The Kraken found me??

[AlamoVampire]

Okay, I will admit to a few things:

1. I have had one severely bad day, so, I may have done this my self.

2. Given item 1, I may have accidentally deleted the craft from the tracking station.

3. Maybe the kraken has found me?

Okay now that my odd rambling is out of the way, heres the story. I am placing well, this satellite system into my career mode. Looks a bit like:

THIS one, is clearly between Kerbin and the Mun

and THIS one is the SECOND one to fly, and its between Kerbin and Duna.

Both of these are the early stage of something that may or may not be needed down the road, a communications satellite relay network for future career mode fun. ANYWAY, that first one up there, well, it got kicked out of the Kerbin system into an odd orbital path that matches partly with Kerbins orbit and then swings out. That is fine, it HAD enough fuel to coast into the new AP and circularize there. So, before going to corral the stupid thing into a safer orbit, I decide to purge the others debris. Then I decide to deal with the first ones orbit. BUT, when I went to go do this, the game went all freaky and black screened with only a small portion of the UI showing. Sadly, no picture. Anyway, I close down the game and reboot it because this seems to fix this when it happens <third time since July, so, not real concerned over seeing it go all freaky>. SO, I reload the game, all seems fine. i go to my tracking station in my career mode, and the stupid thing is gone. Now, again, I may have accidentally purged it in the debris clearing, so I can accept that. My question is, am I just crazy and did not notice myself killing a satellite or is this a kraken strike?

thoughts?

[SkyRender]

That was a bit of both, actually. You accidentally deleted your satellite and experienced the "Hell Kraken" bug.

[AlamoVampire]

Skyrender: thank you for the confirmation. Oh, side note, do you think the above satellite is over kill for a relay station should one be needed?

[Epthelyn]

If you're using remotetech, maybe; those dishes will drain power pretty quickly.

If you're not, there's no reason to have a relay station at all, so anything is an overkill.

Either way, it looks nice.

[AlamoVampire]

Ah. I dont use remote tech lol. I am planning on a possibility of Squad making the need of such a system. Glad you like its look

[Captain Sierra]

Ah. I dont use remote tech lol. I am planning on a possibility of Squad making the need of such a system. Glad you like its look

The mod, AntennaRange, implements something to that extent. It forces you to use larger antennas for different things. The whip is only good to Geostationary. Beyond that, you need bigger. If you are within range of another craft with a capable antenna, it will relay through that craft (though passive power usage on the relay craft has not yet been implmented).

[Deadpangod3]

I think the kraken destroyed your ship,

This bug is known as the hell kraken IIRC, and it can delete the ship your controlling when it attacks, so I think you didn't accidentally delete it

[AlamoVampire]

I think the kraken destroyed your ship,

This bug is known as the hell kraken IIRC, and it can delete the ship your controlling when it attacks, so I think you didn't accidentally delete it

Ah, well either way its not a big deal, just another chance to refine the launch system lol

[SuperBigD60]

I think if you were using remotetech, those panels would provide more than enough power for those antennae. Though that would be a little overkill.

Anyway, you might like remote tech if you already are launching commsats