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Comic + logs = c'logs. Geddit? No? Well, nevermind. Point is, I realised I'm posting a heck of a lot of semi-comic mission reports to the WDYDIKSPT thread, and I figured it might be nice to have somewhere that I can keep them all with some semblance of order. I'll just add pages onto this as I go. Career #5 - 1.8 One small jump for a kerbal, one giant leap for kerbalkind Pielab Dunamite and Evenger Freebird and Wren (first gen spaceplanes) Intermission Special; finishing my stock bucket list (Eve exploration) Career #4 - 1.4.x Passing the Garman line Boostenthruster (low orbit), Mousebat (Iota) There's something behind Iota The Iotian Anemone Anomaly, Business as Usual A Bigger Rocket, 5 Star Safety Aiming Higher, The Ceticean Institute Training Montage, Desert Beagle, Tellumite, Anemone Station, Jets are Useful! But so are Rockets The Niven Expedition Doorway to Grannus Longshots, Recalls and Rescues Beli Rumbler Spiceroquette Community tech tree patch applied to this career (massively inflates the back end of the tree, preventing runaway science progression without making the first missions horrible): Career #3 - 1.3 The Undiscovered Country We Like the Moon Progress Montage A Martian Oddity Kermen are on Mars, Rovers are on Venus Ambling Towards Failure (Jupiter), Bring Them Home (Mars), Wings and Wheels (Earth), Lil Hottie (Mercury), Tinlion (Saturn) Bring Tin Home! Cloudspear (ssto), Attempting a landing on Europa, Skylance (ssto), Pupper Fetcher (crane?) Mods used in this career: planets - SSRSS === visuals - Foreign Eagle sky | Tex Replacer | Ambient Light === parts - Near Future | SpaceY | DMagic Orbital | KNES | LET | Tweakscale | Scansat | Foundries === gameplay - Bon Voyage | CTT | HETTN | Trajectories | Transfer Window Planner Career #2 - 1.2.2 Early days Plane pain Unstable orbits Lonely on Iota Why I-ota... Oh, the Manatee! Anticipatory mining Tests, One does not simply walk into Mo'dur, Tellumo what... Interplanetary Mice, Buggy Robot, Hot Bot Christmas on Tellumo, Desertfox Gold Moons, Desert Willy Sandy Pants Terrible Spaceplane The spice must flow, Recall I'm not saying it was aliens... Hotwings express Minor Misjudgement, Planes Hotels and Automobiles Mods used this career: Planet packs - GPP | Rald === Visual enhancements: SVE | SVT | Foreign Eagle sky | Tex Replacer | Ambient Light === Parts: Near Future | SpaceY | DMagic Orbital | LET | Tweakscale | Scansat === Gameplay: CTT | HEN | Strategia | Trajectories | Transfer Window Planner Career #1 - 1.1.3 Important note: In this career I make heavy use of KR&D to improve my ships by investing excess science points in exchange for better stats on parts. It's sort of cheating, and sort of balanced, because you have to work hard and earn them. Upshot; early designs might work if replicated in stock, later craft will not fly with pure stock parts because engines won't be powerful or efficient enough to do the job. But this isn't a thread about showing off stock craft anyway On the whole, production quality improves as we move down the list. After about #11 I start using brightness/contrast/hue/saturation adjustments to improve visibility of details. Please don't hate on me for the early posts Early missions: Munpig, Duna Beagle, Vatil Explorer, Havet U, Munwolf II, Munwolf III, Ike!, Eevee (Eve), Dres Freebird, Munwolf IV, Munwolf V, Munolithobreaker Munolithobraker, Fido Rover (Rald) Hawkwind, Badgerald (Rald), Skyball Station (Rald), Gillyboat Vall-iant, Dunaworrybehappy Discovery One (Jool) Spidertug, Firebird (Rald survey) Mohoho and Kal-louse, Preghastly, Thomas the Tanker, Joono Revisited Sarnusulose, Munbunny, Ranger Rover (another Rald survey) Ranger II spaceplane and Duna Bug (Duna survey) Investigator IV spaceplane design evolution (yet another Rald survey - can you tell I like this moon?) Firebird IV (Mun, Minmus, Rald training runs), Firebird V (Gilly), Tektonik (Tekto) A Mohovian Odyssey We can't help but like Ike, Sarinator Sylveon (crewed Eve landing and return - single launch) Road Trip (Rald), Thunderhawk design Launching the Thunderhawk (SSTO seaplane) Ocean Birds (Laythe) Space Druids (Vall) Big Dumb Rocket (Tylo and back), Superheavy (tanker maintenance) But it doesn't exist (Dres), The challenge Logistics Nightmare (learning to use KAS+KIS properly) Hard Edges (Slate and Eeloo), Space Eggs (Ovok and Hale), Science Fiction-y (improved engines) Fat Little Rocket (Tekto), Bipolar (Minmus) Who's Lum? (Urlum) Sand and Ice (Plock, Karen) Neidon it again! (Neidon, Nisse, Thatmo) Interstellar species and Epilogue Mods used this career: Planet packs - OPM | K-Plus R | Rald === Visual enhancements: SVE | SVT | Nebula | OPM-VO | Tex Replacer | KerbinSide | Ambient Light === Parts: Near Future | SpaceY | MK2-X | MK3-X | MK4 | Hab Pack | DMagic Orbital | LET | Tweakscale | Scansat | SEP | Atomic Age | SETI Greenhouse === Gameplay: KRnD | CTT | Hide Empty Nodes | Strategia | Anomaly Surveyor | Trajectories | Transfer Window Planner | Rover Contracts Munpig. Lyssa Kerman leads the first crewed mission to another world with a lightweight little ship designed to grab some surface samples from Mun. Duna Beagle. Mission control weren't really sure whether the Beagle would survive the trip to Duna, so they had the engineering team make the cheapest little doohickey the possibly could. The orbiter got most of the science instruments, since it would stay well above harm's reach. Vatil Explorer. Mission control failed to read the '0.8g' stat on the official data sheet, resulting in a lander that was only just barely capable of getting to ground safely. Havet U. In many ways, this planet proves to be the little brother of Vatil. A little paler and a lot smaller, it proves no problem for the lander. Munwolf II. Do not ask what happened to Munwolf I. Jay Kerman, Leo Kerman and Thystle Kerman deploy a number of surface experiments. Munwolf III. Lyssa Kerman, Llew Kerman, Otter Kerman. Went to Minmus due to a failure to communicate the name of the vessel to the mission planners. Ike!! Probe. Designed by our engineers in the southeast. Eevee: hopefully evolves into vaporeon. Dress Freebird. Nothing to report. Munwolf IV. It just keeps getting bigger... Munwolf V. No really, it's huge now. Munolithobreaker Munolithobraker. An inauspicious name. Fido Rover. Fearless Rald explorer.

Vaguely space related link below: http://zitscomics.com/comics/march-25-2018/

Project Vulcan is actually two different Duna programs I've designed and will be sending at the same time. I'm using a modded save in which I need to account for supplies and habitation using USI-LS. Program 1: the "KOSMO" team is inspired by a Russian idea for a Mars mission from the 1960s. The crafts are inspired by, but not true replicas of Russian craft with the exception of the TMR Halo - which was inspired by NASA's cancelled Constellation design. The mission will send a team of 3 to Duna orbit; hopefully off to Ike where Val will land; back to LDO where they'll meet up with the "Dune Runner" and try to land it in tact. Spend a long term roving trip on Duna before returning to the Halo and then back to Kerbin. Program 2: The "KASE" team will send 10 kerbals to Duna on the CTV Hyperion (Inspired by the Hermes from The Martian). They will rendevous with Orion-inspired Duna orbital shuttles, one of which is set to take a LEM-inspired lander to Ike and return. They will remote land 2 5+ Kerbal habitats, Duna Ascent Vechicles (inspired by the MAV from The Martian) and rovers which the crew is likely to land in. My New Years Goal was to get the mission started and I have so below is the first mission report: I've also been debating trying to do a comic like the great @Kuzzter even though I honestly have no idea what I'm doing with that medium. I threw together 4 test pages following the same rough format as above. I'm not sure which format I'll stick to but I think I'd like to try the comic format if I'm not too bad at it. Pages 1-4

Thought I would drop this here. Cheers! Capt'n Skunky

So I had originally wrote effusus out as a series of gameplay videos and cinematics... Until I realized that that would be mulch. I have such little skill there, I basically have negative cinematic ad filming skill. So, I transferred effusus into a new medium of storytelling! So, I pumped these three out in powerpoint yesterday and, after a few rewrites, these are what I came up with. Hope you like it so far, not sure If I want to add another page or not. Either way, Olson - Boards of Canada