Draconiator

Yes they are. we know now why Thomp went off the rails...oh, and Jim, I sent you a message too.

You ever have those moments where you get an idea for a craft in KSP, and then your brain is on overdrive, and bothering you until you actually build the thing? this happened to me this morning, and I had some commitments today so...I had trouble concentrating for a few hours. When I get home, I fire up KSP and head into the SPH. I ended up with this thing (which flies awesome BTW, if a bit on the slow side): ...and which satisfied my itch too. Any of you have similar?

hmmm, does Chapter 25 need bombers? if so I'll look mine over and do some finishing touches on it before submitting.

Just taaaaaake your time Jim. We all want it yes, but it's a lot better to make us wait for it. I learned that from you of all people, hehe

If I want to submit, do I have to find my post in this thread? I know I posted something in here, but I forget exactly where it is...

It's MONNNNDAY AGAINNNNNNNNN! Lets continue the story shall we? The rough, unplanned breakup of the Revenge did not make Jeb's cockpit explode however, and only quick thinking saved his life. He shoved his personal parachute out of a crack in his cockpit, just before he was knocked unconscious by something slamming into it. When he came to, he was floating downward on his parachute, and he hurt all over. Haydi's willingness to finish the mission above all else nearly cost them both their lives. At least he could finish this, finish what she started...he hoped she would be alive. He didn't feel that great; he had bruises everywhere, and a broken leg... He got out, and immediately collapsed next to his cockpit. He activated the emergency beacon beforehand though, so he would be found. He just had to grin and bear the incredible pain he was in until the sun came up... Finally, Kerbol started rising over the eastern hills, and his pain was lessened somewhat; he knew he would be alright from here. Soon, Gene himself showed up in a transport plane, loaded Jeb into it and departed again for KSC. On the way, he told Bill, who was also aboard, everything Haydi had told him about the Etherium...where Elysium might be...and then he got the news. Haydi had perished in the crash, as well as Four... Haydi...As stubborn as a mule that one, but she was gone...Jeb would miss her. "I guess you are eating Kerbin Fried Kerbal after all..." Jeb joked... A few hours later they were in a holding pattern at KSC, when Jeb turned his head to Bill. "Bill...Finish this for me...as one KSC veteran to another, and as my friend...please..." "Jeb...I will try. I'm not as good a pilot as you though, but I will try my best...you have my word." "Bill...you can fly, that's all that matters. No need to be as good as me...I will be in KSC's infirmary, if you need me..." Bill saluted to his old friend as they landed, and KSC medical personnel took him away. He would need a year to recover but Bill knew, knowing Jeb? He would defy the odds. Later on in the twilight hours, a meeting was held in the VAB meeting room to determine just where this "Elysium" was. The meeting revolved around a key piece of dialog between Haydi and Four, that the Elysium had identified the KSS Munhat at Duna, and followed it to Kerbin to destroy it. but what did they call Elysium? Leading theory suggested Ike, so that was where Bill would look first. After the meeting, Gene kept Bill behind for a talk. "Bill, remember, we must find where 'Elysium' is at all costs. Bob already has rescued the stranded Kerbals in orbit and has returned to Kerbin already, so you do not need to worry yourself about being disturbed. I'm sure your mind is heavy right now..." Bill looked downward. "I know how much Jeb wanted to finish this for Kerbin...because he had a personal beef with them; I don't. I still agree Kerbin has to be saved, and I will do my duty. but for me...it'll just feel like a hollow victory..." Gene sighed. "Don't think too much on it, Bill. Just be ready for tomorrow, you launch to the station early."

If this turns into a book afterwards....Thompberry's last name should be "Fruity"...lol

Is HatBat still taking submissions? I want to start building stuff for him again.

NEW STORY UPDATE, Special Thanks to Commander Zoom who found me some replacements for my font I used, and this one looks almost the same as the other one I used! Thanks man! Also, still need to re-set stuff up in KSP, and been busy lately so I couldn't find the time, but I WILL finish my story, crashes and such be darned! Darnit! Oh, and it's not Monday but I figured I would because Zoom helped me find something for my story, and I'm feeling grateful. (I hope y'all love cliffhangers...) Jeb was glad to leave Phoenix-Munhat. Planetside sounded like a really good thing to him at the moment, and perhaps he could spend some time at the old island airstrip again. Probably with Haydi this time, so he could show her what KSC ORIGINALLY looked like. There was one problem - "Jeb, be advised that I never tested Jeb's Revenge for re-entry...I think we'll be fine though." Jeb got very annoyed at this. "WHAT? You design amazing planes...but you didn't think about re-entry? We'll be killed!" "LAND-BASED ONLY, Jeb. I just used my expertise and consulted with Wernher to build her." If she worked with Wernher, I guess Jeb could let it slide. "But if we end up as Kerbin soil......I will steal your nutrients so you'll never grow grass!" Haydi facepalmed at this. "Jeb...sometimes you can be soooooo wierd...Hey, just think positive alright?" "Haydi, you REALLY don't care wether or not we end up as Kerbin Fried Kerbal, do you?" From then, it was quiet until they undocked the Revenge. Haydi watched carefully until there was no danger of impacting the station. "The bird is away!" Jeb sighed. Finally. He worried about what Haydi said about re-entry, but he input some deorbit coordinates. They would have to land in the daytime, because Jeb's Revenge could not fly at night due to Kerbal Aviation Administration restrictions. "Good thing I'm flying Haydi, because I know how to re-enter!" Haydi scoffed. "Ahhhhh I don't wanna hear that backwards talk from you, young man!" Jeb had to laugh. Young man? He was nearly 45 years old, and he's been around Kerbin a few times, to put it lightly. "You know Haydi, this view...part of why I wanted to get into spaceflight was this view..." "It is nice isn't it Jeb...? I guess I've been way too busy to take it in before..." Soon they were coming up on entry. They strapped themselves in, and readied for the re-entry. And soon after, they were streaking across the sky like a meteor. "Interface! Haydi, hang on!" "Jeb! I need to tell you something, I REALLY FEEL LIKE KERBIN FRIED KERBAL RIGHT NOW!" "Finger-lickin' good? Haw haw!" "Very funny Jeb..." But soon after...the breakup began, and poor Jeb finally lost his life in defense of Kerbin. Or so it looked. Haydi was pretty sure she was going to die, so she prayed so hard that these Etherium would be defeated, for Kerblord to hear her plea and save them all...and just as she was about to slam into Kerbin, she screamed... (By the way, this story is "live" I.E. if I set up a scene, I play it out as if it was a real mission. I only use HyperEdit for things that would take waaaaaaay too long otherwise, or to set scenes up. so....yeah the Revenge DID have a RUD on this mission...lol)

Like some kind of weird Kerbal fetish? lol

It's MONDAY!!! You know what that means, time to dive deeper into the story! And oh, ran into a problem with setting scenes up...I got rid of the offending ship but it froze on load, s4o I'm gonna have to set that up ALLLL over again, oh well... Jeb fought valiantly. He destroyed the cache of weapons, but also his destroyer was heavily damaged as well from that drone. At least they could rest easy knowing that both targets had been destroyed. He wondered what Haydi had discovered, and if she got the probe he found operational again. All he wanted to do now was to get home... "Valentina to Gene, Reporting in. er, that is 'VLD Valentina' to Gene." "I copy ya Jeb, you don't sound like a girl to me..." Jeb had to facepalm....Gene...always the same. He wished he'd never change. "Anyway Jeb, we see you've blown up both targets. I have heard from Haydi, she says she made some headway with the drone, and...that you had inadvertently severed it's link to their queen! Now it is independent and Haydi has been teaching it about Kerbals. It seems to understand now...and wants to help!" Jeb looked puzzled. "How the hell did she do that?" "Ehhhh...to tell you the truth, I don't know either. She just said that she 'used her womanly charm'." Well, that was Haydi alright, Jeb now knew why Haydi probably didn't have anyone yet...she probably had amazing prospects, but chased them all away with her temper. Jeb supposed that was the price one paid for cheating on a spy... Jeb continued. "Anyway, I have found that this thing can fly on one engine if I take it slow. I will see you soon! Jeb out." "I KNEW I could count on you Jeb. Our star pilot comes through again!" Jeb tired of this "you're-the-best" talk, even if it WAS true. But as much as he wanted to live a normal life, KSC WAS his life. It would never BE "Normal". Sighing, Jeb set co-ordinates for Phoenix Munhat station, and carefully limped the heavily damaged light destroyer home. On the way back, he used a gravity assist from Mun as well. Kerbin's bigger heavenly body. Jeb had always wondered if it was made of green cheese, aged by aeons of time passing. But then again...who MADE the cheese if so? Jeb was overjoyed to see the big blue marble again; he didn't think he'd ever come back from the mission, and once his burn would complete he would have to meet up with Phoenix-Munhat. Haydi was waiting for him there. At last, the station came into view, and he called one of the small docking extenders. While he was waiting for it to dock with the Valentina, a familliar voice came on the radio... "HELLO JEBEDIAH KERMAN." Ugh...what was Haydi up to in there while he was gone? "Welcome back Jeb! Bob is still out rescuing damsels in distress so I'm still here by meself, hehe." "Haydi? You're....bubblier than usual." "That's because I've succeeded in making Four a valuable asset to our team!" Jeb was confused. Four? "Uhhhh....Haydi, what did you call it?" "Four! It went by 'Unit 0400', but when I gave it a bit of my generous hospitality, it decided that 'Unit 0400' would be too hard for us to remember." "Oh, and once you are docked, guess what?" Jeb wondered what was coming next, and said nothing. "We have to go back planetside to plan our hopefully final move. We need to find out where this "Elysium" is. Their queen is there, so if we destroy the queen, we destroy the whole colony." Jeb thought for a minute..."Ahhh I getcha, these things are like insects...Rogue drones in a way." "You got it, Jeb! And hopefully Four here can be of assistance as well." "I HOPE TO BE OF ASSISTANCE AS WELL." Jeb rolled his eyes. "Haydi...just shut that thing up..."

hmmmm, this is getting more interesting with every new chapter...I THINK I can say with certainty now those Zombie Kerbals (WHO WANT TO EAT YA BWAAAAAAINS) are Bruberry and Thompington, taken over by something...unspeakable. Emiko somehow managed to not be taken over, and that is why she is "alive". Oh, and 3-day-old Kerbal already wearing a spacesuit! They started 'em young back then!

The second installment of the museum is here!

Not quite. You press Print Screen, and your cursor changes into a crosshair. You just drag what you want to capture, and there ya go!

Wooooo this is going to be a good chapter I can tell...it is always worth the wait with Jim at the helm. I need to get back into my KSP and set up some screenshots for the latest chapter I am writing too...Gyazo helps a LOT with that. With Etherium, all my screenshots are Gyazo shots.

A day early this time, because FISHING TRIP TOMORROW , heheh. Just an establishing shot for this chapter, this one takes place entirely inside the science lab and is dialog-heavy. Haydi liked to be alone sometimes. She was currently by herself on Phoenix-Munhat - Jeb having gone on his mission, and Bob having gone on a rescue mission to rescue stranded Kerbals from when the KSS Munhat exploded. She had the science lab to herself, and was currently working on the...drone that Jeb had brought back. She was grateful for his doing so, but knew how dangerous this...thing was, even though she knew it didn't have any weapons. Her mind turned to everything else that was going on. This increasingly was looking like an interplanetary war between two opposing forces, and that usually is caused by one side that has resources the other wants - she would get answers for sure...what did these things want? As she worked on the thing Jeb found, trying to find some way to bring it back to life...she found a loose connection. Perhaps when Jeb was angrily bouncing around on it, he had just loosened it enough that it just short circuited, and if she...plugged it back in...and just as she hoped, the thing came back to life. "BOOTUP SEQUENCE COMPLETE, UNIT 0400, ELYSIUM LABS, SOFTWARE VERSION 478.R...WHERE ARE WE?" Haydi was suprised about how cold it sounded, even for advanced AI that could think for themselves. "We are in a station orbiting Kerbin, and you will give me answers, or else! Who are you, and what do you want?" "WE ARE ETHERIUM. OUR MAKE IS DRONE." "But why do you want to destroy us?" "COMPETING LIFE FORM." "So, you do not like other beings invading your space huh? WE HAVE A RIGHT TO LIVE." Haydi was screaming at this point. "IF YOU DON'T ACKNOWLEDGE THAT, I WILL PERMANENTLY TAKE YOU OFFLINE, IS THAT CLEAR?" "YOU ARE THE ENEMY OF ETHERIUM, YOU MUST BE TERMINATED." "Playtime over, huh? We'll see about that." Haydi rummaged around in a junk drawer for something to use as a weapon. She found a length of strutting that was an almost perfect likeness to a sword. "Now. I will "terminate" YOU if you do not tell me what the hell is going on here! And what is "Elysium"? "ELYSIUM, OUR DOMICILE." "And where is THAT?" "WHERE WE IDENTIFIED YOUR SHIP. WE TERMINATED SAID SHIP HERE." Haydi thought for a minute...KSS Munhat? Duna? Couldn't be Duna...whatever they use for propulsion to get around would NEVER work on Duna...but Ike...? She also thought...maybe these Etheriums are organized like Kerbin ants, or bees...a hive mind? There must be a queen then, right? She noticed too, that apparently this thing was trying to contact something... "Unit 0400, who is your queen?" "CANNOT DIVULGE INFORMATION" Haydi tried again. ""Unit 0400, WHO, is your QUEEN?" "INPUT UNRECOGNIZED" Haydi was MORE than upset at this point. She tore some of the electrical conduits off of the wall of the science lab, and used them to threaten the drone. "Tell me who your queen is, or 50,000 volts of power will FRY your filthy innards. WHO IS YOUR QUEEN????" "...SUPERUNIT 0000." Subunit...unit...superunit...Sure sounded to Haydi like a hive mind alright. She also had to smile - female "charm" worked every time. Even on things considered unliving. She would have to repair the wiring, but at least she got what she needed out of the horrible thing. "HAYDI...KERMAN?" Haydi was startled. How did it know her name? But then...of course! The hive mind! "What is it, 400?" "WE...I HAVE FAILED. TERMINATE ME." Haydi looked shocked. Apparently Jeb severed its link to the queen as well. "I will not. I will teach you about our kind. After all, we're not alone anymore."

I wanted a side project I can work on in conjunction with my main Etherium, and this was the result I'm not abandoning Etherium, however I'm not going to update this as often, being a side project and all...so lets kick this one off! ***Table of Contents*** Beginnings Kerbin's First Plane

hmmm, Linear Aerospike? *fires up KSP*

I really need to double the RAM in my machine...problem is I still don't know if the max amount of RAM allowed in here is 4GB (what I have now) or 8GB...

I had a "Leia Kerman" once...no Luke though...

Now I want to start calling you the Forum Pirate...lol

Oh GOD....No wonder this chapter was late, so much info into what is hapenning...Jandolin and Harfeld back together! Thompberry is...broken I think...wow...and do we get to see a new-recruit Jebediah? can't wait!

I'm wondering if I should put a small cameo of this story into my story, given Magic Boulders apparently having ingested too much Magic Mushrooms and teleporting throughout time and space...and dimensions...

So I realized I needed to set something up for later in the story...because what I have in mind wouldn't make sense if I were just to follow the story, so I'm going a bit out of sequence here to show you something vital. Also, brand new centering, GO! Far from the happenings around Kerbin, a tiny outpost existed on Dres, headed up by mission commander Sheffeld Kerman. The team was about to commence their exploration of the crater they landed in for the day. They had been exploring this crater for some weeks now, trying to find a strange signal emanating from it. But it remained elusive, and they were about to give up hope of ever finding it. Suddenly, Sheffeld spotted something on his radar. It identified as "Unknown Debris". Sheffeld radioed the outpost. "Sheffeld to Dres Outpost, come in Dres Outpost" "This is Linuki here, what did you find Cap'n?" "I don't know...Stand by..." Sheffeld started flying over to the strange radar signature, which then dissapeared. Which was strange, and for a few minutes he thought the batteries in his suit gave out. But he knew where it was, and continued approaching the strange object. He overflew it once, to make sure the radar return wasn't an error, then approached it on foot. It was unlike anything he'd ever seen before. It looked like some kind of...probe, and seemed inactive. But it also seemed like it was waiting for something... "Linuki, I have my helmet cam trained on something. You seeing this?" "I am...What the Kerb is that thing? it's definately not from Kerbin..." "I'm not sure...but it seems inactive, whatever it is." "I can move it, but rolling it all the way to the outpost will be painfully slow at best, and my EVA tanks are running low. Returning to base." "Roger, Cap'n. Gene would want to hear about this..." Sheffeld intended to report to Gene about this odd encounter. If only he knew that this was connected to the hapennings lately...

I wanted to do this for a while, open my own "store" if you will here on the forums, but I didn't know what to specialize in. Then I had an idea...I see no one else doing this, so I thought, why not? Oh, and all of these are SUB ASSEMBLIES, so they go in that folder. I have only two for now, but will add more as time goes on. So, I give you... Draco's Stock Engine Shop **DSE-01 "Baby Elephant"** My version of a 1.25m Mammoth. This is actually 4 Thuds clipped together with a small tank on top. Lots of power in a small package. **DSE-02 "Pachyderm"** Three Vector engines at 10% gimbal range (so they behave like a normal engine) are at the heart of this one. **DSE-03 "Harpoon"** Three Dart's mated together with a propriatary system invented by Jeb himself! And no, he isn't talking. Includes fins, for stability. (Not for surfing on.)