Best moments ever thread 2.0

[Sex_Robot]

... the engine hit 700 PetaWatts by the end.

You wouldn't mind sharing the engine set-up that creates that unholy amount of power, would you?

Or are super engines held under the same domain as secrets?

I guard the secrets of my 66/33 oxygen/plasma hell burn closely. Nah. It just seems that people are really bad at it somehow. So here's how you do it.

You start by hooking up 2 cans of plasma to the cold loop. Open the valves to let gas into the cold loop so it can start cooling down. If your plasma's not cold enough before you start the combustion chamber the cold loop will burst too soon and your engine will not work as well as it should.

You then grab a can of plasma and drag it over to the hot loop. Stick it on the mixing port together with the empty can that starts in engineering. Get yourself a can of oxygen and swap the oxygen can and the (no longer) empty can.

Set all the pumps on the hot loop side to 1. Turn 1 of the combustion chamber pumps off so that in ~40 minutes, you can swap cans by turning one pump on and the other off instead of having to run into the hot loop room. If you're feeling brave you can leave both pumps on and switch via the valve later instead.

Hook up the 'empty' can with plasma onto the hot loop. Attach a second can at some point later so you can keep the flow going. Connect your 2 cans of 66/33 mix to the combustion chamber and start pumping in the fuel through 1 of them. Pumping in fuel from both cans at the same time will not result in a satisfactory hellburn. Light the combustion chamber and go open the valves to let gas into the hot loop.

DO NOT LET GAS INTO THE HOT LOOP BEFORE THE COMBUSTION CHAMBER IS LIT. Your hot loop pipes will burst early if you do and you will have a bad.

As a final step, at the very minimum you need to RCD the floor out from underneath your fuel cans. A few extra holes located strategically can help keep the place survivable, experiment with this.

Although cool, hell burns are annoying if you're doing anything other than tending the engine.. I'm the type of engineer that likes putting the ship back together but it's not easy when all the doors to engineering are locked down and the air is molten.