Inspiration

[Whirligig Girl]

The date: Kermarch 13th Year 0. (0.13.3)

"Jebidiah, what are you doing!?" Bill screamed. "Damn it Bill, I've had it with this damned Kraken in this Damned space!" The Icarus spacecraft started it's descent into the sun, as Bill and Bob had feared, Jeb had finally gone mad gone absolutely psycho. Jebidiah hit the timewarp button causing them to swoop down into Kerbol. Bob grabbed the emergency glass-breaking hammer and got the sunglasses out. The Spacecraft started to wiggle. "FIRE THE SRBs!" Jeb yelled. "Did we hit it?" Bob asked. "Well, we hit Minmus." Bill answered.

The ship started to tumble more and more in the ensuing kraken attack, as it raced around Kerbol, the kraken's swaying getting more and more pronounced.All of a sudden the Kraken really hit them. The lander stage was blown off at 20 light years per hour. "Damn it, Jeb, you just HAD to go and attack the kraken, you just HAD TO BREAK PHYSICS, DIDN'T YOU?!" Bill yelled. it wasn't very long until they exited the system. The Kraken forcibly crashed into Bop causing it to fall into orbit around Jool. "Well, we're not coming back any time soon, are we?" Bob said. "We might as well just hit timewarp and see what happens." Jeb said.

It might have been months. It might have been years. Hell, it may have even been billions of years. But Jeb, Bill, and Bob came across something on their voyage. They hadn't any idea what it was, but it slowed them down to a manageable speed. All they did know was that is was big and black, and appeared perfectly flat. A few days later, it seemed, at least, due to timewarp, the ship seemed to be wobbling and unexplicitly accelerating. They were entering Kerbin's atmosphere! Jeb looked out of the window, and saw the heatsheild heat up. "How'd we get back home?" Bob asked. "

." Bill said in astonishment. After they landed, Jeb got out of the capsule. He took off his helmet, smelled the air, and took a deap breath. "Wait. This doesn't smell like Kerbin! He looked at the grass, and saw some flowers. "Those don't look like any flowers I've ever seen." Bill looked. "This... Isn't Kerbin, is it?" Bob asked. "No, we're not ion Kerbin anymore."

After deploying the use of survival training, the crew had created a relativley good shelter. They lived there for a few days, in the mountainous region on this unexplored, extrakerbestrial body. They had sent a few expeditions, but the lower amount of oxygen meant they couldn't go out past about 4 or so kilometers or so. But using equipment on their spacecraft, they did manage to find a good source of parts, with which they could use to create rockets with.

One day, as Jeb was scouting out the terrain, he saw something he never noticed before. It seemed to be an old town of some sort, a settlement near the water. He got Bill and Bob to come see it. As the years went on they never interfered with the settlement, not wanting to contaminate this alien world with their own ideas, or maybe even get killed by angry and confused inhabitants. they decided to get home again. They figured that the Kerbonium command pod should summon this star system's Kraken, and Bob had manufactured a Krakenlure device to specify the proper direction of the interstellar transfer. They built a launch tower out of a tree, and launched.

Unbeknownst to them, the people of the settlement saw the large tree near the peak of the mountain. Everyone watched it, especially when fire came out of it. "它看起來åƒÂæŸÂ種...ç«焰箭" That idea of a fire arrow was brilliant. One person in the settlment was inspired by the design. He eventually realized the capabilities of the fire arrow as a weapon. centuries later, the very same species launched another tiny moon into orbit oround their own planet. This was called Sputnik.

There is a few artifacts of Humankind's first contact with Kerbals. This is the most notable, the earliest.

Edited July 24, 2013 by GregroxMun
redid title. Old title: Close Encounters

[Kuba Kuzman]

Great work on the story, love the artifact

[Whirligig Girl]

It's a real artifact, btw.

[Whirligig Girl]

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