CatastrophicFailure

By taking a bigger whip to the coders. Doesnt sound too difficult, I'm kinda surprised it wasn't in the software already. Throttle up the middle engine if one of the sides are bad & vice versa.

They cut the droneship feed. Things were looking a little extra crispy for a moment...

Um... Stuff's on fire, yo...

Dig that shiny engine plumbing!

Timing couldn't really be worse for me but I've got it on in the background as I'm getting ready for work. At least my PC has good speakers.

Keep your arms and legs inside the ride at all times...

No, you can blame the blood-sucking lawyers from his record label that probably gets most of the royalties. Awesome work tho. I tried at this for a couple hours the other day, with a much smaller, slower plane and even a joystick. Just kept bouncing off.

Blast! Dam and blast! This gul-durned forum never sends me updates when you post, @KSK, so I had to learn about poor Ornie from another reply before I even knew the chapter was up. Blast you, forum! @JakeGrey A good point. I seem to recall a certain Mr. Armstrong in rather a similar situation who got while the gettin' was good. Turned out quite a bit better for him. Poor Ornie...

Heliwopter!

Ok so I was 5/7 right.

Just did the same mission profile myself, actually. AFAIK, the LM ascent stagers were deliberately crashed after. Even if not, perturbations from mass concentrations on the moon tend to pull anything out of orbit fairly quickly unless it's placed very particularly. There are only a few stable low orbits around the moon.

Wait a sec... How do you get that dirty tinge of brown to the exhaust like that?

Heh, actually that '15 reminds me of the XF-85 Goblin.

Er... Shouldn't that be a KiG-15 to SOUTH Keria?

Comedy gold right there, just change the instrument a bit: Jernie: "Ah, finally, soil analyses data coming in. Strange.... Sidbo: "lets have a look." Jernie: "this can't be right, it says the soil on Laythe is made up of long-chain hydrocarbon polymers... butyl rubber, and... massive amounts of highly refined aluminum?" Sidbo: "Great Kerm, we've landed on an ancient alien space ship!" Cue spinning newspapers, massive public upheaval, and, a couple years later, a Kerbonaut removing the lens cap from underneath the sample arm while his mouth moves silently. And then of course, there's also the story of the "Angry Alligator" which reads like a Benny Hill bit, installing a G-switch upside-down and crashing into the ground, or just forgetting to convert to/from metric. Nope, can't make this stuff up.

Badum-tish! and I do believe that was your 2000th rep point. BECAUSE NICE ROUND NUMBERS ARE IMPORTANT DARNIT!

Heh, didn't realize that. I was actually thinking of Venera 14 where the lens cap did pop off.. and landed in the exact spot one of the arms tried to sample, so all they got was a sample of the lens cap.

... wait, it happened THREE times??

Bless you, good sir! Just the soothing distraction I needed. I recall a while back you mused about your story being too "Jordan," as if it were a bad thing. I'd say your writing is very Jordanian (not to be confused with that other Jordanian), you definitely share his talent for weaving dozens of threads together into a coherent Pattern. And speaking of Jordan, I also note a (probably unintentional) parallel to a certain other group suddenly shown their shrouded past through... unusual means. Tho your Kerbals seem to be taking the revelation much better. Pity about that lense cap tho. Somewhere, there's a certain Russian probe engineer who can sympathize.

And here I thought you were more the keyboard sort

Bit under the weather lately, so I've been mucking about in my don't-really-care 1.1.2 save instead of anything "serious." Made this in a new career without much to work with: Then I added MOAR BOOSTERS to get it above 20km. Surprisingly, it survived. Darnit... Then it was time for a bit of Synchronized Re-Entry. I thought it was pretty good but the Russian judge only gave it a 5. Played around with the Rescue Contracts pack and made a sea plane... No, that is absolutely NOT Lt. Dan's head getting accidentally drifted over. Stop looking so amused, Val... Is that an island in the fog... or K2...? Turns out getting something up there to rescue a couple of Kerbals with early game tech is pretty hard. Or maybe it was the fact that someone replaced my landing struts with pogo sticks. Either way, got on the ground... ..and this guy decided he was gonna continually slide into the wing and try and push the plane off the edge. Must be the altitude... Yes we're falling with too little thrust to maintain altitude with this much weight. Perfectly normal, everything under control here... Hey! Look at that tree! LOOK AT IT! That is one tenacious tree! Keep looking!

I've got it, actually. Was just wondering why it didn't seem to be working. Apparently the 1.0.5 version I have isn't compatible with RF.

Thanks guys. There's nothing like a spike-covered medieval torture device marauding through one's innards to sour one's mood.

I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that. SOMEONE HAD TO!

Thanks for the feedbacks. No update this week, I'm afraid. Real life went & kicked me square in the kidney so the next chapters only about half done.