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Your boss just watched a marathon of all 6 Star Wars movies. They then asked your skunkworks team to build them a Twin-Ion- Engine (TIE) aerospace fighter. One of the other employees immediately protested that such a thing was impossible, and was immediately kicked out of the window.

minimum requirements:

Must be powered by exactly 2 of the stock ion engines.

Must be able to carry a weapon that is effective against other aircraft, including skillful or BDArmory weapons.

Must be able to carry sufficient ammo to use that weapon to kill other craft.

Must be able to fly on Kerbin.

Must be manned, however, the external seats count.

No cheaty mods.

You may use stock, NEAR, or FAR aerodynamics, however, if you use stock, don't abuse control surfaces.

No Alt-f12 except for part clipping. You may use it to bring your craft into position if it cannot get there on it's own, but not to accomplish the goals.

Bonus goals:

SSTO: fly from the ground to reach a stable orbit, with fuel left for maneuvering.

Behind enemy lines: refuel in space, fly down below 2000 meters for a strike mission, then return to orbit.

Not even Hell is beyond your reach: do the above, on Eve. (Much easier in FAR).

Space fighter: fly around at under 100 m above the Mun.

And I thought they smelled bad on the outside: fly around above Eeloo.

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You overestimate the power of the ion engines I think...

I find your lack of faith disturbing...

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Unfortunately, this run did not make it to orbit, due to no supersonic yaw stability, leading me to abort. (Hey, 20000 meters and Mach 1 isn't that bad...)

And yes, that is a .50 caliber aimable turret with a 1200-round Ammo box (a couple hundred rounds of which I spent shooting at random stuff).

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'sploding a grounded fighterjet.

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Sploded jet:

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Okay, what the actual ****...

My TIE fighter explodified itself during a dive, Bob fell out, and managed to orient himself in such a way that he survived the landing in the desert.

But then some really weird stuff happened.

I tried reloading, but the game froze.

I restarted KSP.

I clicked the runway, launched. All my other nearby ships were gone, and the plane fell through the ground, until it exploded 8440 meters below sea level.

I clicked to restart my flight, but instead....

This:

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...?

SsSsSal... didididid you thrthrow a Kraken aat mme?

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