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Well, sometimes you just want to cheat. And, I know there's a cheat menu hiding in the Alt F12 menus, but, it's just not as satisfying as a truly ludicrous set of science fantasy drives. So, I'm working on a collection of parts to make truly absurd craft. These won't be exotic ideas from physicists. There's already mods for salt water reactors and project Orion drives and Alcubierre drives. I'm talking Star trek grade technobabble stuff. Engines that run of Handwavium and electricity from Eludium reactors. I've got some other mods to work on, so I'd like to know how much interest there is in this sort of thing. I'll be honest and say I first created a very early version of this ages back to test other mods on other planets when I didn't want to just hyperedit myself there. So, I'm unclear how many people might find a use. So far I'm working on three grades of engine. Planetary (a few G, deep throttling, short and fat to help with landing leg placement), interplanetary (maybe ten to twenty times the thrust, long and a bit cooler looking), and interstellar (doesn't work yet, but will hopefully be some sort of warp thing). The planetary and interplanetary engines will work from Handwavium, which can just be a stored amount, or converted in a reactor from Taurusfecallium. Everything uses a lot of electricity, so there's a reactor that used Eludium and Phlebotium. The warp drives I'm hoping to make work using Energized Di-Francium-Tri-Absurdium Crystal. Apart from the word Francium (it's under lithium on the periodic table, a fairly long way under) those are all as meaningful as the others. I couldn't really fit a crystal structure name in to take the liquid out of "di-"lithium as a crystal. No, I'm not serious. Yes, I am serious about releasing this for download. In fact, here it is: http://spacedock.info/mod/1137/Space Opera (Licensed as CC BY-SA 4.0, aka, steal it but don't pretend it's yours) And some pics of the parts (engines, and warp core not textured yet, and there's also some RCS that works on Handwavium, but it's VERY early days and may change dramatically); Inter-planetary Engine Planetary Engine Reactor and Eludium Containment and Warp Core (WIP) Handwavium Tank Handwavium Generator and Phlebotium Tanks And and Taurusfecalium Kontainment Unit Warp Drive Polarity Field Generator Quantum Entangler