The Integrity is a ship that I built to play a major role in my Minifigures-on-Mars-Comic. It is designed so that the parts of the hull can be disassembled to make good shots of the interior possible. The black and yellow heat shield sections swing open, so you can easily access the inside of the ship, although it turned out to be pretty tight inside.

When I started building the ship, I wanted to give it a triangular shape with the tip pointing up in landed mode, because it would land vertically like the rockets of SpaceX. Since the atmosphere on Mars is very thin, this would be the only suitable way to land a spacecraft.

Technical Details

The ship has space for over four minifigures, two pilot seats, two computer consoles and a few places where you could squeeze in a bit luggage or another minifig. I also added an airlock to allow the minifigs to exit and enter the vehicle when it’s in a vacuum or in the martian atmosphere. It is kinda small though, so you can’t really fit a minifig inside. It’s more for the looks of it. On the underside of the ship, there’s a large communications dish.

Communications console (port) the controls of the ship at the pilot seats Solomon Blaze and Viking at the pilot seats

To stabilize the spacecraft when it’s landing (flying backwards through the atmosphere), there are two flaps on the top, that open up and provide drag, so that the spacecraft wouldn’t flip around to land nose first.



Being on Mars, the chemical rocket propellant of choice is Liquid Methane and Oxygen like in the Interplanetary Transport system of SpaceX. Additionally, to extend the Delta-V (Ability to change speed, a key figure of a spacecraft’s efficiency) I added a Hall Thruster in the Middle, which is an efficient, low-thrust form of electric propulsion. The chemical engines are placed next to the Hall Thruster.For the engine nozzle extensions I used the pod pieces that were originally used in Galaxy Squad as Alien Eggs (11598). However, these were only available in trans-purple and trans-neon-yellow until early 2017, when the Ninjago Vermillion Eggs were introduced, using the same piece but molded in super cool pearl dark-grey! I bought the whole stock of one Bricklink store of these pieces, because in my opinion, these are the only LEGO parts that resemble the sleek curvature of rocket engine nozzle extensions that you see in reality. For the other ship, the Long-Range Explorer Ship, I still had to use my two trans-purple pieces, which I spray-painted in grey.

The story behind the Integrity

The Integrity, as mentioned in the comic, is the ship that Solomon and his fellows used to fly to Mars to settle down and start works for the earth-based company “Extreme Exploration”. The first generation of Martians consisted of 10 people, 5 couples, so it might have been a bit tight inside the Integrity. But once they had landed on Mars, they began to construct their base from local resources and supplies that “Extreme Exploration” had landed on site before.

In the comic it is shown how the Martians created a new underground base when they were confronted with the Exodus-Protocol. The Integrity was used to rescue the people who had been captured by the Extreme Exploration mercenaries. After these events, it remained in the possession of the Martians and was used on occasion to transport larger goods around Mars.

If you like, you can download the “Minifigures-on-Mars”-comic by clicking on the “comic”-button on top.