This Season 2 stream on GopherCraft's multiplayer server is mostly a shopping trip. The VOD opens in the research tree with 1,653 science to spend, and Basket spends nearly all of it. The new parts then go onto the ship, which ends up named The Success 2010 XLT: giant solar arrays, bigger batteries, longer landing legs and more fuel. A quick test launch shows it still gets off the ground, the flight is reverted, and the stream ends in the Vehicle Assembly Building with the ship saved for next time.
1,653 science to spend
The VOD picks up near the end of the stream, in the research tree, with the Science counter at 1653.2. "Let's take a look at what we can buy before we end the stream." Basket reads through the nodes one part at a time: a Double-C Seismic Accelerometer, docking ports, RCS tanks, the LV-N "Nerv" Atomic Rocket Motor ("this one is low thrust, but I assume just keeps on going") and the Kerbodyne KR-2L+ "Rhino" ("if we want huge engines"). Viewers suggest more fuel options, and Basket agrees. Docking gets a thought too: "if I have docking I could in theory set up a space station somewhere with a big solar array."
Rover parts, better batteries and the solar array go on the list, along with a few cheaper nodes on the way to them. About nine minutes in, the counter is down to 113. "We spent all of our stuff. Awesome."
Solar arrays and batteries
Back in the Vehicle Assembly Building, the ship on the stand is The Success 2009 XLT. More antennas go on first, "because that really bugged me." Then the rings of small battery packs come off for bigger battery banks, which by the commentary's count hold a lot more and are "only slightly bigger." Six Gigantor XL Solar Arrays go around the hull. "They will rotate towards the sun." Extended in the VAB, they are enormous: "Those things are really huge."
Much of the next few minutes goes to placement. A ladder keeps getting covered, batteries move up and down the hull, and the count per ring changes more than once. "It's all about how it looks, right?" Basket saves, and from then on the name field reads The Success 2010 XLT.
New legs, more fuel
Next come the new landing legs. They are longer, with more suspension travel, and they fold up against the hull. They end up under the batteries, clear of the solar panels and that ladder. A few of the old small solar panels stay on as a backup "in case something happens with the big solar panels."
Since the ship "took off so well last time," more fuel tanks go onto the bottom of the stack, even with the commentary admitting the extra weight might keep it from taking off at all.
A test launch
This is not a full mission, just a check that the ship still flies, with a revert planned afterward. The portrait shows Sigemy Kerman at the controls. The ship does lift off, extra fuel and all. "Yeah, okay, these mainsails are pretty sweet, I like them."
The gravity turn is shaky, but Basket gets it back under control. An atmospheric analysis over Kerbin's Shores goes home through the antenna ("I was able to transmit that"), and the map shows the apoapsis climbing. Then: "There's a lot of fire on my ship right now." A solar panel breaks along the way ("I was sort of messing around and I broke that one"), and with no scientist aboard, keeping it up there is, in the commentary's words, "a bad idea." Basket reverts the flight to the Vehicle Assembly Building.
Where it ends
Back in the VAB, a few more tweaks go on and the ship is saved. "This is the ship that we got a bunch of science and then rearranged the ship. This is the success 2010 XLT." The next real flight is left for later: "next time I stream, I will be launching this guy." The stream ends there, with The Success 2010 XLT in the Vehicle Assembly Building.