I am not sure that half of the people here know this isn’t CGI and is infact “just” incredibly well edited Kerbal Space Program Edit: You guys are splitting hairs here, I am saying a lot of people don’t realise this was made in a video game rather than a 3D animation program.
1:17 I would recognize those parts anywhere. Tantarus is a great mod. Nothing says space socialism like non-androgenous docking ports, spheres of propellant, and of course, rocket pods in quad symetry
okay well now that I'm looking for the KSP in it... god yeah that's KSP footage taken with some good camera angles (and wonderful design) put through at least 3 filters and chopped up super well. And you know what? If I had to make shots like these, KSP would probably be my actual best option but I would not think of that for like, at least a couple months.
@@tfw8738it’s more likely that “Luna burns” is a dramatic change in tone, because if it was still concise military language it would be less vague, like “___ performing de-orbiting burns”
@@tfw8738 Honestly, the fact that it's difficult to tell from context whether it's a sanitized technical description of a space maneuver or a dramatically laconic description of an extraplanetary nuclear exchange lend to the impact of the phrase. Sort of suggests the confusion that you'd expect in the opening hours of a war.
@@nf359it certainly feels like a tone change marker. IMO there's two possibilities: - Luna being a location on the Moon - Luna being the Moon itself Luna is Russian for "Moon" so it wouldn't be far fetched saying the Soviet Base on the Moon would be called that, what puts of this theory is the fact that the sentence "Luna burns" shows up before the video tells us that the Soviet Base on on the Moon's North Pole is attacked by the QRF. As for the second option, "Luna" is also latin for Moon, by using the latin word for moon and pairing it with "burns" it sets the tone very well that there's no going back from the point that Horizon LSS was destroyed, the cogs of war are now turning, the moon is now a battlefield, so it burns metaphorically and literally (nuclear fire).
@@fernandomarques5166 Terra and Luna tends to be used in SF to specifically refer to the Planet Earth and the Earth's Moon because the rest of the planet names are in latin(ish) and uncapitalized words have other meaning that may be used in same context(especially "moon" that can mean any natural satellite) Also, burn as orbital maneuver isn't usually paired with just the nearest celestial body. So it is indeed more likely to be a dramatic phrase.
The vehicles are silly though...but almost there...they'd look like a big space shuttle with vertices launch rubes so basically a submarine ...look up usss Curtis Lemay
i feel like i've stepped into the coolest thing ever but have NO clue whats going on but im still going with it because its so awesome i love everything about this. the aesthetics, the ksp/bdarmoury, the music, the quotes, the tactical view of the ships, its all PERFECT
I love how the Earth-Lunar map adheres to actual orbital mechanics and how a potential backup defence force would be stationed with eliptical orbits irl
Cold War-ish era space tech used in an interplanetary combat scenario is the coolest idea I never knew I needed more of. Reagan literally got his “Star Wars”.
Probably because that ship class are basically nuclear missile launchers, designed to hold and fire dozens, if not hundreds of nukes at both tactical and strategic yields. They are meant to do two things: - Long-ranged antiship combat - Nuclear bombardment of planets and moons.
Check out Children of a Dead Earth! I think there are a few missions that feature siloships in some way. Just be ready for a lot of orbital maneuvering....
@@bittertwigi just wish children of a dead earth had more variety. Computer-controlled ships all behave roughly the same way, they don't do any fancy maneuvering, and the ship design possibilities are very limited. Also, we need proximity fuses, and the campaign mode requiring that your armor remains pristine to get a gold rating on every mission is very dumb
"Man, regular space travel will be so cool! We'll get to see the sights and visit different planets and eventually get to live on them!" The cold reality:
@@MarinessNTUYea this specific one is short. But a series of this, detailing an intentionally convoluted narrative between two warring factions spanning up to 30 mins would be sick.
This is easily the best iteration on the analog horror format I've ever seen. Innovation like this is what we need, not more boring monster concepts and predictable jumpscares. Keep up the great work
i like everything about this but the reason i rewatch it several times a day is because the music is SUCH a perfect fit. it really sets the tone and makes this a fantastic watch. i want more
I'm intrigued by Pave Pulsar I/II... "PAVE" is a USAF prefix for various programs ranging from the Paveway series laser-guided bomb, to the Pave Hawk/Pave Low helicopters, Pave Tack targeting pod, etc. I'm thinking the most relevant though would be PAVE PAWS (Phased Array Warning System) that's made to detect incoming nuclear missiles and perform space surveillance.
And a pulsar (pulsating radio source) is a spinning, magnetized neutron star that emits powerful beams of electromagnetic radiation at very precise, very regular intervals. The way the beams "pulse" in and out of detection as they are directed at or away from Earth has been compared to a lighthouse.
I feel like I stumbled into a gem out of nowhere! This world that you're building is so insanely cool. This is just the right amount of nerdy, and has been shared to my friends who absolutely had the same reaction: This is a work of art. I am excited to see what else you've got to bring.
Man, this is a wonderful montage of escalation, with great aesthetics and perfectly timed music to boot. It feels like a snippet of a very plausible universe.
I do love the idea that these futuristic military spacecraft are still armed with the M61 Vulcan, which is just a few years shy of being a WWII-era weapon system.
@@ruskiwaffle1991 true, but what I was getting at was the fact that the idea of what became the M61 was originally commissioned by the US Army in 1946. And in the CoaDE timeline, is a legitimate weapons system despite having migrated to a starship-mounted weapon system.
With no atmosphere and gravity, a mini gun would be a perfect weapons platform if you think about it. High volume of fire in a zero g environment would probably be devastating to ships.@zackakai5173
This would go so hard as hard-sf videogame setting (COADE spiritual successor perhaps?). The only 2 nitpicks I have: * Audible gunfire in non-onboard audio shots (especially soviet craft). * Nuke flashes not *brilliantly* illuminating NPP craft as they are accelerating Maybe also the NPP craft seeming awfully close for nuclear pulse propulsion, but that's probably extremely narrow angle telescopic shot so they may actually be quite a way apart (at least my headcanon says so). Not sure about B-8M1 looking launchers on soviet craft, conical launchers look a bit pointless in space, something like B-8W20 might be more space effective to carry into orbit if repurposing military aviation hardware.
I didn't expect a Kerbal Space Program alt-history realistic space battle machinima to be what I needed but here I am. Great job whoever you are, you hit a topic that's extremely cool but extremely underexplored in media.
Imagine if you will, being an amateur astronomer on a warm summer night in July of 1997. The band of the Milky Way galaxy is overhead on the southern sky. Dazzling stars and dark nebulae stretch overhead past zenith. You instantly recognize two dimly lit blue stars: Neptune and Uranus. A noticeably bright star to the left was Jupiter, punching through the Moon's glow during it's waning gibbous phase. Finally, Saturn slowly rising on the eastern horizon. There, you eye the moon using your telescope and notice very bright and distinguishable pulses of light on it's surface. One after another, a hundred suns ignite the lunar skies.
I just watched all your videos and THIS STORY IS AMAZING. It's all pretty much explained in the "LSR-926-5/92" video. Spoilers below. Stop reading if you want to watch for yourself. Ok here it is Seriously stop Fine The cold war with the Soviets has expanded onto the moon and further into the solar system. The non-Soviet alliance whose perspective we see has discovered an anomaly in a crater (Shackleton) and built a base around it (Horizon) on the surface of the moon. The anomaly seems to be a wormhole to somewhere else in the galaxy/universe. This opens up onto a planet with massive ice/water content, along with other valuable resources that are crucial for life in space. And here we see the Soviets attacking the facility on the moon, sparking all out war.
Not just attacking but, judging by the end, actually landing a followup ground force to travel through the wormhole and causing "the first extrasolar battle" on the other side
Did they? Horizon was still destroyed, enemy combatants crossed over the anomaly, and who knows if there are enough defenses on the other side to neutralize them
It's incredible, they've almost completely covered up the existence of the Lunar SSR now, too. Russia must still be funding them somehow, though- not sure how they make the ideology work..
I have no idea what is going on but I dig it. EDit: after viewing the other vids - did the Soviets breach through the anomaly to attack the Janus system?
This video is so great, watched it like 20 times already. I love how it slaps with the scenes and music. Good work overall. Also so much attention to detail. Like damn watching it over and over made me notice so much.
I just discovered this arg series and I am loving the presentation, the cgi is a bit obvious even through the filter but the musical sting more than make up for it.
For some reason, this vaguely reminds me of, "A Colder War," by Charles Stross. When I watch this, I get a vague sense of unease as tensions over a not-fully-understood technology escalate wildly out of control with an uncertain -- but surely terrifying -- outcome.
Shackleton crater is a real crater on the moon, and it does actually contain an abnormal amount of water ice. And yes, it is named after that Shackleton.
I'm reminded of, amongst other things, "Our only hope is the X-Project" dialogue from the English dub of the anime Star Fleet (X-Bomber) as also heard in X-Project by DJ Fresh
either the battle went on for about 2 days or it took 2 days from the moment the vns squadron was detected to actually intercept and the battle was over in a couple of minutes or the battle is considered over when the nukes traveled all the way from luna to earth , the only part i dont quite get is the thousand suns , it couldnt have been earth's ships intercepting the nukes, since they are shown as lunching from diferent places and following different trajectories, maybe luna had enough nukes to saturation bombard their own low orbit?
There are at least two battles depicted in this video, one above the moon lasts at least one hour and fifty-four minutes; the other begins at least twenty-four hours later above Janus. The thousand suns are likely the impact of soviet nuclear weapons, LSB/USA don't authorise nuclear strikes until fifty-seven minutes later.
@@firesoldier343 Ohh yeah, yeah that makes a lot more sense! It's definitely those drives, not an attack! (Along with the implication that those ships have secondary, non-orion drives for "peacetime" use)
@@matthewdev That makes sense, but lunar maneuvers don't require that much ΔV. Nuclear rocketjets would maybe be the optimal choice for most theaters of space war.
@josh_kerman you're right, but when you're fighting in space, sometimes you'd want more than just adjust your orbit, take Arcturus for instance, just adjusting your orbit to launch would still make the nukes take multiple hours to reach their targets, but with the orions they can just accelerate a lot more, a lot faster, launch whatever they're launching (reaching the targets a lot sooner than just a hohmann transfer), and then return to a stable orbit in a pinch. Meanwhile, most other kinds of nuclear rockets will have quite low thrust and less deltaV still, so you'd get higher response/reaction times, and require more constant refueling
What inspired you the most, For all Mandkind, Children of a Dead Earth, The Expanse, Lunar War, Projectrho or something else entirely? Mare Ignis, what do DSBF, LSB, NRO stand for? I am correct in assuming you made this in moded KSP and not blender? If so that would make this animation even more outstanding good job. The Attacking Vessels are of Soviet manufacture? You know what? I only joined twitter for this (and Scott Manley).
This isn't just world building. It's worlds building! Amazing attention to detail with the spacecraft manufacturers and orbital mechanics, and I can't wait to find out what in Shackleton crater led to the first extrasolar battle. Is the ice there from a wormhole leading to a cryovolcanic exo planet?
Who needs analog horror when I can have analog hard scifi astro-naval combat
best sentance of today
@@smallboyahoy That's basically the best sentence I have ever heard in my life.
I didn't know I needed it, but now I need more
NGL this shit is more scary to me than actual horror
empyrean rings
I am not sure that half of the people here know this isn’t CGI and is infact “just” incredibly well edited Kerbal Space Program
Edit:
You guys are splitting hairs here, I am saying a lot of people don’t realise this was made in a video game rather than a 3D animation program.
1:17 I would recognize those parts anywhere. Tantarus is a great mod. Nothing says space socialism like non-androgenous docking ports, spheres of propellant, and of course, rocket pods in quad symetry
So it is KSP. Awesome.
okay well now that I'm looking for the KSP in it... god yeah that's KSP footage taken with some good camera angles (and wonderful design) put through at least 3 filters and chopped up super well. And you know what? If I had to make shots like these, KSP would probably be my actual best option but I would not think of that for like, at least a couple months.
i looked at the cockpit and RCS thruster and had a lingering suspicion
It's still CGI...
I love the difference in language from the sanitized military report to the biblical "Luna burns" and "a thousand suns ignite the lunar skies"
luna burns is a orbital mechanic no?
a burn is firing the engines, i assume this just means its within luna's sphere of influence
@@tfw8738it’s more likely that “Luna burns” is a dramatic change in tone, because if it was still concise military language it would be less vague, like “___ performing de-orbiting burns”
@@tfw8738 Honestly, the fact that it's difficult to tell from context whether it's a sanitized technical description of a space maneuver or a dramatically laconic description of an extraplanetary nuclear exchange lend to the impact of the phrase. Sort of suggests the confusion that you'd expect in the opening hours of a war.
@@nf359it certainly feels like a tone change marker.
IMO there's two possibilities:
- Luna being a location on the Moon
- Luna being the Moon itself
Luna is Russian for "Moon" so it wouldn't be far fetched saying the Soviet Base on the Moon would be called that, what puts of this theory is the fact that the sentence "Luna burns" shows up before the video tells us that the Soviet Base on on the Moon's North Pole is attacked by the QRF.
As for the second option, "Luna" is also latin for Moon, by using the latin word for moon and pairing it with "burns" it sets the tone very well that there's no going back from the point that Horizon LSS was destroyed, the cogs of war are now turning, the moon is now a battlefield, so it burns metaphorically and literally (nuclear fire).
@@fernandomarques5166 Terra and Luna tends to be used in SF to specifically refer to the Planet Earth and the Earth's Moon because the rest of the planet names are in latin(ish) and uncapitalized words have other meaning that may be used in same context(especially "moon" that can mean any natural satellite)
Also, burn as orbital maneuver isn't usually paired with just the nearest celestial body.
So it is indeed more likely to be a dramatic phrase.
star wars fans: haha lazer goes pew pew pew
Children of a Dead Earth enjoyers:
indeed
i was just thinking that COADE would be perfect for these settings
i was just thinking that COADE would be perfect for these settings
"M61 goes BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRT"
Reads Hostile battle squadron composition:
Olympic Silocraft...
360 Nuclear Missiles PTSD
The fact that the defense contractor names are accurate to the late 90s (pre-mergers/consolidations) shows the extra work that went into the lore.
Rockwell 😭
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS 🔥🔥🔥
LOCKHEED MARTIN 🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣
@@thefrunze.198only lockheed
The vehicles are silly though...but almost there...they'd look like a big space shuttle with vertices launch rubes so basically a submarine ...look up usss Curtis Lemay
i feel like i've stepped into the coolest thing ever but have NO clue whats going on but im still going with it because its so awesome
i love everything about this. the aesthetics, the ksp/bdarmoury, the music, the quotes, the tactical view of the ships, its all PERFECT
Indeed. I am glad to have stumbled across it. It's like an ARG about space and the Cold War. I love it.
VAOS' Solar Nations lost episode❤
Would you go as far as to say you may have said to yourself, *"Oh my Gahh!"*
if there is a god, they have surely abandoned us
@@victor_silva6142 deep cut
I love how the Earth-Lunar map adheres to actual orbital mechanics and how a potential backup defence force would be stationed with eliptical orbits irl
I mean, this was literally shot in modded kerbal space program xd
I think the maps are custom graphics. Very good attention to detail
Remember, it's quicker to switch to your side-arm than to scramble additional interceptors from the L1 transfer station.
Cold War-ish era space tech used in an interplanetary combat scenario is the coolest idea I never knew I needed more of. Reagan literally got his “Star Wars”.
Reagan: But I like The Expanse
imagine being the soviet madlad drifting through an anomalous moon portal at high speed during a lunar orbital firefight
FULL SPEED FOR THE UNION
TRIIII POLOSKI
FOR PREMIERE SHELEPIN AND THE ETERNAL SOLAR UNION!!! GLORY FOR THE ONES WHO LOOK FORWARD!!!
'Silocraft' is a very ominous ship class. I like it.
Probably because that ship class are basically nuclear missile launchers, designed to hold and fire dozens, if not hundreds of nukes at both tactical and strategic yields.
They are meant to do two things:
- Long-ranged antiship combat
- Nuclear bombardment of planets and moons.
Check out Children of a Dead Earth! I think there are a few missions that feature siloships in some way. Just be ready for a lot of orbital maneuvering....
@@bittertwigi just wish children of a dead earth had more variety. Computer-controlled ships all behave roughly the same way, they don't do any fancy maneuvering, and the ship design possibilities are very limited.
Also, we need proximity fuses, and the campaign mode requiring that your armor remains pristine to get a gold rating on every mission is very dumb
It's like an SSBN or ballistic missile submarine.
@@gargarmikejaphett.3840Damn, it suddenly makes so much more sense if the "silo" was referring silos for ICBMs and such
KSP Analog Cold War Thriller is not what I expected to stumble into today but here we are, and here I stay.
"High Frontier" man's been reading SDI proposal docs.
"Man, regular space travel will be so cool! We'll get to see the sights and visit different planets and eventually get to live on them!"
The cold reality:
Grow up
GLASS THE MOON GLASS THE MOON GLASS THE MOON GLASS THE MOON
Gemini Home entertainment when HARD SCI-FI:
@@russkatherealoriginal6904Humanity when they finally build a space ship capable of destroying planets and then sent to iris to kill it
@@Wa_hhhhMan we're already cooked in GHE the Iris has already spread it roots on Earth
The POV shots with the "ONBOARD AUDIO" caption is so fire. It's what seals the deal in this thing. 9/10, would be a 10/10 if we get it longer.
It’s cut short to match the music
@@MarinessNTUYea this specific one is short. But a series of this, detailing an intentionally convoluted narrative between two warring factions spanning up to 30 mins would be sick.
как же круто - размещение военных кораблей не парящими "где-то в космосе", а находящимися на конкретных орбитах
I have absolutely no clue what I just watched, but I know that it was awesome.
I know it's weird commenting here, but your FAM Edits are amazing. I hope to see a Star City of Season 5 one once they come out!
Same!
This is easily the best iteration on the analog horror format I've ever seen. Innovation like this is what we need, not more boring monster concepts and predictable jumpscares. Keep up the great work
The only horror I see is the horror of World War III breaking out.
I don't think this is analog horror 💀
i like everything about this but the reason i rewatch it several times a day is because the music is SUCH a perfect fit. it really sets the tone and makes this a fantastic watch. i want more
"7/22/97 THE HIGH FRONTIER IS A WARZONE" as guitars kick in is the defining moment of our generation
This is easily one of the best high-concept solar war series I have ever seen, this shit has got me gooning
edging even
clean up aisle,, my ponts!!!!
I'm intrigued by Pave Pulsar I/II... "PAVE" is a USAF prefix for various programs ranging from the Paveway series laser-guided bomb, to the Pave Hawk/Pave Low helicopters, Pave Tack targeting pod, etc. I'm thinking the most relevant though would be PAVE PAWS (Phased Array Warning System) that's made to detect incoming nuclear missiles and perform space surveillance.
Oh great, that's all we need, furries in space. There won't just be radiation belts around earth, there will be gay cum belts too.
And a pulsar (pulsating radio source) is a spinning, magnetized neutron star that emits powerful beams of electromagnetic radiation at very precise, very regular intervals. The way the beams "pulse" in and out of detection as they are directed at or away from Earth has been compared to a lighthouse.
*>A hundred suns ignite the lunar skies*
Goosebumps
I feel like I stumbled into a gem out of nowhere!
This world that you're building is so insanely cool. This is just the right amount of nerdy, and has been shared to my friends who absolutely had the same reaction: This is a work of art.
I am excited to see what else you've got to bring.
Man, this is a wonderful montage of escalation, with great aesthetics and perfectly timed music to boot. It feels like a snippet of a very plausible universe.
escalation?! Everything exploded at the exact same time!!
I do love the idea that these futuristic military spacecraft are still armed with the M61 Vulcan, which is just a few years shy of being a WWII-era weapon system.
This video was set in the 90s, so having an M61 strapped onto a spaceship is reasonable.
@@ruskiwaffle1991 true, but what I was getting at was the fact that the idea of what became the M61 was originally commissioned by the US Army in 1946. And in the CoaDE timeline, is a legitimate weapons system despite having migrated to a starship-mounted weapon system.
With no atmosphere and gravity, a mini gun would be a perfect weapons platform if you think about it. High volume of fire in a zero g environment would probably be devastating to ships.@zackakai5173
This is the most underrated space war animation I ever seen
I love every single detail of it
Keep going!!
Not even an animation, this is just really cleverly done Kerbal Space Program
@@Epicsurvivor21 i need the mods
Bro dropped the hardest retro hard sci fi video and thought we wouldn't notice
keep rewatching these because they're just so good
For All Mankind if the writers knew about Project Orion:
Season 5 better have Orions or I'm losing faith in this show
@@ruskiwaffle1991 don't think it'll have it because it's way way in the future, where nuclear pulse propulsion just seems unreasonable
@@Aseanmappingmeh I find plasma propulsion even more futuristic than riding bombs to space
@@ruskiwaffle1991 exactly what I said
The alternate timeline where NASA had the same level of funding as the military
INTERPLAY ENTERTAINMENT presents:
THE SHACKLETON DISASTER
A Post-Apollo Interplanetary Strategy Game
For Gamers, By Gamers
Dear God they're flying Orion ships. Honey! Pack the Hydrogen bombs, we're going to space!
This would go so hard as hard-sf videogame setting (COADE spiritual successor perhaps?).
The only 2 nitpicks I have:
* Audible gunfire in non-onboard audio shots (especially soviet craft).
* Nuke flashes not *brilliantly* illuminating NPP craft as they are accelerating
Maybe also the NPP craft seeming awfully close for nuclear pulse propulsion, but that's probably extremely narrow angle telescopic shot so they may actually be quite a way apart (at least my headcanon says so).
Not sure about B-8M1 looking launchers on soviet craft, conical launchers look a bit pointless in space, something like B-8W20 might be more space effective to carry into orbit if repurposing military aviation hardware.
First time watching this: ...?
Second time watching this: ...?!
Nineteenth time watching this: T H E H I G H F R O N T I E R I S A W A R Z O N E
I didn't expect a Kerbal Space Program alt-history realistic space battle machinima to be what I needed but here I am. Great job whoever you are, you hit a topic that's extremely cool but extremely underexplored in media.
Imagine if you will, being an amateur astronomer on a warm summer night in July of 1997.
The band of the Milky Way galaxy is overhead on the southern sky. Dazzling stars and dark nebulae stretch overhead past zenith. You instantly recognize two dimly lit blue stars: Neptune and Uranus. A noticeably bright star to the left was Jupiter, punching through the Moon's glow during it's waning gibbous phase. Finally, Saturn slowly rising on the eastern horizon.
There, you eye the moon using your telescope and notice very bright and distinguishable pulses of light on it's surface. One after another, a hundred suns ignite the lunar skies.
I just watched all your videos and THIS STORY IS AMAZING. It's all pretty much explained in the "LSR-926-5/92" video. Spoilers below. Stop reading if you want to watch for yourself.
Ok here it is
Seriously stop
Fine
The cold war with the Soviets has expanded onto the moon and further into the solar system. The non-Soviet alliance whose perspective we see has discovered an anomaly in a crater (Shackleton) and built a base around it (Horizon) on the surface of the moon. The anomaly seems to be a wormhole to somewhere else in the galaxy/universe. This opens up onto a planet with massive ice/water content, along with other valuable resources that are crucial for life in space.
And here we see the Soviets attacking the facility on the moon, sparking all out war.
Not just attacking but, judging by the end, actually landing a followup ground force to travel through the wormhole and causing "the first extrasolar battle" on the other side
Space T-90s lezgo.
This is literally hottest war but in space and I fucking love it, keep it up!
Where were you when you heard that the crew of the Armstrong bought the fleet critical time?
Did they? Horizon was still destroyed, enemy combatants crossed over the anomaly, and who knows if there are enough defenses on the other side to neutralize them
LUNA BURNS
Even in the far future we still use the Vulcan. God bless America 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🦅🦅🦅🔥🔥🔥
Funny enough this actually takes place in 1997 lol
This feels like the FMV intro to the coolest late 90s space combat game that never existed
Making astronautical calculations seems hard enough as is, I can’t imagine what it’d be like doing them fast enough to engage in combat
Well, not dying in space combat is a great motivator for it.
That shit was the coolest thing I've seen in years bro
ghh Cold War in space stuff has me gooning
Finally a prequel to Deep Space Force
Bro, this is the second gooning comment on this video lol
@@perotekku i was probably the OG gooner
The fact that Orion propulsion battleships exist in this universe is both cool and terrifying at the same time.
Thanks for the recommendation, UA-cam algorithm. These videos hold up very well in isolation.
analog scifi action? I am absolutely interested. I do wish you left the text on screen a smiiiiiiidge longer.
I've seen this like ten times so far.
LUNA BURNS.
I remember 1997, I can’t believe the government tried to cover this up. Thanks for filing that FOIA request for this.
It's incredible, they've almost completely covered up the existence of the Lunar SSR now, too. Russia must still be funding them somehow, though- not sure how they make the ideology work..
How does this video go so absolutely hard with no context
KSP be crazy
I love how one of the ships is designed by 'Lockheed' (presumably Lockheed Martin).
The American military-industrial complex always wins
this is set pre-merger, so it's just the Lockheed Corporation at this point.
@@greencanner4284 Oh that's a neat detail then, thanks
The sovs are using high powered laser on their mothership at the end tho
Born too early to explore the stars, born too late in this Universe to participate in the Lunar War.
This got into my recommendations and I want more
ksp online looking sick
This video hit me like a train and I'm absolutely struggling to take in just how INSANELY well done it is. AWESOME
I have no idea what is going on but I dig it.
EDit: after viewing the other vids - did the Soviets breach through the anomaly to attack the Janus system?
Judging how the last date is listed as "first extrasolar battle", yeah they most certainly did
Protect HORIZON at any cost
Holy Cow... This...Is...SO FREAKING AWSOME!!!!!
imagine turning the anomaly into private property
this post made by Military Space Forces of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics gang
makes me want to play Children of a Dead Earth and Terra Invicta again
Fuck Starfield, this is what actual NASApunk looks like
BOTH SIDES PANIC AS THE UNTHINKABLE HAPPENS
Wait wrong video
T H E D E A T H T O L L R I S E S A S E U R O P E B U R N S
This is amazing. Those designs and all the custom graphics are incredible
This video is so great, watched it like 20 times already. I love how it slaps with the scenes and music. Good work overall. Also so much attention to detail. Like damn watching it over and over made me notice so much.
I just discovered this arg series and I am loving the presentation, the cgi is a bit obvious even through the filter but the musical sting more than make up for it.
I think the obvious CGI look is intentional, not to mention really well done considering how it's completely changed the looks of kerbal space program
Actually it’s Kerbel Space Program with some really good filter work.
For some reason, this vaguely reminds me of, "A Colder War," by Charles Stross. When I watch this, I get a vague sense of unease as tensions over a not-fully-understood technology escalate wildly out of control with an uncertain -- but surely terrifying -- outcome.
I’m back for my daily watch
Loving the aesthetics.Waiting for more.
This would make an amazing novel series, if presented as a historical document or a collection of testimonies (à la World War Z for the latter).
Shackleton, As in.. The guy who saved his entire crew from Elephant Island?
Shackleton crater is a real crater on the moon, and it does actually contain an abnormal amount of water ice. And yes, it is named after that Shackleton.
@@Vsor Interesting.
I'm reminded of, amongst other things, "Our only hope is the X-Project" dialogue from the English dub of the anime Star Fleet (X-Bomber) as also heard in X-Project by DJ Fresh
"animals in nature will often present bright and vivid patterns to show they are toxic to everyone around them"
Another Star Fleet afictionado!
this is the hardest ksp video ive ever seen
This reminds me of HOTTEST WAR so much! Keep up the good work!
This goes unreasonably hard.
The visual diagrams are very very very beautiful. Goat
This song goes unfathomably hard good choice 👌
either the battle went on for about 2 days or it took 2 days from the moment the vns squadron was detected to actually intercept and the battle was over in a couple of minutes or the battle is considered over when the nukes traveled all the way from luna to earth , the only part i dont quite get is the thousand suns , it couldnt have been earth's ships intercepting the nukes, since they are shown as lunching from diferent places and following different trajectories, maybe luna had enough nukes to saturation bombard their own low orbit?
There are at least two battles depicted in this video, one above the moon lasts at least one hour and fifty-four minutes; the other begins at least twenty-four hours later above Janus. The thousand suns are likely the impact of soviet nuclear weapons, LSB/USA don't authorise nuclear strikes until fifty-seven minutes later.
This was between the USSR and America, not a Luna Free State vs United Earth.
@@FireCrack the thousand suns may be referring to the Orion drives being used by ships on or orbiting the moon
@@firesoldier343 Ohh yeah, yeah that makes a lot more sense! It's definitely those drives, not an attack!
(Along with the implication that those ships have secondary, non-orion drives for "peacetime" use)
Looking forward to seeing more of this universe!
The World if Reagan’s Star Wars Program Actually Occurred (based)
so trve...
Who cares how expensive and unconventional it is, I want more of it
I saw you on Twitter a while ago and fell in love with your content, glad to see it here. Keep it up!!
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0:39 Horizon was lost to this rhythm
Orion drives seem a little overkill for lunar orbital maneuvers.
General Atomics had to lobby a lot of folks at the pentagon to get that budget approved
Not if you want faster responses and more freedom to relocate your orbital assets
@@matthewdev That makes sense, but lunar maneuvers don't require that much ΔV. Nuclear rocketjets would maybe be the optimal choice for most theaters of space war.
@josh_kerman you're right, but when you're fighting in space, sometimes you'd want more than just adjust your orbit, take Arcturus for instance, just adjusting your orbit to launch would still make the nukes take multiple hours to reach their targets, but with the orions they can just accelerate a lot more, a lot faster, launch whatever they're launching (reaching the targets a lot sooner than just a hohmann transfer), and then return to a stable orbit in a pinch.
Meanwhile, most other kinds of nuclear rockets will have quite low thrust and less deltaV still, so you'd get higher response/reaction times, and require more constant refueling
goes incredibly hard
For All Mankind season 5 marketing going crazy
Wendigoon would definitely take a look of this kind of analog genre.
"Mr. President, Horizon has fallen."
"My god..."
SPACE WAR NOW
what has the algorithm fed me and why do I want more
What inspired you the most, For all Mandkind, Children of a Dead Earth, The Expanse, Lunar War, Projectrho or something else entirely?
Mare Ignis, what do DSBF, LSB, NRO stand for?
I am correct in assuming you made this in moded KSP and not blender? If so that would make this animation even more outstanding good job.
The Attacking Vessels are of Soviet manufacture?
You know what? I only joined twitter for this (and Scott Manley).
Deep Space Bombardment Force. National Reconnaissance Office.
I love ProjectRho! And I loved Children of a dead earth, even if I could never get past this one mission.
I'm also curious - the other thing this channel makes me think of is Charles Stross' story A Colder War
Maybe add Nebulous Fleet Command too, lots of the UI fonts and design style seem pretty similar
VSK is the Soviet/Russian aerospace force, so yes.
This isn't just world building. It's worlds building! Amazing attention to detail with the spacecraft manufacturers and orbital mechanics, and I can't wait to find out what in Shackleton crater led to the first extrasolar battle. Is the ice there from a wormhole leading to a cryovolcanic exo planet?
This was fantastic
All of this goes hard for no actual reason.
"I see the bad moon rising..."
luna burns gotta be one of the hardest lines ever
Certified Banger project!
"A hundred suns ignite the lumar skies" and "Luna burns" makes me hard af. I crave more.