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What was your highest velocity ever achieved?


The Aziz

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No matter if achieved by regular means of propulsion, by cheating (meh) or due to Kraken.

Today I just broke the universe 44 million times. That is over 13 quadrilion meters per second. Thanks, Kraken.

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I once crashed a probe into Moho from a retrorgade hyperbolic Kerbol trajectory. That must have given me a relative velocity of about 35 km/s. That was with slingshots around Jool and without cheating/krakens.

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I don't remember any numbers, but I'm sure I have never gone as fast as when trying to get into a Moho orbit for the first time.

The velocity at which I screamed past Moho was unbelievable.

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Legitimate, probably my Sun impact probe but I don't recall the exact speed. Second place I hit Jool doing 40 km/s courtesy of Near Future. Also notable is that just leaving Earth's SOI in RSS will immediately give me about 30 km/s.

With infinite fuel, 23% of light speed:

CHEATS!

This was done exploiting the old physicsless parts behaviour. It's just a single octag strut with a bunch of puff engines hanging off it and a few struts to brace it, all physicsless in that version of KSP, and that's how it can reach such extreme accelerations. No probe core - only way to control it is to turn fuelhack on or off.

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7 hours ago, TheKosanianMethod said:

Never question a Maverick. 

Yup. It almost crashed into the mountains next to the KSC (missed it by *that* much), and after turning No Heating on, I just went and took a nap. 15 minutes later, it was out of the system, at 125,000,000-ish m/s, and I finally reverted flight (Val and Bob died in the plane that the missile was fired from)

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Just now, TheEpicSquared said:

With the kraken? 17882467941956912857218016537951256216593563208956287016589031222222651890568961296856610001010849324016580236532568265217561427805281065 m/s. Something like that.

DEAR JEBEDIAH!!!!! WHAT THE FISH?!

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4 hours ago, TheEpicSquared said:

With the kraken? 17882467941956912857218016537951256216593563208956287016589031222222651890568961296856610001010849324016580236532568265217561427805281065 m/s. Something like that.

Without cheating? Something like 30 km/s? Idk exactly.

Excuse me? 

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Back in 0.90, I was bored and decided to tweak some parts. I increased the thrust of the 3.75m engine now known as the Rhino. And by increased, I mean multiplied it by five times :). So I took a small rocket, only a capsule and that engine, turned on infinite fuel, and flew. My max speed: at LEAST 120,000 m/s.

But recently I blew that out of the water.

I was testing the horrifying abomination of nature neutron star Lich, and I was getting my craft closer and closer to it. My ship was completing one orbit every 80 seconds, and the gee-forces were over 14,000 times that of Kerbin. So I had the bright idea to EVA my Kerbal...and went accelerating into oblivion at 299,999,000 m/s - 99.99% the speed of light :0.0:

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Just under 91km/s flinging a vehicle close around Kerbol.

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The fastest I've gone without using the sun for extra speed was 36km/s.

This got a Jeb to Eve in 5 days 1 hour, although this was in the old days before serious atmospheric heating, so I just slammed his vehicle into the thick Eve atmosphere at that speed to slow it down.

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fully stock (not cheats/kraken/mods) plane hit mach 4 and half 30 meters above sea level on Kerbin, before I accidently pointed upward and the g-force ripped the wings and cockpit off, hurling it into the ocean. This was after its predecessor hit mach 4, but burnt up 60 meters above the water. The predecessor had a heat shield strapped to the front to keep this from happening.

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