Marauder Space Plane & von Richthoven Interplanetary Starship

[Jett_Quasar]

Marauder SSTO Space Plane

This beauty will take a crew of up to 10 Kerbals to LKO and back. Great for crew transfers from passing starships or just to admire the great flame effects to and from space...

Marauder Space Plane by Jolly Roger on Sketchfab

Hot Keys:

1) Toggle Whiplash Turbojet Engines

2) Toggle Rapier Engines

3) Switch Mode for Rapier Engines

4) Toggle LV-N Nuclear Engines

Download Marauder space plane HERE

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von Richthofen Interplanetary Starship

This all-in-one craft features:

- On-board drills and ISRU for planetary refueling

- Separate landing engines for VTOL type landings on moons and small planets

- Detachable resource scanning sensors

- RCS tug

- Configurable probe and separate science experiment pod

- Ability to drive around on planetary surfaces

- Max crew capacity of 11

- On-board science lab & reusable experiments

Von Richthofen Explorer by Jolly Roger on Sketchfab

Hot Keys

1) Toggle Main Engines

2) Toggle Landing Engines

3) Deploy Drills

4) Start Mining Operations (Drills, ISRU, Power)

5) Stop Mining Operations

"Lights" toggle solar panels as well

Download von Richthoven interplanetary starship HERE

JR

Edited October 19, 2015 by Jolly_Roger

[Castille7]

Man this craft has got it going on!!! This is excellent work on the crafts and video footage! Thumbs up from me!

[The_Rocketeer]

I'm sensing some Star Wars references! Awesome stuff

[Rune]

Just as overbuilt as they are beautiful. Good job! You have quite the unique style.

Rune. You can't always go for efficiency and all that sciency stuff.

[Dafni]

Very nice crafts, and a lovely video too. Well done!

[Majorjim!]

I absolutely love your craft because they show real imagination and skill. Plus they look cool as hell!

And a video! Awesome to see your creations in motion, keep it up man!

Rep for ye.

Edited October 19, 2015 by Majorjim

[Jett_Quasar]

I'm glad you guys like the craft - I don't play the game the same way most people do, and I prefer to go for design over efficiency, that's just my style. There was lots of stuff going on in the video and I really didn't show some of the capabilities of the von Richthoven like the fact that it can drive across the surface of a planet in order to hit multiple locations for some of those more complex contracts, or the fact that you can pretty much do a grand tour, and I didn't even show any of the science capabilities.

This was one of my first all-in-one craft and I wasn't very far along the tech tree when I designed it (I had just barely got to the ISRU stage). I have a backlog of other craft that I need to finalize and do videos for so I'm going to start working on the next one right away. I want to get some of these old designs out of the way before 1.0.5 drops and I get inspired to create more monstrosities.

JR

Edit:

...Awesome to see your creations in motion, keep it up man and ignore the veiled insults.

That's just Rune - he insults my designs and I take his beautiful creations and mangle them to suit my needs, it's our thing.

Edited October 19, 2015 by Jolly_Roger

[Rune]

That's just Rune - he insults my designs and I take his beautiful creations and mangle them to suit my needs, it's our thing.

And I run out of superlative adjectives for the aesthetic comments, you forgot that part.

Rune. I'm pretty sure at least one of your rep bars is all my doing.

[Jett_Quasar]

And I run out of superlative adjectives for the aesthetic comments, you forgot that part.

Rune. I'm pretty sure at least one of your rep bars is all my doing.

You know it! Dude you were the first person that I met on these forums and I'm pretty sure you gave me my first rep and got me going down this path of craziness.

You can't beat that!

JR

[Dr Farnsworth]

Von Rich-o-fen-kraken? I think I got the name wrong...

[Kevin Kyle]

Love your style man, havent flown these yet but its on my short list of I want to do's

[Jett_Quasar]

Love your style man, havent flown these yet but its on my short list of I want to do's

The Marauder SSTO is really easy to fly, but the von Richthofen with it's HTOL moon landings is quite different and tricky. The key is to use the thrust limiter on the front landing engine. I made a video with another craft showing how it's done.

Link:

JR

[Dafni]

I commented on here before, but man, that Marauder is very very nice. Great work man

[Jett_Quasar]

I commented on here before, but man, that Marauder is very very nice. Great work man

Cool, I originally designed it in V0.90 and it was able to go out to Minmus and back with a crew of 10 - so I really wanted to get this design working in V1.0.4. As it turns out it was really easy, I just had to remove some of the outdated parts, extra wing segments and air intakes and add a couple more Rapiers and it worked just fine. Too bad it can no longer get past LKO but that's what the interplanetary starships are for. I think the video really captured it nicely.

JR