KSS Valiant Orbital Cruiser (Very large ship, B9A's HX parts)

[Azrael the Sorrowful]

I've recently be working on making some very large scale ships but always ended up with massive part counts which bogged me down with lag. Thankfully to the discovery of B9 Aerospace's HX part series, not only can I make massive cruiser style ships with few part counts, but they even end up extremely sturdier as well.

This is KSS Valiant Orbital Cruiser. Using only a small handful of mods, I was able to make this orbital cruiser in, not the VAB but, the SPH. The engines on the keel of the ship allow it to launch vertically and then activate the main engines on the stern that allow you to easily reach orbit, while the engines on the port and starboard sides help with maneuverability. There is also another engine on the bow that is used for slowing horizontal movement when coming in sub-orbitally to land the ship. (Note: the landing process is a bit tricky as there's no landing gear strong enough to hold it, let alone big enough and the engines on the keel often explode on too rough of an impact and cause the whole ship to subsequently explode as well)

 

 Mods required to make and operate:

• B9 Aerospace Core and HX (The parts)
• Tweakscale (just to make the cockpit 1 step larger)
• FAR (Required to achieve adequate lift off of the parts and required for all B9A parts to work as intended)
• Throttle Controlled Avionics (My personal favorite mod and the the mod the allows all the different engines on this ship to function as desired)
  _{The TCA settings for the engines are: Bow = Manual Control, Stern = Main Engine, Port and Starboard = Maneuver Engine}

Edited March 18, 2016 by Azrael the Sorrowful

[Majorjim!]

I dont know mod parts at all but this looks scary as hell! It kind of reminds me of the ship in the movie Aliens. The one that looked a bit like a pulse rifle.

 

[Azrael the Sorrowful]

8 hours ago, Majorjim said:

I dont know mod parts at all but this looks scary as hell! It kind of reminds me of the ship in the movie Aliens. The one that looked a bit like a pulse rifle.

 

Honestly, I just based it off my basic knowledge of human-style sci-fi space crafts. I do know the ship you're referring to, and now that you mention it, I do see the resemblance. I'm glad you liked it though  I do plan to make more and more ships and stuff to this scale. I'm currently working on a large scale orbital refueling station that uses the mods listed about along with Karbonite in order to sift through exospheric Karbonite and turn it into fuel to lessen the amount of times I need to send ships up to refuel it.

[Vanamonde]

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The one that looked a bit like a pulse rifle.

The Sulaco. 

[Stone Blue]

Nice ship!
Here's some landing legs that might handle something that big:

Kerbodyne Plus

 

 

Edited March 19, 2016 by Stone Blue

[Azrael the Sorrowful]

1 hour ago, Stone Blue said:

Nice ship!
Here's some landing legs that might handle something that big:

Kerbodyne Plus

Ah! Cool, thank you so much. I'll have to try those out.

[Penkover]

Valiant class super heavy cruiser is from HALO , i love HALO and KSP too , so this is .....

You propably seen the size of your ship (i think max 100m) and real size of valiant (1518m)... wont be bad some mod with realy big spaceship parts.

 

Edited March 19, 2016 by Penkover

[Azrael the Sorrowful]

3 hours ago, Penkover said:

Valiant class super heavy cruiser is from HALO , i love HALO and KSP too , so this is .....

You propably seen the size of your ship (i think max 100m) and real size of valiant (1518m)... wont be bad some mod with realy big spaceship parts.

 

LOL, that's an interesting coincidence. I don't know halo ships very well so it's funny that that ship exists. But, this isn't a Valiant-class ship. The name of the ship is actually the KSS Valiant. Anyway, my ship is only about 72m long, so not too far off from the 100m you guessed. I'm currently working on a new, much larger, ship called the Vanguard. Using the B9A HX parts, my Valiant cruiser is actually on the smaller side. 

Edited March 19, 2016 by Azrael the Sorrowful

[DankPepeDealer]

These B9 HX ships are sweet! Looks great, you should make some more!

[Azrael the Sorrowful]

3 hours ago, DankPepeDealer said:

These B9 HX ships are sweet! Looks great, you should make some more!

Yeah, they are and thanks. I actually plan to make more, currently in development of quite a few large scale vessels.

My current plan for current and future vessels are: 

• KSS Valiant - Orbital Battle Cruiser
• KSS Vanguard - Orbital Command Cruiser
• KSS Verdant - Orbital Refueling Station
• KSS Vantage - Orbital Survey Station

I may just make a new thread to showcase my entire fleet as those 4 are just the large scale ships, and I can use these parts to make smaller ships if need be, or even use parts from stock and other mods.