Angelo Kerman

I tested a new quad tilt rotor:

I'd have to see how you installed the mod. I am running in 1.8.1 and don't have any issues. They're not done yet. I'm slowly working on the cockpit IVA, but real life has been excessively busy of late. But they're definitely on the drawing board.

Desafortunadamente, no ay una configuracion de localizacion en Espanol ahora mismo. Lo siento. Unfortunately, there are no localizations for Spanish. Sorry.

@capi3101 Three licks to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop, just sayin, Mr. Owl.

Congrats on a successful Mun landing!

Something similar did indeed happen! In Duna Space Program, there was a tie-in with a crossover event with @Kuzzter’s stories. Eventually he came back, right as the story, and my KSP 1.0.5 play through, ended. This time it’s quite a bit different though. Jeb tried a last ditch effort to bail out of a dying airplane...

Chapter 15: Vapor Trails “That doesn’t look like an asteroid,” Lizchel said, “It’s definitely a komet. That’s probably a vapor trail of water.” “What about those… veins on its surface,” James noted. “Is that normal?” Lizchel shook her head. “No, that’s… something else. Can we move in closer?” James swung the Discovery around to approach the komet and tapped the thrusters. A few seconds later, he stopped the ship just shy of the vapor cloud. Lizchel activated the spectrograph sensors. Sure enough, the komet’s tail was made of water vapor, traces of rock, and something else… “What’s the verdict,” Captain James asked over the intercom, “is it safe to proceed?” “Uh, yeah, Jim,” Lizchel responded. “Why the hesitation?” “We’re safe to capture the asteroid, Jim, but when we’re done, I’d like to rerun my tests to confirm a theory.” “Ah, ok then. Jane, you’re up.” Jane was anticipating the directive and was already in the dorsal observation cupola. She closed the hatches, depressurized the module, and stepped outside, making her way to the Kerbal Maneuvering Unit. After strapping herself into the KMU, she undocked it from its cradle and jetted over to the ship’s upper sensor palette. After a brief flight, she docked the sensor suite to the ship’s bow docking port, then went back inside. “Nice job, Jane,” James said. “Solid dock on the suite. Ok crew, standby for capture.” He activated the RCS controls and closed on the strange looking komet, arming the grabber claw along the way. He called out the distance every ten meters until… “Capture! We got it,” James said triumphantly. He took a few minutes to carefully align the Discovery along the komet’s center of mass. Finally, he was satisfied. “Ok, Lizchel,” he said, “Do your thing.” This time, Lizchel stepped outside and hopped into the KMU. She grabbed the ventral sensor suite and undocked it. But instead of attaching it somewhere on the ship, she flew it around to the other side of the komet. She found a nice spot for the instruments and latched them onto the surface. She undocked the KMU and spun it around to check her handiwork. “Looks good,” she said finally, “wireless receivers are active and responding.” “Confirmed on our end,” Jane responded, “we're getting some great readings. You’re go to return to Discovery.” “Copy that, I want to grab a sample first though.” Unstrapping from the KMU, she jetted over to the komet to grab a sample. “I wonder if you’re made of what I think you are,” she said to herself. She couldn’t wait to get back inside and study it. *** “Jeb, the only reason I’m letting you pilot the Duna Flyer 3 is because I’m the mission commander, and regulations won’t let me,” Valentina fumed. “Don’t worry, Val,” Jeb said confidently, “I won’t let you down. Let the mission down, I mean…” The Duna Flyer 3 lumbered off the Rangeland construction pad and struggled to gain takeoff speed. At 45 meters per second, he pulled back on the control stick. The plane lifted into the air. Briefly. “What theee-“ Jeb said over the wireless. A moment later Duna Base felt it too. It was as if the whole universe decided to pause and think. Then suddenly, time returned. “..eeee,” Jeb continued. Then the aircraft came back down, hitting the ground hard and clipping parts of its tail before bouncing back into the air. “I got this, Jeb said calmly.” The Flyer reached 70 meters per second. “No heroics, Jeb,” Valentina said. There was definite concern in her voice. “Set her down.” “You got it,” he called back. He could see the hill up ahead. He had to land soon, but the plane was fighting him. He pulled up. It was too late. The universe paused again. Jeb’s cockpit camera went out. *** Several days later, Lizchel finished running all her tests. She couldn’t believe what she found. There was no mistaking it. “It’s a typical carbonaceous asteroid,” Lizchel continued her briefing. “But we’re seeing water vapor from the interior. It isn’t significant, which suggests that this komet is nearly dead. But what’s left behind is very interesting. The komet is comprised of 28.67% Ore, so we can refuel our LFO tanks, 0.85% Hexagen, 1.96% Zeonium, 27.4% MetalOre, and…” “You always had a flair for the dramatic,” Jane quipped. “29.27% Graviolium. That’s what those glowing veins are made of. I suspect they’re glowing from cosmic ray bombardment.” James whistled. “Looks like we have ourselves a magic boulder,” he said. “So Graviolium comes from asteroids? Wow. We’re definitely bringing this one home. Ok, let’s finish up, pull the safety locks on our Explodium fuel and burn for Kerbin.” *** “Again,” Bobak’s transmission repeated, “We let you guys down. Our design team came up with the Duna Flyer 3, which we thought would take the extra mass,” Bobak’s transmission paused. “We made a bad call, and Jeb paid for it with his life. We’re just as responsible for this tragedy as you. Maybe if Wernher were still here, we could’ve avoided this, but he and Gene and the rest are still on special assignment. “But this is why we double up on crews sent on missions away from Kerbin,” Bobak’s transmission continued. “And why we don’t send more than one team out on an away mission if we can avoid it. Losing Jeb hurts all of us, but you all knew the risks when signing up to become an astronaut. And, for that matter, when you became part of Duna Expedition One.” Valentina nodded and understood. But losing Jeb on her watch might also affect her career moving forward. Bobak received her response 21 seconds later. “You’re starting to sound like Gene,” Val’s transmission said. Bobak smirked. Gene taught him everything he knew about being a Flight Director but also let him foster his own leadership style. But some things were bound to rub off. Val’s response continued. “With Jeb… gone… we’re short a pilot, so I’ve set up a cross-training program to train Ernst vonKerman on our spacecraft systems. Bill and Bob are working with Karl and Alzer to bring them up to speed as well. It would go a lot faster if you could arrange for some experts in science and engineering who also speak vonKerman to work with them. Also, I’m suspending further exploration of The Face until we’ve assembled the Castillo. The vonKermans aren’t trained to handle confined spaces like we are and it’s starting to show. Cross-training will keep them busy for now, but they really need some open space. “Which brings up the matter of how to bring everybody home. We have enough space in the lander for everybody, but Protector is too small for the vonKermans to come home in with their sanity intact. But their cryo-sleep chambers were intact after the crash. I intend to salvage them, hook them up to some new support systems, and build a new module to house them on the Protector. It would be great if you could appease any objections that ‘Kerbin Galactic’ might have.” Given the distance between Kerbin and Duna, mission commanders had a lot of leeway with what they could do. Raiding the Das Wanderer for her cryogenic systems could be an act of salvage or piracy depending upon who is doing the raiding, so Bobak made a note to contact Kerbin Galactic sooner rather than later. “One last thing,” Valentina’s transmission stated, “Just before Jeb crashed, his live transmission… slowed… for lack of a better word. We all felt it too, like a wave of… molasses passing over us. Time slowed to a crawl for a moment. Karl called it a ‘Krakenstrike’ after the curses made by the Kraken. He says that in vonKerman legend, Kraken curses heralded their return. Obviously, that’s all just doctrine, but there might be a grain of science buried in legend. It might be something worth checking out.” Bobak listened to Valentina’s reply, took notes, then swallowed hard. He had to ask the question. “Have you recovered Jeb’s remains,” he asked. The forty-two seconds it took to receive a response seemed like an eternity. She shook her head. “We found the wreckage of the cockpit,” her transmission stated, “It was pretty mangled. We also found the hatch, it’s explosive bolts had fired. But there was no sign of his body…” *** The first operational test of the Trinity engine’s Explodium mode didn’t go quite as planned. While it both high specific impulse and thrust, it tended to overhead quickly. Captain James had to perform “wind sprints” with the engine; burn at full throttle, then cut the throttle before the Trinity exploded. That worked for the most part but it was tedious. Fortunately, DSEV-04 had a 3D printer aboard and a supply of material kits- standard issue for all interplanetary spacecraft. Jane was able to print up several radiators to alleviate the heating issue. As Jane stepped out to install the radiators, her jetpack sprung a leak. She began spinning uncontrollably. Lizchel was about to step outside to assist when Jane switched to the backup thrusters and closed the stuck valve. It took her several minutes to stop the spin and reorient herself. After the universe stopped spinning, she resumed her work. “You have nerves of steel,” James said. Printing defects prevented Jane from bolting the radiators just anywhere, so she improvised and mounted them to the sensor suite docking ports. It wasn’t the most elegant solution, but it worked. Discovery had an encounter with Kerbin in 12 days. They were going home.

Pathfinder's Castillo line makes use of recipes in EL. They work quite nice.

I haven’t thought of real plume for DSEVbut MOLE has it. For the centrifuge, I thought about making new spindle and hub parts like I had in the old days but with limited free time and KSP2 on the way my plans are on hold. As it is I am struggling to finish the mothership...

Just the plugin, which indeed still works in KSP 1.8.

Snacks accounts for length of day and length of year in its calculations. It will account for JNSQ’s day and year length. Turning kerbals into tourists is not for me. But Snacks has the ability to strip skills without turning kerbals into tourists. It’s used for Stress. I haven’t tried adding it as a penalty for missing Snacks but in theory you could add it to the config for Snacks. Best thing is that if you have need to uninstall Snacks while kerbals have had their skills stripped, they will promptly return after removing Snacks and restarting the game.

1.24.1 fixes the max KSP version.

I should have a patch later today or tomorrow. As with all major updates to KSP, I expect other wonkiness.

I like the screenshots, especially the first with the sunflare.

Kerbal Komets 0.7.0 is now available: - Updated to KSP 1.8

Snacks 1.24.0 is now available: - Updated to KSP 1.8

Heisenberg 1.17.0 is now available: - Updated to KSP 1.8

DSEV 3.4.0 is now available: - Updated to KSP 1.8

MOLE 1.20.0 is now available: - Updated for KSP 1.8

Buffalo 2.8.0 is now available: - Updated for KSP 1.8

Pathfinder 1.34.0 is now available: - Updated for KSP 1.8 I haven't addressed the deployment in orbit; this release is just to get things working in 1.8.

Kerbal Flying Saucers 0.4.6 is now available: - Updated to KSP 1.8 - Completed texturing on the S-4 Outer Storage Section, S-4 Inner Storage Section, and S-4 Half Outer Storage Section. - Removed probe core functionality from the A-51 Flapjack and S-4 Excalibur cockpits. - Added static discharge ability to the S-4 Inner Storage Section. - Added additional attachment nodes to the S-4 Engineering Core. These nodes can be toggled. - Completed exterior of the S-4 "Excalibur" cockpit. NOTE: Cockpit IVA is a WORK IN PROGRESS!!! Unfortunately I wasn't able to finish the cockpit in time for KSP 1.8 due to real-life, but at least the exterior is done...

This weekend I will be handling the DXT5 texture updates and see what calamity has befallen my plugins. Nice to know that Hooligan Labs still runs. Gives me more time to code up a backup solution, just in case. Hooligan Labs remains the best plugin for Heisenberg.

It is handled in code.

It’s nice to see the infrastructure that you set up being put to good use.