Once, I edited the Earth.cfg so that the atmosphere was 1 something high. It was also set for heat to be 999.999.
Run the DGIV heat shield scenario.
Put warpDrive on.
Engine full throttle...
Next thing you know you are orbiting the earth at 40km/s and a temperature of AU_# (that's what it said.)
Press K and the heat shield is bigger than the sun it'self.
Not very good when you have four DGIV's landed on earth.
The goodside is that everything died without knowing.
I did basically the same thing when I went to Mars for the first time. I made a good effort trying to save my crew, but there wasn't enough time.Today I setup an Earth-Jupiter flight plan in TransX (pics are over at the screenshot thread!) and let it go. After a few course corrections, I found I was right on target... into the center of Jupiter. By the time I realized, there was nothing I could do. My DGIV smashed into Jupiter at 5-6 km/s and vaporized instantly. Everyone on board perished before they knew what was happening.
Thank goodness for Auto-save Module!
Someone should make a movie of that. Or at least an episode of Mayday! Great save with the DGIV, and a good tale from the universe of Orbiter.Not really a disaster but it made for some, er, exciting time.
Departed from Earth orbit on an Arrow freighter with a DGIV-2 in the docking bay, destination Pandora (the new planet, which is beyond Saturn orbit in my config). Perfect ejection burn, perfect trajectory, long booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooring trip. I had loaded up with extra fuel, extra O2, probes and an ISRU (I had a crew of 4).
Got into orbit around Pandora-A but expended a lot of fuel since the Arrow doesn't like aerobraking much (I keep wishing for an updated Exploreur vessel, can't get more aerobraking-friendly than that), then transferred to the Pandora moon. Fuel was low so I topped it up with the cargo fuel...
... And silly me I never checked how much fuel was in the containers! They only gave me some seconds of thrust more, with the Arrow bound for a fiery meeting with Pandora-A atmosphere! In true SF action fashion I opened the bay, transferred the crew to the DGIV-2, fired it up, undocked and set IMFD to transfer to Pandora as soon as I cleared the freighter. Now, that was one hasty departure because I was reaching apoapsis and it was starting to fall. Transfer worked, I deployed the MTKSSAT I was carrying in the bay, and since rescue was at this point impossible (the ISRU had remained with the Arrow with no time to recover it), I decided to land on Pandora.
Lo and behold, the air there is perfectly breathable unlike the movie version. Maybe I can still mount a rescue mission to get those poor sods out of bluecatpeopleland.
Iapetus? "Way to go kid, that was one in a million." :rofl:The biggest disaster for me was when I spawned a 500kT Nuke in the centre of my DG.
A few seconds later, my crew found themselves in the great unknown.
When I slung-shot the moon instead of orbiting it. My crew was stuck in space without any fuel or air...
There was also the time I re-entered at Mach 7, resulting a drop to the ground 10 seconds later: