Commissioner Tadpole

Ah. Now I understand. Thanks!

3.: Performing a landing in a world without atmosphere. Mün, I'm looking at you. 2.: Performing a precision landing in a world with an atmosphere. Laythe, I'm looking at you. 1.: Orbital Rendezvous. Like Mitchz said, docking isn't that hard, it's rendezvous that's the pain for me. Uh... who is DR?

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THE CAST (As of 24/4/15, some of this information has been changed) Primary Characters - As stated, these ones are the main characters. Name: Kerbin Status: Large rocky planet Gender: Male Quote: "Despite having several reasons to be a prick, I prefer to be more humble." Personality: Friendly, but socially awkward when around girls Likes: The Space Program, Eve, telling stories to Minmus Dislikes: Pollution, the Mun, being hit by asteroids, the Kethane Mining Program Relationships: Father of Mun and Minmus, best friends with Eve. Has a secret crush on Eve. Name: Minmus Status: Captured unknown object Gender: Female Quote: "All I want is to have some fun!" Personality: Cheerful, curious, childish Likes: Gilly, Kerbin, the Space Program, having visits from Kerbals Dislikes: The Mun, being eclipsed by the Mun, being tasted Relationships: Daughter of Kerbin, younger sister of the Mun. Best friends with Gilly. Secondary Characters - These characters' appearances are not as common as Primary ones, but are still worthy of being recognized. Name: The Mun Status: Medium rocky moon Gender: Female Quote: "Get out of my surface. I don't need another crater." Personality: Brash, rude, grumpy. Likes: Tormenting Kerbin with tidal waves, unleashing her rage on another body. Dislikes: Minmus, Kerbals, meteors, having a base planted in her surface Relationships: Daughter of Kerbin, older sister of Minmus. Dislikes them both. Name: Eve Status: Large rocky planet Gender: Female Quote: "Look, if you think I chose to have this thick atmosphere, then you have to learn a lot on astronomy. If I could I'd have an atmosphere as thin as Duna's. So shut up." Personality: Quiet, keeps to herself, quite easily irritated. Likes: Gilly, Kerbin, high gravity, being understood Dislikes: Being accused of intentionally having a thick atmosphere and high gravity Relationships: Adoptive mother of Gilly, best friends with Kerbin Name: Gilly Status: Captured asteroid Gender: Male Quote: "I'm a space potato!" Personality: Joyful, curious, somewhat aloof Likes: Minmus, Eve, messing around, defying laws of gravity Dislikes: Serious bodies, being treated like a baby by Eve Relationships: Adoptive son of Eve, best friends with Minmus Name: Duna Status: Medium rocky planet Gender: Female Quote: "You know what; despite everything, I miss being a moon of Jool." Personality: Impatient, Hot-headed; pratically explodes over the smallest thing. When away from Ike, she's friendly and studious. Likes: Jool, being a moon, pratically anything as long as it is away from Ike. Dislikes: Ike. Nothing else. Relationships: Third oldest child of Jool, friends with Dres. Name: Ike Status: Small rocky moon Gender: Male Quote: "Enemy object detected." Personality: Overprotective, hateful and clingy. Thinks that he is Duna's boyfriend. Secretly just has confidence issues and wants to be loved. Likes: Duna, destroying space vessels, being alone with Duna. Dislikes: Kerbals, space vessels, pratically anything that dares approach Duna. Relationships: One-sided love relation with Duna, enemies with the Kerbal Space Center. Tertiary Characters - Characters that appear even less commonly than Secondary Characters, but still appear regardless. Name: Kerbol/Sun Status: Star Gender: Male Quote: "Production equals income. Income equals salary. Salary means everyone wins." Personality: Honest, authoritarian. Likes money, but is well-experienced to not fall in the pittrap of corruption. Practically, a benevolent boss. Likes: Moho, wealth, work, honest bodies, politics. Dislikes: Sleazers, corruption, greed. Relationships: Founder of Sol Star Superdivision, a diverse corporation where he's the boss of Moho, Eve, Kerbin, Duna and Jool. Friends with Moho. Name: Moho Status: Small rocky planet Gender: Male Quote: "Sometimes I feel like I was born in the wrong generation." Personality: Nostalgic, hates the current generation, often seen wearing sunglasses. Likes: Being respected, other nostalgic bodies Dislikes: Being told to live out of the past Relationships: Friends with Kerbol Name: Dres Status: Large asteroid Gender: Male Quote: "Oh no, do continue counting 'Kerbin, Duna, Jool and Eeloo'. It's not like I care being ignored." Personality: Angry, very short temper, even shorter than Duna's. Likes: Being recognized, being visited by Kerbals, exotic locations, having company of other asteroids. Dislikes: Being ignored, being assumed to be a criminal thanks to his eyepatch. Relationships: Friends with Duna, best friends with other asteroids. Name: Jool Status: Large Gas Planet Gender: Male Quote: "I'm surprised I can keep a stable job with five children." Personality: Quiet, generous, but often intimidating. Likes to adopt abandoned moons and asteroids. Likes: Comforting Eeloo, Helping others in need, adopting abandoned celestial bodies, assisting Kerbals to aerobrake. Dislikes: Being falsely accused of being a thug. Relationships: Father of Laythe, Vall, Tylo, Bop, Pol, Duna and Eeloo Name: Laythe Status: Medium rocky moon Gender: Female Quote: "Oh look, guys, I have an atmosphere! What, you thought I didn't have an atmosphere? Silly Kerbals, thinking moons don't have atmospheres! Blah blah blah blah..." Personality: Diva, obsessed with atmospheres, extremely talkative, social butterfly Likes: Jool, Bragging about her atmosphere and oceans Dislikes: Tylo, atmosphereless bodies, oceanless bodies, ugly moons like Tylo Relationships: Second oldest child of Jool, one-sided hate relation with Tylo Name: Vall Status: Small ice moon Gender: Female Quote: "This is a spiffy morning, old chaps, and there isn't any better morning than one with tea." Personality: Classy, elegant, well-dressed. Likes: Being educated, having a giant mug of space tea, sharing discussion with Bop and Jool Dislikes: Ineducated bodies like Pol, Ike and Laythe. Relationships: Middle child of Jool, friends with Bop Name: Tylo Status: Large rocky moon Gender: Male Quote: "I don't care." Personality: Quiet, careless, loner. Likes: Being alone, crashing Kerbal landers. Dislikes: Being with others. Relationships: Oldest child of Jool. Name: Bop Status: Captured asteroid Gender: Male Quote: "Why is it that nobody defensd me from Pol?" Personality: Unstable, somewhat left-out Likes: The Kraken. Dislikes: Pol, feeling like he's left alone with Pol Relationships: Second youngest child of Jool. Name: Pol Status: Captured asteroid Gender: Male Quote: "Eeeeeeeee..." Personality: Mentally disabled, somewhat cannibalistic Likes: Stars, drooling, imagining things, nomming on Bop. Dislikes: Pol's core brain is incapable of processing the word "Dislike". Relationships: Youngest child of Jool. Name: Eeloo Status: Small dwarf planet Gender: Female Quote: "I guess nobody will understand me..." Personality: Shy, quiet, socially awkward. Afraid of other planets. Likes: Being comforted by Jool, being visited by Kerbals. Dislikes: Being completely alone in the dark, harsh, cold vacuum of space. Relationships: Third youngest daughter of, and best friends with Jool. Quaternary Characters - Those characters don't actually appear in the comics, but rather are mentioned. They're all fan-made planets. Name: Ablate Gender: Asexual Personality: ??? Name: Acension Gender: Asexual Personality: Hyperactive, unable to orbit slowly. Uses this to deliver messages to other bodies. Name: Sentar Gender: Female Personality: Friendly, humble, but obsessed with beauty. Name: Urania Gender: Male Personality: The 'odd' planet of the system. Urania's unusually happy at all times while talking in weird manners. He's also known to be very greedy.

Hello! This is a comic strip series I'm making called Minmus & Company. As the name suggests, it's a Kerbal Space Program comic focused not on the Kerbals; rather, on the many planets and moons surrounding the game. It is inspired by both Samio85's Planet Comics, which have a similar principle, but features planets from the real world instead(and having better graphics), and Polandball/Countryballs, where it has the same principle of the previous two, but revolving around Earth's countries instead, and promotes the art style for both other comics. (Both, however, are NSFW) The main plot of the comics revolve around Kerbin and Minmus. Occasionally, other planets/muns will be featured as the main characters instead, but more often than not, they'll be secondary or tertiary characters. Additionally, a new group of characters - the quaternary characters - are used as characters that will only be mentioned, mostly because there are no exploitable sprites for them, and I'm too underskilled to make ones myself. The space backgrounds are made by Samio85, not me. The planet sprites are taken from the KSP Wiki and screenshots. THE COMICS: Inspired by this Polandball comic.

In my opinion, it's everyone. As long as they have the will to learn, of course. I began playing Kerbal Space Programâ„¢ when I was 13, one year before I actually was introduced to the basics of Physics. Now, I am 14 years old, and I'm the only one in class who knows that, to attain orbit, you need to be moving fast enough that you fall and miss the ground, and not because you just sit there floating because "there's no gravity", and that a spacecraft can use the atmosphere to slow itself down! Well, granted I'm not the best in Physics' equations, but when it comes to the rules, I learn 'em quickly. All thanks to Kerbal Space Program.

As some of you probably know, I suffered of a KSP-shortage for three months. However, I was bought in back to the game by watching hilarious KSP videos(Danny's ARM video is one of them, obviously). So, I decided to start my save in a 'historical space advancement' storyline. I began roleplaying that my Space Program took place in the second most powerful country in Kerbin, the Kerbin Federation of Southern States. Yes, that page was made by me. As you can see there, their enemy is the People's United Empire of Pandora, located on the extremely large continent. I started with a simple probe parodying the Sputnik, the Stayputnik(wow, much originality, such good name). The ship consisted of a lifter and a small stage for interplanetary burns - fit with a probe core used to take the stage back to Kerbin - which hauled the Stayputnik probe, consisting of nothing more than the probe core, a small battery, two solar panels and a small antenna. It'd be on Synchronous Orbit. The probe was set into orbit with no major problems(other than the help of HyperEdit to actually place it in front of Concetia). The main difficulty was landing the thing. I forgot to slap some parachutes in the lifter, and I missed the ocean entirely, so I had to land it softly or else a war would start. Not to mention I was landing in the Empire of Pandora's territory, to make matters worse. Fortunately for me, I managed to safely land the mid-stage with no major casualties - in fact, it was very sharp, as I landed with only 1.36 Liquid Fuel left! Touchdown was at 9.8m/s with no landing legs, so I had to rely on the engine - and the SAS to keep it upright. Hopefully the Empire won't mind me having to use their territory as a landing site...

Spending hours in the VAB trying to find a way to get enough dV and making calculations to see if my rockets can get to their destination.

Looks like someone needs a tow truck.

Heh, my only problem with landing planes is that I often go just too fast. So either my plane crashes at the floor at high speeds and breaks apart, or I manage to touch the ground, but my airplane is still going so fast it's brakes are not helping and I have to do an emergency re-takeoff because it went past the strip and into a cliff. RealChute's drag parachutes are also great when deployed before touchdown.

Well, after a few moments of thinking(and looking at your replies), I began to think that it isn't the intimidation of content that makes me not want to play KSP, but it's rather the fact that my computer lags when playing KSP(A large ship takes ~25 minutes just to get in Kerbin orbit in my computer. I don't want to do an Eve mission anymore). And I doubt I'll be getting a new computer anytime soon.

I know, I've seen someone say the same thing as well. It's actually the second time I burn out in KSP. Sounds interesting, but my computer alterady struggles with my ammount of mods in KSP, so I don't think adding more would end well. Sometimes, SAS is actually really needed. My rockets couldn't even make the gravity turn due to the lack of a SAS module. Solar panels usually aren't the problem; the issue is the lack of batteries. When I go into the dark side of a planet, bam. Out of eletricity. I suppose I could use cubic struts as makeshift landing legs. They're astoundingly tough, too.

Wow, seven replies alterady? You people are fast. There's a new update comming out soon? Nobody told me... huh. Well, it could, but I'm using the Urania system mod, so it might not be that intriguing to me. I'm not that evil. I'd never leave a Kerbal behind. Career isn't that much interesting to me because it's a pain to get the things you need for interstellar travel - SAS modules, batteries, solar panels and landing legs to name a few. Until then it's just boring orbital manuevers that are each time harder and harder to win due to the science decay. Haven't landed in all of them yet. Currently only reached Mun, Minmus, Eve, Duna, Ike, Jool and Laythe. But, as someone said, if you get to another planet, you've done everything you can do in the game, and that kinda discourages me from setting up a base on Laythe, for example.

Lately, I haven't been playing KSP. I don't know if it's the lack of motivation due to the fact that there's nothing to do out there, or if I'm intimidated by the complexity of how some missions can be, but I can't seem to be in the mood to play KSP. I fear I am losing my addiction, but I don't want to. What can I do to reattach myself to KSP?

Unfortunately, since my comp's not the best out there, my framerates slow down often and I can't go any further than 500 parts. Which isn't good since my average part count is around 381. Not something Whackjob would be proud of, but certainly enough for my comp to have trouble with.

I lost my patience after Uranus.

Don't say that. You'll just stir up a pointless discussion which won't do anything productive.

I feel bad for Sergei.

It seems I am at Rank 8, apparently. Not bad.

In honor of him, build a tombstone in honor of him and send it to Gilly. I'm sure Jeb will like it when he respawns.

Saturn looked freaky. But it was a fun show.

Gilly: Where ant engines are efficient. A rover on Gilly? WHAT SORCERY IS THIS?! KSP has taught me so. I kinda cringed when I heard someone say "...and the astronaut stays floating in space above Earth due to lack of gravity...". But let's not get off-topic.

If you do switch the Laythe crew, and later on happen to install Sido's Urania system, PLEASE make a mission in which the spetacular six(or just the fearsome four if you don't want Hellou and Emilynn in it) go to Hestia(the green photosyntetic planet). It'll be hilarious to see Nelemy making theories that Hestia is green because it is composed of souls from deceased Kerbals.

I can't see it. Image is broken.

Yesterday I saw a green tow truck, and it's license plate was 'KSP-0327'. Unfortunately it sped up quickly after I noticed the license plate, so I couldn't inspect it further. It's true -- Kerbals are secretly slowly worming their way to the real world!