Contract Pack: Surface Experiment Package

Field-tested. Mostly. By Albert Kermin Industries.

Contract Configurator contracts for the Surface Experiment Pack (SEP): set up science stations on the ground, plug the instruments in, and let them run for months while you go do something else.

What you get

• Five tiers of new stations, from a biome of Kerbin to any airless rock in the system, plus upgrade contracts that send you back, by name, to stations you already built.
• Only contracts you can actually do. An instrument is only asked for once its part is unlocked and only where SEP lets it run: the Weather Station wants air, the Ion Gauge and the Solar Wind Spectrometer want none.
• Building, not waiting. A SEP run takes 75–100 days, so the contracts pay for the station; the data is your bonus when the run finishes.
• English and Brazilian Portuguese, with the jokes translated, not just the words.

Beta: what has been flown

Tiers 0 and 1 have been played through in a career save. Tiers 2–4 and the upgrade contracts load and pass the automated checks, but I haven't flown them yet. If you get there first, a screenshot or a KSP.log in the forum thread or in GitHub issues helps a lot, especially on planet packs.

Requirements

• Contract Configurator 2.13.4+ and ModuleManager. The pack patches in the updated SEP experiment definitions (CC #78 and #79) until a CC release has them, so there's nothing to copy by hand.
• Surface Experiment Pack 2.7.x, KIS, KAS 1.x and SEP-KAS1-Patch, so the plugs link on KAS 1.x.

Install: copy the GameData folder from the zip into your KSP folder. Not on CKAN yet: SEP itself is still marked for KSP 1.6 there.

How this was made. I built this pack with Claudinho, my AI intern (Claude, by Anthropic). We plan together and nothing gets built before I approve the plan; he writes most of the configs and texts and runs the automated checks; I review every change and play the contracts in my career. Any mistakes are mine, so please report them.

Full contract list, FAQ and credits: README on GitHub. Bug reports: GitHub issues.

Credits: AlbertKermin and CobaltWolf (Surface Experiment Pack), DMagic (most of SEP's code, with cake-pie), zer0Kerbal (SEP fork and fixes, 2021–22), nightingale (who created Contract Configurator) and KSP-RO (who maintain it today), IgorZ (KIS, KAS), sarbian (ModuleManager).