SS BOTANY BAY DY-100 Sleeper Ship - Infamous spaceship from Star Trek (Khaaaan!)

[whoshotdk]

“Botany Bay? Botany Bay! Oh no! We’ve got to get out of here NOW!†- Pavel Andreievich Chekov

“Khaaaan!†- James Tiberius Kirk

This is a Kerbalised version of the infamous SS Botany Bay, the nuclear powered sleeper ship launched in 1996 carrying the evilest and coolest antagonist of all time.

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SPECIFICATIONS

As reported by MechJeb (MechJeb not included):

Total Delta-V (with launcher): 6,122m/s

Total Delta-V (sans launcher): 2,487m/s

Launch mass: 150t

Dry mass: 40t

Part count (with launcher): 151

Part count (sans launcher): 80

CONTROLS

[4] Antenna

[5] Toggle Solar panels

[9] Cargo bay doors

[ABORT] Nothing, augmented Kerbals don’t run away from disaster

ASCENT PARAMETERS

It’s just as well this ship is manned by a group of genetically altered Kerbals with superhero strength and intelligence - as you’ll need those superior skills to get it into orbit. TAKE IT SLOW and don’t start your gravity turn too early. You might need to finish your orbital insertion burn with the Botany Bay’s own nuclear engine.

MechJeb can get this thing to orbit too, though in my experience I did at least one cartwheel on the way up

DESCENT PARAMETERS

This ship isn’t designed to re-enter the atmosphere but the lower cargo hold does contain an atmospheric drop-pod, so that you may unleash Khan on the unsuspecting planet at your leisure. The drop pod has four RCS thrusters and a Delta-V of 641 so who knows, perhaps you can land on a non-atmospheric body too.

NOTES

What, no fairings?!

According to a photograph of the launch of a DY-100, the ship was not snug inside a payload bay but rather just sat nakedly on top of some kinda rocket with six boosters. So I decided to stick to that profile as much as possible - though I did add a few reaction wheels and some canards to the boosters to allow for some control during ascent. See here: http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/DY-100_class?file=DY_100_painting.jpg

Enjoy the craft and leave me some love (or rep) if you like it!

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Edited May 4, 2015 by whoshotdk
Added more fuel to the boosters which I'd inadvertedly semi-drained beforehand. Craft file and DV/mass values updated.

[Josh Harris]

Nicely done. +rep.

[ispeedonthe405]

Suddenly I want to scream, "THIS is Kerbal Alpha Five!" at someone. Well done.

[whoshotdk]

Welcome to the forums ispeedonthe405 and thank you for making your first post a reply to one of mine :-)

It's nice to have a fellow Star Trek fan on board! If you are new to the game as well, I wish you many hours of enjoyment out of it; if you ever get stuck with something don't hesitate to ask on these forums, we are generally a friendly bunch

[Kagame]

Thanks, I just screamed "KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN" out loud to nobody in particular. xD Excellent build, I'm impressed by the overall quality of work. Maybe somebody should start an omnibus thread for all the sci-fi TV replicas- that's the third this week. (including my Dalek and somebody else's Enterprise NCC-1701). And there's also an X-Wing that turned up on KerbalX this week, too...