ring-like shape of the ship is made so that it can rotate to produce artificial gravity. It rotates at 5.5 rpm to produce centrifugal force that simulates Earth's gravity for the astronauts. ——— Modules: There are twelve modules in the ship's design, each with its own purpose: Four of the modules serve as the main propulsion system of the Endeavor, each mounting three high-efficiency, high-thrust plasma engines that propel the ship. ——— Four modules serve as detachable cargo pods, intended to be ferried down to a planetary surface by the Landers to create a settlement. Two of the modules serve as crew habitats, with sleeping quarters, consumables, and air and water recycling systems. One module is the cryogenic bay, with the hypersleep pods for crew hibernation. This module also serves as the ship's sick bay. ——— The last module is the command module of Endeavor, containing the cockpit, communications equipment, meeting room, and navigational systems. The command module has linkages that travel to the docking collar, permitting the ship to be piloted by an attached support craft. ——— Drive System: The Endeavor carries sixteen landing pods. The Endeavor itself is propelled by a series of twelve advanced magneto plasma rocket engines. The engines produce a distinctive blue exhaust plume of ionized gas when firing. The even spacing of the rockets permits the ship to accelerate and maneuver even while rotating to produce pseudo-gravity through angular momentum. ——— Docking Hubs/Support Craft: The Endeavor has a central/core docking hub that can mount six of its support craft at one time. The Endeavor also has four side module docking ports which can only be docked to by Rangers. These side ports are easier to dock to instead of the Central hub ports when the ship is facing upwards over the atmosphere orbiting around a planet, or when needing to dock quickly. Overall, the ship has a total of 11 docking ports. ——— The Endeavor carries two Rangers and two Landers for a high degree of redundancy. Rangers are fast and aerodynamic scouting vessels, while the Landers are used to ferry cargo pods down to a planetary surface from the Endeavor. Rangers can efficiently cruise through a planetary atmosphere and use chemical/plasma aerospike engines to achieve single-stage-to-orbit. Landers uses similar engines but are more derived from the bell shaped main engines of the Endurance. Each craft is efficient and powerful enough to achieve orbit multiple times. —— However, the Rangers and Landers have been modified with science equipment and radar scanning. The Landers (Shoemaker 1 & Shoemaker 2) use experimental aerospike engines while the Rangers (Aleph 1 & Aleph 2) use the same aerospike engines. The Endeavor also has four deployable ‘Sirius’ solar panels and deployable thermal panels. It can also launch a telescope probe and a scanner probe.

——VEHICLES—— CX-23 “Aleph Ranger” The Aleph Ranger is designed along the lines of a lifting body, but is equipped with small, canted wings for additional lift and stability. —— Unlike its distant predecessor, the Space Shuttle, the Aleph Ranger uses a novel aerodynamic control system that relies on reaction control system (RCS) thrusters and electrically powered air jets to provide pitch, yaw, and roll control. This effectively eliminates a variety of moving parts such as flaps, ailerons, elevators, and rudders which would otherwise increase weight and mechanical complexity. —— While lacking traditional flight control surfaces, the Aleph Ranger is completely reliant on its electric air jets and is incapable of unpowered gliding. If the flight control system experiences a total loss of power, the Aleph Ranger would spiral out of control and fall from the sky, requiring its pilot and its passengers, to eject. Such an event is unlikely due to the installation of multiple redundant power sources and a negotiable flight computer, creating a more rugged and reliable spacecraft. Power is provided by twin miniaturized tokamak fusion reactors, a triple redundant fuel cell system, and high efficiency solar cells on its roof. —— The electric air jets also enables the Aleph Ranger to propel itself through a planetary atmosphere. High powered fans draw air from slot-like intakes near the nose and on the corners of the wing structure. Incoming air is accelerated and channeled through the trailing edges of the wings and through vents on its underbelly; which are covered by opening and closing louvers. Depending on the louver angle, airflow can be diverted, or vectored downward for precise vertical-takeoff-and-landing (VTOL) or rearward for forward flight. The Aleph Ranger is controlled by a fly-by-wire system. —— After a de-orbit burn, the Aleph Ranger‘s broad underbelly heat shield is used to shed most of its velocity against a planetary atmosphere. Once near the surface at lower speeds, its ventral thrusters and air jets are used to softly land on a planet's surface. Simple landing struts are deployed to keep the heat shield tiles from touching the ground. The Aleph Ranger is also designed to float in the event of a water landing. —— The Aleph Ranger‘s main propulsion system are twin linear aerospike hybrid plasma engines - a marriage of two different rocket engine technologies capable of achieving high thrust while greatly reducing fuel consumption. Chemical rocket engine exhaust is ionized into plasma and magnetically accelerated to very high velocities, vastly increasing fuel efficiency. This enables the Aleph Ranger to achieve orbit, accelerate to escape velocity, and travel to other planets, requiring little to no rocket staging. If available, local atmospheric oxygen is collected and burned during atmospheric flight, saving its internal oxygen supply for very high altitudes and orbital maneuvering. —— The Aleph Ranger‘s cabin/cockpit is capable of maintaining a pressurized Earth-like atmosphere. It is composed of two compartments; the forward section is a cockpit that includes four ejectable crew seats and two folding benches for four additional passengers. The cockpit also contains four hibernation tanks and contingency supplies for long duration missions. The aft compartment functions as an airlock. Inside the airlock are two ports (one aft and one on the floor) that can dock with other spacecraft. The aft docking port can lower down to serve as a gangplank to the surface when landed. —— M-XCX 25 “Shoemaker Lander” Unlike the Ranger‘s sleek, aerodynamic design, Landers appear as faceted, boxy spacecraft. The Lander's design was not optimized for fast and efficient atmospheric flight like the Ranger, but instead for effective and reliable atmospheric deceleration while carrying a heavy payload to a planetary surface. The high drag design removes the need for parachutes, spoilers, and other potentially failure prone drag devices. ——— The Lander's heat shield is located on its upper surface, thus performs atmospheric entry inverted, protecting the belly-mounted payload. The seats can rotate around the craft's forward axis. This maintains a comfortable upright position for its passengers and pilots while rotating and listing. To maintain visibility in any orientation, the lander has windows both top and bottom. The windows on its upper surface are made of sapphire to withstand the heat of reentry. The windows on the nose and sides of the Lander are protected by thermal insulation tiles that slide on top of the windows like a closet door. Flanking its fuselage are four faceted fuel pods, each tipped with electric air jet nozzles for atmospheric flight and reaction control system (RCS) thrusters for maneuvers in space. The RCS thrusters are fueled by hydrazine and nitrogen tetroxide. ——— The Lander is equipped with one rectangular aerospike thruster, divided into two separate housings. These engines generate the far greater thrust required to propel the heavier craft into orbit. In fact, the Shoemaker Lander is powerful enough to propel the Endurance from a decaying orbit into escape velocity. ——— During atmospheric flight, the Shoemaker Lander uses electric air jets to maneuver to a chosen location on the surface before landing. The same air jets are used to rise from the surface before firing its main engines. The Shoemaker Lander is also heavily armored, enabling it to survive very hostile environments. The Shoemaker Lander carries a crew of four people and one robot, though there is space in the central compartment for additional passengers. It also contains four hypersleep pods and survival gear for long duration missions. —Robots— LIZZY // LIZ // or just LIZZ LIZZY is one of the robots formerly used by the U.S Marine Corps during the Resource War. She is somewhat to have a love for dark humor and pure sarcasm but is friendly to help on the missions. She is named after a deceased marine corps sergeant, Lizzy ‘Simon’ Keith. Lizzy Keith was wounded by a Chinese soldier in the leg. Lizzy Keith stayed in the hospital for two years until succumbing very slowly to her injuries. She also met LIZZY the robot fives times before Keith passed away. LIZZY’s ‘body’ color is a silver-ish whitish pink. With a magenta screen and a single oval-like expressive eye. LIZZY also loves children and taking care of them.

LIZZY seems to have a strong relationship with the now destroyed robot PLEX. She says she misses PLEX and wishes she could see him again…

LIZZY’s personality: LIZZY likes Dark Humor and likes making very rare death threats (she’ll apologize if she gets too far on them and will stop for quite awhile…), she is also sarcastic and a little flirty. She has a fond of science. She is very careful around people and will try her best to not hurt their feelings. LIZZY will also try her best to help her astronauts.

LIZZY’s weaponry: Low pressure Air Blaster, Taser, Carbon Grapple Tool.

LIZZY’s appearance: LIZZY is a monolithic robot, and has a cube like shape, but can shift her form to reveal other cube-like appendages within her body. The geometrical proportions of the parallelepiped (depth, width and height) in "static" configuration are 1:4:8.

NOST is one of the robots formerly used by the French Military during the Great War. NOST is like TARS but with a French accent and having a nearly unrecognizable French flag. NOST has the same body as LIZZY, TARS, CASE, KIPP, and PLEX. But has a silver-ish white red color. He also has a screen too. They were also apart of Endeavor. —Endeavor Cargo— Kepler II // Harnois The Harnois, aka Kepler II. Is an orbital space telescope with interstellar shielding and a crystal-made mirror and a highly advanced imaging sensor up to 102.6 megapixels. It also had small deployable radiators and an electronic thruster including electronic RCS systems. It is the successor to the 2009 launched Kepler Space Telescope (renamed to Kepler I after Kepler II was built). It uses two RTG’s for power and a solar panel. The electric thruster on its ‘butt’ can also transform into a docking port if it’s docking to Endeavor. The telescope also has two modes: Optical and X-Ray.

Cluster III // Jefferson (C1), Lincoln (C2), Kennedy (C3), and Washington (C4) Cluster III is the successor to the many years old now-decayed Cluster II probes. These probes are actually American made and named after the famous presidents of the United States. Cluster III was made from Cluster II’s blueprints and using a massive battery and a 360 degree of solar panels. And Canon 45 megapixel CMOS sensors on a super wide-360 degree angle. They also had antennas to measure ions, radiations, atmospheric sounds, and more. They were also shielded with Interstellar shielding to protect it during wormhole transits. It is also onboard the Endeavor.

Minos Survey Probe The Minos Survey Probe is an interstellar-shielded probe that is docked to the Endeavor. Using four electronic engines and xenon powered RCS systems. Its foldable survey equipment was made from a junkyard from a company called “Big Bill’s Equipment”. NASA commissioned the owner of the site, Billy Joe. He only had 2 weeks before the deadline. Billy contacted his friends to help NASA with the upcoming ‘space station’ (Endeavor) and brought all the pieces to NASA Houston. NASA then have the company 3 million U.S dollars as a gift, including a retired Orion capsule as a gift too. As of today: it is located in Michigan. Now back to the probe…

The probe also has an enclosed bacteria unit to test if bacteria feels during Interstellar trips (via wormholes) or heading to other solar systems. It has: a animal leg bone (basically from a dead dog who’s owner gave a final request to use the dog’s bone for the Endeavor so his ‘dog’ can explore the mystery’s of the universe…kinda bit cruel but wholesome I guess…), 12 pieces of human hair, and one small blood jar. These are ONLY used in science experiments. Not for cruelty and abuse and torture. ONLY SCIENCE. The probe also has two solar panels and one radiator.

360 Cupola dome (built in and used for looking out or docking the probes).

Armstrong EDM lander // Schiaparelli’s Rebirth The (Neil) Armstrong EDM Lander is the interstellar successor of the Martian Schiaparelli EDM by the ESA and Roscosmos. This Lander has a small robotic arm with a 360 degree 48mp DJI sensor (used from spare parts of the DJI Osmo 360 but the sensor was reduced to 48mp to conserve energy). It is a permanent lander and once landed, it can never go back to dock with the Endeavor. It requires a Shoemaker Lander to transport it up to space and dock it back with the Endeavor. It has one American CMOS camera and a fast 360 degree head.

And finally, the Endeavor-one-way-Atmospheric Probe // Diver The Endeavor-one-way-Atmospheric Probe (aka Diver) is the final successor to the now-destroyed Galileo Atmospheric Probe used by the Galileo Jupiter spacecraft. Having a reinforced body and a 3 second camera snapper to take quick images of its descent from the top only. It also has a right panoramic camera that can go 180 degrees. The probe will also follow the same mission parameters by diving deep into the purple gas giant of Alteris-2: Sevagoth. It even carries a metal NASA flag during its descent. It’s the final piece of Endeavor’s miscellaneous’s probes.

Alteris-2/Kepler-843b/Spitzer-49. Alteris-2 is a massive blackhole that recently devoured a star thousands of years ago. It was discovered by the Kepler Space Telescope. Its official Kepler name: Kepler-843b. And its community named which NASA adopted: Alteris-2. Alteris-2 appears to be close to the Milky Way’s core. The blackhole itself is very interesting. And it was also scanned by the Spitzer Space Telescope and the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, including TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite).

It can also mess time (aka time dilation). The Blackhole also has two colored rings of its accretion disk: Purple (on the left side, aka heated) and blue (on the right side, aka cooled). Strange signals came from the Blackhole, sounds of cosmic gurgles, static, interference, and the sounds of the devoured star…sometime later, A transmission from the Blackhole sounded like a ship getting immediately destroyed in the Blackhole.

Alteris-2 has ten planets: Equinox, Excalibur, Edmunds, Styanax, Sevagoth, Kullervo, Citrine, Octavia, Lilith, and Nezha. Marking it the biggest solar system with planets ever discovered by humanity.

Equinox (a purple ocean planet with raging thunderstorms and little islands, the ocean has a surface that spans across 10 miles and has a deep trench. Somewhere in the habitable zone).

Excalibur (a cyan gas giant with a surface and very rarely rains shards of sharp ice and rains normal water commonly, not in the habitable zone but near it).

Edmunds (a fiery planet with molten volcanos that release ash into the air, you literally need a foglight for this, NOT in the habitable zone).

Styanax (a desert-colored planet with a breathable atmosphere and tiny bits of ammonia, it has 5 lush forests in orange. In the habitable zone).

Sevagoth (a purple gas giant, not in the habitable zone).

Kullervo (a white, icy surface-less planet, it is honeycombed with seemingly endless layers of frozen ice clouds, crevices and mountains, it has a lot of ammonia. Due to the presence and evaporation of frozen clouds, it seems improbable or even impossible that the sky is ever visible from the solid ice, in the habitable zone).

Citrine (a crystal orange planet near Alteris-2, it has liquid crystal that burns anything, it’s trying its atmosphere blown away. NOT EVEN in the Habitable zone).

Octavia (an earth-like planet with a pinkish-white atmosphere and the planet is a bit bigger than Earth, it also has a Titan-sized moon called “Octon”. The planet and its moon are in the habitable zone).

Lilith (a small, Pluto-like planet that is far away and orbiting Alteris-2, has a captured asteroid and a ceres-like planet. It is…cold. Named like that due to its frozen hell, NOT EVEN in the Habitable zone).

And Nezha (final planet of Alteris-2/Kepler-843b. It is a Gas Giant and a Saturn-sized planet with one straight ring and one curved-left ring. It has five moons (Poseidon, Titan-sized moon that is a complete water planet and little islands. Apis, a desert moon. Khepri, an airless and an egg-shaped planet. Amunet, a moon that strongly resembles Saturn’s moon Enceladus but with a mini ring. And Khonsu, a distorted bumpy moon with a yellow color and yellow pikes. And this makes 10 planets).