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I agree, I could have made Icarus itself much better. Given the parts that are available, be them stock or from Spaceport, I did the best I could with what I had. It's also hard to find an accurate model. I used these for most of it: http://2753productions.com/Icarus2.php

The latest version.

I'm sure most everyone here has seen or heard of the movie Sunshine, and if not, you've probably seen people try and recreate the ship Icarus II. A few of those ships have been decent, but most have been downright bad. That changes today. I present, Icarus II. http://imgur.com/a/S2P0Y#0 ^ Imgur album. For those too lazy to click the above link, here is one one fifteen images. WARNING: This ship is massive. The part count is over 1,200. List of required mods (I think this is all): Ion Hybrid Engine Pack Damned Robotics 1.3 Improved Trusses & Girders Hyperedit (to get it off the ground and into space) Download: https://www.dropbox.com/s/xl85we1njmliq0m/Icarus%20II.craft SHIP CONTROLS: Do NOT use the staging (space bar) to control the vessel. 1 = Activates small radial boosters (meant to pull the large shield and bomb away from Icarus). 2 = Activates shield solid boosters. 4 = Activates Icarus's ion engine. 6 = Decouples Icarus from the large shield. 8 = Toggles instruments and dishes. 9 = Toggles constant rotation on the communication arms.

I'm on 0.17 and I can't get a couple things to work... For starters, the Kethane menu thing when controlling the ship just says "Invalid part configuration" and can't troubleshoot that. Another issue is that the satellite solar panel part says it is unavailable, but I have the plugin installed. *EDIT* Nevermind, found new plugins on page 79 that fixed all these.

New effects on the ion engine are very nice. Great work here!