Mikki

Clearly, the promised vaccine is an even more effective virus.

Inject (spread) a overkill type virus to all the most frequented airports/ biggest citys/ capitals and - relax. Engineering appropriate incubation time and effectiveness of said virus should be peanuts for invaders. After reducing the human population as desired, show up generously and offer cure in exchange for total submission. Mankind will love it.

I`ll start a new careerplay basically just for the use of robotic probes, it is a nice reference to Nasa hardware. I can`t wait to feel the honour of accomplishment again, more adventure, way more game depth and much more thrilling time on the ground engineering my own Kerbal Space Program again from ground up! Thank you SQUAD, epic additions, epic contents!

Hi there @Tonkabot glad you got the grip on your request. Stock KSP Kerbals don`t suffer from any boredom, the missiongoals are mostly straight forward linear and Bob (Yeah it`s our clumsy scientist ) can do whatever he desires while the KSC Managers (You ) get the rescuemission going. No time limits however. The shiny rover has IIRC a 100 units battery attached... The behaviour as you`ve described doesn`t seem right to me, timewarp at 4x and above should drain them correctly while driving, so i can only guess; 1. you are running a mod that causes this (Dynamic Battery storage, or similar ones) 2. KSP 1.7 introduced a unknown bug (unlikely, but who knows) 3. ? 4. in case you`ve advanced in the mission and got a RTG attached to the shiny rover, it`s okay 5. ??? ...I highly recommend to run this mission on a perfectly vanilla stock KSP installation, everything else i cannot give any support. This mission contains difficult KSP endgame mechanics. I would recommend this mission only after finishing at least the normal careerplay with finishing the techtree and some endgamecontracts done. I have disabled the Alt-F4 menu to ensure the true and honest "Die Hard" experience KSP can only offer . Good luck!

Caveats are inevitable, like disappearing randomly to literrally nowhere by a certain chance, which makes the use of this propulsion rather "kafkaeske". Imagine a tradejourney or a simple sunday morning coffee-and-cake meeting with the neighbours around ten stars away and oh crap, the whole shebang worth a million workhours including some "VIP"s went down the rabbithole, never to be found again. God-like technology, but with a horrible twist.

If i would write Sci-Fi (which i don`t, but i read and know some classics), I would go with a (alien-) drive that defies current human knowledge completly. "My" aliens would travel the galaxy by drawing unlimited energy from a higher (or folded, unobserved) dimension, creating some kind of a warp "bubble" or a condition unknown to us around any desired shape/mass and move it around with way superluminal speeds, say, 100`000 c. They may be even capable to cross the voids between galaxies and superclusters. Any normal matter that crosses the trajectory of said "bubble" would simply desintegrate to nice vacuum energy and seize to exist. No problem crashing protons, molecules, dust specs, or solid planets. Planets may suffer serious punctuation nonetheless. They could travel through stars, black holes, neutronstars... (umm, maybe not...), whatever, since they simply "cop out" of our universe`s physical conditions. There are no other "reasonable" means known to us doing so, but any advanced technology looks like magic to the ones that didn`t knew about before.

Nevermind. A safe distance has an advantage, unless Hype run

Okay... i feel like here is something going on. Like when you`re about to take a deep breath before a huge storm unleashes. Or Kerbal apocalypse on the KSP Forum. Stormshelter, anyone? Are we there yet?

Oh-ohh...This made me think of a well known classic cinematic in which some freaks with lightning eyes use to ride on really huge worms. Then i found this. It fits weirdly to the current hype... A hyped cat in a worm costume,

Hi there, open your KSP folder/ Missions/ The Dunatian 2.4/ Ships/ VAB Hope this helped And welcome to the forums, great time to join!

Conceptually a species that could truely exist, agreed. (Its not that i agree based on my current forumname "robotic cat", which is purely fun and not related) I do like local wildlife which includes domesticated cats and wildcats, lynxes, even wolverines, and the behaviour of said reallife fauna is rather amazing, funny and sometimes frightening. I give your fictional endeavour quite a good chance for a good sci-fi story.... and the mentioned life-cycle has it`s rationale nonetheless, even some "old snarky people" like me must respect other ideas. (Knocking my head and thinking "Get out you demons of rationality, now!") Edit: You are actually smart, we, descendants from banana munching apes should exercise some modesty when it comes to a possible global tribe outrage involving nuclear fissile sticks driven by pure greed about bigger and tastier bananas.

Having a reproduction cycle depending on a second lifeform (the fruit) seems basically legit. But it seems to circumvent evolution and adapting to changes in the environment in general, "Survival of the fittest" has been proven a somewhat effective way to evolve a species to gain higher levels of intelligence. Abundance of the trigger (the fruit) is a so-called filter in evolution, some simple lifeforms on earth may have existed for a certain timespan like this, untill the environment changed and the trigger vanished. Not criticism but such a sex mechanism as described leads to many open questions when applied to higher lifeforms. Sex is most simply explained a trick of nature to cheat death, refreshing and mixing DNA, the pleasure and arousal a programmed feature buried deep in the genome and acting on the most basic level of the subcontiousness. Depending on the fruits make this species rather vulnerable, the genetic pool under constant constraints less likely to evolve naturally and healthy.

I could imagine a alienrace of; Insectoids, enhanced with "custom bionics" like digital extended memory or digital situation awareness, artificially extended lifetime by genetic engineering or chemical, physical technologie. Not the regular specimen of said insectoid civilisation, highly optimized for exploration. Travelling space at c, close to c, or morelikely at a fraction of c might need to specialize the travellers to make it even possible. They might be similar to humans, bipedal, imagine descendants evolved from a ant or termite, wasp or bee kind ancestor. They may be super adaptable by genetical engineering themself in "no-time", and live like for ten thousand years, when some wish to do so. Which noone of them wants, because its just dead-boring even for them. Their reproduction and social behaviour might be utterly pragmatic and lacking any sense for things like religion, politics or human desires. They might be interested finding ways to other dimensions/ parallel universes or simply wanna look around what`s going on in the Milkyway. Maybe said insectoids are capable of manipulating physics in a way that make them literally god-like in our eyes. A Kardashev scale 2,5 or 3+ civilisation which currently creates a unfathomable galaxy-supercluster-wide experiment due to pure boredom, nobody really knows the idea behind. Clearly, they utilize selfreplicating robots and artificial intelligence to persue their goals. Single specimen/ groups of said Insectoidrace might be "prospecting" the galactic neighborhood for unwanted "collateral" damage due to their "higher means" and follow instructions from their superiors without knowing any much more details to share with us. Basically absolutly friendly aliens, galactic "apex predators" without the need for any prey and missing any fear because they simply "can". They assemble any desired element in wast amounts simply by nuclear fusion, equipment and any biological sample is nano or mega constructed at fully automated facilitys surveyed by A.I. Literally gods. On the edge of creating live themself based on well-known elements, carbon, hydrogen and the common matter created in supernovas or their nuclear fusion facilitys. We may behave like bacteria to them, but still respected and taken for serious.

Going to read your work soon! By then !

Excellent question, the answer depends heavily on your audience. Every age has its own challenges and rationals. Imagine a 5 year old kid with the life experience/knowledge of a 95 year old man. This happens only in the realms of fantasy. Your alien she-humanoid might get a instant mild seizure after consuming the cake and shorthandedly kill off the entire biosphere on earth without batting an eyelash. A story or ideal depends on the audience, not the story. If i want to talk to dead people i take a walk on the graveyard and do that thing, loud, so the ashes and worms can copy my tell. This is how Hollywood works, you will get the joke later, or tomorrow morning at around 4:45 am. @Scifi, in case you`re on the verge to develop a story with said alien humanoids, i wish you all the best on your task, leave the known paths and enter the unknown. Audience will judge you, which one is your choice.

Will probably do nothing else elsewhere.

One of very few persons who received extreme unction by a priest and continued to live nevertheless. Farewell Niki

BTW, is getting something out of a deal really important? Capitalism? Corruption? War? Just for your interest, where i live and for what i know, owning things and calling things your own means responsability and work to maintain it. I recently fired some younger employees for basically nothing. They basically earned money for doing nothing. We hired some "old farts" who get the joke and the job done. I am an "old fart", (45+) and i get the joke, every morning at 4:45 o clock, when sh*t starts to happen and others still dream on.

...we can be generous to complete strangers. I guess the superiors put the humanoid aliens on a strict diet with forced labour and no TV.

"Where i live, "Knowledge" is the most valuable thing. Sadly, none of your choices matter. Have a cake?"

Catch Snoopy with a net?

...I often realize i messed up "something" after hitting the launch button and a: lost control about basically everything or - b: feel the first stage pushing weirdly on the unluckily dettached upperstage or - c: hit frantically "abort" if i`ve built in any launchescape system or - d: drop my jaw in wonder about the beauty of prematurely staged uncontrolled solid boosters or - e: close said jaw when watching said boosters colliding with the rest of my beloved rocket or - f: feel amazed about the huge fireball where the rocket was supposed to fly seconds before or - g: get uncomfy while significant parts of my rocket fall off without permission or - h: launchclaps decide to disengage before any thrust has built up or - i: wonder why my rocket tips nicely over towards the sea due to excessive ... umm (insert educated guess here) or - k: ... ...then, i feel in best company visiting this forum.

Possible seizure warning:

Russian mindsets work definetly different to western europeans, "Russian Soul" does exist, "it" is truely amazing, heartily and as warm as a campfire in winter in a pitchblack wood with friends at - 20° celsius, shoveling a pit through kneedeep snow and permanently frosted soil to raise a tent to sleep in it. Therefore its called "Thrill". You must come here and do this once on your own. Its great.

I did not want to derail/hijack this thread or offend anyone reading on this forum. But back on topic, i allways think about the idea of the Soyuz system as something like "together, united". Very nice and human. Naming rockets for whatever purpose seems a rather interesting matter. I can`t believe how ironic some names are, whoever invents them. (I am a from finland btw, we think differently )