SpaceY Heavy-Lifter Parts Pack

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Cooperates with other mods:

TweakScale
FAR / NEAR
AVC (Add-on Version Checker)
Engine Ignitor
Community Tech Tree
HotRockets!
Connected Living Space
DefaultActionGroups (enables automatic toggling of SAS light on radial reaction wheels)

Part of the NecroBones suite of mods, that work nicely together:

Modular Rocket Systems (stock-alike parts pack, NASA-like alternatives, and filling the gaps)
SpaceY Heavy Lifters Parts Pack (stock-balanced large rocket parts, 5m parts, large SRBs)
Color Coded Canisters (replacement models/textures for stock fuel tanks: prettier, cleaner, and diameter color-coding for the tank end-caps)
Fuel Tanks Plus (collection of large stock-like tanks with Color Coded Canister style)

Design Goals:

Maintain a "pretty", but still mostly stock-alike appearance. While KW goes a long way toward realism, we want to have a smaller pack that blends nicely with stock, and other stock-alike packs.
While extending the stock game, try to maintain a gameplay balance with stock.
And do so while adding:
- Another layer of large rocketry, beyond the 3.75m ARM/NASA update that was added in KSP 0.23.5. Specifically, 5m parts.
- Large SRB options with high thrust and shorter burn times than the NASA/ARM SRB.
- Large rocketry utilities-- Big radial decouplers with thrusters built in, larger sepratron, etc.

Contains several unusual or unique features, including some "firsts":

Engines with multiple sized fairings, or with conical fairings.
Engine clusters with mode-switching for activating/deactivating nozzle groups.
Rocket-assisted radial decouplers.
Stack size adapters with multiple target diameters (adaptive shrouds).
Docking ports with guide-lights.
Fuel tanks with automatic shrouds.
Thrust plates and adapters with fairings.
"Petal" cargo bay.

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SpaceY Lifters is a parts pack that is intended to extend the stock line-up of parts for lifting heavy payloads to orbit, by providing a similar update to the NASA/ARM pack from 0.23.5, in the next size up.

It provides a range of 5m fuel tanks and engines, a fueled 3.75m nose-cone, both "stack" and "radial" decouplers, a fueled size adapter, and a range of powerful SRBs.

The name is a play on "SpaceX" in the real world, but also has the amusing double connotations of being "spacey", and also "Space, why?" -- Because it's there!

All of the models and textures were made 100% from scratch, using Blender, Photoshop, and Unity.

SpaceY Heavy Lifters Parts Pack