What happened?

[Lieutenant Hargrove]

I was trying to land a MKI capsule on Kerbin from an orbital part test contract. I have lowered my periapsis to 50k and let the atmosphere bring me down. When I deployed my parachutes on 7k altitude I pressed the timewarp button and set it to 4x. Few moments later this happened:

Can somebody tell me ... happened?

Edited January 18, 2015 by Lieutenant Hargrove

[Tokay Gris]

Kraken attack!

[Lieutenant Hargrove]

Could you elaborate what is kraken?

[Tokay Gris]

Could you elaborate what is kraken?

The Kraken is a deep space creature that more or less randomly attacks vessels and makes them do funny stuff and/or destroys ships. Sometime lonely Kerbals as well.

In your case, it seems to have moved into Kerbins atmosphere... ;-)

Seriously... it is a name for bugs that cause what you are experiencing. It appears that something witin KSPs code gets computed wrongly and/or looses some decimals or changes the prefix (positive/negative).

Some have actually tried to use this to create engines....

[Lieutenant Hargrove]

Ok. Thank you for answer, I'm still relatively new to the game. I guess the thread is closed.

[Kryxal]

Just a side note, 50 km isn't going to deorbit you very quickly, though it will work eventually. 30 km is a pretty good aim point, and it works with returning from the Mun and Minimus even with DRE.

[Claw]

The Kraken is a deep space creature that more or less randomly attacks vessels and makes them do funny stuff and/or destroys ships. Sometime lonely Kerbals as well.

To be fair to the new guy, the history of the name Kraken was that it actually referred to a specific bug, where a vessel traveling out away from Kerbin would get ripped apart. That bug has since been fixed, but the community has adopted the name. So when random things happen to ships (such as being suddenly ejected from Kerbin as you experienced), they get dubbed "Kraken attacks."

A "Kraken" is now more of a type of bug rather than any one specific thing. Some of these are very random, which I'm sure you will find as you play. I think there is even a wiki article with all the various names people have come up with for each type of Kraken.

Cheers,

~Claw

[jmbailey2000]

I've have several that happened in space, but he is one for unknown reasons that occurred on the pad.....good visual......

[cantab]

Game bug, obviously.

Also, it is not recommended to be in physics warp (the 2x/3x/4x warp) when parachutes go from partly to fully open. Physics warp makes your ship extra prone to falling apart.