Voltron Interstellar, Duna & Laythe colonization vessel.

[SlimJim89]

Full mission assembly.

9000 Delta-v fully fuelled.

8x 280kn nuclear engines with 805 isp. 4x Kerbodyne KR-2L at the center which will be used for a Laythe descent. (most likely for an other version of this though, need airbrakes and some chutes...)

The tip is the first part of my new Duna space station, I have also 8000 rocketparts of which I intend to build an additional station part which lets me dock my attached toys later on, which will be built with my extendable construction pad hidden inside the cargohold. Note my crazy fps in the topleft corner

Prolly like 700 parts here.. I crash on routine over here. Halp.

Spot the kerbal.

Voltron colony vessel at launchpad, has full mining equipment together with a smelter and workshop, capable of producing Rockertparts up to an 8k stockpile. Has an extendable orbital construction pad which is also used to create base hubs which then can be descended to the surface with a winch, after you land the Voltron. In this shot it misses 8x Sabre M Engines at each one of the smaller black tips at the sides, which is needed to obtain orbit with reasonable fuel to take you Minmus, and then refuel through some Kethane Extraction(that takes 400k exactly) if you're lucky, Minmus will have 1-2 deposits of that size!

The VTOL Van-über transport and kethane extraction vessel. Can be seen in the rear of the top pick. This vessel is the lifeblood of any spacestation it's assigned to. Later models will include interchangeable containers.

12k potential Kethane stockpile!

F5 Sparrow scouting(joyride) craft. Can be seen on the side of the top pic.

Crazy agility.

I crashed shortly afterwards.

I intend to assemble the station in low Duna orbit and construct its sister-part, then dock my 2 smaller ships to it to await mission directives! Then I shall with my last nickels construct a satellite capable of detecting ore desposits and potential landing sites, after this I will descend on Duna and begin base operations

Edited May 24, 2014 by SlimJim89

[snipekill1997]

This is incredible. It is not a KSP mothership. This is a si-fi mothership.

[The Destroyer]

Whoah. Cool!

[Captain Sierra]

What are the aerospikes on the mining VTOL for?

[SlimJim89]

For fast braking I figured, sometimes you come in fast and since the VTOL engines cant rotate to point the exhaust to the front(and you don't want to tilt back and juggle with balance), those aero-spikes will help together with the airbrakes. Goes to a halt pretty damn quickly. I bind them to a key for quick toggling.

[Pondafarr]

Place your craft files and mod list in the drop box and back away from the computer...

[SlimJim89]

I will during the day

[mythic_fci]

That. Sparrow. Is. Beautiful.

MUST GET REQUIRED MODZ

[Herr Doktor Strangemember]

Dude, wow, like dude...

[Voculus]

Unreal! This is truly one of the most creative, and well-thought out designs I've ever seen! On top of that, it's looks cool as all get out! That Kethane VTOL alone is just sweet, not to mention the Sparrow, and the entire rest of the ship! Can't wait to see what your Duna base looks like.

[Yuriski]

Nice craft!

Now do a re-entry test

[SlimJim89]

Haha thanks guys, I'm still tinkering with it moments before takeoff to Duna. had to transfer around fuel from all the millions of tanks and place external struts to keep the thing straight in flight.

Here's the essential modlist for now:

Spaceplane plus, a new part mod based of B9 aerospace.

B9 (has the engines)

Infernal robotics (for landing gear and mining gear)

KAS (winch underneath)

Kethane

KW rocketry

Goodspeed aerospace

and Mechjeb ofcourse.

Those should cover all the hardware of the ships minus the satellite tip, which I take it you're not as interested in

How do I do with dropbox by the way? I have an active account which I use already, to I drag the files to a folder then give you a link somehow? Or how is it done!?

Here's pic of it rotating slowly with the SAS only, won't be using any RCS for vessel control here, don't want to risk any swaying. Sorry about the quality, had to crop a lot of it!

In the rear the van-über is attached with 6 struts, the satellite component at the tip has a whopping 16, the Sparrow at the right has 1 only since it's light, and a 4000 rocketpart container has 2 since it's slightly more unstable, also acts as a counterweight to the sparrow, both are around 10 tons each. At the large orange tanks there's a set of landing legs on each tank, which can swing down and deploy a total of 16 H50-A landing legs. It does good on Minmus, wonder how Duna will fare. Hope I don't break anything!

Totalled in now on 1455 tons of spacecraft. I'm slightly aroused ಠ⌣ಠ

turns out the vanüber sways abit, gotta add moar struts.

Edited May 25, 2014 by SlimJim89