Drive Core And Multipod- Mat's First Contribution [MODHEAVY]

[Matzilla]

As a long time lurker and occasinal poster, I figured it was time I contributed to the KSP community. Here is the Drive Core and Mulipod I'm currently using in sandbox to rescue two stranded Kerbonauts on Duna.

Both ships are part heavy and mod heavy, the mods used should be NFPP, B9 (with fixes), KW, KAS, Kethane, D-Magic, PandaJaegers's Rover Parts, Klockheed Martian's Smart Parts, Stock-a-like-for-Useful-Aesthetics and some others that I do not believe are on the ships. Oh, and KER and FAR.

The Drive Core has about 9000dV and weighs about 152tons, the four "fuel pods" are detachable when empty. 9 toggles the Panels and 0 toggles the Fuel flow blockers so that you can eject two pods faster, saving dV.

The Multipod is attached to a launch Vehicle already, and on its own contains 1600dV and enough parachutes to land on any atmospheric planet. The airbrakes on the pod can also be a big help to shed velocity before hitting the chutes, preventing spontaneous disassembly (or jebassembly ) I recommend putting the airbrakes and panels on custom keys, as I forgot to do so myself.

Here are some pictures of the two ships together.

Before Leaving

Minus Two Pods

Burning for Duna, minus last two pods

Finally a good picture of just the Multipod

Craft Files:

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0By0Gl2q42eUycmNpR0U1SnRkT1E&usp=sharing

C&C is welcome, and more pictures with progress reports will follow.

Edited April 21, 2014 by Matzilla