Dres Awareness, Show Your Support! (still not-dead :))

[Crocket]

@MoeslyArmlis Is it OK if I upload your sparkly asteroid image to the wiki?

[EliteGuy3]

Where is Dres?

[Firemetal]

34 minutes ago, EliteGuy3 said:

Where is Dres?

Between Jool and Duna. It is the analog for Ceres. It is a bit hard to see at first but if you zoom in, you can see its orbit.

[EliteGuy3]

Thanks! I could try to replicate the Dawn probe mission then.

[DaElite101]

I will help. Yay!

I've never gone interplanetary before, so this is a first. I'm also doing this in career mode. I will bring a satellite and some kerbals on a lander. (Don't have enough science for drills and ore processing, I'll setup a mining operation after I've gotten enough from Dres (And enough money to upgrade my R&D because holy hell, is it expensive). I am running stock KSP since I don't know how to download/install them yet and I'm holding off until I've conquered every planet in the Kerbol System. (Or at least until my curiosity takes over/my save gets corrupted.)

I would send more, but I can't figure out how to fit a rover on and still have space for the nuclear engines to fit into the 2.5m fairing.

Edit: I've decided I want to get more science on Minmus before going to Dres. I want to test the capabilities of my lander around the neighborhood of Kerbin first.

Edited July 21, 2016 by DaElite101

[RonnieThePotato]

Easy, ill just crash kerbals into dres as a sacrifice. ill send about 50 per space craft.

 

EDIT:

I can't do this without my Dres Awareness flag!

http://imgur.com/gallery/S7vL8sL

Took me a few hours to make, you can use it on your mission too!

Edited July 23, 2016 by RonnieThePotato
picture

[Stillkill]

Does having a station in mid-orbit around dres accompanied by a on-planet base for drilling ore and refueling, as well as having it all be remote tech count as big?

[SpaceplaneAddict]

On 2016-06-20 at 7:32 AM, EvermoreAlpaca said:

Bill brought a few friends to Dres with him.

.............'

*Dies.

[Stillkill]

5 minutes ago, SpaceplaneAddict said:

.............'

*Dies.

A few? Looks like the whole population of Kerbin tagged along. Considering there are no cities.

[bobston314]

I've built a payload containing a fireworks display for Dres, capable of landing from an intercept of Dres with fuel left for the displays. It contains only stock parts, but was only tested on Kerbin, so some displays may not work as intended.

Unfortunately, I don't think my PC would be able to run it without crashing the game, so I would like to submit the payload for someone else to fly. Just mention me and I'll be happy.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2AEeT0pEyFacnZZajFFVDVPR2s

Notes: If you launch the payload by itself, with the fairing, it spontaneously explodes. You might need some struts or something.

The display was balanced so it could land without serious issues with torque, but I didn't incorporate any balance for transfer or launch craft, which has to be dealt with.

You will probably want to bring some kerbals along to enjoy the fireworks.

*Edit* The display consists of :

Two Kerbodyne 14400 (that's probably not its actual name) tanks

4 toggleable Mainsail Engines, fed off of the left over fuel from landing

1 Hammer SRB, engine facing upwards

A lot of radial decouplers

4 mini-rockets

Edited July 24, 2016 by bobston314
To add more information

[DaElite101]

This thread kind of just died. I wonder where everyone's at.

[Mycroft]

We're mostly all busy prepping our massive Dres missions.  

[ProtoJeb21]

On March 18, 2016 at 7:15 PM, max_creative said:

to do list:

1 send 500 tons of dres awerness stuff (canyon jumping, rovers, satellites, landers, and more)

2 land on the mun

3 throw stuff in to the mohole

Is 500 tons of dres stuff good? (And after this, later 2 more missions)

dres FTW!!! Go space potatoes!

Also, found this on the ksp wiki:

  Reveal hidden contents

Trivia
Dres is often disregarded and ignored among the KSP community.
YouTube user Felsmark created a video claiming that Dres is nothing but a hoax created by the Kerbal government in an attempt to add interest to the fabled planet Harvest.
Several forum users have created a group to raise awareness and show support to Dres, in the form of giant missions to the dwarf planet.
Dres was the first celestial body chosen to be the host planet of a moon for the Kopernicus Creativity Marathon.
Dres is the only other celestial body, other than Ike and Kerbin, whose terrain has been changed in only one Kopernicus planet pack. All the other planets have been edited in multiple mods like Uncharted Lands and Alternis Kerbol.
Dres is the celestial body most similar to Duna. Both have whiter areas near the poles, names that start with "D", similar orbits, low amounts of craters, and canyons that can be seen from the Map View.
 

 

 

 

How did I not notice that you found what I did on the KSP wiki? I decided to give Dres some love (and info) on the great Kerbal database.

(Also, 666 posts! I am doomed)

Edited August 12, 2016 by ProtoJeb21

[Mycroft]

Soooo, how does a 20,000+ ton mod craft with over a thousand Kerbals aboard sound?

This may be the last you hear from this poor laptop of mine, as the ship is 1006 parts at launch.

Oh and 86,791.59 tons

[Mycroft]

Well should I?

[Firemetal]

7 hours ago, Mycroft said:

Soooo, how does a 20,000+ ton mod craft with over a thousand Kerbals aboard sound?

This may be the last you hear from this poor laptop of mine, as the ship is 1006 parts at launch.

Oh and 86,791.59 tons

... R.IP your computer.

[Mycroft]

Not just my computer... Mort hates me with a passion! If everything goes right, I'll be sending one of the most massive crafts on KerbalX to Dres. The booster alone is bigger than the astronaut complex. 

Sneak peek: 

Edited August 23, 2016 by Mycroft

[McQuacker]

My SSTO spaceplane, the "Decade Thrush", made a refueling stop on poor little Dres on it's way to the Jool system:

 

[Calvingamr]

so ladies and gentelkerbals here's what i got:

View post on imgur.com

[Mycroft]

I love it!!

[Calvingamr]

Thanks dude

[SpaceplaneAddict]

On 12/08/2016 at 1:17 AM, Mycroft said:

Well should I?

Nearly forgot about this thread. Y don't need to ask me, JUST DO IT!

[nascarlaser1]

This looks very fun! Sadly, I cannot even manage to land properly on the Mun (500m up, the Kerbal bails and uses the jetpack to land), so I cannot do it yet .

[Calvingamr]

Am i aware enough to complete the callenge?

I Have a few more modules just in case 

Edited August 24, 2016 by Calvingamr

[SpaceplaneAddict]

8 hours ago, Calvingamr said:

Am i aware enough to complete the callenge?

I Have a few more modules just in case 

Yap, your clear.

Now, me being lazy, I'm issuing a request for someone to just go through these 18+ pages of thread and finding who i have accepted onto the board, but haven't written their names. Thank!