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    Teasing: Jool and four of her moons visible in this shot. Somehow the space doors got closed while Jeb and Bob were on the surface, which I might not have noticed except that Jeb was unable to "call the ball" from this position per standard recovery procedure. So I switched over to Intrepid, got them open, and landed without issue. And that's why Bob looks so smug right now.
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    Comder Dilsby Kerman, pilot. Career highlights: Rescued from LKO, entered Kerbfleet academy Failed Kerbahashi Maru test (just like everyone else who didn't cheat), commissioned Enzin in Command Pilot program. Promoted to Junior Looty. Performed several LKO rescues and Munar research missions. Promoted to Looty and assigned command of fueling station Minmus Outbound. Serviced spaceplane Hummlebee en route to Duna. Present when Bill Kerman first used an ISRU to synthesize intoxicating beverages. Assigned command of first mission to Eve. Ordered Tedus Kerman to abort to surface when research plane Dipperkraft began breaking up in Eve atmosphere, stranding both Tedus and science officer Bob Kerman. Organized rescue preparations in Eve system, then led surface operations under command of Comder Valentina Kerman. Promoted to Looty Comder. Promoted to Comder, made First Officer of KSS Intrepid. Presently aboard same, exploring the Jool system.
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    Well, really I just can't resist reading the panels aloud when they're looking at the Forum with me. If you were in my kitchen I'd probably do the same for you You mean, "why don't they just risk everything in open rebellion against the totalitarian social order that has held them in terror their entire lives"? Great question! If you ever get an answer to that, I bet there are a lot of humans who'd like to hear it. Obviously it hasn't arrived yet, because like all craft in this comic it travels at a certain fixed speed.
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    Per the OP, scrolling back a couple of pages: Pokemon Go released in Brazil Olympic Games. It has not yet been confirmed that Ryan Lochte peed on @Parkaboy's computer, but I have my suspicions. [REDACTED] per 2.2b but yeah wow Sudden availability of about a quadrillion new worlds to explore, none of which are Kerbin
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    You caught me @Deddly, I couldn't just gather that last biome science without ratcheting things up a notch. Honestly I wasn't going to bring the Kerbulans back in for at least another moon or two, but they're so fun to write I couldn't resist We never did really get to see mirror-Kirk in depth in the Trek original, but I always thought that (despite the savage, impotent, snarling performance we did see as he was led away to the brig) he must have been as clever, resourceful and formidable an opponent as Kirk-prime. Otherwise there's no way Mirror-Spock would have chosen to serve under him, Tantalus device or no. Just as long as I can do all the voices. I've developed a pretty mean Kate-Mulgrew-at-45rpm for Val, when I read the pages to the kids
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    I think I`d trust someone who has been writing as long as the Monk has to post an update when he has an update. After all this is someone who's taken the time to go back and write a story about a savefile he'd forgotten, which most of us would have left in that state. It's not like this is a new author who's made one or two intriguing posts, promised much, and then gone silent.
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    Ehh, chapter titles don't bother me too much actually. I really don't put too much thought into them, I just go with the first thing that comes to mind and works OK. I probably spend more time coming up with new thread titles.
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    Yeah, that surprises a lot of people whenever it comes up. Call it this trope, if you will, though really "BadS Poet" would be a better descriptor. (and no, this one doesn't fit, he has cultured interests but doesn't otherwise fit the aristo-gentlekerb model ) Thank you! Yeah, that's what I've always been going for with Jeb, and what I like about the structure of the Jool mission is the opportunity it gives to put different pairs and trios of characters together to deepen and broaden their characters. Really glad you mentioned Jeb's Robert Frost-inspired canyon flight. I guess by now he doesn't mind kerbs (or at least Bob) knowing that side of him--he did tell Val he had a "certain image to maintain" I remember that as being one of the first times I thought specifically about what I could do to make an ordinary, non-explody transit flight somewhat less boring Well, kudos on knowing your Romeo and Juliet references, but I don't know that Bob would ever use the word 'grave' in the sense Mercutio meant it. I've never once seen a Kerbal die and leave enough of anything to bury.
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    Oh, sure, the total and rapid change can work, and it's central to many philosophies and genres. But I believe it does not work in a big damn fantasy space-opera scored by John Williams. This was a story about corridors filled with smoke and blaster fire, ships following rule-of-cool over physics, swinging across a chasm on a rope and "yahoo, you're all clear kid!" The viewer is not to be confronted or challenged in such an escapist work: we have Luis Buñuel for that kind of thing
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    Yep. I have a whole thread devoted to my own story's canon, and I can barely keep up! How tough would it be to have a backstory that didn't cause problems with the hive-of-users headcanon, which is constantly evolving as the game and its modifications are updated? Hm. Hmmmm! And I likely would be telling a story like that right now, if only Squad had thought to put a monolith (or several billion of them) in the Jool system. But hey, we never did explain where the "other" North Pole saucer came from, or how the Kerbulans acquired their advanced tech after Wernher's defection... stay tuned!
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    Agreed--but where I think the prequel trilogy went horribly, horribly wrong was in letting Anakin go beyond the boundaries of acceptable fictional darkness. The idea was to tell a new story of Vader's seduction and fall, thus recasting the story of episodes IV-VI the story of his redemption. But marching into the Jedi Temple at the head of the 501st Legion and personally murdering thirty children put Vader beyond redemption, for me. Yes, of course millions of children died on Alderaan, and likely billions more suffered and died horribly throughout the galaxy as Vader consolidated his power. But the audience wasn't actually confronted with those deaths. We can deal with those in the abstract, or as a piece of "fridge logic" (e.g. the realization of just how many innocent people and Ewoks were killed when the Rebels destroyed the Death Stars) the same way we don't consider a dead Stormtrooper any kind of moral problem. (there's a reason we don't see their faces, or any blood, until we do see both in Episode VII) So, your mileage may vary, but for me that beautiful moment where a dying Anakin Skywalker says to his son, "You were right... tell your sister... you were right..." is ruined if I have to consider this to be the same man who went into a school and cut down a roomful of scared little kids. Tying it in to our stories here--Thompberry threatens children in @Just Jim's Emiko story, but never actually does the horrible things hinted at. So, his redemption works. And of course there are lines even my Kerbulans won't cross--for example, despite their extreme paranoid xeno-hatred and the similarities between their history and that of mid-20th century Earth... well, for the sake of Rule 2.2e let's just say I didn't go there and never will.
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    Pffft, speak for yourself. No so-called "storyline" can't hold me! FREEEEDOM!!!! But seriously, I love that things like the monoliths, saucer, and Easter eggs all exist without any "stock" explanation. Each player, whether telling a public story or not, is responsible for tying all the strings together. Or, not--it doesn't have to make sense at all! For me, all of us "tying those strings" evokes the image of early humans trying to explain the strange artifacts of their world--the objects of the 'firmament', the sun and moon, the planets, the tides... there are probably hundreds, or thousands, of independently generated and self-consistent philosophies to explain it all. Those stories, and the more rigorous scientific models that followed them, are the basis of our shared culture.
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    It's significant, but not nearly as bad as it was before the U5 upgrade; 2-3 seconds of real time per second of game time. I often go to 2x physics warp to compensate Hopefully things will get a bit better as I continue to shed probes.
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    Heh. You want to have some real fun, have a character fire a gun in space and "correct for recoil".
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    ...and not for the first time, nor probably the last I guess that's what Jeb reads instead of flight manuals, mission plans, fuel reserve guidelines, etc, etc...
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    And I'm back! Great trip, and we returned home to find the wires back up and comms re-established. With multiple boats tied onto the car for the journey, we realized that we were driving our very own 'intrepid' weltraumfahrzeugträger! The big 14' canoe was our Qwammer, and the kids' kayaks our Gumdrops. If we'd had a sailboat it would have been Skimmeroo. I wasn't hauling anything on the trailer hitch, but it was nice to know there was a Tugbot available if we needed it.
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    I'm afraid I don't know; never measured it, sorry. I'm sure someone could come up with a good estimate by counting deck plates. And gentlekerbs, hate to tell you this but there won't be another update for about 10 days. This week our internet connection went down in a storm, and for all of next week I'll be exploring the 'Saranac Lake' biome with the family. So, hang in there, fly your missions well, and read good stuff. For science!
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    You'd have to scroll back some pages to find it, but IIRC I posted an image showing its length at 56.1m.
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    Hm. Mistaking NERVAs for nuclear weapons? Shooting at people? Allegedly possessing a "bloaking device"? Coincidence. Can't prove anything unless they have beards.
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    Hey, that made my day, thanks! Welcome to the forum Drone, I'm glad to have you as a reader
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    Great stuff, really enjoy reading this. Especially the one who talks back to you
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    I did think about that, but I didn't want to try flying a Gumdrop out of the hangar on the surface unless I had to, much less a surface dock. But, I admit I probably under-thought it, there were several more efficient options; I probably could have got the boat out safely, flown to the pole, and then docked in orbit. Or I could have simply flown the Intrepid north for a polar orbit rather than due east. Or there are probably a dozen other ways I could have gotten to Pol's Poles...I should have taken a poll. I still haven't figured out to quote the same correspondent twice, so I'll address each of @Geschosskopf's points in turn. As to the first--I think it entirely probable that the Kerbulans have a version very similar to Cheks, except that one captures the opposing pieces instead of rescuing them. Perhaps the names of the pieces are even based on some kind of archaic, class-stratified warrior feudal system, who knows? As to the second, thanks to (the late) Sub-Commander Dilsby Kermulan, we do have some idea how duels and challenges work (or don't work) in Kerbulan society. I suppose if any Kerbal is ready for such an eventuality it would be Kenlie. As with all things--we'll see!
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    I'm betting silent, otherwise it'd certainly be spelled Vanamondé.
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    Does it give anyone else a certain special feeling when you don't have to edit a post, since once you do edit it it carries that mark of shame forever? I liked how in the old forum if you edited something soon enough it didn't count as an edited post.
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