I think i met the kraken...No pics because it was random and fast!

[ThatKerbal]

Well, I was driving my "Orion" Rocket to space. Doing my gravity turn and it was really hard because the rocket wanted to go different ways. Then, Suddenly...My rocket's booster engines (they had fuel tanks and mainsails) as they ran low on fuel one drop of fuel left out of NOWHERE one of the engines detach without me even pressing space, Upon impact the engine started turning then broke into pieces, Then the WHOLE transfer stage BLEW UP! Leaving only the lander stage! I think i met the kraken...Did i meet it? Or was it a freak accident?

[biohazard15]

Looks like unstable and not sufficiently rigid rocket.

[Clockwork13]

The Kraken likes to confuse its victim. I've never met the mighty kraken, but it does sound like you met him.

[mhoram]

Looks more like an issue with the rocket stability. Especially at the end of stages the shead-forces get large in asparagus-style rockets.

[Captain Sierra]

Sounds like not enough struts. Try strutting the top of your boosters to the mid-to-upper portion of your center stack. Then try again. If it still comes up and eats your transfer stage, then something is genuinely not right.

[Superfish57]

I think you just need more struts. You can call it a kracken attack when your ship explodes, then is going 9999999 m/s in the middle of nowhere

[federicoaa]

Yep, it's not the kraken, it's lack of struts, MOAR struts!

[ThatKerbal]

I've already done a ton of struts, And it just out of the blue kicked off and blew the whole thing up. Launched again and it was fine.

[thereaverofdarkness]

I'm pretty sure it was the Wormhole Kraken. This one causes parts with too low structural integrity to collapse inward and allow the parts connected underneath to push through the rocket--then when the parts reach the top of your rocket or some other crucial point, the Wormhole Kraken takes a bite out of your ship and makes it explode into tiny pieces. Struts tend to fix it but it can generally also be fixed by decreasing the throttle towards the end of a burn to make sure the thrust doesn't go too high. Some decouplers fail at around maybe 10-15 Gs, and if you're using docking ports, they can fail at even less.

[Vanamonde]

The classic kraken attacks ships moving at very high rates of speed, on the order of kms/sec, often while warping, so I think you had a more straightforward structural failure. What does the ship look like?