Space Engineers: The General Goes To Orbit (And Back)
26You know me - since my work schedule rarely gives me an opportunity to join in w4stedspace's Engineer Wars competitions, I usually wind up trying to tackle the challenge the next day. While I didn't satisfy all the criteria of the challenge, I'm also doing it single-handedly. It also gave me a chance to dive in more to do math behind the design - or at least I hope it's correct math. The wiki page for thrusters was last updated in July 2017, so tweaks since then aren't reflected in my numbers.
Don't know what Engineer Wars is? It's a competition run by w4stedspace (twitch.tv/w4stedspace) that is loosely based on Scrapheap Challenge/Junkyard Wars. You have a set amount of time in creative to build a contraption that can compete in the weekly challenge - such as car sumo, building a car with no wheels, catapults, destruction derby machines, etc. You can find properly finished episodes at w4sted's channel, or pop over to his Twitch to catch them in the VODs before it's too late.
This week's challenge was actually a bit more complex, whereas I've set myself slightly less loftier goals given that I'm doing a solo build: Build a ground-to-orbit rocket capable of carrying the Group Survival "General Bee" rover along for the ride with its cargo of 10k interior plates. The rocket must have three stages, with each stage capable of landing intact back on the ground, preferably within 1 km of the launch site. The rover cannot be modified outside of fixing a bad connector in the blueprint by replacing it. And before you think "I could easily build a hydrogen rocket to do that", you can only have a full small ship fuel tank of hydrogen onboard.
It's all about power to weight ratios and surviving that critical transition point between atmos and ions in this challenge. Build light, build strong -- but build quickly, because this challenge also has a time limit of 45 minutes in creative to complete your design, and 15 minutes in survival to load and tinker with it.
And don't forget to pack your chutes, because that last step is a doozy!
(And EDIT: "dimensions" Farrell, not DEmensions. Augh.)
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