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Space is a harsh environment. Besides the obvious problems (cold, no air...) there's also a lot of radiation flying around. kappa-ray models this radiation, causing solar panels to degrade, and giving unprotected Kerbals cancer or immediate radiation sickness and prompt death. It also defines an API for other mods to integrate with; all they need to do is make their part modules implement kapparay.IKappaRayHandler to define what they should do when hit by radiation. (For an example of this, see my Kerbal Processing Unit mod, where radiation can trigger glitches.) Similarly, there is an API (kapparay.IRadiationTracker) for mods that want to emit radiation in more complicated ways than ModuleKappaRayEmitter supports. kappa-ray models three kinds of radiation; in increasing order of energy, these are Van Allen belts, direct solar rads, and galactic cosmic rays. It gives you some parts to help shield against radiation, but you generally can't completely eliminate the danger. Warning: This machine mod kills Kerbals. Warning: This mod is in alpha, beware. This mod is end-of-lifed, I am no longer working on it. Download: For KSP 1.0.5 (buildID 1028) Standalone: http://jttlov.no-ip.org/tar/kapparay-0.3.4.zip With KPU: http://jttlov.no-ip.org/tar/kpu-alpha8-kappa-0.3.3.zip For KSP 1.0.4 Standalone: http://jttlov.no-ip.org/tar/kapparay-0.3.2.zip With KPU: http://jttlov.no-ip.org/tar/kpu-alpha7-kappa-0.3.2.zip Source Code: ... is on GitHub at https://github.com/ec429/kpu_mod