Looking for your war stories.

[ArmchairPhysicist]

Inspired by a near fatal mission failure (and the ongoing recovery support mission) I got to thinking about what problems other players have had and how the solved them.

 

My current Kraken created disaster.

Mission: Journey 2

A possibly one-way exploration mission built with the sole purpose of detailed investigation of other worlds. This knowledge will be used to bootstrap the Kerbal race up to a massive mission out to Ciro, a newly captured solar system orbiting very very far away from kerbol.

 

Location: Joolian system

 

Disaster: Kraken induced detonation of the only docking port inline with the motherships CoM.

The motherships lander was returning from a Pol run with a bounty of science ready to be processed in the onboard lab. After some more than normal docking difficulty it was decided to abort the docking, back far off and try again. Disaster struck when the lander suddenly phased into the nose of the mothership (weird time warp problem). This obliterated the docking port as soon as matter remembered that it was violating the laws of physics and space-time prison is a bad place. 

Now the only lander was useless, the secret agenda of investigating the Bop signal can not be completed, and a 9 million funds expedition can only do half its planned work.

Great. Glad I packed 60 years worth of snacks for the very bored 6 kerbal crew.

 

Back at KSC the Engineering department found a solution, build another lander with a docking port that fits the backup resupply port on Journey 2 (yes I planned on miscalculating snack of UraniumNitride stores). Time to send this new lander, an upgraded science lab built to find the Kraken that hates me, and a fusion rocket to send it all the way out to Jool. The Mission must continue.

 

TLDR

 

I buggered up my mission, got to send another out to fix it. 

Tell me about your most awesome/stressful/expensive planned or unplanned missions.

[Foxster]

My grandfather had his tongue shot off in the war...He never talks about it. 

Edited March 10, 2018 by Foxster

[ArmchairPhysicist]

6 minutes ago, Foxster said:

My grandfather had his tongue shot off in the war...He never talks about it. 

Ten points to Slytherin

[ArmchairPhysicist]

Update, repair mission went flawlessly, brand new upgrades will extend the mission for many more planets.

 

And I nearly gave Mission Control a heart attack. My 620t 320 part mothership came into bop orbit way too low during the near science run after the lander got done sticking a flag on the Kraken.

By close I mean 200 meters close to bops mountain. Any closer and I would have shaved my radiators off.

[nascarlaser1]

I went to the Mun with jeb, routine mission all around,until....

I get up for 5 minutes to get a drink, come back to discover I forgot to turn off my engines, all my fuel is gone except for the lander and instead of the mun I'm on a collision course with Minimus...

Good new was since the lander was designed for the Mun and not Minimus, it was able to land perfectly fine, but didn't have enough fuel to leave and get back home. I ended up sending a second lander to pick up jeb, land on them Mun like originally intended, and then finally come back.

[ArmchairPhysicist]

10 hours ago, nascarlaser1 said:

I went to the Mun with jeb, routine mission all around,until....

I get up for 5 minutes to get a drink, come back to discover I forgot to turn off my engines, all my fuel is gone except for the lander and instead of the mun I'm on a collision course with Minimus...

Good new was since the lander was designed for the Mun and not Minimus, it was able to land perfectly fine, but didn't have enough fuel to leave and get back home. I ended up sending a second lander to pick up jeb, land on them Mun like originally intended, and then finally come back.

I’ve never been that lucky, if I take my eyes off the game, usually results in splattering a ship on a moon mountain. Can’t rescue a corpse.......,

And there’s todays feature request, a kerbalnaut graveyard/monument with procedural tombs. Killed kerbals are automatically inscribed in the monument. If you retrieve the body if it’s in one piece you get to bury it. Doing or not doing this affects your rep.

[LordFerret]

Seeing 'War Stories', I walked in here expecting something totally different.

 

@ArmchairPhysicist, there is a thread right here in this same section of the forums for such 'war stories'... it's called "What did you do in KSP today?". That is where you'll want to post this kind of stuff, as many folks do, myself included. You should check it out and join in!