Rowe

Right now I've got robo-tankers on orbit and mining/refiner landed shuttling back and forth. I never considered a giant all-in-one. I can cut a bunch of landings and rendezvous out this way. Thank you for my next idea!

I have several naming conventions for this career. Early in this play-through I attempted a stock Dragon-like capsule that I dubbed the Pseudo-Dragon. Any of my follow-on landers I've continued to name after dragons in tribute to Dark Lord Elon, so 'Smaug', 'Tiamat' etc. I have a Rapier-based Buck Rodgers style tail-sitter SSTO. It's an air-breather, so not a real dragon, so I went with Wyvern. I enjoy putting large reusable craft in orbit then swapping crews in and out. These I name after the sailing vessels from the age of discovery, and by extension our former shuttles. Discovery has been running around the Kerbin SOI for a while now and is kitting up for the next Duna window. Endeavour is in final design for launch, shakedown, then Eve. For my refuelling ops I have a couple robot tankers unimaginatively dubbed Exxon I & II that I use to drag fuel down to LKO from Minimus. Then there's my poor abused miners who will spend their entire existence repeatedly hauling ore up the hill and never truly tasting the fruits of their labor -- Sisyphus and Tantalus.

Hi Guys, Long time listener, first time caller, as it were... Steam tells me that I have 1100+ hours in this game. I'm sure that an inordinate amount of that time was spent in the VAB, tweaking a detail, walking way to do chores, arguing with myself, unchanging the same detail... then sending Kerbals off to a fiery doom. I trust in the truth that is [F5] and [F9], and do not bother myself with the heretical practice of 'the maths'. As long as I'm confessing sins, I also abuse the Mechjeb. Thank you already for all of the ideas I've already poached off of you, and thank you in advance for the questions you are about to answer. Scotty