Real quick: My name is Jim, and I signed up a couple days ago. Was told this is the place to show off screenshots...lol... and I've got quite a few I would love to share. I've been playing since 0.9, but started a new career when 1.0 was released, and I've gotten way beyond anything I thought..... ... but it all starts with a girl named Val T. Kerman, who wanted to go into space more than anything. From the first day she was hired, Val was getting into trouble But senior astronauts Jeb, Bob, & Bill knew she was something special, and she was soon promoted to gathering science on and around the space center. And after that she began taking tourists on sub-orbital trips. (This was before 1.0.4 came out) Having made a lot of money on tourists, the space center was able to fund manned missions to the Mun and Minmus And launch large survey satellites But then came a contract for a large Mun base... which I will continue in a reply so this doesn't get too long. - - - Updated - - - Chapter 2: Munbase Tereshkova The contract for the Munbase was huge, and many designs were considered before one of the biggest was chosen But how does one put a monster like this into orbit? Conventional rockets just turned into giant exploding bobble-heads. And the only thing that came close to working was a skycrane, originally intended for landing. Then a junior engineer asked "Why not just build a huge skycrane???" And after many test launches, the Tarantula Skycrane system was born And sunrise the next morning was launched The biggest issue turned out not to be fuel, but overheating, and after 1.0.4 came out I had to add a bunch of radiators to keep it from exploding. But in the end, it got to the Mun in one piece, and landing was easier than I expected. the problem came when I staged the last skycrane, and they went off course and exploded just a few feet over the base But luckily they missed, and Munbase Tereshkova as brought online To be continued... - - - Updated - - - Chapter 3: Space Station Cristoforetti Encouraged by the success of the Munbase, the engineers began experimenting with different designs, including a potential seabase And they launched, Cristoforetti Station, our first heavy space station. And began experimenting with different shuttle designs But then 1.0.4 was released, and parts of my space stations started blowing up. But did my engineers quit? Absolutely NOT!!! They evacuated everyone off the station and launched Station Cristoforetti-B To be continued... - - - Updated - - - Chapter 4: Let There Be Landers So after all the issues brought up by version 1.0.4 were resolved, the center landed a colony base on Minmus And the engineers began working on specialized landers for the Mun and Minmus. the first were the ore-miners, the workhorse of the fleet. These are meant to mine ore, process it into fuel, and re-fuel the space stations. Their success means never having to send up fuel from Kerbin again! And eventually a much larger version was designed, the Super-heavy ore-grinder, or SHOG After that came tourist landers, meant to ferry tourists from a space station to the surface of the Mun or Minmus and back safely. Not the prettiest of my ships, but very easy to land and dock. And finally the Advanced Science Lander, which found something amazing on it's maiden test flight And wile all this is going on, Jeb, Bill, & Bob ran off to fetch a nearby class-A asteroid to play with But now the space center is silent and deep in thought... we have just received contract offers to explore Duna & Ike To be continued... - - - Updated - - - Chapter 5: Duna So in one hectic day, the center launched a station bound for Ike, a colony base for Duna, and 2 survey platforms, lead by Val in a modified Oreship Landing on Duna turned out to be much smoother than expected But while this was going on, Val discovered a weird, creepy black area while landing on Ike Val named this area Kraken's Swamp, and planted a flag so our scientists can explore this further, and headed back to meet up with the space station But new orders have come in. The Worlds First Agency wants Val to return and land on Kerbin with that ship! This could get hairy... it's got 20 parachutes, but those were meant for Duna, not Kerbin. So this is the end of my report for now. Will Val be able to land an Oreship on Kerbin and not turn into toast??? Will Jeb, Bill and Bob be able to turn an asteroid into a space telescope??? Stay tuned... this saga is far, far from over....