Duna, Rendezvous, and Orbital Emergency (storyboard/comic style)

[eddiew]

Outbound leg of my first manned Duna mission Previously ran through the mechanics in a Kerbal Construction Time simulation, but it was nice to see it all come together 'live'. Three kerbals, no nukes, no rockets over 2.5m, FAR and TAC LS, just to make things hard.

Took about a week of real-time due to my play style, so the final approach was pretty nerve jangling xD

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Conspicuous mods:

- TAC life support (the reason this mission was dangerous)

- KW Rocketry (Longboat's engines)

- DMagic's Orbital Science (many of the instruments)

- Sounding Rockets (the colourful experiments)

- 6S Service Compartments (hollow space for supplies)

- Orbital Material Science (deployable orbital experiments)

- Active Struts (re-connect struts on the fly)

- SXT (cargo bay and lander engine)

...I imagine they'll be home by the end of next week. Maybe. If my delta-v and supply numbers are correct

Edited February 16, 2015 by eddiew

[eddiew]

Second instalment... didn't expect to be doing this particular mission, but sometimes opportunity comes knocking! EVA shenanigans performed using Kerbal Attachment System

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Edited February 16, 2015 by eddiew

[eddiew]

I blame the designer!

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(See 4 posts down for conclusion.)

Edited February 16, 2015 by eddiew

[curson]

That made for a very fine and funny read. I'm sure the boardgames are just as plentiful as the flaky pastries!

Looking forward to the rest and re re-entry (contrary to the crew, I fear ).

Love the style!

[Scotius]

Comic in SPAAACEEE! Much better than a dry Imgur album IMO Keep it comin'.

And have some +rep.

[Guest]

Really good work here, have some +rep.

[eddiew]

Thanks all I must admit, I was genuinely worried about getting this crew home, so I let time pass quicker than I usually would and... well, this happened.

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In short, never give up just because something went wrong

And just for completeness... I'm down around 30-40% science return, so these are pretty big numbers, not to mention the huge chunk of cash that just came back into my budget!

Edited February 16, 2015 by eddiew

[Scotius]

Wow - those are nice, fat numbers indeed Congratulations - that was well executed mission.

[eddiew]

Heh, thank you. Not sure it was well executed though; it honestly wasn't my intent to dock the two ships and come back as a unit... But when I realised MechJeb and the KER module were on the wrong half of the Longboat, my inner-RPer took over from there

I'm rather surprised it came out well, and I'm pretty sure that KAS and Active Struts between them absolutely saved the mission ^^;

[JAFO]

Comic in SPAAACEEE! Much better than a dry Imgur album IMO Keep it comin'.

And have some +rep.

Seconded.. a thoroughly enjoyable tale.. rep incoming.

[eddiew]

Seconded.. a thoroughly enjoyable tale.. rep incoming.

Why thank you, kind sir

[Mister Dilsby]

Hear hear, this is a great way to present a mission--just enough RP elements, and it puts the pictures in better context than vanilla Imgur. +1

[MoridinUK]

I love this..

[eddiew]

Hear hear, this is a great way to present a mission--just enough RP elements, and it puts the pictures in better context than vanilla Imgur. +1

I love this..

Thanks guys, glad you enjoyed it