Some friends for Dres

[L4r5man]

This is my submission for the Dres-challenge located here: [url]http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/138726-Dres-Awareness-Show-Your-Support[/url]!

I've been a sinner for way too long. I've never actually been to Dres. I know, I know. I'm part of the problem.
But I seek to redeem myself. I'll bring Dres some small friends to keep her company forever (or untill an update breaks the my save). Six friends actually. I aim to put six asteroids in low orbit around her.

As I write this I've launched all six transfer crafts, six asteroid grabbers, grabbed them, put them in a 200 by 200km orbit and sent them on their way towards Dres.

Mods used are Kerbal Alarm Clock and Kerbal Engineer Redux. I've also got Chatterer installed, but that really doesn't matter.








Let me present: KSS B.U.F.R. (Also known as the Big Ugly Fat Rocket)

[img]http://i.imgur.com/WST4Szh.png[/img]

You might wonder about my naming scheme... Well, I try to think of an acronym and then design my rocket to fit that.
This name is an homage to the B-52 which is known to their pilots as Big Ugly Fat F**ker.
I also couldn't remember how much Delta-V I needed to get to Dres, and frankly I didn't care to look it up so I just gave it alot and figured it would be enough.

Launch number one:
[url]http://imgur.com/a/WG86j[/url]

Launch number two:
[url]http://imgur.com/a/SPSeN[/url]


Launch number three:
[url]http://imgur.com/a/bbMQ4[/url]

Launch number four:
[url]http://imgur.com/a/0SyB4[/url]

Launch number five:
[url]http://imgur.com/a/fIRF4[/url]

Launch number six:
[url]http://imgur.com/a/TRHFS[/url]

Here they are as viewed from the tracking station:
[img]http://i.imgur.com/C9gqci4.png[/img]


Now for the asteroid grabbers.
I've named them KSS A.R.S.E. (AKA Asteroid retriever, single engine).
The name is partly because descriptive of the role and partly because it looks kind of like a buttplug.
At the last minute I decided to add two retro engines to make it easier to rendevouz with the asteroids. The name is therefore kind of wrong, but it was such a good name.

Launch one:
[url]http://imgur.com/a/Fonkz[/url]

Launch two:
[url]http://imgur.com/a/JZg7z[/url]

Launch three:
[url]http://imgur.com/a/cpLce[/url]

Launch four:
[url]http://imgur.com/a/IkJ4I[/url]

Launch five:
[url]http://imgur.com/a/hw20E[/url]

Launch six:
[url]http://imgur.com/a/rzFkd[/url]



Edit: How do I embed pictures and albums?

Edit 2: More pictures to come. It's time for dinner and I'm starving. Will upload more later. Stay tuned. Edited November 19, 2015 by L4r5man

[Sanic]

You embed pictures by pressing the 'add image' button on the top bar and entering the image's URL.

[L4r5man]

I just might be blind, but I don't see that button.
Found the tag, though. And edited them manually.
As for the album-embeding, I've yet to master that one. Even though I found the tag.

edit: Thanks anyways. :)

[L4r5man]

Now for the asteroid grabbing:

Grabbing numer one:
I've seem to have gotten some help from the Kraken on this one. After timewarping it suddenly appeared to have been moved into a stable orbit all by itself.
I'm not one to question the Kraken. So yay!

[img]http://i.imgur.com/mdMihN5.png[/img]

Right after grabbing the asteroids my computer just died on me. I lost all notes about which screenshot is what. I've tried to sort them as good as I can, but that proved hard. There was a lot of quicksaving and loading and I'm not sure which is which of the grabs. :( Therefore I've just put these in different albums without titles and let them speak for themselves.

Album one:
[url]http://imgur.com/a/yT1kQ[/url]

Album two:
[url]http://imgur.com/a/MQ6GU[/url]

Album three:
[url]http://imgur.com/a/6OrXb[/url]

Album four:
[url]http://imgur.com/a/Qg4kX[/url]

Album five:
[url]http://imgur.com/a/f5Bw7[/url]

Album six:
[url]http://imgur.com/a/3S7uy[/url]

Some misc. pictures from the grabbing process I didn't know where to put:
[url]http://imgur.com/a/Ybmtj[/url] Edited November 19, 2015 by L4r5man

[L4r5man]

And then, due to the death of my computer, I had to move to my fiancé's computer. You'll notice the screen resolution is different.

The next thing to do was to lower the orbits

Lowering A.R.S.E. orbit 1:
[url]http://imgur.com/a/W7dZq[/url]

Lowering A.R.S.E. orbit 2:
[url]http://imgur.com/a/I6UN0[/url]

Lowering A.R.S.E. orbit 3:
[url]http://imgur.com/a/QuQaZ[/url]

Lowering A.R.S.E. orbit 4:
[url]http://imgur.com/a/sPUTH[/url]

Lowering A.R.S.E. orbit 5:
[url]http://imgur.com/a/0Dm99[/url]

Lowering A.R.S.E. orbit 6:
[url]http://imgur.com/a/YgX4g[/url]
[url]http://imgur.com/a/x8T5C[/url]

Then I ended up with this:
[img]http://i.imgur.com/fX1np3a.png[/img] Edited November 19, 2015 by L4r5man

[Sanic]

Small question: What does BUFR stand for?

[L4r5man]

Big Ugly Fat Rocket.