Part 20: Thinking with Portals
Today's update starts with some M700 SCANsats.
At the ASC, the staff were busy planning a Sarnus kolonization mission.
RING RING RING!
A contract appeared for a SENTINEL telescope to scan asteroids passing near Jool. It was pretty much free money, so the contract was accepted.
While thinking of ways to get the station to Sarnus, the Extra-Kerbin Space Technology Research Agency's Superluminal Logicstics Division magically started existing and created warp beacons, which the ASC took interest in, and bought several. The new plan was to only launch the already-launched SCANsats and a warp beacon to Sarnus, and teleport the rest from Kerbin orbit. The only problem was the beacons ran on Karborundum, a very expensive and rare resource.
While waiting for the Pol transfer window, a janitor got a brilliant idea of building a craft with a lot of RTGs at one of the bases and sending it to Kerbin to sell the RTGs to make millions. A senior scientist in RnD heard the idea and stole all the credit.
Kerbal Alarm Clock is a life saver when you have a lot of maneuvers and craft.
Now that that's done, we can start mining Karborundum.
Next time, time will start moving much faster to get to the interesting stuff, like TPA shenanigans and Sarnus launches.