Finally, the star destroyer orbits!

[flyboy_fx]

Hi guys! after about 24 hours of going at it and almost 300 tries, I managed to get a 900 part star destroyer into orbit, then I sent it to the mun! The star destroyer was made and launched completely from stock parts. I used a massive base rocket to launch it into orbit, then used the ship's rockets to fix the orbit. They burned up super fast... I then made about 20 trips to the ship docking fueltanks and engines to the back and pushed it off to the mun! It now sits above the mun and wont be going anywhere since it is out of fuel! I hope you enjoy some of the pics!

[3mon]

Whoa, that thing is huge! Congrats!

BTW, how much does it weigh?

[Scotius]

The Force is strong in this one *wheeezzzeee*

[iDan122]

There s thing called, you know, Hyperedit? Just Teleport ships wherever you want.

[KvickFlygarn87]

All hail the glory of this Whackjob-esque creation!

[stupid_chris]

There s thing called, you know, Hyperedit? Just Teleport ships wherever you want.

Or, he can be awesome, do that again, and then get both of them to crash in mun orbit

[Logan.Darklighter]

Day-um...

[speedboiae86]

I bet you could get that ship a lot further out if you used the LV-N Atomic Engines instead of Skippers or Mainsails.

[BrightBritches]

Awesome ship!

Just a word of advice for launching really large payloads though, it can be a lot easier and much more stable throughout the launch if you build the launcher around the ship, instead of under it. It also spreads out the weight over more parts and makes the launcher less likely to fail

(Oh and if your worried about leaving decoupler debris on the ship, you can attach the stack decouplers to nodes on the amor plates then attach the fueltanks to those radially)

[9t3ndo]

Just impressive o.O

why the hell give it here no Star Wars replica megathread???

Someone should start one!

[A Fat Pokemon]

Flyboy, it's battle time.

..Just kidding, no PC would survive that easily.

[Pds314]

What would be really impressive (not that this isn't) is launching it as an SSTO in FAR.

[Pds314]

I should make something like this in B9 using the 8-meter square panels and 4-meter square wings.

[flyboy_fx]

Most impressive Fat Pokemon! One thing though, I've got a $3000 rig I built and I still get like 10 FPS with the star destroyer... It must be a limitation on the game engine. Is KSP not using my entire machine or what is the deal? By the way, I am going to start working on a death star soon here! I can't do much else in KSP but at least I can haphazardly launch big ass loads into space. lol

[flyboy_fx]

I notice I get a high FPS then all of the sudden it drops when I hit like 600 parts. On a side note, the entire rocket that it took to get the ship into space was like 1650 parts lol

[Fellow314]

All hail the glory of this Whackjob-esque creation!

Indeed, that really is most impressive.