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[WillowLuman]

Laythe's atmosphere can't be thick enough to completely ablate 67 tons of metal, can it? And even if so, that means it explodes with all that force anyway, just not at ground level.

[Sheb]

Maybe not completely, but enough to rip it into pieces. It's about as thick as Earth.

In other news, I landed my first Mun Kethane Station. It's a ripoff of my Heavy Science Lander. It fit a drill, Kethane tank, Converter and  4 fuel & RCS tanks in 20t. My landing WAS a mess, as it occured during the night and I didn't plan for floodlights. As such, I mistook a 15° slope for a flat plain and sent my lander rolling down the hill. In the end, it stabilized, after loosing the ladder, 3 landing legs, an RCS tank and a KAS supply box plus I don't know how many panels.

I might take that lander and relocate it somewhere nicer later.

[BigD145]

This is what I get for letting all three immortals ride along to the north pole.

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So many parachutes. Not enough power for 4 magnets! Goddamnit. The whole point of this rig was to start dropping and assembling habitation pods and build a polar base. Parts land 3-6 km apart, so they need to be put together and hooked in. All this with parts from KAS, Bavarian Aerospace - Tubes, and RemoteTech. The good thing is that there are parts to beef up electricity packed in the base hub that was dropped first. The first habitation module is 6 km away. The gantry is right between them. All this without RCS or engines, with atmosphere, and on Kerbin.

[WillowLuman]

Do the tubes connect like docking ports?

[Sheb]

Why did you need so much material for a polar base?

[BigD145]

Have a look at the Bavarian tubes mod. It uses KAS to put things together. YOU CAN BUILD A BASE ONSITE ALMOST LIKE YOU WOULD IN KAS! It has docking ports with integrated doors that you can place on habitation modules. This means you can have a module with a docking port and another module, or tunnel, with a docking port and they will dock normally. You can have indoor tubes connected to modules all connected on the ground.

I'll have pictures once I actually start building. Right now I wanted modules for the Kerbals to actually live in. RemoteTech's command station requirements are 6 Kerbals, so I'm working up to that.

edit: I am rebuilding this gantry. The lack of symmetry at the wheels is killing me. It keeps drifting left. Lock steering on one wheel and it drifts right. This and power generation problems will mean a half hour drive to attachable solar panels and batteries. This has all gone horribly.

[Sheb]

Here's my Munar Gas Station:



Also, I had some weird bug while I was warping waiting for the sun to raise. Some of my debris fell down, and is now resting 300m under the surface.

[BigD145]

That "little" part in the background? It hold 11 tons worth of building material. I'm building a BASE. This is no rinky dink six Kerbals in a tiny room. There will be indoor pathways. Everyone will likely have their own room.

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Inside a habitation module.

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[WillowLuman]

Dear gods that naked Kerbal is terrifying.

[BigD145]

Dear gods that naked Kerbal is terrifying.

That's not the terrifying part. The habitation module only fits one Kerbalnaut. THAT NAKED KERBAL IS ALWAYS THERE IN EVERY HABITATION MODULE.

On that note, new rover gantry idea. Power generation and batteries will be down low so it's bottom heavy and stable.

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She will hug you and kiss you on the top of your head(, modules).

Creep. Get it? Huh? Wink wink. Rovers.

[Karkov]

Dear gods that naked Kerbal is terrifying.

I have seen the face of terror, and lo.  It was only a naked Kerbal. 

Seriously though, that thing is terrif-

That's not the terrifying part. The habitation module only fits one Kerbalnaut. THAT NAKED KERBAL IS ALWAYS THERE IN EVERY HABITATION MODULE.

Okay.  Terrifying AND a space/time wizard.  I now fear for my sanity.

[alway]

Dear gods that naked Kerbal is terrifying.

That's not the terrifying part. The habitation module only fits one Kerbalnaut. THAT NAKED KERBAL IS ALWAYS THERE IN EVERY HABITATION MODULE.

But it only fits one Kerbalnaut. Because of this, clearly it can not be a Kerbalnaut. My bets are on Robotic Kerbal "Companion." Because, really, they're sent out into deep space for years at a time, they need something to do.

[Shooer]

But it only fits one Kerbalnaut. Because of this, clearly it can not be a Kerbalnaut. My bets are on Robotic Kerbal "Companion." Because, really, they're sent out into deep space for years at a time, they need something to do.

Yeah, they need some to scream with at night.

[MagmaMcFry]

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That's twice the same image.

[BigD145]

Creepy Aunt lives. She weighs a bit over 6 tons as is.

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ALL THE PARACHUTES

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Those are the habitat modules.
This is pretty handy.


This is what you can do with Bavarian tubes.

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The tubes were all placed on site by one Kerbal. Same with the solar panels. It's still a work in progress.