Draconiator

I USUALLY don't spend tyoo long on one game, but I always come back to it. So I'm back on KSP for a while after a lengthy Terraria stint, and this time here's the first thing I built I actually like this time. I may use it in my story, I dunno...

Yep FINALLY you all know where my title comes from. And if I can just fix an issue...that I can't get help on because I don't want to spoil anything...

It's MONDAY MONDAY MONDAY, and you know what that means...MONSTER TRUCKS AT THE CONVENTION CENTER. </random> Okay so no monster trucks...however we have a monster of a story to finish, so here's the big 20! As Jeb pulled away from the station, he marveled at the small little ship. Apparently, it was the first of a fleet of tiny VLDs, or Very Light Destroyers, comissioned by Wernher himself to combat the growing threat. And this one just hapenned to be named the KSS Valentina, after his wife. He figured that alone would make him love the thing, even if it was ugly as hell, he joked. Suddenly, Gene came on the radio. "Okay Jeb, we detect you are flying the Valentina. Your mission: You have two targets. One is the inert bomber drone we mentioned. The other, seems like a cache of alien weapons stashed in high orbit. You are to destroy both of them, to prevent any harm befalling either KSC, or Kerbin itself. I know you can do this, you are the best pilot I know. Gene Out." Jeb KNEW that this would send a message to the...whatever they were, so they must be ready at all costs. Jeb then began the burn for the bomber drone. As he sailed out towards the drone, Jeb turned the Valentina to look at Kerbin and the Mun. He never tired of this view, the beautiful blue marble suspended against the blackness of space. The home of all Kerbals...the home of KSC. One that would be turned to dust if these things were allowed to continue their grand designs. Jeb MUST stop this, or countless more Kerbals could suffer. As he approached, he turned on his imager, and finally saw the drone. There was the blue light again, and indeed it seemed to be waiting for something, perhaps for the signal to attack? It would not have the chance to, as Jeb was going to destroy the thing. He opened up with his 4 50-cal barrels as he closed in. And succeeded in blowing the thing to smithereens. Jeb couldn't rest however, because the cache of alien weapons also needed to be destroyed. He just hoped it wouldn't be as defenseless as the bomber was...Unfortunately, that would not be the case. As he neared his second target, ...something hacked into his radio and began speaking in the same monotonous drone as the two that confronted him on Kerbin, except this voice was lower pitched. "JEBEDIAH KERMAN, THIS IS UNIT 0698, YOU HAVE ENTERED A RESTRICTED AREA OWNED BY THE ETHERIUM. THUS, YOU MUST BE TERMINATED." Jeb was confused. How the hell did this...thing know his name? And what was the "Etherium"? He bumped up the magnification on his viewfinder, and saw...something that looked like what he had recovered, but apparently this one had guns on it. "Jebediah Kerman to unknown ...thing, what is the Etherium?" "WE ARE THE ETHERIUM."

Okay so I'm having to re-launch some ships for the story, because I'm about to continue actually writing (up to Chapter 34), and I decided to use the current launch as a teaser image for what is to come: How will all this play out? Tune in and read for yourself! And the payload is currently burning up BRB

Oh god, more zombies! lol, you definately have a way with stories, Jim!

Helllllooooooo Kerbonauts! Okay I know it's not Wednesday,but decided to update every Monday instead, so you have something to read during the least favorite day of the week. hehe. Here is Chapter 19! While waiting for the automated tanker, Jeb and Haydi could sit back and relax. They were quiet; Haydi anxious to get started di-secting the thing Jeb brought back, and Jeb just excited to get to space again. Soon the automated tanker came into view, and a few minutes later, docked itself to the craft. It wasn't the biggest tanker he had seen, but he guessed Gene ordered the VAB crew to tailor-make it for the situation at hand. And Jeb's Revenge didn't need that much fuel anyway. While the refueling process was going on, Haydi and Jeb talked to each other about various things, how they both ended up at KSC, their interests, basically everything. Haydi even talked about her ex, who had cheated on her with some female bodybuilder from North Kerbin somewhere. This was why she only focused on her job nowadays, and didn't want anyone. Jeb talked about his wife Valentina, and how they met. She seemed perfectly suited to him, and they eventually wanted to settle down and have a family. Someday, he thought...also, he did not want "Jeb Jr." to be in this line of work either; it was too dangerous. He relished the thought of his son/daughter following in his footsteps though. After a few hours, the tanker finished refueling and automatically undocked. It gave a little gas to the huge Rhino engine and slowly pulled away. Gene would try a highly experimental landing with it back at KSC to keep costs down for the mission, and Jeb hoped that it would succeed. Refueling completed, the first order of business was to get to Phoenix-Munhat, and Jeb had to get into a higher orbit to do so. That completed, he initiated the maneuver to intercept the station. He was still puzzled - where did this station come from? Why is it called "Phoenix" Station? He appreciated the nod to poor Munhat, but the KSS Munhat was gone, wasn't it? He had time to think on the transfer to the station. Would this really be when they take the fight to these things? He would REALLY like nothing better than to punch the leader of these...things in the...core, ahd he guessed he would be able to soon. As they finally neared the station, Jeb made out another, smaller ship there. Someone was at the station already, and it looked like a sleek space fighter. He also noticed something else, and he inqueried to Haydi about it. "Haydi....did Gene do what I think he did?" "Yep! You know us Kerbals, always resourceful. And mindful of the past. Gene thought this would be a nice gesture." It was for SURE a nice gesture. The station itself looked very ugly, but it's the thought that counts, ALWAYS. He also noticed small...whatever they were on the ends of the docking ports. He asked Haydi what they were, and she told him those were Automated Docking Extenders made by Gene himself, to aid docking of ships. Jeb was eager to see just how they work, and he watched as an extender undocked itself from the station and docked to the plane. Then it signaled to a free docking port, and took over the ships systems. Soon, Jeb's revenge was docked, and they saw a familliar face inside - Bob!! Jeb was overjoyed! "Bob!!!! What are you doing here?" Bob had a smug look on his face. "Can't do science without a scientist, eh? And I was tasked to go retrieve some stranded Kerbals. I will do that when you leave for your mission. You no doubt saw the other ship here?" Jeb nodded. "That, dear Jeb, is yours. Gene found out what that carrier signal from the wheelie box was being sent to. It looks like something huge beyond Mun's orbit. From the data he'd gathered, it seemed like it was waiting for some directions, and then was going to bomb the KSC. It's a good thing we caught the box before it was able to send them out...or KSC would have been ground into dust." Jeb listened intently. Of course he would love to blow up any...machines linked to these bots. And now that they had a bargaining chip of sorts, and if they were able to reboot that strange bot... Haydi had already moved the thing into the science lab, and was getting ready to work on it when Jeb came in. "Haydi? We don't know what we're up against here...that bomber thing may be armed. if I don't make it back...it's been good to know ya." Jeb saluted. "Jebediah Kerman...you'll be fine. You've been through the wringer, and I'm sure you want to see this through to the end. When you get back...I'll have answers, I hope." Jeb wasn't very convinced by her tone of voice. She hopes? They knew next to nothing about these things, besides the fact the little rover thing was called "Subunit 0349". They didn't even know it's purpose...he just shrugged and headed to the small ship.

Sounds like the weather where I live this year. When it's hot and humid, storms start forming later in the day, and you never know when they will hit. Had a really severe storm a week or so ago that ripped small branches off of trees, and a few days ago another severe storm drifted by just a few miles north of us, we got the tail end of that one, just rained hard for a few minutes.

I'm thinking people are all caught up now, and this time I will go slow and only update ONCE a week. on Wednesday. Weird. Anyway....A chapter that is LOOOOOOONG overdue: (I lost the "LCD" font I used before, but I found a replacement.) As soon as Jeb and Haydi were on board, the hangar crew started pushing them with a tug out to the runway. Jeb marveled at the plane. A carriage....with boosters? this thing must not be able to get to orbit on its own. "Hey Haydi, how many engines again?" "They're all RAPIERS. 5 main engines, 4 for the boosters, and 6 on the carriage. We're headed to an orbit of 80km first. You all strapped in?" Jeb checked his straps, and sure enough, he was in tightly, helmet on...he was ready. Haydi came on the radio. "Jeb! Start 'er up!" Jeb hit the ignition, and the mighty craft roared to life. Jeb sighed happily at the sound 15 RAPIER engines made....it was like heaven on earth, he thought. Then the order came. "JEB, HIT IT!" Jeb threw the throttle forward, and the huge beast began picking up speed. Jeb marveled at how they were nearly going vertical, yet still picking up speed. "Hey Jeb, ever fly something like this?" Haydi questioned. "Never! This is a beautiful machine, and I'm still in tears that you built this for me! Thank you!" Haydi felt accomplished. "Awwww, well after the destruction of the Munhat, I HAD to do something to get you back in the game, and now with this thing we can take the fight to these...things! Oh yeah, I took the liberty of putting that thing in the cargo hold." Jeb nodded, and continued looking at his readouts, as they gained altitude. He knew the RAPIERs could not be used in thin air as a regular jet...and by his reckoning they had too much weight...until Haydi yelled, "SEPERATION ACHIEVED!" Jeb was awed by the engineering hurdles Haydi had to jump over to make it work as well as it did. And soon they were roaring to an orbit high over Kerbin. Jeb got on the radio to Mission Control. "GENE, we're in orbit but we need fuel!" "Roger that Jeb, and go easy on her - she's yours after this mission!" Jeb just had to sit back and smile.

Concerning the long hiatus - I thought people were getting bored of it, so I stopped updating for a while. And also, there's been a bit of "ship-rot" in my save file, but if I don't have any ships I have had before, I will rebuild them.

I doubt this will last as long as 1.9.0, seeing I started when it was 0.90

YOU SCRUFFY-LOOKING NERF...oh wait wrong show lol

Back again! resuming shortly. I'm sure Gyazo still has all my shots...heh

You know, your Zombie Kerbal is severely giving me the creeps. can it be that Thompberry is controlling her now somehow, and he's going to download his consciousness into her? Oh, and I also want to continue my story but I did not have any readers last time...so it's a gamble. what should I do?

Ooooooh....take THAT Thompberry! Although...ol' Thomp seems to have regained his humanity...for now at least. hopefully Kerenna can make him come around completely.

I was thinking of continuing my story, but I sorta lost interest in it once I saw that people probably weren't that into it....eh

I DO know that the first location is either Polta or Priax, I get confused as to which one is which...lol

http://www.space.com/33262-recreate-osiris-rex-mission-kerbal-game.html I go to space.com all the time, so when I saw this it put a smile on my face

Here is my submission, I put it up against the Crown, and it won more times than it lost in testing. They seem equal as well, mine has redundant wings though, just in case. This thing is ready. https://kerbalx.com/Draconiator/Kerbwith-Alpaca Curiously, the Crown flies a LOT better as a lower-wing monoplane...if it is lucky enough to have ONLY the top wing shot off, it will win a 1v1. heh

I decided to take a break for a bit, but I'm back and am heading into the kitchen to cook something up.

Steam sale, 0.90, but before that, well I'm VERY careful with my money so I didn't know if I would like the game or not. I fell into that trap when I wanted a replacement for Sim City. Cities: Skylines was a massive dissapointment... Anyway, I Googled KSP because I wanted to know more about it, and played the demo. I've played the demo for a long while until the aformentioned Steam sale came along, and I dogpiled it. a game that lets you be creative is a dream come true, especially for me...I think every one of my builds is a look inside my squishy organ I have in my head. hehe

Nice Airplane! reference too

Woooooo! Wernher started as a guineapig test pilot! and I KNEW you would like OPM enough to do this. I like Wernher's Aeroship, what's the range on that thing? Oh, and there's sooooo much to see...first Kerbal in space for one....and how did Jeb come into the picture...and onandonandon...I love this Jim keep going!

Leviathan Station FINALLY got a visitor...and the game crashed while navigating here to post it. Thing DOES have 600+ parts... Depending how much dV my ship docked to it has, I may end up going to Eve.

Question, how are you planning to ease the mod into the story? I mean suddenly Eeloo's not a planet anymore...lol