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I have a 110-Ton lifter if anyone needs it. Works in RSS.

OPEN STARS: PART XXIX- Landed Part II LOCATION: ERIN SURFACE DATE: May 28, 2095 JEB: This might be bad. MEANWHILE, AT EXODUS BASE VALENTINA: So you're telling me that we have no way of contacting them? BILL: Well...uh...yes, I am. GaRus can beam down satellite imagery, but he's on the other side of the planet. BEATRIX: We do, however, have an approximate area where they landed. VALENTINA: Do their suit radios still work? BILL: We have no idea if they're even alive! If they are, then we could possibly use the suit radio to get a more accurate location. Of course, we'd have to be withing 10 Kilometers of them. VALENTINA: Hmmm. Bill, go get the shuttle ready for flight. We're getting our crew back. Beatrix, stay back. If anything goes wrong, I want at least someone still here. BILL: We have liftoff. BILL: Engines running at 83% VALENTINA: 83%? BILL: Any higher, and I get overheat warnings. BILL: I'm getting radar pings! VALENTINA: See if you can contact them? BILL: Jeb, can you read me? Stephanie? Over. JEB: This is Jeb. Stephanie is here, and we're both unhurt. The shuttle's tanks are going to blow in a few minutes, so hurry up. BILL: A lot of s**t just happened really fast. VALENTINA: Concentrate on landing. We're almost there! BILL: There they are! VALENTINA: We're landing pretty soon. Hold out 'till then. JEB: Coolbeans. VALENTINA: Almost there. BILL: What the hell happened to the other shuttle? STEPHANIE: Jeb landed her upside down! VALENTINA: On the ground. Hurry! JEB: Stephanie, head back to the shuttle, now! STEPHANIE: What the hell are you doing! JEB: I need to grab Bob's data. Make sure he didn't die in vain. JEB: Got it! Heading over! BILL: I've connected to what's left of the other shuttle's computer. She's going critical! JEB: I'm running as fast as I can! JEB: Onboard! Let's get the hell out of here. BILL: Liftoff! BILL: We've reached safe-distance. I guess we- woah! STEPHANIE: What? BILL: I just read a temperature spike, and then all telemetry was lost with the shuttle JEB: I'm gonna' miss that shuttle. Served us well. BEATRIX: I overheard comm chatter. What the hell was that? VALENTINA: Long story. BEATRIX: Nice to see all of you are back in one piece. JEB: Agreed. STEPHANIE: Yeah, there's no place like...home. TO BE CONTINUED... I loved making this episode 'cause it let me explore a bit of Erin. I admit, for a Kerbin-like world, it is still pretty different. Other than the first Erin landing, I guess this episode really hammered home how far the Kerbals are from home...or at least their old one.

I've never thought of the idea of stealing a space station. Nicely done.

Can you try to add the Conestoga 1620? Weird rocket, but looks cool.

This was a payload demonstration flight. Even with my planned Mars mission, I'll probably never loft anything that big.

110 Ton to LEO lifter! Seriously though, part count isn't a problem, but flying was a real pain, because the "lead ballast" tank kept swinging around. Still, successful flight.

How may I present an RSS/RO payload?

OPEN STARS: PART XXVIII- Landed LOCATION: ERIN SPHERE-OF-INFLUENCE DATE: May 28, 2095 VAL: Jeb, I'm sorry about your brother. He was a good- JEB: I know, I know. I'd like to grieve, too, but we have a mission at stake. Bob would've understood that. BILL: You know, he was my brother, too. BEATRIX: Really? GaRus: I recommend having a memorial service when we land. STEPHANIE: 'kay. GaRus: I also ran a check of the engines while you were talking. Orbital insertion is in T-12 minutes. VAL: Well at least you're coming back home. JEB: Yeah. See you in a few. GaRus: Orbital insertion successful. We'll do another orbit to execute an inclination change to match Exodus base. I recommend running a system check on Cerberus-B. JEB: Can do. (One Orbit Later) STEPHANIE: We are go for undock in 3...2...1- Goodbye Garus. GaRus: Goodbye? I'll be dropping in while you guys make the base. "Eye in the sky". JEB: Our de-orbit burn looks good. We'll have to glide a few kilometers to the base, but that's for safety. VALENTINA: Nice. Well, we've got some potatoes down he- JEB: You grew food already? VALENTINA: Yeah, while you were gone, we planted some crops. Your arrival coincided with the harvest, so I'm here waiting on you. JEB: Hmmm. BILL: What's the status of your burn? JEB: Good. Pretty good. Coming down right where we want to. I'm just prepping the shuttle for re-entry. Hitting the atmosphere in 5...4...3...2...1. We are coming down. BEATRIX: Cerberus-B, your HeTank 4 is reading overpressurized. JEB: Roger. Correcting. (BANG!) STEPHANIE: Woah! JEB: This is Cerberus-B, we have lost avionics. BILL: Reroute power to engines, and see if you can use the gimbal to- JEB: Engines are offline. BILL: What is working, then. (SIlence) BILL: Jeb! JEB: Stephanie, we have lost radio contact. STEPHANIE: Are we f****d? JEB: I have once more trick, and if that doesn't work, then yes, we are colossally f****d. Rerouting cabin oxygen to flaps 1-3, and 5-6! STEPHANIE: We have control again! JEB: Not for long. I'm venting overpressured oxygen onto the flaps to turn them. JEB: I'm putting her down to land- STEPHANIE: We have no power to the engines! We'll break apart! JEB: It just has to be slow enough that the suit can absorb the impact. STEPHANIE: What if the suit breaks...oh yeah, we can breath the air. JEB: Brace for impa- STEPHANIE: Jeb...Jeb! JEB: W-What. STEPHANIE: You good? JEB: Just fine- JEB:- I think I'm the first person to ever land upside down on an alien planet. History in the making. STEPHANIE: All systems are dead...no surprise. Cabin is leaking, though. JEB: Get your helmet, and we'll head outside to assess the damage. STEPHANIE: You think they'll come for us? JEB: Of course. Bill is a persistent SOB. TO BE CONTINUED....

Are you going to try landing on Beros of Kyx?

OPEN STARS: PART XXVII- Waiting in the Sky LOCATION: SKELTON SURFACE DATE: May 1, 2095 STEPHANIE: Barometer says that there's a storm out there. BOB: How bad? STEPHANIE: Uh...it is- S***! JEB: What? STEPHANIE: We just lost contact with the barometer! JEB: We can't just abort...some of that data is incredibly useful. I think I should do an EVA. BOB: In that!? No, I'm coming with. JEB: Suit up. BOB: Damn! Look at the wind! JEB: We. Need. That. Data! The Geiger Counter will tell us how much shielding Exodus Base needs! BOB: I have an idea! What if we use- JEB: Bob! JEB: What's your status !? BOB: I was-(Cough)-hit by debris. It went through my f*****g lung! JEB: Hang on, we're coming to get you! STEPHANIE: Visibility is zero! JEB: Use the IR sensor! STEPHANIE: No good. It was mauled by the wind! BOB: Head-(Cough)-back to- God D****t! Head to the shuttle! JEB: I'm not leaving you! BOB: Do it. We need you to come back alive. The colony needs you. JEB: Maybe if I home in on your suit ra- BOB: Leave me! You'll get yourself killed! JEB: Don't do this. STEPHANIE: The wind is gonna render the engines inoperable if we don't launch soon! JEB: Damn you, Bob. Heading to the airlock. STEPHANIE: Go for launch. BOB: Remember that poem they taught us? JEB: Yes Bob, I do. STEPHANIE: They taught you guys a poem? JEB: Words to live by. I'm sorry. BOB: I love that poem. STEPHANIE: I'm so sorry Bob. Engines at 100% JEB: After time adrift among open stars. BOB: Along tides of light, and through shoals of dust. JEB: I will return to where I began. STEPHANIE: Jeb, Bob's suit has stopped transmitting. JEB: (Silent) Okay. Dock with Exodus. Let's get out of here. TO BE CONTINUED... Yeah I tried to put feels into this one.

RIP Delta II. You will always be in our hearts.

Why not Titan?

OPEN STARS: PART XXVI- Surface of Skelton LOCATION: LOW SKELTON ORBIT DATE: April 31, 2095 JEB: Pressure...good. LS...Good. Yeah, I'm stepping out of Cerberus-A right now. STEPHANIE: Roger. BOB: How's it lookin' out there? JEB: Red. Very, very red. Probably the nitrogen in the atmosphere reacting with the sunlight. BOB: Mind if I join ya'? JEB: Be my guest. I'm going to take a bit of a hike. STEPHANIE: Stay in the lign-of-sight. JEB: I will. I'm just going to get some samples from that ridge. BOB: Woah! It feels like walking through water! GaRus: It's the pressure. JEB: When did you decide to show up? GaRus: Now. BOB: I'm going to meet you at the top of that hill. JEB: Alright. I've set up some soil samples here and there, and the Geiger Counter is almost set up. JEB: You want to come out, Stephanie? STEPHANIE: No. I don't. BOB: Some ice queen. Anyhow, look at the view. JEB: You know what's weird? BOB: What? JEB: In all of our travelings across the planets, I've never felt as though we were on an alien world. BOB: I see what you mean. Erin makes for a good Kerbin, but that's the only other place we've been. JEB: It makes you feel kinda small, doesn't it. BOB: It does. STEPHANIE: You guys should head back to the shuttle; The equipment needs some time to record data. JEB: We're coming back. Let's hope nothing goes wrong. TO BE CONTINUED... God, how long has it been since I made an episode for this?

Would it be possible to make an Interstellar planet pack using Kerbol?

Nice plane. Will it fly again?

OPEN STARS: PART XXV- Cerberus LOCATION: LOW SKELTON ORBIT DATE: April 30, 2095 BOB: Look at that cloud cover! JEB: Gonna' be one hell of a landing. GaRus: I will help input data from my RACON system on your landing heading. JEB: Cool. STEPHANIE: We have detach... prep engines for de-orbit. BOB: Engines on- JEB: Huh, I think the sandwich I ate went bad. BOB: -Shut up Jeb, I was trying to sound cool. JEB: Burn successful. BOB: You were just interrupting me to say that! STEPHANIE: Guys! JEB: Hitting the atmosphere. BOB: Skelton has a thick atmosphere and low gravity. Temperature at the surface is...-179 degrees? GaRus: Skelton could be made of mostly ices and frozen methane. JEB: Frozen methane? Weird. JEB: Atmosphere's getting thicker. We can now fly the craft. STEPHANIE: No fire? BOB: The data here says that it was a gradual increase in pressure as we descended. JEB: Punching through final cloud layer-landing engine on! BOB: The surface! JEB: We have good control...touchdown in 3, 2, 1- JEB: -Touchdown! STEPHANIE: Pretty cold out there. BOB: No s***. TO BE CONTINUED... Also, comment below what Exodus Base should be renamed.

Would it be possible to have a Cargo Dragon/Dragon V2 with an open-able door, like the Red Dragon mission?

Is this still going?

Save broken. Whoops.

OPEN STARS: PART XXIV- To Skelton LOCATION: Low Erin Orbit DATE: April 10, 2095 GaRus: Orbital burn in one minute. JEB: Do we have compensation for the extra mass? GaRus: The burn will be a bit longer, due to a lower throttle, but we'll be fine. BOB: Trans-Skelton-Injection burn in 3, 2, 1- BOB: We're burning. STEPHANIE: Burn was good-I repeat, we are on our way to Skelton. JEB: Rog. (23 DAYS LATER) GaRus: I've prepped the engines for the burn to orbit. BOB: How's the shuttle? STEPHANIE: Readouts are good. We'll be able to land after an orbit. JEB: Just one? GaRus: You guys have work at the colony. Besides, the shuttle can't sustain you three for more than a week. BOB: Look at that volcano! GaRus: Burn in an hour. JEB: Reaching periapse. STEPHANIE: Engines on! GaRus: Burn was good-we are in a low orbit. VAL: Nice fancy flying! We won't have instant comms, but this is close enough. JEB: You'll be watching us? VAL: Yeah. JEB: Cool. Let's prepare the shuttle for landing. BOB: I ain't complaining. TO BE CONTINUED...

It is. I'm planning to use this in my "Born to Kill" series.

Hi, I'm doing all of the above steps, but even when I have a Weapon Manager in my inventory, I am unable to fire. Anyone know why?

Yeah, all of my stories after Open Stars are in the same universe. "Tales of Dying Kerbin" After Time Adrift Among Open Stars Born to Kill (Upcoming) The Reaper Leviathan

Will this go past the Mun landings?

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