THEdragon

Today I actually went ahead and bought the game. (The last few days I'd just been playing the demo). I'm about to play it for the first time now.

Indeed that is true, unless a life support mod is installed! Though it does seem a little cruel to leave them stranded alone on a barren planet for a long time regardless. But I suppose it beats some of the other fates kerbals seem to meet!

This technically happened the other night, but I woke up randomly during the night and opened my eyes to see my dog standing on my bed staring directly at me. When I acknowledged him he lay down and went back to sleep and so did I. The weirdest part is, that's not the first time that's happened. My best guess is that I had been talking in my sleep (My mum says I do this sometimes), which caught my dog's attention and also woke me up.

This is a Blender model of Walt Kerman I've been working on the past few days. Why Walt? Because he's my favourite, for some reason. To do: Fix the face texture a bit Add a bump map to the hair and face Make the suit look less metallic! Improve the rigging (That deformation at the elbow looks all wrong!) Make the pupils smaller Give him a tongue I know this PR dude is wearing a SCAPE suit and I've certainly been looking at a lot of references but I can't guarantee this depiction here is even vaguely accurate. Though I think I've been mostly accurate to Walt's in-game design.

Today I played the 'To the Mün Part 1' training in the demo version. I got it done first try and was tempted to try landing afterwards, but I didn't want to risk it. I'd feel bad if I went and killed Jebediah after such a successful Mün encounter and orbit!

Haha! Maybe the debris raining down on us was a 'thank you' for turning on their lights for John Glenn! But in all seriousness, these are a couple of cool facts I hadn't known before! And just another thing in case anyone is wondering, my icon is a 3D render of a model I've been working on the past few days. I'll make a thread about it in fanworks sometime soon.

Well funnily enough I happen to be from Perth, too! It's somewhat surreal meeting other Perth residents online. It's like a confirmation that this city does indeed exist. As for the comic, this is the one. It caused quite a stir in the 24 hours after its upload to Reddit, though when I posted it to Tumblr weeks earlier it flopped and only got a couple of likes.

My headcanon is that other kerbal surnames do indeed exist, but the KSC is run almost exclusively by Kermans. The Kermans are actually all clones sharing a common trait: an obsession with the pursuit of space. That is why the space tourists all have that surname too. Non-Kermans, especially by comparison, tend to be afraid of or disinterested in space, preferring to focus on their Kerbin lives instead. The area of the KSC and its nearby towns is rather surreal to outsiders, given that the majority of its population consists of these clones. But as far as game canon goes, I do find it peculiar that all the characters share the Kerman surname. If the first names can be randomly generated, then why are the surnames not? And even the non-generated kerbals (Such as Gene and Wernher) have that surname and it's never really mentioned why. It's strange but I like it.

Hello everyone! I'm THEdragon and I've been a big fan of KSP for over a month now. But, I'm going to be honest with you all, I only just started playing the game demo yesterday. However, I do plan on buying the full game in the future! In the meantime I've been interacting with small parts of the fandom, sharing art and ideas. Some of you have probably seen my comic a few days ago about the kerbonaut left stranded on Duna. That broke a lot of hearts and I'm not even sorry, but I do look forward to interacting with the KSP community some more.