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    Apparently a Kerbal had snuck on board and occupied the side-facing command seat. Doesn’t show up in the corner that way, so...
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    Year 8, Day 27...Another year gone by, another New Year's Eve party where everyone wakes up the next day wearing someone else's pants. If they were lucky. And no one's quite sure who sealed the hatch on the latest care package to Rald, but, those gaskets are expensive, so might as well light the candle. Let's hope it can still float or this is going to be a short trip.
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    Oh c'mon, I specifically mentioned they have proper bathing facilities now! Rald has some really incredible scenery (nudge nudge @KerikBalm), one of the reasons I keep delaying bringing them back. Also, science. But scenery too. I could spend days just exploring the Rift Valley.
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    What, no activity here in over a month! Unacceptable! Nearly as important as "check yo staging!" CHECK YO CONTROL POINT! Not that way, the other way! That'll buff out...
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    Love that one little wing at the end that goes derping off on its own. What's that "kaboom delay" in the Kerbal's context menu? Have you filled your Kerbals with solid fuel, too?
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    You see, Ivan, when land in pea soup, make slow with dinner plate! (And make sure spoon not land in front of soil sampler). @Slam_Jones you mention the atmosphere destroyed the solar panels. How is that simulated in your install? Temperature?
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    OTOH, it might help break the big telcom’s monopoly on internet service. I’m looking forward to it, beyond finally being able to “contribute” to SpaceX, I’m in one of those areas with limited internet options; its either the big national cable provider (which is meh, and goes down any time a storm brings down lines), or the local phone company (which sucks in every way but reliability). I’d love a satellite connection that’s competitively priced, stupid-fast, and works as long as I have power (generator and eventually solar for emergencies, when I’ll really need internet too). If there’s two or three options just for that, that’ll be awesome!
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    Oh. Well, given that there’s no mention of short, green guys in the historical record, we can only assume they became part of the new feast day.
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    Wait a minute, this means he has to give someone a brain tumor now, doesn’t it?
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    You clearly just entered the final glyph correctly, and turned Tellumo into a giant Stargate. Your probe is now in ancient Egypt being worshiped as a minor deity. Best leave it alone, it’s got a good thing going now.
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    I’d like to think the latest round of crap I bought on Amazon is what finally pushed him over the top.
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    I see you mentioning orbital decay here. Is that a mod or just a low persistent debris threshold?
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    I think someone had a liiiiiiitle too much turkey today...
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    Year 7, Day 349... The crew made a unanimous decision to leave the vicinity of the pyramid immediately, despite the pleas of the science team who were busy trying to work out if it might fit into huge hole found in the Ancient City. But more on that later.For now, the crew heads north across the barren Kharsis Plateau. It doesn't take them long to reach the raw scar of Rald's Great Rift Valley, easily visible from the ground on Gael... before Rald suddenly and inexplicably seemed to turn 180 degrees on its axis a few years back. But anyways, the view is... worth seeing, as the constant cloud cover seems to have miraculously disappeared... What is Vlad grinning at now?? I have a bad feeling about this...
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    I didn’t want to use the S word, but, um...
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    That’s a very succinct way of putting it. FWIW, Emiko has always felt to me like a classic ongoing serial— there is an end, somewhere, out there, way down the road; kinda like ST: Voyager, Quantum Leap, Lost in Space, but the ending is not the focus of the story. That probably makes even less sense than it did in my head. Anyways, I say keep it here in one thread. Maybe organize the chapter page into different “books” or some such. If, in the process of telling the story, @Just Jim happens to slam up against the end of the forum (or simply tumble off), well, then that’s something. Another feather in the cap of this thread.
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    Genesis. Complete with unplanned lithobraking. Corona Lithobraking avoided by way of midair catch by airplane. Hyabusa. Not the motorcycle. (This one was actually much faster.) And they're working on a sequel.
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    FWIW, I would love to see a simple, all-in-one solution like this in more of a squat cone shape, like the Genesis return pod. Given that it’s only a single part, disassembly is far less likely than a mere sudden stop.
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    The editor doesn’t save quotes between pages, unfortunately. Thanks for the kind words... and nudge to get a few more chapters in-derped and edited properly. One day I’ll get this mess fixed. Whispers, on the other hand, is likely replete with typos but the strange characters are all fixed. Except for the ones that are supposed to be there.
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    IIRC they're going to build a crew tower next to the pad just like ULA. Easier to do when you're only occasionally using that pad for Dragon and FH. I would assume the TEL will function the same, the tower will just be there for crew access and (maybe eventually) for vertical integration of gov't payloads...
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    Hah! The conspiratorial plot thickens! Just read an absolutely credible source that Zuma was cancelled at the last minute because Oumuamua, the 400-meter-long cigar-shaped interstellar “asteroid” that recently passed by Earth, did not perform the expected braking maneuver! Absolutely credible! of course it didn’t stop. It scanned Earth and still found humpback whales, so...
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    AFAK all the launch facilities (umbilicals, hold downs, etc) are on the TEL. The pad itself is pretty bare. It’s also on special-gauge rails so won’t be driving anywhere. There’s no launch pad in Texas or accommodation for a fully assembled rocket.
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    Transporter/Erector/Launcher AKA the Strongback. It’s the contraption that moves the assembled rocket from the hangar to the pad, then lifts it vertical and launches it.
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    Hah! I knew it! My money says Zuma was never even a real thing, it was all just a test, maybe so SpaceX could practice and verify horizontal integration for gummint birds that have, until now, required vertical integration.
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    Year 7, Day 345...Our intrepid, and increasingly unhinged, quartet begin this update with a quick detour to the Kargyre impact basin. It's underwhelming, but not quite so under that they can go outside without suits. Don't count on it. You're still paying for that JetWing. Ow.
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