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    Kerbfleet: A Jool Odyssey-END OF CHAPTER 21! (and hopefully not so many talking heads in 22!)

    in KSP1 Mission Reports

    Posted · Edited by Mister Dilsby
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    20 hours ago, Angelo Kerman said:

    Plausible deniability: Mr. Dilsby went suborbital, dropped Jeb, the skipped off the atmosphere a ways before careening back down and splashing down. :)

    Yes. In-comic, that is exactly what happened.

    1 hour ago, Deddly said:

    For all we know, Dillsby might have transferred fuel from Intrepid and had plenty of Delta-V for such a flight. 

    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.

    Kerbfleet: A Jool Odyssey-END OF CHAPTER 21! (and hopefully not so many talking heads in 22!)

    in KSP1 Mission Reports

    Posted · Edited by Mister Dilsby

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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.

    Kerbfleet: A Jool Odyssey-END OF CHAPTER 21! (and hopefully not so many talking heads in 22!)

    in KSP1 Mission Reports

    Posted · Edited by Mister Dilsby
    In a weak moment, I added the links. You're welcome.

    1 hour ago, Angelo Kerman said:

    So, if the no win scenario is to be stranded on Laythe for decades, how does that prevent others from [Kerbulus] from dueling the Kermans? Is it the One Duel At A Time rule?

    @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.

     

     

    Kerbfleet: A Jool Odyssey-END OF CHAPTER 21! (and hopefully not so many talking heads in 22!)

    in KSP1 Mission Reports

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    On 5/26/2024 at 1:41 PM, Angelo Kerman said:

    "In my cabin is a device that will make you invinci-"

    *Valentina shoots the device.*

    "Never mind..."

    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.

    5 minutes ago, jimmymcgoochie said:

    You don't have to know how to pronounce those words- nobody else will either, just make it up as you go along :wink:

    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.

    On 5/25/2024 at 10:40 PM, Starhawk said:

    It is deeply satisfying to see 'Evil' Bob coming to talk to Kerbfleet.  It just seems so right somehow.

    I felt exactly the same way. I needed someone to help me wrap up this story with ruthless efficiency, and there he was!

    Kerbfleet: A Jool Odyssey-END OF CHAPTER 21! (and hopefully not so many talking heads in 22!)

    in KSP1 Mission Reports

    Posted · Edited by Mister Dilsby

    9 hours ago, Deddly said:

    I am a little nervous that Evil Bob appears to be able to bypass the turbolift lockout. 

    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.

    9 hours ago, Deddly said:

    If Kerbals have demonstrated that they are capable of violence, who is to say that Kerbulans are not capable of peacefully working out their differences? 

    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.

    Kerbfleet: A Jool Odyssey-END OF CHAPTER 21! (and hopefully not so many talking heads in 22!)

    in KSP1 Mission Reports

    Posted

    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.

    Kerbfleet: A Jool Odyssey-END OF CHAPTER 21! (and hopefully not so many talking heads in 22!)

    in KSP1 Mission Reports

    Posted

    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.

    Kerbfleet: A Jool Odyssey-END OF CHAPTER 21! (and hopefully not so many talking heads in 22!)

    in KSP1 Mission Reports

    Posted

    1 hour ago, Starhawk said:

    It seems likely to me that the character for whom the author is the namesake will display some outstanding brilliance.  Go Dilsby!

    Yeah I probably should not have chosen this as a new name--I wasn't truly trying to make Dilsby Kerman an author avatar, or heavens forbid a Marty Stu. it's just that since "giving up" the comic years ago I've more or less used the name Dilsby throughout my online personae... and even when I rejoined I didn't think I was going to get that deep into it again until I saw what @Angelo Kerman had accomplished--

    But, as the Kerbulans might say, the die is cast and we have crossed the Rubikon! Whatever Dilsby does next is and how that all works out was all plotted out five years and a couple of hard drives ago. 

    And as to this:

    1 hour ago, Starhawk said:

    However, it seems unlikely to me that his plan will survive Dilsby's interaction with Jeb Kermulan.

    Seeing as "no plan has ever survived contact with the enemy" and that "everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face", it's not a spoiler to say you might be on to something there. xD

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