Is it based on a Mercury capsule?
Someone posted a line schematic some time ago, certainly wouldn’t want to go where I’ve sent those like that
And it still needs to have a mass of 4 tons... Is it made out of lead?
Ha, everything is made of anvils in SFS. I made a 1:1 scale Hubble back for the initial Excaliber mission and it was 10 times heavier than the real thing.
4 tons is an enormous amount of weight for a single unpowered cone with a chair inside.
Well, there’s the heat shield to start
Mercury-Redstone complete was 1,400kg. The heat shield on the much larger, 3 man Apollo weighed 1,400kg.
That's 2,800kg if you were to nail one onto the other. Which is over-kill, but I can't find figures on the ablative layer on Mercury and I highly doubt it'll weigh as much as the one for Apollo.
Where's the other 1,200kg+ come from for a single man capsule...?