CptRichardson

For one, a thrust of 450 is rather... inadequate for a vessel with a dry tonnage of 45. With fuel, it's... uh... 4000 delta v is nice for a nice close target like Duna, but I don't think it can make a Jool capture burn, let alone avoid getting gravity-slung by a Joolian Moon encounter. And the Xenon collectors don't let you rebuild delta v fast enough to be ready by the time you get there.

Actually, I just tried it, and they clip together badly and don't work. Addendum: I would have to say that the QV thruster is actually pretty weak ISP/thrust-wise. Stock it barely gives you 4000 Dv, maybe just enough to reach Jool if you're lucky, but even with replenishing en route, it probably won't be enough to make a capture burn.

Use the Stock IXS version. It's still compatable with Karbonite.

Cool. Say, can we... uh, stick more than 2 rings on the stock KSP-version for more fuel capacity? Plus, well... US, DS's Orbital Science, and a few other tricks let me forgo using the science hemispheres and go for all Xenon collectors for super awesomeness. Your ship is awesome, and you should feel awesome!

*Rolls up newspaper, smacks reaper upside the head* No, you daft fool, that's not what they say at all.

I take it that this slight geometry change is what has stopped development on the final parts at the moment? If so, could you maybe play around with your Habitat pack while we wait for .25 and come up with one that can fit in a Mk2 cargobay?

A properly built MODERN nuclear powerplant is literally impossible to melt down, as they are designed to be air cooled. Fukushima was a 1960's plant that had the same safety features every other plant of it's era had stripped away or uninstalled because of skimpy owners who didn't want to pay, Chernobyl was improperly designed and was out of date in the 1950's, and 3 Mile was a literal non-event where every safety factor worked perfectly. Any single coal or gas power plant puts out hideous amounts of radiation compared to the combined output of the normal operation of every nuclear plant on the planet. And the only reason we even HAVE nuclear waste is stupid, idiotic NIMBY/peacenik provisions in the NPT which prevents the world from properly reprocessing spent fuel into far shorter-lived forms.

Still waiting for a KHAUL box to put this stuff in to go to orbit.

That's what I was suggesting act as Ion Drives (at least the back one). Ones that function more like an LV-N in ISP and extreme power consumption. The forward ring would serve as a massive xenon tank for it, and the fuselage would have a massive battery and power generator.

For the non KSP-I, I'd like to see it balanced by using (relatively) insane amounts of xenon as propellant for impressive thrust, with massive tanks in the central fuselage to fuel it, along with generator power. Not necessarily going to get it, but that's how I would like it.

I would very much like to have a non-interstellar version, even if it's only as a super-powered ion drive system instead of an outright warp system.

And clicking on it in IVA makes its eyes bulge temporarily while it makes adorable squeaking noises?

Porkjet, can we get a version of the 1.4 pack to play with to familiarize ourselves with the last few parts before they're released with .25?

They didn't hire him, they just bought the 1.4 version of SP+.

Nice work, Porkjet. Only things left to do is getting the last few parts done and getting some other schmuck to do the wheels. Still, nice work.

Universal Storage module in 2.5 meter or 3.75 meter form? With Capacitors and Batteries to go with it, too, so we can build station modules with custom loadouts depending on the need?

An SAS is a gyroscope. They don't have to be the full size of the craft in order to work. Pairs work as well.

Did you remember to stow an empty water tank? That being said, can we get a SAS wedge? Doesn't have to be powerful, I'm just looking to reduce the length of my craft.

I'd like to add something to that: They did bring the test rig down as close to vacuum as they could manage on several tests, and continued to get consistent data. So, no, it's not atmospheric heating. It's another phenominon. One that I'd be baffled over too, but it's clear that it exists. Now, whether this is something similar to the time that Mythbusters managed to make a wagon roll by blowing a fan into a sail on it remains to be seen. It could well be an exotic photon drive or something of that nature, using light as a reactant. (which would be neat). If that's the case, which would work nicely, then there isn't any laws of motion being violated. - - - Updated - - - I'd like to add something to that: They did bring the test rig down as close to vacuum as they could manage on several tests, and continued to get consistent data. So, no, it's not atmospheric heating. It's another phenominon. One that I'd be baffled over too, but it's clear that it exists. Now, whether this is something similar to the time that Mythbusters managed to make a wagon roll by blowing a fan into a sail on it remains to be seen. It could well be an exotic photon drive or something of that nature, using light as a reactant. (which would be neat). If that's the case, which would work nicely, then there isn't any laws of motion being violated.

NASA notes that the chinese results are much higher because the chinese input power was much higher. Kilowatts instead of watts like NASA was using.

Actually, the EM drive has been shown to have a thrust to power ratio about seven times better than a Hall thruster in Nasa's tests. So... yeah, this thing would actually be a pretty respectable drive system as you could literally straight-line thrust to anywhere in the system and reasonably expect to get there. (Once you clear Earth's atmosphere, that is.) And, they expect to be able to double the thrust with superconducting tech, which would make this thing pretty freaking OP. Of course, we like that. It makes SCIENCE! easy.

Except for that pesky republican party of "CUT EVERYTHING!" Especially science. After all, what good is science? [/Average Insane Republican in Government.]

Fixed panels covering the wings. Works just fine in Kerbin's atmosphere. Back on topic, theoretically they should work, but the thin atmosphere means you would have to speed up significantly with them over a period of time in order to actually get into orbit.

It's dead, Jim. The fuel system suffered a pressurization leak, and they don't have any more thruster control.

Yeah, that was kind of what I originally wanted, but I'll take what I can get.