Audacity



Audacity is the space ship that the Audacity expedition came on.

Since T+122 D, it has been in the asteroid belt, helping to prospect asteroids.

Drive
Audacity is a fusion powered craft, with a delta-v budget of 56,800 km/s if fully fueled with full cargo, however this is greater in practice due to it's bussard ramscoops. The fusion drive is optimised for D-D fusion. Fully loaded, Audacity manages around 0.6 m/s^2 of acceleration, and it's frame is not built to handle more than 50m/s^2.

Audacity's drive is not capable of gearing; trading thrust for specific impulse.

Cargo
Audacity carried one Planetary Von Nuemann, 3 Asteroid Von Nuemanns, a 250 gigawatt communications LASER, probes and satellites of various kinds (ion drive), 10 landers, 2 re-useable shuttles, computers required to run the members of the Audacity expedition, and giant radiators to shed heat generated by the fusion drive.

Audacity has 20 missiles, each MIRVed with 10 half-megatonne TNT equivalent nuclear warheads.

Audacity has an on-board biolab, capable of creating 5 kilograms of LittleBoy spores and some small machine shops.

Audacity has capacity in it's fuel tanks for 1.34*10^12 kilograms of liquid deuterium.

Total dry mass at the outset of the mission (everything apart from the fuel) is 10^10 kilograms.