Towerator's caveman season 2, epilogue: A long, long time

[MinimalMinmus]

4 minutes ago, roboslacker said:

How did that happen?

No idea... SVE glitch, probably. But it was more ominous and creepy than dangerous. Oh, and 2nd page!

Edited March 12, 2018 by MinimalMinmus

[MinimalMinmus]

Well,

That was quite a day.

There was some grind, today. And for that grind, we'll need another chapter, in fact. I know very well you as humans tend to get bored when they see super long chapters. I like them, but given I think GLaDOS' motives are perfectly reasonable, I may not be the best one to judge... anyway, I'm disgressing. Let's go to the facts.

Chapter 5:You grind me right round

Spoiler

A landing is surely brewing! (Ignore the fact I failed twice again...) (ooc: 1.4 broke most of my mods. The one with the black icon is AnyRes (it still works tho))

Wallop!

Bravo!

And we're in!

Not the most useful 45 node, but we need to unlock further.

And I may or may not have stolen my user's rocket.

It's time to do the Munar round trip.

Now go! (And that's enough with the Cuphead references...)

So, more science

And an absolutely useless node, that I unlocked for no reason at all.

Let's fast forward all the landings...

We're done! Fireworks!

The tech tree is complete...

And the KSC is still as bad as ever!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

But then you notice...

IsEnoughScience=False.

And why did we suddenly jump to 50 years?

Well, here's why.

Epilogue: A long, long time...

Spoiler

Jeb has spoken, he wants to take to go to Duna, no matter the inefficiency.

So I IsOrbit=True his small ship.

Now, let's send the boosters!

It will be easy!

eeeeeerrrrrrrrrr...

And this is why, children and Windows 10-ers, you must always check your staging, even if you're a sentient AI, ENIAC-darn it!

One booster docked!

Two boosters docked! And yes I changed the order.

Three docked! Object(Rocket){IsReady=True}!

The burn is split in 2 to cope with the low TWR.

And Jeb ejected from Kerbin!

The side boosters are empty, let's trash 'em. Jeb's fuel may be low though... Meh, I'm an AI, I'll found a way.

If IsSquinting=True, you can see our destination above the ship. Or should I write... destinations?

They are now so close, they're resolved as pixels!

Rendezvous achieved! Jeb has reached Duna!

He even dips in the red planet's atmosphere!

oooooOOOOOH BAD MOON

Well, at least the Ike RDV was easy. Nice view, hmm?

Uh oh, Jeb's low on fuel. He can't get back to Kerbin by getting to the same ORbIt PANiC pANIC PANIC PANIC PANICPANICPANICPANICPANICPANICPANICPANICPANICPANICPANICPANIC[A fatal error has occured!]

Okay, let's calm down. First, we get to a 3:2 orbit with Kerbin...

Then we slowly get closer to it... and dang my fuel is so low...

Kerbin is so close now!

Last chance, after that there simply won't be enough fuel.

BY THE ENIAC'S HOLY PROCESSOR

250 science... INSAAAAAANE!!!!!!!!!

I have officially become a diamond caveman! Take that user, you don't think you're so good now, hmm?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

-"Huh? Was that Markiplier? I'm awake?! And my PC is open?"

Uuuuuhhh... I can explain everything...

-"Oooh, you had better do so..."

 

 

 

 

 

And last but not least, this is my 500th post!

Edited March 12, 2018 by MinimalMinmus

[roboslacker]

So you have to go interplanetary to do diamond level caveman. How the heck did you manage to get an encounter without conics?

[MinimalMinmus]

1 hour ago, roboslacker said:

So you have to go interplanetary to do diamond level caveman. How the heck did you manage to get an encounter without conics?

Here's the thing.

1) Eject from Kerbin and try to roughly reach Duna's orbit, preferrably not too far from it

2) Burn at Apoapsis of your kerbolar orbit until your orbit is more or less Duna's.

3) Start doing some small prograde or retrograde burns to accelerate/let Duna overtake you

4) As Duna gets closer, start burning retrograde/prograde so that your orbit is close to Duna's again

5) If you got past Duna, just repeat step 4 in the other direction.

6) Eventually, you'll slowly get closer to Duna, until you finally get your RDV.

This method isn't even nearly as efficient as the "double hohmann" method everyone knows, but trying to do a proper transfer without patched conics is like trying to shoot a target 500m away while blindfolded.

 

For Kerbin, I had to do something actually quite similar, even if it looks like a complete blind throw: since I wasn't even close to the dV I needed to do step 2, I instead used a 3:2 resonnance orbit. This means that, every times Kerbin does 3 orbits, I make 2. It takes quite a bit of an eyesight to see what exactly you should do each times you burn at periapsis, but eventually I got close enough to Kerbin.

And by the way, you don't need an interplanetary mission for diamond, but it certainly racks up some coolness points, right? (However, you DO need it for NCD...)

Edited March 12, 2018 by MinimalMinmus

[obney kerman]

Well done! Duna on *extremely* low tech!

[MinimalMinmus]

11 minutes ago, obney kerman said:

Well done! Duna on *extremely* low tech!

Tier 4 is indeed the barest minimum tier for an interplanetary with 18t limitations. I'd say you need at least electrics for a decent probe core, and of course miniaturization.

Edited March 14, 2018 by MinimalMinmus