Mikki

Hi there, nice bird you made! And hello to the forums!

Uglyness is no scale in KSP. A ugly rocket can have huge advances over sleek ones...

Glad you like my insane Duna Botteling Bothering Program...

I think i got enough strength now, i strutted the girder to the fairingbase behind invisibly. and two funny fins above, for more awesomness!

The launchwindow to Duna is still open in my mission, i could send a refurbished version still, no problem. If i have two of your planes on Duna, the better! No hurry, i will progress in the evening (europe), if you don`t have time to put a craftfile up, don`t worry, i can still look into it myself... Thank you!

Sure, big fun for me, i will call your expertise how to install the struts to the engines, if possible at all! Cheers!

Easy, this mission is very likely to end in a giant mess! I have KIS struts, btw! @_Rade, hi there again, your Dunasoar has become a key item in my career, this is a utterly amazing craft!!!! Thanks again! I solved the fueling, problem is obviously on my side of the docked vessel...

Dobar dan @_Rade, Guess where your second RTG DunaSoar is right now... yes, it is in my career mission report, on his way to Duna! I am honored and very glad to have such a wonderfull stockparts plane for use in Dunas atmosphere, this is so cool! I launched your craftfile, i added a bigger probe core and antennas, because i have no crew anymore to fly the plane . All my Kerbals are en route, i have a slight feeling your craft will safe some Kerbals lives out there... I will mention your plane in my Thread! Thank you very much, greetings over there!

Part two Duna transfer/ encounter Debby Kerman is on her way to Duna, 50 willing and selfless Kerbonauts subdued themse subscribed to do anything within their force to make her happy. The logisticsmodule went ahead, followed by another aerocapture capable vessel, containing most of the crew and mission critical rig for the orbital survey of Duna, the remaining four equipment carriers made up for a more efficient trajectory few days later, in a separation of one Kerbin day each. Commander to missioncontrol: "Debby Kermans boombox is plugged to the ships electric wire and sucks alot EC, playing relentlessly Kerbal popmusic all day long..." Missioncontrol: "... ...You should be grateful." Launchimpressions, not all vessels depicted for convenience: My DBP management is also very glad to have @Kerbarts elaborate "Rover in a box" system with the mission, for further examination i post the link to his spacecraft exchange thread:http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/index.php?/topic/154814-yay-wheels-now-with-craft-file/ And to show the excellent quality of his craft a picture of the current state at Kerbin departure, the craft in question is on top of the crewmodule, his main task will be bothering loitering around on Ike. Thank you very much Kerbart! And it looks like Debby Kermans Daddy ordered in the last minute a sophisticated All-Stock RTG powered twin propeller Duna plane, this is obviously a very rare and hard to find craft from a fellow forummember, all honor belongs to @_Rade, his "Dunasoar" will make exploring the vast deserts of Duna a pleasure! Link to his spacecraft exchange thread:http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/index.php?/topic/154762-dunasoar/ After a major callback due to wingloadissues a second plane was launched, revised according to @_Rades advise, the DBP takes now full responsibility for the use of this excellent plane, the engineers in duty signed their testimoni test documentations... Okay, coasting was very boring, so we entered Duna system with the logisticsmodule ahead, we decided to make a high inclinated entry, Ike was in the way and there was no other way around him. The aerocapture worked out as intended, altitude at lowest point above surface around 27,500 meters, glad the vessel didn`t flip or other ugly misshaps occured... We ended up in a low Duna orbit of about 105 x 110 km, which looks reasonable for further examination of the surface for retirement ressources. The crew observes the vast desert, looking for unusual landmarks and occasional duststorms. An old satellite from a earlyer mission detected some anomalies, the kerbonauts are wondering if lowering its orbit would give more details, to be continued... Logisticsmodule aerocapture in tundra orbit, equatorial final orbit: Other vessels drop into Duna orbit, the Carrier, Dunasoar, and the DDAV: Getting quite crowded here, hard to spin the maneuverclock between all those trajectories, but still anything works well... Duansoar is very tight on dV budget, guess there must a refuelingaction be done soon, or i drag it down with the claw tug and a free pusher... slowly... And finally, the rest of the fleet, the Truckpodrig, another Crewvessel (with @Kerbarts ultimate weapon minirover), and the Miniring-transferhabitat, in a deep aerocapture... obviously loosing small parts, but nothing to worry about now... The time for worries is coming for sure. All Kerbals in Duna orbit, known problems so far: - Dunasoar lacks fuel, needs support to lower its orbit. - Stuff got lost due to aeroforces but minor problem, spare antennas are packed with KIS. - No decision about landingsite until now, area must be ruled out by further observation. - Debby Kerman and her new girlfriends party on 24/7, bubblyzine bottles floating everywhere. - Commander Bobby Kerman has not been seen for weeks, might have disembarked somewhere. - New Commander... .. see two lines above. The rest of the mission is fine.

Stockparts! Amazing effort!

2 hours intense concentrated "work", a break and again 2 hours. (currently i have holidays, repeating this untill i have to do something else.) Sometimes i don`t have time at all.

@Kerbart Hi there, guess where your elaborate craft is hanging around...! Its on his way to Ike, with my career "Duna Bothering Program"! http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/index.php?/topic/154699-dbp-duna-bothering-program/ Your craft: Launcher - excellent Fairing got stuck but i shacked it off - excellent Rover in a box - excellent Most excellent craft in my whole game now! It is now to a crew transfervessel docked, i made minor changes for dockingability and lesser performance on Ike, the vessel is now named "Ikebug", the "DBP" management is honored to take it with us. Thank you! Would be glad when you look into my mission report once when you have some spare time! Your craft has a serious mission! Cheers!

You can drop your object in a powered fairing, stop horizontal speed almost completly above your target spot, eject fairing, descentengine, deploy chutes, there you are. Works.

Nice little bug on wheels! I`d like to take your contraption to Ike, can you give a craftfile from the box and the rover? You don`t mind when i copy your moonbug, no?

@_Rade Hi there, i`d like to run your epic flyer in my long term career, do you have an idea how to ship this plane in a large stock fairing? And i will have to use RTGs, but i worry about fiddling with the craft, the Nacelles are so tight tightly packed i just don`t dare... You can take a look in the mission reports, my thread is called DBP- Duna Bothering Program. I can launch and land basically anything i desire, except your craft... And cheating is no option in my careergame, that simply kills the fun for me. I`d like to transfer it to Duna legitly, with a powered descent, like the roverdroppod and the MKS Habitats....

I wish to see your entry first so i can do better equally... And hello to the forums, you are now one of us!

OMG... excessive awesomeness ahead! i just had a excellent laugh while enjoying this madness omgomgomg.... We should give more likes per post, ten at once.

@_Rade.. Hi there, this is a darn cool craft, .... IT LOOKS AWESOME! Edit: i just downloaded it and gonna check this marvel! IT FLIES AWESOME! WOW! I installed it in 1.2.1, goes great! It flies like a charm, so good!

Lots of pics to dig through, but your craft looks really reasonable, a tenth or less of docs is sure sufficient for a viable entry. Good luck, give Tylo a kick! Don`t hit the mountain tops... I just gave your 666. like. Yes.

*** DBP *** "DUNA BOTHERING PROGRAM" or Debby goes nuts with fifty Kerbonauts... Part one Mikki`s Careergame visualized, puns included. Beware, bad grammar and scandinavian humor ahead. May contain highly fictional stuff. "...Maybe my best and dumbest mission ever..." (Mods; MM, AsteroidDay, EVE, Scatterer, DistantObject, NFT, KIS, KAS, KerbalAtomics, USI MKS, KourageousTourists, Tweakscale, KER, HeatControl, TransferWindowPlanner, KSP 1.2.x) Main goal of my current career is to return to Duna with about fifty (50 yeah!) Kerbals, establish a orbital logistics hub and then land on Duna, find a nice place with ressources and more important, a excellent landscape for my brave sla employees to have a break, with nice habitats and all the rage. The savegame is quite old, started in KSP 0.9 and allmost all my Kerbals survived the painf funny exercises. Currently it is Kerbal year 30 36, and i hired alot of rookies to fill all the empty seats in my new Duna colonisation fleet, there is even a female tourist within the partyboat, Debby Kerman will do her best to enslave entertain the others while they work and she spends a hell-a-good time. Debby has a personal watchkerb, so she can`t mess up the whole shebang and blowup important stuff which would lead to a total loss of my Kerbal crewmembers... "Debby Kerman, tourist with a KIS crate full of bubblyzine, a boombox, and a smile. She actually funded this crazy mission, the amount of 14,000,000 Kerbal Funds to be more accurate, so no one will errm... disagree when she gets uncomfy out there and starts to freak out. We must carry this burden, and we are glad to have such a nice Kerbal with us." - DBP official (which doesn`t want to be named here.) Debby Kerman in front of the Kerbonautcenter, waiting for the DBP managers, who will serve her selflessly... Her luggage is pretty heavy. Her statement for funding was as following: "I wish to drink a bottle bubbly in a lawnchair, on a nice location on Duna, watching Ike eclipsing Kerbol. I don`t care how those kerbonauts accomplish my desire but i don`t care anyway about nothing. Cheers!" DBP Managers still argue about how they can remove Debby`s helmet when she`s ready. Might get tricky. (Silly pic got lost in time) Meanwhile... I have my main equipment allready in Kerbin orbit, alot of tedius work in the SPH and VAB is finished and i can make the final pusher assemblys for the Duna transfer, the next nice launchwindow is in year 31 37, its very soon and i will only depict the most impressive launches, you will see why, the vessels are rather complex and inspired by a certain NASA study with some additions from my crazy engineerstaff, blame them, not me. Well, for the beginning i will just add two more pics of the involved assemblys, during launch and orbit insertion, the nuclear pusher from the header above and a colony carrierframe made of NFT parts. The funny bubbles on the header vessel are in fact Roverdudes floaties, they make perfect aerobraking ballutes... ...and a rather complex thing, but the content is amazing... Okay, thank you for your attention, happy new Year y`all! Here you see some launchvehicles, the largest, stripped down for lesser loads: In this spoiler 4 of 6 transfervessels and other equipment, the surfacehabitats: In this one the nuclear pushers: Here all the landers and a rover: (There is a handfull of other small stuff around, but not so important by now...) Well, here a pic from the situation in orbit, final assemblys are performed between 300 and 1000 km altitude, the modular nuclear pushers need to be cooled (LH2 boiloff), therefore each one has his own small nuclear reactor attached, but this isn`t sufficient and they depend on the solararrays from the transfervessels while the tanks are full. (I really still enjoy the maneuvering, never used mechjeb since i play KSP.) There will be a crowd of five to seven transfervessels, 50 Kerbals is a goal to keep... And it is careerplay, after leaving Kerbin orbit there will be no excuse for stuff that didn`t got mentioned during construction and testing... The pushers have quite plenty dV, i try to keep the partcount around 200-250 parts max. per assembly, so all goes flush and nicely. However, the vessels serve multiple purposes, with least parts possible, no shenanigans, anything is tight and little redundancy, except they meet finally in Duna orbit for a large orbital hub construction. I may rip some parts off then with KIS. There is also a lumpy rock called Ike, which i like alot, will see what my Kerbals do when they get bored, i could send some of them down to his surface for further contemplation about boredom... The logistics module is very likely to perform a brachistochrone aerobraked Duna encounter, we slapped lots of floati errm... ballutes to it, and a 10 meter stock heatshield in front save lots of reactionmass. This can bleed off a 1000dV in one dip! The recon for ressources will take some time before sending the roverdroppod to the desired place. After deciding the landingzone, the first MKS Habitat will make it`s way down. Thats the plan however. ...Meanwhile the last crewtransport is buildt and crew is also hired, Yeah! 50 (+1, Debby Kerman) Kerbals! All the Vessels are in orbit, last pusher is on his way to the DUNA CREW transfervessel, total fleetsize is six large ships:

My Kerbals became truely smart. They slapped floaties to the interplanetary vessel so they can brake more excellent. ...Floaties? ... Yes... Floaties... from USI survivability pack. @RoverDude , did you know this? Look , and thanks alot... it`s just great!

I need some more female Kerbals for my current Duna Bothering Program, so i created some. And i thought that i would need a tourist too, so i created a female tourist. Look closely But the rest of my mission is pretty serious:

@tg626 ...errm... how about a picture from this ominous butte, no, butt? I am currently doing a massive Duna mission with lots of Kerbals and they must find a nice place to be there... Happy new year!

Back to Duna, excellent. All stock... and some mods from nertea and Mr. Palmer... but mainly stockparts.

@Jonfliesgoats You can obviously not imagine how disgusting your ideas are in the eyes and ears of other forumusers. "Cold War" is over at least since 1990. NATO is in shards, thanks to "United States of Aggression" foreign policy warmongering and conflictfueling. "Russia" never ever and will never ever take aggression against other countrys, except they keep loitering around in the near ("Donald Cook, he"), warmongering ("US/Iran Paranoia, dozens of other, like corruption in Ukraine..., pre-emptive strikes,....") and fueling conflicts ("Weapons of mass destruction in mid east, and similars"), import drugs/contraband weapons (Afghanistan in case of the former USSR, the only war ever fought since WWII, btw, against vast amounts of contraband opium and heroine). Your image of the "old world" and its inhabitants is utterly distorted. I hope this thread will be closed. Friendly regards, Mikki (european citizen) and a... happy near year to all the world, U.S. citizens too.