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SHOWCASE: Space Dock

Same basic shape, but that's where the similarities end. Space for 32 crew, 4 docking ports (plans to add radial sections if my processor can handle it!), 561 parts(!). Launched into 80x80 orbit using a Luvodicus Poseidon's Revenge and eight Luvodicus Super Atomics and NO CHEATS. Pad TWR: 1.51.

Uh huh, that top bit be round. Difficult to do when there's no structural parts with a curve that wide. Had a bit of a scare when putting the underside lights on as well, I forgot how sensitive my mouse button was, hit it twice and had to figure out the giant jigsaw puzzle that used to be a massive umbrella.

Ventral Approach:

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Looking vertically upward, to show perfect 8-way symmetry:

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Sunrise - Beauty Shot:

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High angle showing pan-system comms array:

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...And a jaunty angle while it tries to find 0,0:

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Mods used:

KWRocketry

MechJeb

Luvodicus

B9

RemoteTech

Kosmos

Firespitter

KSPInterstellar

I've got large circular/spherical shapes down pat now, I reckon six launches for a large Death Star (possibly even capable of internally docking a few spaceplanes! TIE fighters!?), two for a Classic Battlestar Galactica Cylon Base Star (again possibility of a couple parking spots for Raiders), but that's all, while ambitious and possibly suicidal for my processor, getting entirely offtopic ;)

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Plenty of saucerless ships. Think shuttlecraft or a Klingon battlecruiser.

hmmm... Delta Flyer tonight, then :)

Ought to be slightly easier than Spacedock was...

Airbreathers didn't work at all, simply not enough thrust to even get off the runway. Ended up using clamps and a 60 degree launch profile, firing off three super nukes at full throttle with RCS doing overtime. Once the thing was supersonic, I had to throttle the two side engines back to 50% to prevent the thing from flipping - it spent the entire acceleration phase on its back and trying to pitch nose-down, until it cleared the atmosphere and spent the insertion phase trying to pitch up... anywho, here's the Showcase. Not bad for something that took half an hour to throw together. I'm sure if I made it bigger (much bigger) I could get an Alcubierre drive or two in there...

Right side view:

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Ventral:

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Nose-on "Menace" look:

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Dorsal view: note the docking port, I'm not sure if there's clearance for it to dock to Spacedock (maybe sideways-on?):

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$Random Kerbal doing an EVA inspection:

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I need chroma lighting! There's no BLUE in stock!

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Looks 30

Replica 150

Total 180

Can it land?

Theoretically, yes - it has full control authority and three point landing gear (which had it been stable enough to launch with a full fuel load would have been what I'd've used to launch it, but an off-axis thrust vector meant that the thing just wanted to flip all the time). I'm what I consider to be fairly good with flying these things, but this thing? It was like flying a model helicopter in a high wind.

RedIronCrown: yeah, had a look, couldn't find it (v.23), might have to hack some in as new parts.

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Commander Jebidiah

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I just saw this challenge on the forum, and thought about sharing the Kerbalrise that I made for the final Reddit challenge to take Kerbals out of the Kerbol system. It wasn't really designed for this specific forum challenge, but I thought I'd share it just for fun.

http://imgur.com/a/ERzi2

WOW

50 looks

75 all stock

150

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I just saw this challenge on the forum, and thought about sharing the Kerbalrise that I made for the final Reddit challenge to take Kerbals out of the Kerbol system. It wasn't really designed for this specific forum challenge, but I thought I'd share it just for fun.

http://imgur.com/a/ERzi2

WOW

50 looks

150 all stock

250 get out the solar system

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I just saw this challenge on the forum, and thought about sharing the Kerbalrise that I made for the final Reddit challenge to take Kerbals out of the Kerbol system. It wasn't really designed for this specific forum challenge, but I thought I'd share it just for fun.

http://imgur.com/a/ERzi2

WOW

50 looks

150 replica

250 get out the solar system

75 all stock

Total 525

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No entry but I built this one last december. I feel TMP Enterprise is the most beautiful ship ever done.

This one was manned with a few kerbals. I used Procedural Fairings for the hull plating and Procedural Dynamics for the nacelle struts, nacelles and neck. By the way I know the shape of the saucer, neck and engineering hull are incorrect.

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I'm currently building one real scale i.e. length 305m. Just the saucer section has a diameter of 142m, Main Engineering hull has a length of 111m. Don't expect to see accurate internals, I'm trying to keep part count as low as possible. Maybe a few decks for kerbals to get lost but the "real" one has something like 29 decks.

Now I'm using Tweakscale, Procedural Parts, Procedural Fairings, Procedural Dynamics, Infernal Robotics (for the shuttle bay doors), Nothke's 6S and going to include Interstellar for the warp drive. A lot of custom part.cfg's are needed to be able to build some parts. Mass is a difficult issue, while building the main structure I easily went past 3000 tons.

It will probably have photon torpedoes :-)

If you want to build something that big, you need Snjo's Hanger Extender.

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