The solid fuel chemist

wow, If only i could change the subject like that in RL

ill try not to spoil the story, but lets just say this leaves the realm of whats possible in KSP In a few chapters, so pictures are not going to be a thing, per say.

ok can someone tell me why nobody's replying?

now That mah boy, takes commitment. Props to you.

5 more days till we hit the first birthday of the saga!

Chapter 3 Coldness. That was all there was, just coldness. Simple, Easy to understand. Coldness and nothing else. Then, a blur. details arose from the blur. Blackness above, whiteness below. Then, a tug, Was that... Gravity? the smell of dried sweat. Of course, that made sense, Jeb had been sweating like crazy during the- .....Everything rushed back. the screams, the death, the terror. What had happened? Why hadn't Jeb made it to the lander with the rest of-...His crewmates! Oh what had happened to them?! Jeb felt the little square box in his pocket and his heart painged in his chest. Forever trapped in his jumpsuit pocket, inaccessible through the material of his suit. Destined to haunt him forever of the life he could have had. Jeb got up. Somehow, miraculously, He had landed safely on the surface of Eeloo. He noticed a new email sent to his suit. Upon opening it, he found a video file of Gene. He was in mission control, and was looking very somber. "This is a message to any survivors of the Zephyr Kerman. We have been looking for you guys for over a year now and Well, as horrible as this sounds, We cant afford to look anymore. The public all thinks your all dead, and there pressuring us to move on. Mortimer is already mad and if i continue to spend any more on rescue efforts he can take emergency control of the program. But the guys in RnD came up with a last-ditch plan to save you if your suits take you out of medical hibernation.. first they developed the tech to provide this one way communication with any EVA suits in the general area that we point the dish at that we are using to talk with you right now, then sent a K-OS program that would land you on the surface. This message should get to you a few seconds after the program kicks in. Were hoping that when the program throws you into the snow, the temperature will put you in cryosleep so we can come back to look when we have more funds. I'm really sorry, guys. I wish we could have done more. I wish I could have done more... Gene put his head in his hands. We were so close. Kerballed landings on every celestial body without a single loss of life. I guessed we just pushed the frontier too hard. If you wake up.... Well then I guess we failed. The video suddenly cut out. Jeb tried to process what he just saw. It was too much. Cryosleep? But how long was he-Oh no. Oh no. Jeb had just glanced at the mission clock in the upper left corner of his helmet and he didn't dare look back up there. but his eyes betrayed him. He Had to look again. and when he did, Jebediah Kerman frowned for the first time in his life.

ummmm....you guys are welcome to reply and give first impressions?

@steubenno i mean the thing that is the same under all of your posts. for you, its that "think big, launch big" thing

chapter two The entire crew was in the airlock, throwing their suits on as fast as they could. Jeb was done first, and started to make his way towards the bridge. If there was any hope of the crew surviving, Jeb needed to get the Zephyrs giant LV-N transfer stage facing into the onslaught. he put the gimbal coordinates into the computer and started firing the engines. they had to reduce the relative speed as much as possible. The ejecta was on them in seconds. The engines were the first to go, and the hypervelocity hail started eating its way into the Mk3 tanks at the rear. SAS was doing all it could to hold orientation, but the monoprop tanks were already heavily perforated and were loosing fuel fast. jeb had sealed all the internal doors, and from the bridge spotted the rookies Anzer and Mayzee finally making their way back from the airlock. It was at this moment the the airlock lost pressure. jeb looked on in horror as Anzers faceplate was hit from the side, removing almost all the glass from his helmet. the venting air put him in a violently fast backflip and the entire crew heard Mayzee screaming over the common band. Mayzee was trying take cover behind some life support equipment in the corridor, but this was soon penetrated and Mayzee kerman was hit multiple times in the body, and the penetration of her pack fuel pushed her past Anzers dead body and out a broken window into space. When her suit turned around, all Jeb saw was a red splattering on the inside of her faceplate. Jeb wrenched his eyes of his fallen comrade, and looked around at his ship. He did not like what he saw. He watched a section of the centrifuge separate from the rest of the ship and float away. he listened in on the comms, and heard both Bill and Bob yelling back and forth, but no Val. Jeb panicked for a second, but then switched to the band 657, the secret channel that only he and Val knew about, and sure enough Val was already there, breathing heavily. "Val? are you alright?" jeb asked into his mic. "Jeb!" Val cried. "i'm in the lander. I can see the entire ship from here and Jeb, its really bad. The entire transfer stage has almost been completely slagged, Jeb. The hail is gonna get to the reactor soon. You need to get Bill and Bob out of the lab before it goes!" Jeb relayed this information to Bill and Bob, and then brought up the module map of the ship. He dispatched the same orders to the prospector rovers, the manned rover, and the survey sat. He armed the docking magnets and preformed a final power down of the ships bridge. "its been a pleasure, sir." Lenny, the ships AI said as Jeb signed off. He met Bill and Bob in the main corridor. "I have a plan. We all need to get to the lander." Jeb switched to 657. "Val, can you confirm the undocking of all probes?" "Uhh, yes. But what are you doin-ohhhh.im arming th-" "I already did. just wait for us and lets get out of here before the reactor is hit." The trio was almost to the lander when a stray hail cloud slammed into the tunnel. Jeb saw blood splattered on the wall. Between the pressure from the hail hitting the rear and the now weakend tunnel the hallway broke into two and the lander started to drift away slowly from the rest of the ship.

tool, valentina, poland

just a question for you guys i made a new story so im wondering how you do the thing under what you write so i can put a link there. please? [edit] The story is named year 312 so pls check it out!

chapter 1 Get out of your bunk. Get dressed. Climb the ladder through the hub to the kitchen. Call dibs on the next cup of koffee. Say good morning. Report to Gene. The feeling in the air of the Zephyr Kerman was always a little tense on a landing day with the rookies alway suprised by the lack of constant work to do and the veterans looking as if this was just another day on the job. But today was different for the veterans. Jeb took a quick look around and found the same expression on both Bill and Bobs faces. A grimace with just a hint of a smile, no doubt caused by the fact that they were completing the kerbaled exploration of the solar system today. But when he got to Val, he found that she was already looking at him. They both smiled, and Jeb felt the little square container in his pocket press against his leg. He remembered being caught by Gene when he shoved it in his duffel bag on launch day. That sure had been a interesting conversation. His thoughts were disturbed when the centrifuge spun around to face Eeloo, the rock that would launch Jeb the other orange suits into kerbal history as the first kerbals to set foot on every celestial body in the system. Joining them where rookies Mayzee and Anzer kerman. The message came from the KSC, they were go to start pre-landing procedures. The rookies were exited by this and leaped to the lander, only to find the assigned checklists containing "make sure all of this importand stuff is on" The rest of the crew headed to the lander except for Bob, who headed back to the lab to transmit the last points of science. Suddenly, The kerbs at the lander heard Bob scream in terror. "OH KRAP OH CRAP OH KRAP OH KRAP!" The entire crew rushed to the lab to see what was wrong. Bob was frozen, his eyes fixed on the window in front of him. He was staring at Eeloo, and at first Jeb coudent make out what was so scary. but then he started to make out edges. Edges of gaint chunks of ice, and no doubt a shotgun blast of tiny ones, the results of a cryovolcanic event that would change Eeloo's surface forever. Headed strait for them. "EVA SUITS! NOW!" Jeb cried.

"but you can call me kerbnet" @Just Jim (sound of head banging against wall)

Does anyone Know if this works in 1.2.1? @Murican_Jeb? @Azimech?

I don't plan on having any direct references to the characters or plot of the original book. I plan on realesing on Sunday and Thursday so I can make progress on the Thursday chapter over the weekend EDIT: I may steal terminator though

Hi guys, first time posting on this thread and if you haven't noticed my title yet I am considering starting my own story. My idea so far is heavily inspired by the sci-fi 2312 but with a bit more action. Screenshots will be pretty much impossible as the story frequently would include things that can't be done in KSP (disassembling gilly, for instance) I plan on updating twice a week. So can you guys please just give me a reality check?

what my 1.3 contains -second gas giant (sarnus) -2.5m high altitude jet/rapiers -two kerb capsule -0.625 and 2.5m SRB -a way to dump fuel (to make aircraft landings easer) -simpler, easyer set orbit cheat (use the mouse) @sal_vager

hmm, too close to the buildings for explosives... I recommend ether quite a few tank guns or a stock SRB missile (insert subtle opportunity to be in story with a less dumb sounding name)

Let's see, kuzzter, just Jim, cydonian monk, unusual attitude, the epic squared, adsii1970, and probably one I forgot. So this puts you in about 7th of 8th place?

Yes! Behold, the next great author of mission reports!

Whoa, what did laythe ever do to you guys? Here I was picturing it as a tad cold paradise and you literally just turned it hellish. How about you wait for the second gas giant (cough *sarnus* cough) and take out your anger on one its moons, not innocent laythe!

yo dwag, we heard you liked jetpacks, so we put a jetpack on your jetpack!

DUN DUN DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUN!

Just when I was beginning to like you... @DarkOwl57

Feed it to the kraken