The solid fuel chemist

congratulations on making it to the last page! i award this thread the title of "the ultimate dead thread"

chapter 9 part one Jeb was taken down a long series of hallways with many twists and turns. After about five minutes of walking Jeb, Bill, and Bob were taken to a door. One of their escorts checked inside for somthing, and then motioned for the three to enter. It was a very lavishly decorated office. It did not take a detective to guess that the kerb sitting behind the equally fancy desk was of great importance. But Jeb did not care about any of that at the moment. For rushing towards him with a huge smile on her face, was Val.

to be brutally honest, i cringed every single time the game updated. glad to see your moving the story into a more permanent plot.

(reads previous chapter)(super deep voice) In light of the recent alien incursion, this council of nations has convened to approve the activation of the XKOM PROJECT. Good luck, Commander

quick! duct tape the hatch shut and push the cockpit to the kerbulans ship, then puncture the monoprop tanks to use the cockpit as a missile! or you could use my patented "giant cryovolcanic hailstorm that kills absolutely everything you point it at" attack (under licence of corse)

chapter 8 Bill was the first to see it. Looming over the horizon like some gargantuan sports stadium, the city was a stark contrast to the white ice. "By Kraken, its only been a few generations. How is this possible? "Qubes" their driver said, as if that explained everything. "whats a qube?" Jeb asked before anyone else could. "around year 113, a young scientist found a way to combine the best parts of both classical and quantum computers. the result was somthing so revolutionary it sparked a period of history known as the accelerando. within seconds of coming online, the first qube solved the problem of nuclear fusion. It then proceeded to revolutionize space travel, explained in detail the optimal way to terraform every terraformable body. Duna was officially recognized as a individual political state only a few years after. Eve soon will be too, although for now it remains a mess of kerbin affiliated colonies. Dres is a glorified shipyard, its business is creating terrarium. And anywhere else isn't really worth mentioning, but you can take a guess. A few cities, a grand plan, and some people willing to do anything to achieve it. Eeloo is one of those places, just without the plan. we have the means to grow the economy, our ice is in very high demand. We just need to find a way to stop people from stealing it. War in space is a very finicky thing, at least on the surface anyway. It becomes a more possible in orbit where you can have navies, essentially. But the smaller you go, the more brutal it gets. on kerbin you can eject if your going down. in space, the highly explosive fuel that your ship runs on will do that for you. for infantry, a flesh wound becomes a death blow. And tanks... Best not to talk about those. But the that's the reason that Eeloo remains a minor planet anyway." The rover drove into a gym-sized airlock with 3 other rovers and was released into the city streets. Their driver dialed some numbers onto a keypad, had a brief conversation with a kerb on the other end, and Jeb and his crewmates where rushed away by a group of kerbs in suits with official looking badges and earpieces. sorry no updates in awhile.

ahh, i remember the good old demo days, building rcs upper stages and using landing legs as docking arms. oh what fun it was, having to build rockets larger than the vab just to put a lander on the mun.

because its 2016 and spacetime identifies as spaghetti. why does my bus start violently oscillating up and down on the freeway?

Chapter 7 Jeb was thrown into the corner of what he assumed was a rover, seeing as they hadn't noticed the structure before. His now dark spray-painted helmet was stripped off and he was met by a young kerb with a messy black mop of hair and holding a very deadly looking pistol. "What did you come for this time? Is it more of our ice? Cause sometimes it seems like everybody just thinks this entire bloody rock is one big quarry. First the damned Dunans, Than the Belters, soon it'l be the Eveians, even though they claim to be allies. SO WHAT DID YOU COME FOR THIS TIME, HUH? The kerb spat on the floor. Jeb stared at him coldly, then reached under his suit and ripped off his velcro wings and name tag and offered them to his captor. he read the patch, then stared back at Jeb. To say the kerbs jaw dropped would be an understatement.

As soon as i opened the spoiler, my laptops fan turned on... as if it was thinking harder...trying to make the connection... creepy...

Chapter 6 Jeb almost fell in the hole. one second he was walking, the next he was awkwardly hanging on to Bill with one foot still on solid ground and the other out over a cliff. Bill heaved Jeb back over the rim, and all three kerbals stared at the sight in front of them. It was a huge cube shaped pit. Jeb strained to see the other end, even in Eeloos little to no atmosphere. Was this some sort of gargantuan mining operation? A weapons test? Jeb had absolutely no idea. There where hints of either one scattered all over the place. The nearly flat sides of the pit hinted that the ice had been cut over a period of time by machines, but there were bits of metal and scorched areas everywhere. there was even a wreck of a large 4 tracked vehicle with corroded bits that looked suspiciously like guns sticking up. The trio walked over to investigate. Bob, who had been hit in the leg during the hailstorm (He got his patch kit out in time) and couldn't walk very well, found two suitably bent pieces of metal and used them as crutches. Property of Duna security force, Some stenciled letters read behind where the seat must have been. "Huh" was all Jeb had time to say, before he was grabbed from behind and something very narrow was poking under his helmet collar.

hey @KSK can you pls add my story? Links in my signature. Thanks, SFC

Krakens! i returned to the thread, only to speculate, get it right, then scroll down to find......another chapter.

yes, I did. Be aware that this is not just Jeb's tale. Either I will state the perspective has changed or for story reasons ill make you think a little. (such as we know that jeb is alone, and this "new" character is with Bob, and both Anzer and Mazee are very likely dead, so this leaves Bill and Val. And seeing as salvaging the bridge is a very "engineer" thing to do, This would leave the more sharp-minded among you correctly presuming that the mystery kerb is Bill.)

chapter 5 Jeb was staring at the stars. 271 years, not a single one had changed. So far away. So far from all the events of life. Almost no chance that they would ever be explored. And yet they were somehow content with this arrangement. Living out their pointless lives, known only as a dot millions of light years away... ZZZZZZZZZ... The radio static broke the silence like the explosions those insanely delicate fuel tanks at the KSC made. Jeb didn't understand at first, but a second later he realized with joy what this meant. he scanned the crater rim, and sure enough, not two, but four red stripes stood out on the ridge. Jebs first impulse was to fly over, but with a quick opening of the resource tab he realized all the fuel in his tanks had evaporated. It would be several minutes before Jeb made it to Bill and Bob, and upon reaching them, They all exchanged hugs, and Jeb's spirits were heavily lifted that cold day on Eeloo, day 80, year 311.

forget all these expensive rockets, just find a dozen more magic boulders and boom, space conquered, free of charge.

Chapter 4 271 years. That's how long Jeb had been asleep. Everyone he knew, with maybe the exception of his crewmates, was dead. It was a terrible feeling. All of his friends, his family, for a second, Jeb didn't want to believe, but then he looked up. Eeloo had formed a beautiful ring system, perfectly formed. It would have taken decades for that to distribute itself along its orbit. Jeb was forced to confront this harsh reality. His old life was over. One step at a time. Constantly support your comrade. Check the screen you salvaged from the crashed bridge. Tell him that we're getting closer. Probably just over this crater rim. Increase your pace. Hope their alive. Hope their alive. get over the rim. See two little red stripes way out in the middle of the crater. Their moving. Point it out to Bob. He Smiles.

ok, i guess

GIANT SPOILER

problem no.1 never done any 3d modeling of photoshopping in my life. problem no 2 this would severely affect the rate at which i could produce chapters. problem no 3 If you have any screenshots that show bop-sized asteroids turned into giant spaceships or ring systems around believable looking kerbal planets, please contact me at notelling@gmail.com.

do you plan on expanding this mod or supporting early ww1/2 tech missions using aviator arsenal and naval artillery systems?

wow, If only i could change the subject like that in RL

ill try not to spoil the story, but lets just say this leaves the realm of whats possible in KSP In a few chapters, so pictures are not going to be a thing, per say.

ok can someone tell me why nobody's replying?

now That mah boy, takes commitment. Props to you.