Quick Saved Vessel Under Thrust... Oops.

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I have a vessel in which there are parts held in place by struts between a structural vulnerability.

 

I quick saved, then loaded because I am not a smart man.

 

Now the Twin Boar engine plows into the upper part of the vessel causing a catastrophic failure on quick load. FML.

The only upside is it's remote-controlled, not crewed, so no loss of life at risk here ( except for robots - robot lives matter ).

I'm looking through the rather lengthy quick-save file and it looks like to stop this tragedy I need to set the thrust to 0 - will that work? Where do I need to set that value at? ( I'm looking and seeing several entries with the name of my vessel attached ).

If not, is there some other way? Am I totally screwed?

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Okay to answer this question for myself ( and anyone else who has this problem ) the resolution is N-Fold

• Ctrl-F within the quicksave file to find your vessel
• ForEach vessel v.currentThrottle c > 0 : set c = 0
• set vessel v.mainThrottle = 0

Save file and perform a quick load and your vessel should have no active thrust on any engine.

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