My KSP Lore

[Serenity]

I hope you like it or at least some parts of it, sorry for the occasional mistakes, English is not my native language.

A long time ago a planet-scale event happened, forcing all Kerbals to go underground to survive.
They tried to resurface many times but with no avail.
There was evidence of a new type of radiation destroying and killing almost everything.
Some brave souls always ventured outside to figure out the source of this deadly menace.
Even the strongest Kerbal materials were literally melting over a period of time and fauna was completely extinct after only few decades.
Some flora somehow survived, maybe mutating and withstanding at some base level this new type of radiation.
Time passed on and scientists were clueless with no idea why this was happening.
Their models showed that there is a planet wide event, a re occurring radiation burst every few hundred years, covering all the planet.
Thankfully the soil absorbed enough to make living underground barely viable.
After the bursts ended the radiation was usually quickly dispersed.
The surface could sustain some life but barely and everytime conditions got worse and worse.
Slowly but reluctantly the Kerbals decided to dedicate in a full underground life
They realized they couldn't afford to split their resources above and underground.
Few years ago, mystery transmitions of some kind of data were detected from some research outposts.
They were coming from various places around the Kerbin and even some extremely feint signals from the Mun.
It looked like they contained data of incomplete blueprints and technologies beyond any wild imagination.
As studies on them continued, the source of this re occurring planet-wide event was finally unveiled.
Now named ''Artifacts'' or ''Obelisks'' they seemed to be devices to store information of a civilization long past gone.
They were likely pre-programmed to transmit their data at a certain time period.
Unfortunately their power source started leaking, causing this deadly radiation.
This technology was beyond of anything Kerbals have ever seen.
Tempering with it and trying to fix it or even destroy it was too risky and could make things worse very easily and very fast.
Thankfully these devices seemed to have an automated system to contain these leaks.
The problem was it could only operate continuously for a few hundred years before it needed to do some type of cooldown.
Kerbals finally had a breakthrough.
They could study these monuments and their data that contained technologies and blueprints that they didn't even seem possible.
Luck was finally on the horizon, these Artifacts could offer a way to traverse the galaxy and maybe even colonize it.
Maybe even leave it entirely...
A plan, a dream was materialized, there was a chance that they would live no more underground.
The scientists and the engineers decided it was worth to fully commit in this endeavor. 
The statistics showed that there was enough time to study and acquire the knowledge to create a space program that hopefully would lead the first attempt to colonize other planets.
Kerbals accepted long time ago that their planet was lost.Even if the radiation bursts stopped,
life could never be the same.Now there was hope, now there was a goal. 
Inside the mountain cities and underground bunkers Kerbals were bursting with excitement.
They designed and build whatever they could within the tight space and materials in hand.
When it would be safe enough, they would venture out and start  building and launching the first crazy contraptions to go beyond anyone has ever dreamed for.
The feint signals , that now is known as a certainty that they come throughout the whole galaxy,
indicate even more insane contraptions and technologies waiting to be conquered.
The data is incomplete and it almost seems  like a galaxy-wide sized puzzle waiting to be solved.
They have some time and they are not gonna miss the chance.
Kerbals want to live above the ground, if its not on Kerbin it will be on the surface of a different planet.
Kerbin is lost...but hope is not.

Edited January 31, 2021 by Boyster