KAL 9000

Why not use the kettledrum? "I never learned how to play it."

I will investigate the Tellumo asteroid anomaly. INITIATE MASSIVE-SCALE TELLUMO EXPEDITION! *ka-ching* -10,000,000 Mort: NOOOOOOOOOO!!!

"makes dub mistakes" "dub" Don't you mean dumb? PROVED YOUR POINT!

Getting a little Lovecraftian, aren't we, @CatastrophicFailure? I can totally see the Kraken and Cthulhu being best friends!

Guys... Take a look at this... I was innocently in the Tracking Station in my GPP Sandbox save, and look what I tracked! That asteroid is NOT where it should be... it would have encountered Niven or Tellumo and gotten knocked into a different orbit millions of years ago! And then I realized something else. This asteroid is on a near-perfect Hohmann Transfer trajectory from Tellumo to Niven. What if it's not an asteroid at all? What if it's a Niven probe? Is Tellumo really as devoid of sentient life as we thought?

It's not impossible, Cheng. It's UNPOSSIBLE. For the record, the monolith was 1:4:9 (the squares of 1, 2, 3, the first three positive nonzero integers) Wait a minute... "THIS GALAXY IS GOING TO BURN! THE END IS NEAR! PREPARE YOURSELVES FOR THE FINAL HOURS OF THE ONLY WORLDS WE HAVE EVER KNOWN!" That's really cryptic. REALLY cryptic. That could only mean... No... That's impossible... Wait... Of course... CI'I CEDZ KZUBTH, JLH'B PF?

I would tempt the zombies with my brain, and lead them into the nuclear explosion. Everyone dies.

I managed to recover three of the missing screenshots! SarnusSCANSat-Computer(ID:SPI-OPSE/1A8): COMMAND RECEIVED: UPLOAD ALL PHOTOS DESIGNATED "SCREENSHOT"... SarnusSCANSat-Computer(ID:SPI-OPSE/1A8): BEGINNING UPLOAD... SarnusSCANSat-Computer(ID:SPI-OPSE/1A8): ERROR! UPLOAD FAILURE! --- The technician on duty at the Tracking Station looked at the readouts on his screen, and turned to his superior. "Sir, there's been some sort of error with the Screenshot photo uploads from Sarnus... Looks like a glitch, I'll get the computing division to take a look." "Did we get anything back?" "We get all the normal telemetry and science readouts. For some reason, the images are coming through garbled. I've managed to patch through three of them." A display screen switched from displaying probe trajectories around Sarnus to what at first appeared as static. The screen gradually got less pixelated as algorithms and image-enhancement systems worked overtime, and it soon resolved into an image. KERBAL SPACE PROGRAM ARCHIVE FOOTAGE SARNUS SCANSAT IN SARNUS ORBIT The screen switched to another image. KERBAL SPACE PROGRAM ARCHIVE FOOTAGE SARNUS SCANSAT IN NOMINAL OVOK SURVEY ORBIT KERBAL SPACE PROGRAM ARCHIVE FOOTAGE SARNUS SCANSAT IN NOMINAL EELOO SURVEY ORBIT

Both probes have successfully arrived at Sarnus! Yay! But apparently the screenshots didn't save! Boo! As such, that's all I have .

*Runs to ASP* (Apocalypse Survival Bunker) ETFKT AH BKH

Well, that went well. We're going to need a reliable source of information to gain some intel on these Krakens. *Pulls out copy of The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy* *Flips to entry on Krakens* *Grabs towel* The Guide advises "running around screaming like a chicken with its head cut off, and praying to your deity/ies of choice" on the subject of dealing with Krakens.

Me too! Wait, when did the governess die?

Hey guys, IRL stuff has come up, and I may not be able to update for the next couple of weeks. Sorry.

The first half of SE-1 has been launched!

Oh, Whack-A-Kerbal is an RTS featuring orbital mechanics? And the Vall part was awesome. And the aliens part was creepy, but cool.

I've flown the Challenger into LKO to test it before the launch window. I forgot to take a screenshot from the exterior KSC scientists have not yet worked out how to image the Challenger with no nearby crafts while also preserving the integrity of the "Fourth Wall". KERBAL SPACE PROGRAM ARCHIVE FOOTAGE SUIT CAM - "Broken EMH" SUIT CAM - "Bill is fixing it" SUIT CAM - "Another view of the EMH" SUIT CAM - "Includes Juice Box! YIPPEE! Also, that ice cream looks delicious... hi, Mister Blocko, Jr.!" SUIT CAM - "This feels awfully similar to HAL's central processing core..." SUIT CAM - "Plant Growth Study or wanting fresh produce?" SUIT CAM - "DO NOT OPEN THE DOOR WITHOUT DEPRESSURIZATION UNLESS YOU WANT TO BE VIOLENTLY FLUNG INTO THE COLD, DARK VACUUM OF SPACE" SUIT CAM - "EMHception" SUIT CAM - "In the Cryo Shelter" SUIT CAM - "And the lower level" SUIT CAM - "The hab section of the centrifuge" "SUIT CAM - The lab section of the centrifuge" SUIT CAM - "The greenhouse section of the centrifuge" SUIT CAM - "Testing the cryopods" SUIT CAM - "Oh, a hospital lifesigns meter!" ADDITIONAL NOTICE: The cryopod test subject was thawed successfully. The lost Glykerol was replaced with HyperEdit by a resupply mission. END FOOTAGE

I get that, but I've always liked how the deflated Ponderosa is physically a container that you can see and put in a Buffalo without any additional packaging, if you get what I'm saying.

Thanks! I actually have a question for you about Pathfinder: Will there ever be Buckboard-form factor versions of the Hacienda, Doc, etc., like the Ponderosa is to the Casa? It would make transporting them outside of KIS inventories much easier.

I found these in my Screenshots folder... KERBAL SPACE PROGRAM ARCHIVE FOOTAGE PLOCK HORIZONS DEPARTURE - ONBOARD CAMERA 01 PLOCK HORIZONS DEPARTURE - ONBOARD CAMERA 02 PLOCK HORIZONS DEPARTURE - HOW DID WE GET THIS PERSPECTIVE

IT'S BACK! YAY! And Val's in the hospital! No!

[NOTE: This is a fresh start/reboot of "The Outer Planets Adventures!", which some of you may remember. It is in a different save, so some past events mentioned in both series may be contradictory, although they did actually happen.] [NOTE: @Angel-125's Wild Blue Industries mods will be featured heavily in this Mission Report, for the simple reason that I like them and they are very well put together.] The space program was looking better than ever. Five bases on Duna were constantly staffed, and a permanent colony had been established on the Mun. Plans were even underway for a sample-return from the inescapable hellscape of Eve. With the recent return of the DSEV-02 Columbia, even the Jool 5 challenge was now complete. It was time for exploration of the outer planets to begin in earnest. Apart from initial flyby probes and Joolileo-style orbital missions, the outer gas giants were a mystery. Plock was even more unexplored due to the enormous Delta-V requirement, with just one probe, Plock Horizons, having performed a flyby of the Plock-Karen system. Exploration had really been more focused on the inner planets, the Dresteroid Belt, and Jool, which were far easier to reach Delta-V wise. Excluding RTGs and LV-Ns, nuclear technology had really only been used twice in space: on the DSEV-01 Enterprise, which carried the first Kerbonauts to Duna and Ike before going on to Dres and returning, and the DSEV-02 Columbia, which recently completed the Jool 5 mission and is now scheduled to travel back and forth between Kerbin and Jool for later expeditions. Both of those craft have nuclear reactors for power, and an advanced Supernova engine custom-built by Wild Blue Industries to be as ridiculously efficient as possible. The next target of the KSP's exploration is Sarnus and its moons. Gene and Mission Control have hashed together a rough timetable: [KERBIN-SARNUS TRANSFER WINDOW 01] -Sarnus Expedition 1 (SE-1) departure. The SE-1 consists of a mothership probe that will carry communications relay satellites and an ion-powered orbital survey probe to Sarnus orbit, and a completely separate standalone probe that will refine on the orbital surveys of the other probe using a Wild Blue Industries TERRAIN scanner. [KERBIN-SARNUS TRANSFER WINDOW 02] -Sarnus Expedition 2 (SE-2) departure. The SE-2 will consist of a crewed DSEV-class mothership and an assortment of landers, as well as separately launched and transfer-burned supply drops to assemble a Pathfinder base on Eeloo to be a base of operations for the mission. [SOME TIME LATER] -SE-1 arrival. SE-1 (hopefully) completes primary mission. [SOME TIME LATER] -SE-2 arrival. Due to SE-2's actual mission being made up on the fly based on the results of SE-1, no further mission statuses can be anticipated from here. --- Wild Blue Industries has been contracted to make a new DSEV-class vessel, entitled DSEV-03 Challenger. Challenger will be heavily modified and almost completely different from Enterprise and Columbia, due to Challenger being required to go vastly longer without resupply or refurbishment. --- Stay tuned for screenshots and more updates coming soonTM.

What the heck does this mean? Anyone? Nope...

I've said it MANY TIMES before, I'll say it again: WHAT THE HECK IS @WinkAllKerb'' EVER TALKING ABOUT?!

Yeah, thought it was that. And no one has decrypted my location yet.