Like i can see it being lowered by a phantom's gravity well or in a spirit's, but i don't think an elite could just heft one up and carry it, especially not into some of the tight spaces we see them used in. We see them used basically everywhere the covenant show up so they have to be very easy to transport quickly. My best guess is some kind of hover dolly but I really don't know.
Her name is Red-K, I made her when I was in middle school, but the last art of her I had was back in 2023.
Rn you enter
Likely swim through the entire thing before reaching NoA and opening the upper door
Then NoA tells you to turn around and go back in the same place you were for something you missed. And there's not really much different the second time.
Seems like it would make more sense to have the lab door be the locked one, have the upper NoA door open and talk to NoA first about what might of happened here
Then get sent down to the lab and the beds were you learn what did happen and leave feeling pretty uncomfortable about the role NoA played.
Just south of the great jaw
I have no idea how they got here or if somehow deepwing brooders passed through. The thought terrifies me.
Launch 1, 2 and 3 assembled the deep space habitat with launch 3 providing the temporary crew for the 90 day test mission onboard. Launch 4 sent the Duna Surface Access Module. Launch 5 sent a nuclear transit stage to dock with it. Launch 6 sent the surface equipment package.
And finally Launch 7 brought the crew onboard their new home for the ride to duna.
The 3 spacecraft (DSH-2, DSAM and SEP) leave kerbin just hours apart traveling together out to duna.
Not enough funding for deer in space? The solution is simple! Liquidate this very expensive old folks home into the sun.
Really opens up the federal budget.
Under the instruction of the Administration, the new budget passed by the senate will provide DODIS with less funding then required to launch a single SLS while staking even that funding on the advancement of the president's mun base before his term is up.
The Trump Rocket (named for the president by the new administratior of DODIS) and referred to by everyone else as the "SLS Block T") will see a single flight where it will launch orion directly into an elementary school in Tehran.
This does 70m/s over duna and can literally fly it's so fucking dumb I love it
The Duna Operational Surface Habitat (DOSH) now mated with the de-orbiting stage begins it's careful descent through the thin duna atmosphere. The operation is a delicate one, while it's mostly automated the crew on orbit are overseeing the landing ready to take the reins if something were to go wrong. They're aiming for a spot DODIS selected years ago using the polar orbiter sent with the base, they've named the mahogany basin.
DOSH enters the lower atmosphere and parachutes deploy from a support ring mounted above the base, they slow the base down enough to deploy away it's heat shield and fire it's 4 descent engines for final approach. The crew on orbit hold their breaths as do the deers back home. The module hovers for a little over 70 seconds, it's systems finding a suitably flat spot and then the base is brought down.
The next 5 days see the crew preparing their lander while mission control remotely deploys and checks various elements of the base. Ladders and platforms are extended, a dish is folded out and alarge ramp is lowered down to the duna surface. Lowered down it are the 2 trailers for the Duna tractor. The trailers link together forming a temporary surveying rover that will allow the crew and mission control to find a suitable landing site before they even leave the ship.
Eventually that spot is found and the lander disembark, they hurtle towards the ground on a near ballistic trajectory only jettisoning their heatsheild and letting the drouges slow them down a kilometer from the surface. The engines are lit and the lander too enters a near hover to menouver itself to the LZ. While they've spent thousands of hours in the simulators the crews always say nothing compares to the feeling of those lander legs touching down on Duna's surface.
The crew won't be staying long, they immediately checkout and power down the lander and prepare the Duna tractor for their 5km trip to the DOSH. When they crest a hill and see the base for the first time they cheer. Millions at home cheer with them.
They've made it. They're the first crew of DODIS's new Duna Base. Following their settling in the following days the crew would name their new home "Bering".