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Thanks! Multiply layers work wonders.

On the topic of Saturn-Venturestar, because I was just doing that: Prepare for trouble... And make it... TRIPLE? Saturn Heavy-Venturestar can put an X-33, almost fully fueled, in a stable orbit around the Mun.

Yeah, I said it in the first sentence of this entire thread lmao

Funny thing— we first met each other on the forums, then both joined the same NationStates region, and this story actually evolved out of that world that we've both been working on for a few years now.

I was looking for this gem as I go to reinstall KSP again. Will be watching this space.

Chapter 3: Looking Into It A copy of the National Post, a Kerthenian Dolphik-language newspaper, reporting on the formation of a Congressional inquiry into the Sirius III disaster, the Harrison Commission, headed up by former KSA Astronaut turned Senator Earl Harrison, among other things.

Microsoft PowerPoint and Paint.NET. Abusing PowerPoint combined with image editing is a surefire recipe for realistic-looking (and properly-proportioned) documents. The KSA Form 7274 memos are based on a style of Confidential document I saw in the NASA Graphics Standards Manual and the KCRN memo is based on, well, real-world United States Navy memos.

That's... a good topic for the next post, perhaps?

Chapter 2: Paying Respects A memo from Rear Admiral (Lower Half) Anthony Taggart, the Kerthenian Congressional Republic Navy's Chief of Navy Space Operations, to the KSA Astronaut Office inquiring about the remains of one of the Navy's own. Had the KCRN's Naval Space Command been selected to lead the Kerthenian manned spaceflight initiative rather than the KSA, Taggart, then a KCRN Naval Space Command Astronaut Candidate, would have been the first Kerthenian in space.

Thanks! It certainly took a bit too much time out of my day... But I have it down to a pretty quick cycle now with the Form 7274 memos. Those are around 10 minutes max now that I have a template/format for them. I made a PowerPoint template for them and do a little bit of postprocessing in Paint.NET to add ink/graphite smudging (Jess' memo for example... she's left handed, under a ton of stress, and wrote that memo with a really bad pen, though I definitely oversmudged that doc) and photocopier static.

Chapter 1: Public Relations A series of internal memos between Markos Zina, Deputy Director of Public Relations for the Alexander M. Stavros Space Center, and Jessica 'Jess' Holden, Director of Public Relations for the KSA Manned Spaceflight Directorate, immediately following the morning of April 17th, 1985, the day on which the catastrophic rockfall occurred.

IMPORTANT CONTEXT This takes place in the universe of the NationStates Kerbin Region, which is a modern-day, geopolitically diverse collection of nations inhabiting the planet Kerbin and based on Kerbal Space Program in the online browser game NationStates. However, Kerbal physiology is... weird, to say the least, and as such they have such been replaced with humans. A bunch of little green aliens with comically large heads isn't exactly conducive to the tone of this fairly serious story, and I'm not going to stick K's in front of every word or name everybody Kerman. While some o

Every mention of what?

That's ridiculous. We're far too disorganized for some kind of shadow cabal.

Looks cool, but I'd love to have hull parts and such... However, this is the only single-part mod I've bothered to download, so I think that says something. Looks great!