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If the grappling hook allows you to attach a ship to an asteroid for the purposes of pushing and such, and an asteroid is treated by the game as a single part "ship", would it stand to reason that a grappling hook is essentially just a modified docking port? Can we expect asteroid bases to be the next "space-station" art form to crop up in KSP? Sure, you can't hollow it out, but it would make one hell of a station "core".

Maybe I'm just putting two and two together in the wrong way...

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Has it been confirmed that asteroids are just single-part ships? I haven't really been paying attention to all the SXSW stuff.

That's what I've read. We have no details on the grappling hook yet, so I'm just blowing smoke at this point.

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If the grappling arm allows you to attach a ship to an asteroid for the purposes of pushing and such, and an asteroid is treated by the game as a single part "ship", would it stand to reason that a grappling arm is essentially just a modified docking port? Can we expect asteroid bases to be the next "space-station" art form to crop up in KSP? Sure, you can't hollow it out, but it would make one hell of a station "core".

Maybe I'm just putting two and two together in the wrong way...

I think the word "Arm" in the context of grappling asteroids in KSP is purely a community-driven fantasy. It looks like the "grapple" is a part that will allow us to attach to asteroids.

From what I've read, the following facts have been announced:

  • Asteroids are < 30 m in length
  • Asteroids are not on rails
  • Asteroids do not have gravity
  • Asteroids can collide with objects

They're basically being described as vessels. I don't know why'd they'd implement them as anything other than vessels or vessel parts.

EDIT: Okay, according to this post, Harv may have referred to the patch as the ARM, which sounds like it stands for "Asteroid Redirection Mission". So grappling arm a la the Canadarm2 would be an obvious assumption when we hear "grappling" and "Arm" in the same sentence.

So it's the devs doing f'ing horrid job of communication. Again.

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found ARM refrence
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Maybe someone can find a link to verify this, but I thought I had read or heard from the devs somewhere that the grapple is being designed to grab onto all kinds of things (not just asteroids). Kerbal-snatching, anyone?

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I think the word "Arm" in the context of grappling asteroids in KSP is purely a community-driven fantasy.

Nowhere in my post have I treated it as such. Sorry for using the wrong term in the OP and causing you confusion.

Maybe someone can find a link to verify this, but I thought I had read or heard from the devs somewhere that the grapple is being designed to grab onto all kinds of things (not just asteroids). Kerbal-snatching, anyone?

Well, Kerbals are vessels too, IIRC, so I don't think that would be entirely out of the question.

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If they are a part, then I hope we can edit them functionally the same way we can all the current parts. Rescaling, change mass, add resources, etc. ;)

Not a part, a vessel. But it should be possible to mod in what you want.

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If the "grappling hook" is nothing more than a docking port that can stick to anything I'll be extremely happy.

I have a sneaking suspicion this is exactly what it is and I am right there with you.

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