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The Kraken Drive is Showing It's Worth

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NASAFanboy

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I am proud to announce that ships powered by the Kraken-drive have mostly phased out my old SSTO fleet.

Today, I have accomplished several major milestones in my FTL research programme, of which are...


  • First docking with an ship powered with the Kraken drive. It took several passes and flybys, but I finally did it.
    First retrival of a crew from orbit using the Kraken drive, although it took guts and lithobraking.
    First retrival of a crew from orbit with both a kraken drive and a parachute.

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Please don't ask why these pictures in are negative, Imgur is glitching up and says they are that way. So, you suck Imgur )Just to get that out of the way).

Here's the picture of the Kraken-ship doing a resupply run to a small orbital labatory, along with giving it an orbital boost. I had to hope the labatory didn't blow up, as both ships docked by hitting each other at 5m/s and the resulting jolt nearly ripped the vessels apart.

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However, the Kraken drive is currently hard to handle and much slower than 10C, and extremely dangerous. Building the resupply vessel took me around four hours of design and testing, and its still very unrefined and basic, with a reliability of about 75%. I am not releasing any craft files because of this, as I believe they need much more testing.

Anyways, that was just a quick little demostrator of K-drive technology.

FUTURE GOALS:

- K-drive powered Eve Ascent SSTO

- K-drive capable of preserving speed.

- K-drive capable of a speed of 10C

- K-drive capable of setting up interstellar infrastucture

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astropapi1

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I've been seeing this kraken drive everywhere. I hope the kraken doesn't be too harsh on these brave scientists, astronauts, and researchers developing the Kraken Drive :)

It already took the life of Nedlorf Kerman.

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That rocket let him on a suborbital hop with a 75km apoapsis. He then "circularized" using the K-Drive in his ship.

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But when he turned the K-Drive on again to raise the periapsis, the device snapped off from the capsule, leaving him with no power generation and no means of getting home.

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He was a brave little guy.

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inigma

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I can see something like "WE'RE LOSING CONTAINMENT! THE KRAKEN IS LOOSE! THE KRAKEN IS LOOSE!"

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You should see the failures. Heh.

Someone once wrote on these forums that they wanted Squad to incorporate random failures. Well, look no further. The K-Drive is such an engine.

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Rune

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The key when using K-Drive is to always quicksave before turning them on. They are experimental technology after all! Oh, and having secondary propulsion systems to both get you into a suborbital arc to turn on the in-space setting and do the fine maneuvering required for docking and such helps a lot to turn them into functional ships. That is what I did on the Far Star, and what I'm continuing to do in the improved models with single-leg drives. Almost 100% reliable on the surface and about 75% in orbit.

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Oh, and there's a repair trick: just after hitting "repair leg", press ESC to pause the game and bring up the menu. If you do it with the right timing, and the camera is positioned so it's still visible, you will get the "raise leg" option, and you can click on it. Once you resume, the leg will both repair and raise at the same time, staying repaired and not flinging your kebals into the void. Building a spot where the kerbal doesn't go flying away while repairing is also an option, then you can thrust very precisely by hitting repeatedly "repair" and snapping the legs repeatedly. And chutes are a must! They are the other infinite thrust system, and invaluable for landing.

Rune. And the failures look just like that. Exactly. ;)

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Levelord

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You're missing the entire idea of a K-Drive. The legs have to go through the plate and push something under it. At least that's how I think it works...

I went through my entire design process not knowing this O_o

But I did manage to make a miniaturized version of a Kraken drive.

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Which I then made into a working engine.

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and incorporated into my spaceplane design

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Later, I made a final prototype. The great thing about the engine is that it doesn't break down. It is exceptionally reliable.

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Now it seems, I am going into slightly more dangerous areas of Kraken physics. I've christened this ship Event Horizon.

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I'll be back with results on this one.

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