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Escape Pod 0015

A small one-man escape pod for hardcore play. Contains two small reactors an O2 generator and tank and basic starter tools in a small cargo container to the left of the seat.

Reactors need uranium, and O2 generator needs ice.

No controls are available, as it is meant to be controlled by programmable block (located behind the seat, on the floor)

Descent program to follow, as I have time. Or you can write your own.

Merge block on the bottom allows for locking the pod to a larger ship, but entry could be problematic.

Entry and Egress through top hatch (opens inward), accessible from inside via a retractable ladder above the seat.

single wall mounted button in front of the seat toggles the air vents.

Uses the following mods:
Harag - Exterior hatch (DX11)
Arindel - Corner Lights
Kolt16 - Command Console Pack (DX11) maintained by Eikester
Digi - Climbable Ladders

Enjoy.

Update: I've been doing some back-of-the-napkin calculations on what it would take to land this thing safely.

If my math is correct, the eight descent thrusters can provide a maximum of 656 kN of thrust. the whole pod masses 248462 kg, which gives a max acceleration of about 2.64 m/s^2. Assuming a dramatic atmospheric entry where it came in top-down, and then used the gyros to pitch over, it would be going 104.4 m/s, and would take about 39 seconds to decelerate. Call it 40 seconds. In which time, it would drop aproximately 2088 meters, which means that, for safety, the computer would have to initiate pitch-over and deceleration no lower than 3km above the surface.

In order to conserve fuel, the lateral thrusters would have to be disengaged.

Unfortunately, Hydrogen thrusters seem to burn through fuel at a ridiculous rate. Best information I can find indicates 12kg of ice per Tick which works out to 720kg per second of thrust. which means that in order to decelerate the pod from max v to a safe landing, you would need 28800kg of ice on-board.

which, again assuming my math is correct, means you would need about 786L of ice just for deceleration, not accounting for any positional corrections using the lateral thrusters, and presuming that your decent was timed so that you had just enough fuel for deceleration.

A small cargo container will hold 125L of ice, which means that you would need eight of them, and they would have to be full of ice.

So I guess it isn't really going to work, but it would have been awesome if it did.