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Very simple question. What exactly goes on when you enable "Hack Gravity" in the debug bar?

I had to cheat to recover Valentina. I accidentally quicksaved rather than reverted, meaning that poor Valentina was stuck in her lander directly reentering Kerbin after a long voyage to Dres and back.

I meant to aerobrake at Kerbin so that I could transfer her to my Kerbin Space Station, but screwed up the aerobraking altitude and ended up reentering in a lander without any parachutes and an LV-909 without enough thrust to slow her descent.

So I enabled "Hack Gravity" and recovered her that way. I noticed that it didn't exactly enable me to 'control' gravity. What it did was basically slow the vessels' descent exponentially, so that by the time I hit sea level her velocity was basically zero. Does anyone have a better explanation to the mechanics of "Hack Gravity", based on how it's coded?

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"Hack Gravity" basically disables gravity, kinda, for the most part, as far as I know. If you use it on Kerbin's surface, it allows you to contend with only the atmosphere when using vessels. I'm not an expert on it, but I think that's the gist.

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It's actually very, very, low gravity. Orbital velocity on Duna with it on is 147 m/s. I know because I forgot to turn it off. Apparently it preserved my orbit!
I stand corrected. One-hundredth of normal gravity, not the zero I thought it was.
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