Launching a Rocket

Launching a Rocket is episode 6 of Survival... Unlikely. 
==Synopsis==
Splitsie and Capac drive on from the wreck of the self-destructed enemy base, fending off Drifting Persuants. Splitsie declares that launching missiles from a moving vehicle such as the Crab Juice did not work out, and repurposes the launcher platform for his next project. Capac dreams of capturing a UFO-shaped drone intact and have a script make it follow them as a weapons platform. 
Splitsie builds a rocketship out of the accumulating drone debris to hunt for platinum: This space-capable shuttle has two modded cockpits, hybrid atmospheric/hydrogen thrust, parachutes, and modded tanks. He is slightly worried it will blow up like the Hindenburg. 
Capac builds a quadcopter hoverbike and Splitsie immediately asks where the turrets and sideways thrust are. Capac randomly dying of minor accidents makes Splitsie want to put up a tracking LCD of Capac and tree deaths. Capac has painted his "sweet chopper" in all black with edgy looking armor (a cheeky Splitsie paints it pink temporarily) and it crashes on its first test flight. 
Similarly unlucky, Splitsie's rocketship tips over unceremoniously. They perform a horizontal lift-off, but due to the modded hydrogen tanks, the rocket does not escape gravity and they are falling back to the planet. To find the Crab Juice again, they orientate themselves by Capac's nearby "wild man of the hills" GPS and ready the parachutes. 
A Drifting Persuant hits Capac's cockpit and he respawns at the base below. The helplessly parachutingParachutes are not physical objects and do not get damaged by weapon fire. rocket's turrets manage to take out the drone which crashes straight down, startling Capac. Splitsie swings the rocketship on the parachutes to hit Capac on landing but hits a tree instead and damages the rocketship's thrusters...
After this epic failure, they will make it to space next time for sure.
==Quotes==
Splitsie: So you know the Hindenburg? Do you remember what it was filled with? - Capac: Germans?
Splitsie: I think by the fact that we only made it 8000 metres up it's quite clear I was thinking more about aesthetics than function. 
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