KSP

bonus lightning pic

I've semi-recently started a career mode game that uses (among others) Stockalike Station Parts and FreeIVA. I finished a station in LKO and was tooling around in the command module when this screen caught my eye. Even from across the room I recognized the output from the ps command.

So I floated over and first noticed that it's upside down compared to other things in the room

When I got closed and looked at the post image it was obvious that this the Apache Litespeep workers serving up a wordpress site. My head canon is that one the Kerbals runs their website on the computers of Hotel Kerbalfornia.

Other times it makes me want to pull my hair out

I first pirated ksp over ten years ago. I loved the game so much I bought it and both dlc. Worth every cent.

I've been playing ever since then for the last decade. And you know what?

I've never once been to Mun. Or outside orbit for that matter.

I've spent the last ten years designing fighterjets and advanced AA ground defenses. Why? Because I love this game and I love how I can ignore the base game and just enjoy myself making explosions.

Maybe one day I'll get bored. But it is not this day

Eyyy! My boy Bradley Whistance popped back up on the YouTubes.

Excited...

Kerbalsm and Unkerballed Start are a couple of mods that make for an interesting playthrough!

Been working on this for a while!

I saw Matt Lowne use chat GPT to create a KSP mission and I thought it was a good idea. So I tried it myself!

I also wanted a custom flag, but I'm more engineer than artist, so I had AI create that for me too!

I asked for a multi part mission, that used multiple craft and multiple launches and was medium to hard in complexity.

• Launch a mission to the Mun.

• Scan for resources from orbit.

• Land a scanning rover to determine a good site for a mining operation.

• Put down crew for the new mining operation.

• Mine ore and convert to fuel.

Here's the main launch with the scanning probe, rover, lander and ISRU craft.

Deploying the M700 probe with enough Δv to reach a polar orbit.

The scanning and science rover posing with it's sky crane.

The mining module in operation

Sending up the crew to rendezvous with the landing craft.

The landing crew with their custom flag planted! (shame they didn't land closer to the colony, but the rover can taxi them over!)

Thanks to the brilliant people making the mods for it!

Maybe it's just the long wait......

This design has 2 extendable docking ports:

One to allow easy docking for the landing craft and for refueling.

And another for SSTO docking for crew access.

I might have gone a bit overboard with this one!

After a successful Duna expedition I realized that without the lander the command ship had enough Δv for a brief visit to Ike to gather more of that sweet, sweet orbital science!

Thanks to a helpful gravity assist from the Mun, the crew made it back to Kerbn with a whopping 9 Δv left. If they didn't get enough aerobraking on the first pass it would have been next stop; deep space...