RedDwarfIV

This is what happens to the Bluesuits every time Bill, Bob and Jeb get to go on the first mission: Commander Mayza Kirrel, Navigator Azram Tylo and Captain Farren "Shorty" McRazzer, who make up the SCSG Space Program's B-Team, are told that they will not be flying the Apogee 9 Mun landing mission.

No idea if anyone remembers this guy, but I drew him for the KSP RP over a year ago, and I finally got around to colouring him in. Good thing I put the third finger on each hand. It's canon that Kerbals have three fingers, but I thought it was two, and thought "Screw it, they need three."

The latter is most likely. Though snapped lander legs aren't uncommon on KSP, you can see that the landed is heavily rusted, with numerous dents. One of the engine nascelles seems to have been covered by sand, too.

318 parts. As opposed to the single-man Lilith's 125 parts.

The Meridian is a delta-winged 11-jet 3-man spaceplane capable of achieving 100Pe/100Ap orbit with fuel to deorbit [though in my experience, it's sensible to refuel large spaceplanes before taking them back into atmo to keep balance.] It uses twin Skipper engines to blast its way to orbit, and has a functional Reaction Control System. It is capable of slamming off the end of the runway without its landing gear giving way, so I assume it is capable of landing safely. The radial attachment point plus an RCS tank seems to work wonders as suspension. Ascent is pretty hairy - you have to keep moving fuel forward and the forward tanks must have their fuel flow off until the Skippers are activated. The way I got it into orbit, it began pulling up uncontrollably so I fired the main engines and shut down the jets, before getting control of its waving around. Having two Skippers instead of one Mainsail really improved the handling, and I didn't have to abort the mission like I might have needed to with one of the older Veto Aerospace 3-man spaceplanes. Ascent. [This is an older image, showing a version that lacks the three Basic Jets at the rear. However, it does show the six small radial engines on the nose that assist with takeoff. These are switched on and off with the 1 key using Action groups.] An example of earlier versions' instability. It took a lot of work to get lift/CoM right, and even then I had to balance the Centre of Thrust later on when it kept flipping at about 8Km up. The Meridian in a 98/102 orbit, and one of the Kerbonauts goes on EVA. This is the image I rotoscoped to make the 'Meridian Flight' drawing. More orbital imagery. The tail, wing structure and engines can be seen better in this view. Also of note is the shielded docking port.

Quick! Eat the launch tower before the rocket hits it on takeoff! That is an awesome cake.

I'd recommend Paint.NET. It's free, and it's practically MS Paint but with more versatility. If you can use MS Paint, you can use Paint.NET. Paint.NET also has layers, transparency, easy full spectrum colour selection, and a lot of image editing tools that you can learn to use when you improve.

Mayza Kirrel, the first New Safiran woman in space, takes an EVA while the Meridian waits for a refuel spacecraft to arrive. This is an in-game screenshot that I rotoscoped. [EDIT: Decided I'd make this an art thread, since I had more to show and ideas for more fanart.]

He means that, like Community Space Station, the persistence file gets passed around so one person after the other can do a mission.

http://www.2shared.com/file/Cwhq5EJT/persistent.html

I thought you said you were going to do it after me because you were having problems?

Reminds me of the APC from Aliens.

Yay! I liked my previous save better anyway. http://www.2shared.com/file/ljMjK6rO/persistent.html [i did do an update straight from the link on the front page, but my ascent profile was wrong and I used too much fuel to land the descent stage as well as the rover. The rover survived, but I didn't get a pretty landing site.]

[EDIT: Sorry, I was thinking back to the Community Mun Base where there was a 24 hour flight window,.]

Wow, this really caught on. Defiant would win. Phasers are practically lightspeed weapons, vs the 'lasers' and plasma missiles [whatever those were] which are slow. Defiant also has stronger shields. Since I have a habit of drawing from obscure shows... The Cygnus from Black Hole VS Moonbase Alpha [from Space:1999] and all its Eagles.

This is the Pixie: One thing it has over the Lilith though is its vertical rudders. The Lilith lacks a means of turning beyond banking and pitching up.

The Veto Aerospace 'Lilith', a rebuilt version of the almost as successful 'Pixie'. The Pixie managed a 100/100 orbit with very little fuel to spare, whilst the Lilith managed a 110/110 with fuel to fly around with back in Kerbin's atmosphere. It was also more capable at reentry - it was better balanced, preventing stalls and spins. I would have taken a picture of her on the ground, except I forgot to drop the landing gear and it hit the runway at 50m/s. The cockpit, and by exstension, the pilot, survived. An EVA inspection: Situation heating up. Returning to the Kerbal Space Centre, using only the centre jet.

Okay, so one person suggests a single spaceship vs another spaceship, and the next person says which spaceship they think will win and why, then their own X vs Y suggestion. Okay, I'll start. The Götterdämmerung from Iron Sky VS Battlestar Galactica [from the reimagined series].

Huh. I guess the font is kind of similar. But Electronic Arts don't own the letters 'E' and 'A'.

Technically, its a welsh onion that Hatchune/Hatsune Miku is associated with, not a leek. The difference is probably trivial though. Here are mine: United Nation of New Safira [from KSP RP] Earth Authority [from my webcomic-in-progress]

The Fáfnir SEV was developed for exploration missions of all lengths and durations, fuel loadout depending. It carries a working spinning centrifuge [requiring CleverBobCat/Damned Robotics modified Rotatron pivot], a communications array, the capability to carry up to four smaller craft, and its engine section comprises of both nuclear and ion engines. It is capable of operating under full thrust without damage. It should be noted that timewarping causes the centrifuge to spin. On its test flight, the Fáfnir used 1/4 of its liquid fuel/oxidizer, and very little of its xenon gas reserve, to reach Minmus orbit. If it had been carrying landers, it could have dropped them here.

Given how well that rover went, I may make an even larger one.

This is a proof of concept for my Minmus heavy rover: http://s21.postimg.org/fm7qij93b/screenshot71.png

Can I be signed up? I have a heavy Minmus [possibly Mun, haven't tested] rover, eight medium wheels, crewtank, and a cupola to drive from.

Jedbrett Kerman is fired. He allowed his Mistral Heavy Fuel Transfer Vehicle to collide with the Sandwasp Command Module, destroying the latter's primary interplanetary stage.