Setting off a Kraken Bomb in space

[Chiboko]

Up until recently I have stuck to building ground or air based weapons systems, all of which can be found on this thread:

http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/74434-Castigo-Armaments

Recently I have started tinkering with the concept of building space based combat vehicles and as a preliminary test I decided to launch each of my Kraken warheads into space and set them off. The results were... interesting.

K1 Warhead

At first the device appeared to have failed to detonate with only a single piece detaching. After a minute or so of observation the device seemed to disappeared completely for unknown reasons.

K2 Warhead

The device detonated as normal and now I have a baby kraken in an eccentric orbit around Kerbin.

K3 Warhead

At first the device seemed to detonate as normal, creating a whirling cloud of death around 100m across. After a few seconds of observation the kraken started to accelerate in random directions at velocities of several thousand km/s, surprisingly the kraken stayed relatively "still" because it was accelerating even more violently than a warp egg and the accelerations mostly cancelled each other out. It was at this point that I re-entered normal view to find that the kraken had now grown to more than 30km across with some of the affected pieces moving... however fast you have to go to circuit around a, now, 100km diameter loop several times a second. Then the parts became invisible (but still there) and the core (where the camera focused) started to appear to teleport several km at a time in random directions. I watched the debris markers (It was now marked as multiple debris despite them all still being connected) until they went out of range. By the time I closed KSP I estimate that the thing had expanded to fill Kerbins entire SOI.

The thing does not directly affect objects within its influence but the prospect of being hit by a structural pylon with 999 impact tolerance going at several ^thousand... c is not a nice one

View from the camera midway through the test

Map view of Kerbin SOI midway through the test

Full solar system view midway through the test

[Geschosskopf]

Got a video of the kraken bomb going off?

[Chiboko]

Test 2 concluded when the "craft" splashed down hard on Kerbin... at an altitude of 35km... at 6000km/s... while being further from Kerbin than the Mun.

Test 3 the "craft" went straight through Kerbin several times, the trackable core achieved a top speed of 1million km/s (Think about it. the outer most debris can be hundreds of KM from the center, if the center achieved that speed at the center of the spin imagine how fast the outermost pieces where moving), in map view it lost its debris marker and the trajectory starting point became desynchronized with the objects actual position. And despite all of this and the massive changes in acceleration and direction it never pulled more than 1.8g

Edited May 8, 2014 by Chiboko

[Comrade Jenkens]

Whats a Kraken bomb?

[NFUN]

Whats a Kraken bomb?

Read the forum link he posted. He was developing stock atmospheric weapons, and some of his devices proved slightly...unstable. He named these Kraken (K) Bombs. I'm not sure what the K2 device is, it isn't included in the thread.

[Shna_na]

trackable core achieved a top speed of 1million km/s

That's more than 3c (3 times the speed of light).

the outer most debris can be hundreds of KM from the center, if the center achieved that speed at the center of the spin imagine how fast the outermost pieces where moving

Assuming that the outermost parts were flung a whopping 300km from the centre, they would be moving at ~43.4 million km/s. That's ~150c (150 times the speed of light) if my calculations are correct (which they most likely aren't).

You have broken physics on a whole new level if these are true.

[andrew123]

Exterminatus! Burn the xeno scum!

[Chiboko]

The K2 device is built into the Y2K missile, simply remove the cage of metal beams to find the warhead it self.