#KERBAL SPACE PROGRAM TVTROPES MOD#
#KERBAL SPACE PROGRAM TVTROPES MODS#

Those of you who have bought and read a copy of The Core War and Other Stories may have noticed the reference to Kerbal Space Program in the acknowledgementsвЂ¦

Tagged astronomy, christmas, fan works, Imperial Star of Canonical Awesomeness, kerbal space program, Lumenna-SГєnГЎris System, lunatic ideas, worldbuilding (Up for grabs is the Imperial Star of Canonical Awesomeness, which cobbled-together image you can stick on your download page, or on your refrigerator, or have tattooed somewhere embarrassing, or whatever else you feel like doing with the official recognition that the author has looked upon your works and found them good, yea, even unto canonicity.) This should entertain those of you reading who are serious astronomy geeks, serve as a handy reference, and also makes it available for anyone who has time and capacity and enthusiasm enough to actually build said KSP mod, or something similar, as a fan-work. IвЂ™m going to take some of my available but restricted-creativity time over this Christmas season and write up a big description of the planets and moons and so forth of theВ Lumenna-SГєnГЎris System, including their orbits and masses and types and atmospheres and appearances and little bits of surface detail that are going to need to go on their textures/biome maps, and throw them out here.

#KERBAL SPACE PROGRAM TVTROPES MOD#

Then I decided that it wasnвЂ™t practical, because it seemed very hard to get to perform decently even with 1.1 and 64-bit coming, and I donвЂ™t have the artistic skill to make planet textures, and thereвЂ™s the obvious problem that EliГ©ra technically ainвЂ™t a planet, itвЂ™s a flat вЂ“ well, convex вЂ“ disk-shaped BDO and how the heck do you mod that in, and all of this would eat lots of valuable writing time, andвЂ¦Д«ut, of course, not practical for me is not the same thing as not practical for anyone.

#KERBAL SPACE PROGRAM TVTROPES MODS#

In other thoughts, todayвЂ™s quasi-lunatic impulse вЂ“ as discussed on Google+ here вЂ“ was the notion of putting together a Kerbal Space Program mod using Kopernicus to build a nice 1/6.4x scale model of the Lumenna-SГєnГЎris System, with its two suns and seventeen planets and assorted asteroid belts, not to mention the moons, and thus let people download one of the Orion mods and play вЂњSpaceflight Initiative вЂ“ The GameвЂќ to their heartвЂ™s content. So, itвЂ™s going to be a little quieter around here for the next few days, on the grounds that Isif and her candle deserve more writing time and more readers than theyвЂ™re otherwise going to get, and normal service will be resumed after the CQP.

So, we have entered the unofficial Christmas Quiet Period here at the Eldraeverse, in which I am running around doing not-working things for Christmas, leading to a shortage of peaceful writing time, and in which so is everyone else, leading to a noticeable drop-off in reading, by the statistics.

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