Mister Dilsby

Wait, you're actually DRAWING a graphic novel instead of just shoving screenshots around in Powerpoint? +rep, and looking forward to more!

Good stuff as always--and believe me I know, it can be very difficult to do the 'needful' in an ongoing mission story (refueling, crew transfers, training, etc) and keep it entertaining. You're doing so, and with style--keep it up!

Nicely done, you got all the elements of the landing right: the drogue, the heat shield, even the descent stage exploding in the distance. Also the craft is a nice, clean, appropriately Kerbal version of Curiosity and its support hardware. +rep!

I'm back! Did you miss me? Was not eaten by rasva maha or anything else; did nearly step on a skunk on my way to relieve myself in the middle of the night, but the two of us were able to back away from each other without incident. And here's a few more pages getting us to the very elusive Craters biome--don't blame me for the following, you the readers asked for it!

Excellent! And yes that is what I meant I agree with your analysis, the Mammoth is the way to go on Eve. It has a very acceptable Isp and best of all does not lose too much of its awesome thrust at sea-level pressure. I'm kind of where you are at this point--a lander that can get to orbit from sea level, and an incomplete plan for getting it to the surface in the first place. No doubt you will be there and back well before me--good luck!

Very glad you enjoy it, thanks! - - - Updated - - - Lisa's done so in the past; she's a bit more used to flying with Jeb now, but no guarantee she won't do it again - - - Updated - - - Great! Fortunately/unfortunately this is everyone's chance to catch up or re-read the story...I am in the woods of upstate NY for the weekend and while I do get a phone signal I will not be playing ksp or making any more pages until Monday!

Ambitious! I hope you make it--Tylo should be the fun one

I'm back! 15 days from one bar to two...I guess kerbal people like kerbal comics

Yes you should, especially if putting the pictures and text together makes the mission more fun for you to fly--it certainly does for me It's up to you whether this thread should be a complete record of all KASA's missions large and small, or a "highlight reel" of your best stuff. If the former, then by all means post everything--then you and everyone else will be able to look back and enjoy the complete story. If reader reaction and feedback is what you're looking for though, then missions that are unique, difficult and/or crazy are going to tend to attract more attention than the early career flights.

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Another great update! So what happened? Wobble-->part collision, or something else?

First modding, now clipping? Aahhh! *clutches pearls*

Lots of great stuff here! I have to share a second one, smaller in scope than the lawnmower incident but actually involving a rocket and a crewed vehicle. My friends and I played with Estes model rockets as kids, and had several...incidents. The most Kerbal of them all has to be when I mounted two D-size motors under the seat of my bicycle and wired the ignition switch to the handlebars. I knew better than to expect I would get any sensible thrust out of the arrangement; this was all just for show. We rode our bikes down to a paved running/biking trail near the river and hid in the bushes at the top of a hill. We waited until we saw a runner come by and let him get about halfway down--then I emerged from cover, got going as fast as I could down the hill, hunched over the handlebars like I was Laurent Fignon coming down the Pyrrenees. A few meters before overtaking the runner I fired the rockets, screaming "HYPERSPAAAAACE!!!" Of course the motors burned out after less than a second, but not before I'd left the runner in a cloud of smoke and flame--and hopefully with the impression that I was going a lot faster than I really was. If only this had happened 20 years later, one of my friends could have taken a video.

Really hope we get a good set of stock LF-only tanks in the next release, or soon-ish. It seems an oversight to have a stock rocket engine but no tanks that match it other than the ones meant for jet fuel. I know I can use mods to change that. In fact I've modded some parts in the Mk2 family from LFO to LF-only myself, but I still feel like a dirty cheater for doing so.

Everybody caught up? Good? OK, back to Duna!

Very nice! Having mined on Duna in several locations, yeah 3% is pretty good, especially for the Midlands. It tends to take me about 2 days to refuel the Hummlebee, but that's a much smaller ship--I can get away with a single drill, one small ore tank and four XL panels. "Grand Tour Star" is a great name for your ship, and I wonder (since you speak French) if you intended the double meaning of "big tower" If I were flying it I might also nickname it "the flying caltrop" Looking forward to seeing where the GTS visits next!

Those two things are not mutually exclusive. And speaking of webcomics, following up on RIC's answer to my question I went through my pages and did change one word that I would not want to hear coming out of my 10-year-old's mouth. I think that will be a pretty good standard to keep going forward

This came up over on my comic thread--I've noticed that some words get blocked (when I've tried to use certain synonyms for "gender" and "delayed" in posts, they've come out as '.....' ). However my comic panels are images, so if I were to put anything naughty in a word balloon the software would not catch it. Of course I keep it clean anyway, excepting the occasional play on 'S' which is after all in-game (badS=true). Question is, other than the board software default censoring which is as I've seen pretty strict, what's the policy on improper language?

Yes,thanks for pointing that out Scotius--I really do want everyone coming here to get all the jokes, and I know that Romance languages aren't the first or second group for a lot of you. I'll do my best to limit any non-English speech to easy cognates (I felt safe with "accélération") and hopefully obvious-from-context exclamations like "Zut alors!". I suppose my goal is to make is so that anyone fluent in English can understand all that's going on, but if you have some French there is a little Easter egg there for you sometimes. This BTW is half the reason I am for the most part relying to French posts in English... (the other half, of course, is that I am not really fluent--just ask Jesrad ) I don't want to leave anyone out of the fun.

You're right of course--merci, will change! ETA: done - - - Updated - - - Peut être, but any patois is entirely unintentional. I do expect Clauselle to drop a few m-bombes at some point--hopefully I won't get in trouble for that - - - Updated - - - Drill, baby. Drill.

If you look very carefully at the Hummlebee Mk2 you can see a vestigial antenna embedded in the starboard wing. I must have misplaced it during the build. Also, as commenters to the comic helpfully pointed out, all the airbrakes are on backwards.

Thanks Jon and everyone else who commented, glad to have you aboard!- - - Updated - - - I have not, but I'll be sure to look them up for useful references - - - Updated - - - Darn it, that's much less interesting. - - - Updated - - - And this will conclude the Interlude. Things are going a bit slow as I really am managing all the other ship movements and Hummlebee at the same time, but everything is just about in place and we should be back with Chapter 5 in a few days. So yes, it turned out Clauselle was the best fit--we needed an engineer, and there really wasn't anyone more experienced around. I hope mes amis francophones enjoy--and don't worry, she will not be speaking French the whole time. Just enough, I hope, for a bit of couleur.

Ah, that's where I might have to draw the line, mon ami! My family is actually Acadian, but we've been anglophones for a few generations now. I barely understand textbook French, and am completely sur le mer with Quebecish or any other variant.And hey, look who I just found in the persistence file...une belle kerballe française! No promises, I have to see what her specialty is and if there's a billet for it... but yes, Squad haz French-ish Kerbal names! KERBAL { name = Clauselle Kerman gender = Female type = Applicant brave = 0.4606009 dumb = 0.2794138 badS = False tour = False state = Available ToD = 11619752.7536771 idx = -1 CAREER_LOG { flight = 0 } FLIGHT_LOG { flight = 0 } } ETA: "tour=false"? I never noticed that before. Does something happen when a kerbal visits every world?

Just what it says on the tin: what is your most Kerbal feat of engineering, piloting or design, in a professional capacity or otherwise? Here's mine: one time, I made a lawnmower run on hydrogen. And I blew it up. I was working in a research facility back when everyone thought H2 powered cars were the future, before Li-ion batteries got really good and really cheap. One of the projects was a new way to store the H2 in a solid state medium. The head boffins wanted a cheap and easy way to test it out. So I said, "How about a lawnmower?" My partner and I acquired a kit meant for adapting a gasoline-driven generator to run on propane. Then we went to a local dealer for the lawnmower. The owner overheard us talking about where we were going to drill the hole in the carburetor and how much we'd need to delay the spark timing; also, how long to make the extension cord for the electric starter so we could start it from behind cover. "Should I even bother filling out the warranty card for you boys?" he asked us. "Nope." We did the modifications in a few days, then wheeled it out behind the building and hooked up the hydrogen system. Naturally it didn't start. And then it didn't start again. And then it kicked over a couple of reps--and then it failed. Encouraged by evidence of some kind of combustion I held the starter down for a few more seconds--then the hydrogen that had accumulated in the engine ignited, blasting off the oil fill cap like a mortar rocket. We approached cautiously, knowing that a hydrogen flame is both (1) really hot and (2) invisible. The engine was trashed. Next day we got a second mower from the same place ("I knew you'd be back!") and did it all over again. This time with a bit of an adjustment to the spark timing the mower started right up. Of course the project went nowhere, but hey hydrogen lawnmower lolz.

Danke! I will change it. As to the capsule in back, it's there so that someone can transfer to it from the cockpit and reset the experiments without having to climb all over the hull. It does detach and it does have a parachute, but that's for emergency use only. Just like it says on the tin, the Dipperkraft is meant to dip into atmosphere, take data, and scoot back up to the Evestation.