Payload Construction Building

[blueshark15]

I have a basic issue with the current ksp construction process, mainly the fact that you build your satillites and rovers on top of a rocket in the vab. This is wildly unrealistic, normally these types of things are built like this:

I think that even the kerbals, reckless as they are in flight, at least use basic safety precautions when building their shiny space toys. The solution i have devised is such:

The payload construction building, with both the VAB and SPH symmetries, plus others to aid in rover construction (think if you could space the wheels with left/right and front/back symmetry at the same time). Here you could build whatever package you were delivering, (probably with only monopropellant engines and small bipropellant ones for safety) put a fairing on it (for spaceplanes maybe make it a cargo bay?), probably like procedural fairings, and hit a counterbalance button, which would add weight to the fairing to even out whatever lopsided contraption you have inside. Or potentially, it could make the whole thing one (slightly heavier) part until the fairings were decoupled, to simulate padding and counterweight and reduce lag and wobble. You could then save this like a subassembly, visible in the VAB and SPH payloads tab.

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I never thought about this until now, but I want it.

It's probably not too difficult to add, given that much of the VAB/SPH code would be used - also, a "clean room" interior would be one of the easier ones to create - plain white walls/floor!

(I think quite a lot of people would want to see Kerbal technicians, dressed as per OP's picture, walking around in this building.)