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♪ DA da DA da-da, ♪ DA da DA da-da! ♪

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♪ ♫ It's cold outside, there's no kind of atmosphere, ♫♫

♫♫ I'm all alone, more or less. ♪♫

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♪♪ Let me fly, far away from here, ♫♫

♫♫ Fun, fun, fun, In the sun, sun, sun. ♪ ♫

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♪♪ I want to lie shipwrecked and comatose, ♫♫

♫♫ Drinking fresh mango juice, ♪♫

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:kiss::kiss:

♫♪ Goldfish shoals nibbling at my toes, ♫♫

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♫♫ Fun, fun, fun, In the sun, sun, sun, ♪♪

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♪♪Fun fun fun, ♫♪

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♪♪ In the sun, sun, sun. ♫♫

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♪ ♫♪ DA da DA da-da, DA da DA da-da, DA da Da da da DAA! ♪♫♪

*BOOM*

*Demonstration model shown in some photos. This is the original model. The modern KSP version details is in a post below. 

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(Refers to the original model, not compatible with modern mods. )

Mods used:

Lack Luster Labs

Spherical tanks (Older version- may need some simple file edits)

Kerbal Attachment System

Ioncross crew support.

Aim for a 90 x 90 orbit, and the last stage of the launch vehicle should be left on a suborbital path.

Gets into orbit with about 8.5Km/s of delta V, it should be able to go many places- like the real one does!

3.9m/s2 of vertical thrust should let it land on most small planets.

RCS and thrusters are carefully placed, but it's helpful to move fuel from the back to the front to maintain balance.

The fuel distribution system only helps so much.

It comes with action groups set up like this:

1: Toggle main engines. (LV-Ns)

2: Toggle Vertical thrust

3: Toggle ladder.

4: Toggle retro thrust (pretty small, for use in docking, or landing refinements.)

0: Toggle "false engine" lights. (So it looks like the real one.)

Also features a top docking port, for control during landings, and a bottom one- you could carry a small rover with it.

Hasn't got parachutes, but you could always add them if you want.

About 130 parts, not including launch vehicle.

Ioncross life support, there should be enough curry and papadums to last a year. The oxygen recycler is clipped into the rear tank.

Download link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/wmrftdimf0uxdob/Starbug%20X.craft

Don't think I've posted it this part of the forums before. Hope I did alright.

Also, you might feel like watching bits of this now.

*Plays guitar solo*

Full album here.

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Looks great!

Edit: This set me to wondering:

2) I am terrified to imagine how enormous a Red Dwarf model would be - but I still want one, bad :D

According to wikipedia:

It is 6 miles (10 km) long, 4 miles (6.5 km) tall, and 3 miles (5 km) wide.

So if we were going to go with the usual 1:10 scale, 1km long, 650m high, 500m wide.

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Having looked over the stats, i have questions:

How much curry can the craft carry? (You may use chicken vindaloo as reference).

Also, is curry content taken into consideration when calculating DeltaV?

Damn, I completely forgot to put something about that in the OP, and I had planned to as well!

It comes with about a years worth, but it depends how hungry your Lister Kerman is. You could carry many extra tones if you don't need as much fuel, however, Delta V will require recalculation should this be attempted.

I'm going to update the OP.

YAY! I love Red Dwarf! The docking is so cute, bug-kiss!

I bet the spherical tanks don't work with Kerb Paint so we can't make it green. :( Still totally awesome anyway.

Great job! I want a green one though... :(

Perhaps it's time to politely bug the Kerb Paint guy to add it?

Or you could file edit, and trade the tanks for the kethane ones to get green stripes instead. But it won't go very far...

1) this is awesome

2) I am terrified to imagine how enormous a Red Dwarf model would be - but I still want one, bad :D

Your post is the exception

i can't remember when someone last made a Red Dwarf reference around here!

Red Dwarf is awesome! I was planning a fuel tug, when I realised I could make this instead.

Thought about making a thing that looked like the Red Dwarf hangar, so I could replicate scenes from the opening titles. But much of Starbug's activity in them is getting hit my fireballs, and plowing through terrain.

Probably possible, I might use hack gravity and the hanger at the old airfield.

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