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    Indeed! Or at least he did this one time. If you're wondering how, I suppose we could ask him-- oh wait, and in this case it's not just literary theory.
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    So THAT was it! I had some time to work on the story again in October and couldn't get in. Then I got very busy again and couldn't try again until now. @Deddly I truly appreciate you and your sentiments--for my part I was lamenting the possibility that not only could I not finish the story, but that I'd never again get to talk with all my friends on the Forum who've made writing Kerbfleet one of the greatest experiences of my life
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    Thanks Angelo! But to be clear I wasn’t out of work (this time), just made a change within my present employment and had a lot of transitional responsibilities
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    Hastily drawn Powerpoint beards are now LIVE! And thinking about the next pages--not sure if this will go straight to Chapter 22, an Interlude, or some sort of mixed media hybrid. Whichever way I end up going, we will be seeing Bob Kermulan present his case for a bargain to Valentina, and perhaps checking in on a certain pair of crash-landed duellists.
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    Thanks 2c you’re right—will get that fixed and fire the QA team!
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    I'm alive! And yeah I got another new job and yeah it's all under control (mostly) again now so...
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    And never fear True Believers, I have not gone away again, just got very busy. Am laying out the next page or two to close the chapter. You might not see them today but you will see them.
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    I’m pretty sure I used kellycams for Kerbulan units of distance before but I can’t guarantee the spelling. Evil Bob’s dialogue confirms that the Kerbulan kellycam is equivalent to the Kerbal kilometer.
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    Yes. In-comic, that is exactly what happened. Or that! (though the fighter did enter atmosphere with a full tank, and I did have to alt-F12 halfway to the island I wanted) My general rule in this just-finish-the-comic / cheaty-cheat-cheat era is that if there is at least one legitimate way I could do a thing without cheating, then it's OK for me to cheat and get it done. I'm willing to cheat more than that if what I'm doing does not affect the main thread of what started out as a legitJool-5 mission, and if it results in really good comics. Notably, this occurred when I put nacelles on KV-6 in order to achieve Uchū Kūbo Entāpuraizu coolness. Otherwise, it's fundamentally important to me that this story stand as something that could have happened, and mostly did, within the boundaries of KSP 1.x.
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    Well, with all the exposition and koffee talk dialogue it's actually been a while since I tried to fly anything legit. I guess I've still got it? Though I did lose the starboard small monopropellant tank [ETA: and the docking port] on the Gumdrop in the crash. Ah well. You know what they say in the Air Service. The crash itself was a lot of fun, since I had Infinite Fuel hack running (cheaty-cheat cheat!) and I forgot to turn off the Kerbulan fighter's engine before the ship broke apart. So the tail end splashed around for a really, really long time. I was a bit worried it would slam into Dilsby before he could get the Gumdrop out of physics range. Good times! And RE: that infinite fuel--yeah, the plan was always (like, 8+ years always) to drop Evil Jeb in the ocean somewhere and get Dilsby on an island as far away as possible. I'm pretty sure I could have done that legit, e.g. by dropping Jeb really high up, orbiting, and then making a precisely targeted re-entry so that Dilsby could make his crash landing before running out of gas. But seeing as I want to finish this book sometime soon and in the limited time I have to spend on it, I just flew Dilsby here after the drop-off.
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    @Angelo Kerman, that is a VERY interesting and insightful question! And unless the ISS Despair bridge crew went really deep into the expository weeds back in Chapter 10, pages 18 and 19, there's no way Kenlie or any of the other Kerbals could possibly know the answer. But I think I might know someone else who does, someone who is right now (grudgingly) enjoying the best koffee of his cruel and violent life.
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    Ha! Just about exactly what I was going for. Having already esta-Bill-eshed that such devices were in common use, I couldn't exactly make that the out for Evil (but with integrity!) Bob. Oh no, I take a bit more care than that i should hope. I'm sure plenty of people around here can read Russian, and if I got anything wrong I'm sure one of them will tell me. I felt exactly the same way. I needed someone to help me wrap up this story with ruthless efficiency, and there he was!
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    Chapter 15 began with this post. Read all of Chapter Fifteen ("Til You Drop) here.
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    Well, truth be told I may be taking a little shortcut. We're getting close to whatever the end is, and frankly it's just more efficient if the main people who need to talk next can do it in the same room. Especially when getting visual effects right can mean an hour of flying people around in jetpacks, dealing with helmet bugs, and trying to orient bridge sets sunny-side up for better lighting etc., for just a couple of panels. If there's any concern about continuity etc., well I did hang a lampshade with the thread title. I was considering having Evil Bob throw even more snark than his "abusing crew transfers" comment by pointing out that the "turbolifts" are just part-clipped lander cans, and why couldn't he just transfer into a docked landing craft? Well if he could do that, why did the boarding parties have to burn through bulkheads etc. to get aboard? I'm certainly not going to explain it! This is why the author's crew compartment is as well-stocked with lampshades as KSP craft are with flags and EVA propellant. Who's to say? A couple of thoughts from a similarly mirrored situation: (1) It is far easier for civilized [kerbs] to behave like barbarians than it is for barbarians to behave like civilized [kerbs], BUT, (2) ruthlessly evil or not, it is possible to be a "[kerb] of integrity" in more than one universe.
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    Well.. Evil Bob is many things. The Chosen One? Not so sure. Also I'm old enough to remember watching Episode IV in the theater, so the prequels and sequels can HEYOOO my sweet WATCH IT NOW!!
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    Just noticed the punctuation typo in first panel, will fix later
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    Yes! Dilsby is now in Jeb’s fighter, and Jeb’s fighter is docked to the Gumdrop—which was originally docked to Dilsby’s fighter, and… oh right I forgot
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    Thank you both! I have had the advantage of thinking about this for a few years. I'm happy I got away with it, and also happy I don't have to keep so many unconnected objects in close orbit any more. If you squint you can just barely see the edge of the Gumdrop Dilsby picked up peeking out behind his Kerbulan fighter in the last panel posted on 10 March. Of course, hiding that docked Gumdrop is exactly why Dilsby is thrusting in the ventral direction towards Evil Jeb and not following the standard convention for orienting a ship engaged in space combat.
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    Hey! So I've got bad news and good news. The bad you already know, and it's that I haven't been able to make any new pages since that single one last week. My work spilled over to the weekend this week, and I also had to do my taxes. But the very GOOD news is--while searching my gmail for a receipt I needed, I came across a series of emails from a defunct account to my current one, with loads of Kerbfleet stuff attached (uniforms, flags, etc), some ships--and a persistence file! Of course, at this point thanks to Angelo I have the ships and we're running along nicely with the story when I have the time--so even if I could find an old copy of KSP (and all the mods!) that could actually run that persistence file, it wouldn't make too much difference to telling the story. BUT now at least I'll have all the characters with their appropriate stats, and there are probably some other helpful goodies buried in there... when I actually have time to open all the files and start copying and pasting, which is not now. It's not this week either, as I'll be traveling for work and won't have my KSP machine with me.
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    I'll leave this here while we all wait for the next pages: Caught Monologuing
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