General What's the best for a solar system game?

[Spinward Scout]

The Artemis II Moon mission has sparked some curiosity for me. I'd like to see how we colonize our solar system in game terms. It's a game I'd like to play in. Retrieving comets from the Oort cloud at the edge of the solar system. To be used for terraforming Mars. Mining the Asteroid Belt. Drilling water from Europa, and so on...

What would be the best supplement for doing that?

Orbital 2100, by Zozer Games, looks interesting, but it seems limited to the Earth and the Moon, with moons of Jupiter and Saturn being side quests.

Outworld, by Zozer Games, could be good, too.

World Builders Handbook, by Mongoose, seems like a good choice, but maybe too much.

I don't know what else is out there for this kind of thing.

And I don't want to 'reinvent the wheel' if it's already been done.

Does anyone have any ideas for this?

 

[kilemall]

What’s your emphasis, howto or organizational/national conflict, and how hard science/engineering?

 

[Spinward Scout]

What’s your emphasis, howto or organizational/national conflict, and how hard science/engineering?

Honestly, it could be Traveller without the Jump Drive. TL13 or TL14 without Jump, or a minimum of TL10. Maybe the current or modified Nations. Definitely off-Earth colonization. Being able to get from Earth to Jupiter in about a week would be nice, tho. That was the goal of the Mach/Lorentz drive, if I remember right.

 

[mike wightman]

TL9 m-drive and fusion power plants make exploitation of the solar system trivial.

TL8 where you have gravitics to lift you to orbit, fusion power and fusion rockets... much more of a challenge.

TL8 with no gravitics discovery means chemical rockets to launch and then fission or fusion rockets in space... I would take a punt on Pioneer for this.