TotallyNotHuman

I do not look forward to posting chapters. The only reason: The %^&#*@^$ editing interface. Oh, in other news: Today I've decided to drop 2 chapters at once. Enjoy. Chapter 12: Chapter 13:

So, I just discovered RemoteTech and I liked the difficulty of having to micro-manage signals and time delays. This mod, along with TAC and KCT, are serious game changers. But, in my experiment save, I tried to establish system-wide comms for the Kerbin system. I already had a triplet of comsats in a low-ish (625 km) orbit and that covered comms up to 4.5 Mm altitude. I built another satellite, with two dishes, one for each of the moons, and two omnis, and launched it into a 4.5 Mm orbit. I set Mun and Minmus as the targets for the dishes. It should help if I added my crappily-drawn diagram in MS PaintTM. Here's the part where I encountered a problem. I sent a probe out to Mun, thinking that "Aha! I have the relay-sat's dish pointed at Mun; therefore, I must be able to have comms even there!" Wrong. I lost the probe after passing 4.5 Mm, and didn't acquire until it came back into sight of the low-orbit commsat system. Experienced RT2 users: What am I doing wrong (based on both the diagram and what I've told you)?

Oh, a food item! My sleep-deprived brain thought you were referring to some other thing. I've actually yet to try a Calzon er... calzone. But according to my colleagues they are "effing delicious" (exact quote trimmed because KSP Forums). As for the name... I actually used the random Kerbal name generator for that. Not sure why it gave me a food item... According to (memory) of my (scrapped) worldbuilding Word doc (Wordbuilding?) Calzon actually had a decent childhood, because his mother made excellent synthmeat Calzons calzones, and that Calzon is actually a nickname that stuck to adulthood.

Ahh, the exploding wheels problem It's a mighty fine craft to fly in pre-1.1.x versions, I suppose. Could you also include ascent / re-entry profiles? I suck at flying spaceplanes, especially on re-entry.

Hey there! I'm a big fan of this mission report, and I have to say: Great job so far. Hope you get it working with 1.1.x soon. Anyway, is there any chance you could post a stock version of the Titanium shuttle to KerbalX or something? I think it's really creative to mount an external tank on the nose (no asymmetric thrust). Thanks again!

Explain, please. Either I'm too dumb to get the reference, or I'm just REALLY sleep-deprived right now. Also, Calzon's a really emotional kerbal, as you will see in Ch. 12.

@MrWalrus123 No, only the large probe core, the high gain antenna, and the large static solar panel are in 1.1.x. The telescope part is still absent.

Believe me, you do not want to know how much I hate this editing interface.

No screenies, unfortunately. One day (back in 1.0.5 IIRC) I was trying to build a STS-style launcher for a spaceplane. I don't know WHAT I was thinking, but I strapped the thing to a Twin-Boar and rolled it out. It might help to add that the spaceplane was Mk1-sized. So I launched it (Twin-Boar facing East) and the ridiculously offset CoM/CoT flipped the thing like a dime, even with SAS. I went "oh crap oh crap oh crap" and, in a last ditch effort, jettisoned the booster, rolled the spaceplane right-side up, and prayed for the best. The spaceplane impacted the ground at 100m/s, about 500 meters from the Administration Building. Apart from a few wing pieces which went *POOF!*, the spaceplane was down and Jeb was unscathed. However, I can't say the same for the VAB. Apparently a Twin-Boar ramming into it at full thrust can destroy the thing.

Here's an idea: Use hopper-landers! Yes, not as precise as rovers, but a hella lot faster. But there's still the "Kerbal bumps into landing leg, then landing leg dies" problem, but with careful navigation it should be safe.

Year 1. I have chronic revert-flight-even-though-mission-success disorder.

Chapter 10 is here!

Just throwing my story out there... I've been posting chapters of my story to the Forums for quite a while now (a few days shy of a week), and would really appreciate some more constructive criticism. It's based on @0111narwhalz's Kerbal Future so if you read that story, you should have no problem understanding the technobabble involved in my story. 0111narwhalz: THANK YOU for all the help and constructive criticism. I really appreciate it. Link

Obligatory bump. @ruiluth, are you still here? Also, have you considered adding a ToC to the OP?

Now THAT's what I call a Soyuz-style landing! In all seriousness, congratulations. I usually jettison my heatshield when it is no longer ablating (less deadweight for the chutes), and thus I never would have survived in your situation. Was this in 1.1.x or before that?

To reiterate what I said in the post before: Here are Chapters 8 and 9. I decided to post these two together because they are somewhat related to each other. Chapter 8: Chapter 9:

School bought copies of KerbalEDU for the computer lab. Tried KerbalEDU. Thought the EDU mod was crappy, but the game was good. Searched on steam for KSP. Found KSP on sale for (50%? It was winter sale) Bought KSP. The end. PLS HALP ME I AM HELPLESSLY ADDICTED

Yeah, I should probably change it to "Updated whenever the author damn well pleases". Worry not, there's a catch for giving Desdon the ship.

Be careful what you wish for, @0111narwhalz...

I'm feeling good today, so I'll release Chapters 6 and 7. The reason I'm doing this is because 6 is a bit too short to warrant its own post. Chapter 6: Chapter 7:

Chapter 5 has landed! Links on the Table of Contents shall come soon.

Amen to that. Anyway, here's my food submission! Name: Insta-snack Ration Mark One Company: Umbrella Snack Industries* Source: Macerated biscuits and jam Backstory: While mission rules mandated that pilots of short missions must ingest a meal prior to launch, certain pilots forgot to do so, and started complaining about the lack of rations aboard. To remedy this, the Insta-snack Ration Mark One was introduced. Essentially food paste, vacuum-packed and placed in a squeezable tube, the Insta-snack Ration Mark One is a hungry pilot's best friend. Type: Vacuum-packed ration placed in a squeezable tube Meal Designation: Short-term rations for short missions Meal Type: Paste *totally not a play-on-words of Umbra Space Industries

Trash-thinking... Totally stealing annexing ah... Borrowing that. In my spinoffverse, I attribute the possibility of warp sickness to two factors: body resistance and the affected Kerbal's posture. Remember, during the rapid unplanned stop, Calby was sitting down. But when the ship translated, Calby was preparing to go down to there's Klingons on the starboard bow (see here if you didn't catch this reference) deck, where the bar is, and was standing up. Thus, even though Calby, being a hardened engineer, was extremely resistant to the effects of warp sickness, he was standing up during the translation, and so... Well... Disaster.

Due to a minor Internet anomaly this chapter has been posted late. Nevertheless, this update introduces Head Engineer Calby.