Heeshk-class Support Frigate (Mun version)

[pheeph]

I remember when my friend introduced to me the real-time strategy game of "Homeworld", I really got hooked on the series...

I created a ship based on the Taiidan Empire's support frigate.

This is the original pic from Homeworld...

And here's the ship I built based on it... Assembled this in the hangar.

Did my best to stay close to the design. And how did I get this thing into space? I cobbled together a lifter in the VAB. It's by no means stable since there's no symmetrical layout in this thing... It was a pain to launch but I finally got it in orbit.

I designed this to carry landers to the moon... but I realized docking a lander into any of the top docking bays will cause the ship to spin around because it shifts the center of mass... I've yet to go to the Mun with this thing, but I'll post more if it works...

Craft file: http://www./view/97ics102k35r7h7/Support_Frigate_Mun.craft

[Rune]

You could throttle the lower engine to balance thrust according to the load on top... Yeah, you could make this work. You know what that mens right? Now you should.

Rune. Also lost a good chunk of life getting awed by that strategy saga.

[randomness5555]

Woo, Homeworld! Anything from that is good in my book.

Can't actually remember what that ship did though. Was it for repairs?

[Khobai]

I designed this to carry landers to the moon... but I realized docking a lander into any of the top docking bays will cause the ship to spin around because it shifts the center of mass... I've yet to go to the Mun with this thing, but I'll post more if it works...

The easiest fix for that is just add more SAS and always keep SAS turned on.

[nli2work]

very nice! that ship was for refueling your fighters bombers and gun boats. anything smaller than frigates had to refuel or they are slowed to a crawl. also served as a resource drop off point for the miners.

[pheeph]

Update on the Frigate.

Okay, as a test, I decided to send the Frigate on a Munar flyby without any landers attached. Thanks to thrust-limiting, I limited the lower engine's thrust by 50% and it helped balance out the ship (kept flipping upwards). The flyby was a success and was able to return to Kerbin. I'll try to attach landers to the frigate on the next run... this time two landers will be attached to the side ports.

[pheeph]

I used a stock lander to dock with one of the top ports of the frigate... as you already know, the frigate is actually smaller... the lander shifted the center of mass so I had to limit the thrust of the lower engine to 17% just to compensate.

I just realized all that RCS maneuvering with the frigate drained the lander's RCS fuel...