Kimera Industries

I honestly love Dres. Sorry if that's a sharp contrast to your beliefs, but I do. I love the color scheme. The light grey (with hints of tan) and that deeper grey contrast very nicely, I think. It also has a "Dresteroid" belt you can reliably find mining asteroids in, and an easter egg on the surface that I think is very fun. I also like Ceres, Dres' IRL equivalent. I think the name Ceres sounds nice. I used to "hate" Dres when all I knew about it was that it's orbit really sucked for transfers. But then I saw the surface first hand, and it's been my favorite ever since. You could say that Moho is worthless as well, after all, it's a small rock orbiting the sun. But so is Kerbin, and Eve, and Duna... And the moons too, Mun, Minmus, Tylo, Ike... Don't get me started on Gilly, though. Talk about your captured asteroids.

Awesome work and amazing pictures! Excited to see the Buran, it's sad it only ever got one flight IRL, but really impressive that it was all automated.

It really is such a great feeling, in my mind, it's totally worth the extra few minutes (or hours, in some cases) to tweak it until you like it! BTW, what mods are you using? (For the launch failure mod / those space station parts)

Thanks! I've looked into that and am seriously considering breaking my rule of no mods... Even if I never need LES because I can revert the flight, it's always fun to watch it in action before I do so. Especially if you spent literally 3 DAYS trying to get the stupid stabilizing grid fins to deploy on your stupid Soyuz because you just have to have a realistic Abort Sequence! (In case you're interested, I'd say it's the most realistic LES I've seen for a stock Soyuz, so definitely worth it)

Nice plane! Interesting choice to go with only one motor, I would've put two spinning opposite directions, but that's probably just the Kerbal in me saying moar thrust...

No. The stock LES spins the capsule so much it's impossible to use because half the time it's pointing DOWN while the LES SRBs are firing. If I really want a usable LES, i.e. historic rocket recreation like Apollo, while keeping the aesthetics, I'll empty the LES of fuel and clip some separatrons inside the nozzles. This was a solution I came across while making a Soyuz recreation. I wanted to make the LES as accurate as possible. This involved multiple fairings, as it splits in half and leaves the SM behind, but the big problem was that the Soyuz's LES has 2 series of SRBs that fire if the LES tower hasn't been jettisoned yet. I was using the stock LES for the first part, but it would get it spinning so much that the next set of SRBs pushed the craft toward the ground. I solved the problem by clipping separatrons into the LES and emptying the LES of fuel, as mentioned before. This also had the added bonus of having a longer burn time than the stock LES. The devs should fix the LES's spinning problem, but with their attention focused on KSP2 and the fact that no one really uses them anyway, it's unlikely to happen.

Great job! This inspired me to build my own stock airship, but I don't have the DLC, so I just used radial-mount engines and a lot of reaction wheels to make it work... Anyway, somehow I landed it on the VAB!

Probably an engineer, I enjoy making my craft as specialized as possible to fulfil its function. I don't really bother making my dv exact and always go for much more than I need, because accidents do happen... I always will have a strong streak of pilot though, I just can't resist landing on top of the various buildings. There was this one time with a stock airship and the island runway… Let's just say the antenna on the island airfield's tower has a hitbox.

I've honestly wished for a reaction wheel this size, really just because the 2.5 m ones look like the instrument unit located beneath the lunar lander in the saturn v, but it's too small to be used for that.

Wow, looking great! Do you know of any mods that would be similar to the effects of astrophage?

At some point, you could start replicating the things we see in his flashbacks. The biggest thing I could think of would be the helicopter landing on the aircraft carrier/when he rides in the military jet.

Yes, in the book it is confirmed that astrophage turns its energy into mass, (non-enriched astrophage vs. enriched- 19 nano grams) so the taumoeba is merely eating that extra mass.

I'm guessing the energy in the astrophage is stored in the taumoeba for later use or in case the taumoeba can't find any astrophage to munch on for a while or to help digest its next meal, as that may take a lot of energy, but who knows? does that answer your question?