How we Conquered the Stars or The Story of the Sentinel Design Bureau | Currently on: Chapter 3

TRAPPIST-1E · March 26, 2022

After the failure of the original Sentinel Design Bureau, all funding was cut and the agency put on life support. Luckily, however, it was revived by the latest administration in the great nation of United East Kerbonia! Now it stands to expand kerbalkind through the planets and moons of the Kerbol system, but first, it has to start all over.

This is a rescaled 2x career using a whole slew of mods and custom visuals based off of Spectra. my goal is to somewhat reaalistically explore the kerbolar system and colonize it, and maybe go interstellar.

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Table of Contents

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Chapter 1 | Starting Somewhere

Chapter 2 | Strange Rockets

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Chapter 1 | Starting Somewhere

When the Sentinel Design Bureau was revived, a new rocket had to be made to make up for lost tech. Building off of the blueprints that were discovered being used as Bill Kerman's coffee napkins. The result was a brand-new family of sounding rockets. Behold, the aptly-named GoUp 1!

With a BANG, the GoUp 1-1 lifts off into the air.

Unfortunately, the stability on the first stage was . . . questionable at best

And the second stage ignited upside-down

But, in the end, science was gained . . .

And a new rocket was developed, the GoUp 2!

A mighty rocket, with only 1 stage but way more Delta-v

It made it higher than ever, but unfortunately, the antennae and batteries were forgotten, leading to no science gain, a terrible misfortune

Luckily, in the GoUp 2-2 mission, this was remedied, and science was gained

And that end the the first three missions in kerbalkind's rise to the stars.

Edited June 6, 2022 by TRAPPIST-1E
I'm not dead (and chapter 2)

Maria Sirona · March 27, 2022

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TRAPPIST-1E · April 9, 2022

Chapter 2: Strange Rockets

After the largely successful initial launches of the GoUp program, the SDB started looking a bit closer. A new rocket was needed to get ~~Kerbin science~~ high altitude atmospheric samples. The only remaining design from the old SDB was reused. It was time for the return of the RANGEFINDER SAMPLE RETURN VEHICLE! Unfortunately the original design was pirated and copyrighted so some changes had to be made.

This is not okay

Still looks normal

Unfortunately, the SCIENCE! cage (with CrumpliSafeTM technology) was destroyed

So there was a redesign

Which also failed whyyyyyy . . . it's not supposed to be firing downwards

And SCIENCE! was lost, a most heinous crime

Finally, after some ahem persuading of the engineers, there was a design that worked

And SCIENCE! was gained (and the engineers got a raise)

So we did it in the desert, at the sister launch facility to the Sentinel Launch Center

But that failed too (and the engineers got put back on minimum wage)

All in all, a terrible day for the space program. Funds were wasted, barely any SCIENCE! was gained, and the RSRS was deemed "a strange and terrible device" by Engineering. Also, we ran out of coffee.

Tune in later today for Top 10 funniest surfing accidents!

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Edited April 9, 2022 by TRAPPIST-1E

TRAPPIST-1E · June 7, 2022

Chapter 3: Going Up, and Down, and Up

Anyways, for the three people that were mildly interested in this, I'm sorry for not posting. I kind of didn't play KSP for 2 months. I might upload more frequently, really depends.

Anyways, back to the story.

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After the success of the Rangefinder sounding rocket program, there was a cry to go further. The public and the shareholders alike wanted us to do more, to put something in space that would crash and burn 5 minutes later. So we decided to go to orbit.

Beholding,

The Magellan 1! It carries the latest in satellite technology , the AlphaSat, in it's Totally Real Invisible Fairing that we have because we definitely have the money for it.