Six direction thrust bizarreness
It makes sense to me that a surface to orbit shuttle might benefit from a mix of atmospheric and hydrogen thrusters. However there appear to be difficulties.
In general, when building a ship on the ground bad things happen if the grid is unlocked before both power and a full set of thrusters have been built. Clearly Lord Klang works in mysterious ways. It is amusing to watch a multi ton ship, with no energy source, dance about the hanger or set off on a random walk across the landscape.
Then there is the question of what happens at the upper edge of the atmosphere. Both on exit and reentry. Something happens but I have not done it often enough to be sure what happens.
This makes me wonder if aerodynamics is being ruled out by the six direction requirement.
SE1 allows a functional ship to have gyros and as few as one direction of thrust. Thinking of guided missiles here.
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