Kerbiter

Thank you very much.

Where is the Komodo?

RE-ENTRY. Jeb: Guys, remember, when Mission Control gets past blackout, I confirm blackout ended, OK? *Rest of Kerbals nod* Vladimir: I can't wait to meet Russian president, and see if he actually is president of Russia, and it's not just a title given Koro: I want to drink Japanese soda, I hope it gives a good feel on the tongue and it tastes really amazing Jeb: Re entry has passed, waiting for contact Houston: Krakenspeed, this is Houston, is it looking good? Jeb: Houston, Krakenspeed, we have passed blackout Houston: Speed looking good, go for drogue deploy Jeb: Copy, we are go for drogue deploy Jeb: Drogue has deployed, Krakenspeed stable velocity Vladimir: Feel bit of wobble when drogue deploy, noted Vladimir: Is this live at Kerbin? Houston: Yes we are transmitting Xander: Let's splash well! Houston: We are approaching stable point for mains deploy, are we go? Jeb: Houston, we are go for main deploy Houston: Copy Jeb: Chutes out, filling with air Jeb: This is really weird, not the usual G-forces, it's fast deployment on Kerbin, I think I fainted once in a chute deploy back home Jeb: This is nice and stable, I don't know if we can get those Gene: The important thing is that- Houston: It's stable Gene: Is it you? Gene Kranz III: Yup it's me, Gene III Gene: OK Third let me get panels out to get the video feedback from the cameras *hinge sounds* Kerbals: Whoa Gene III: Do you see me? Koro: Yes yes I see you, go on my friend Gene III: Let me pull up telemetry so everyone can see it *500 m* ... *400 m* ...... *200...100...50 m* Jeb: Nearing impact *10 m* Jeb: Retro, fire! Jeb: Touchdown, retro cutoff *Mission Control cheering* Jeb: For the record, all you non-believers, look at meeeee, I'm Jebediah, I've landed a capsule in two star systems! Gene III: Recovery efforts are in Jeb: Hurry up, we're hungry! Gene III: Remember! Gene: SNAAAAACKS!!! *hinge sounds* *snacks cut open by robot scissors* Robot: Your snacks are ready now Jeb: Hey when did we get that? Robot: While you were on Starlab, the capsule updated its operating system, I'm SnackBot, you can keep me as a pet, but I am hard to tame Jeb: Now, 3, 2, 1, num Kerbals: Num num num num num Jeb: These are corn chips, they taste good, any liquids? Robot: Activating drink menu Robot: Choose one Jeb: Uh, guys, scroll through and pick one Kerbals: This one! *all different* Vladimir: I am curious Vladimir: What is this vodka? Robot: This is an alcoholic drink. We do not yet know the effects of alcohol on Kerbals, I'd recommend another drink Gene III: Recovery is coming, we have new snacks on that ship, stand-by PALER BLUE DOT IS A STORY CREATED BY KERBITER. THIS IS NOT THE END, STANDBY FOR MORE CONTENT TO INDULGE. THANK YOU.

Dear @ZooNamedGames, The interns over here are impatient; they need another update. - Elon Kerman, SpaceY CEO, and co-founder of KPal

SO LAST NIGHT I WAS GOING TO LOAD MY SAVE GAME. I WENT AND LOADED KSP, TOOK LIKE 20 MINUTES. NO SAVE GAMES WERE TO BE FOUND. I CHECKED, ALL MY SAVE GAMES ARE THERE. BUT MY GAME DOES RECOGNIZE THE EXISTENCE OF ANY OF THEM! EVEN NEW SAVE GAMES WILL NOT SHOW UP! THIS IS NOT GAME BREAKING! THIS IS GAME MUTILATING! SQUAD, THIS IS THE FINAL STRAW. IF ANYONE HERE CAN HELP ME WITH THIS, I WILL GIVE THEM THE BIGGEST MEDALLION EVER, BECAUSE THERE HAS NEVER BEEN A BUG BIGGER THAN A BUG THAT DOES NOT ALLOW YOU TO CONTINUE YOUR PROGRESS.

Bryan Holden, President of the United States: Doing video uplink Gene Kerman: I see you Gene: I don't like these "coffee" packs, they don't taste good Bryan: It's just lower quality Jeb: We have made a decision Jeb: We are going to land on Earth Gene Kranz III: We await your arrival *thumbs up and coffee cup up* Landon Jones, Chief of SETI: Once you undock, another crew craft will launch for crew rotation for Scott to return, and you will go to Earth and stay for about 3 Earth month (1/4 of the orbital period of Earth) Landon: Any word on the comms sat? Xander Kerman, head of KSC operations: It's switched out of safe mode Landon: OK so we can broadcast the re-entry Landon: Do you have infrared cameras? Xander: Wait a minute, you can have a camera that detects infrared? No way! Landon: We will give you some after your splashdown Landon: We will use them to watch the re-entry before our regular cameras can see the capsule Xander: Why 3 Earth months? Landon: Scientific research, diplomacy, among other things Landon: Let me get my drink, I'll be back Gene: Oh this horrendous "coffee" thing again? Kuri Nagasaki, Prime Minister of Japan: No, it's something awesome, wait for him to explain Landon: I'm back Landon: This is Japanese soda Kuri: Uh uh uh man, a kind of Japanese soda Landon: It's called Ramune Kuri: Very good Landon: You have this plastic thing and a ball trapped in the opening Landon: There's this thing, you put it on top of the ball, and you slam it *slam* Xander: Woah, get a load of this!! Jeb: The fizz... I want it right now Scott Kelly Jr.: Nah man we don't have it! Landon: Now *drinks* it's tasty Landon: We'll give you some after we come to the airport after splashdown Jeb: Why have planes when you have invisible Kraken recovery things? Landon: We don't have that, we have ships, we have planes and helicopters Landon: You are undocking in two days, so get ready Vladimir Kerman, President of Ussari Federation: I will meet Russian president... if he even is president at all Landon: The Russian president is Alexandr Gorsovsky, so yeah, you will meet him Koro Kerman: Now respectable prime minister of the glorious nation of Japan, what will you have in store for all of us to gladly enjoy? Kuri: Tons, and I mean tons BRACE FOR IT

How's the craft doing?

You might want to make an overlay like we are streaming the launch. Likely it will look like a SpaceX stream. Any update on the vessel?

Tantares and MechJeb.

Dear @ZooNamedGames, We have finished construction of the Komodo-U1+ production article.As the name suggests, the craft is unmanned (U), it is the first production article of its kind (1) and it is retrofitted with extra fuel for longer and farther voyages (+). It is configured to be mated into the cargo bay. It has a standard Jr. docking port on the top, and a grapple adapter on the side for being grabbed with a robotic arm. Click this to gain access to the Komodo-U1+ for SSM-M14. - Elon Kerman, SpaceY CEO and co-founder of KPal P.S. You might want to get Ven's Stock Revamp and the craft will look better. Some parts may look out of place so download that. It not only changes the stock parts to look better, but adds modified versions of the stock parts.

PALER BLUE DOT Launch Commentator: ZERO and liftoff! *Dan turns off mic* Dan: Turn off your mic, I need to tell you something *Alexa turns of mic* Alexa: What? Dan: I think this project is malformed Alexa: Me too Dan: What should we do? Alexa: I know *Alexa pushes abort button* Houston: At T+8.9 seconds, a launch abort maneuver was done, all systems were nominal at this po- Launch Commentator: Houston commentating on a launch abort that happened about 9 seconds into the flight, completely and totally unexpected launch abort, all systems were rated nominal, and Orion flapped its wings off the rocket, it will now do a parachute landing in the Atlantic. AFTER LANDING News Anchor: Why did you abort? Dan: I have to be real on this one Dan: Alexa and I thought that this project was malformed and way too unplanned for anything successful to happen, it would be very lucky to land on Tylo, don't forget getting back Dan: 1 Earth gravity, no atmosphere to slow you down, 1/10 Earth radius Dan: Tylo is crazy KERBIN: KNews Anchor, Salweed Kerman: We thought this was going to be an interplanetary diplomacy mission Sal: But no Sal: It was going to be a Tylo surface landing, one time, that's it Sal: We just received the launch, 9 seconds after liftoff, there was a random launch abort Sal: After the landing, Dan Athens, mission commander, noted the dangers of landing on Tylo and why he and Alexa Cassiopeia shouldn't have done the Tylo landing Sal: Safe to say, they avoided danger when it was right in their eyes Sal: I know we have a good morale for danger, they don't have it, they have a bad morale for danger because it can ... cost ... lives? What? Who cares about that? Sal: So they decided they were headed the wrong direction, they wanted to go up, but not to Tylo Sal: I hope that's a good night here on KNews SHOULD I END IT?

I think that's a FASA full pack part. When I send you the unmanned Komodo, I will not include them.

PALER BLUE DOT Dan Athens: Looks pretty nice Alexa Cassiopeia: Oh yeah it's a great rocket Alexa: 65 years and nearly all the changes are under the hood James W. Smith, Administrator of NASA: Guys, this is top secret to the Kerbals, we will not transmit the launch or rendezvous to the Kerbals, this is the biggest coverup of all time James: We are going to perform the first landing on an exoplanet's natural satellite, Tylo orbiting Jool Dan: No way James: We just announced to the news stations over here, this is a great story Alexa: Doesn't it have the same gravity as Earth? Dan: Yeah, it'll be a hard landing but I think I can do it Alexa: Well better eat our meal and get into the Astrovan after dawn AFTER DAWN Launch Commentator: T-38 seconds and counting Launch Commentator: The crew is ready to head to the Kerbal system after this countdown Launch Control: We are go fo- Launch Commentator: We are go for auto sequence start, T-30 seconds Launch Commentator: This will be an historic mission, everyone is having their hopes up Launch Commentator: T-20 Alexa: Let's do this Launch Commentator: Sound suppresion water system has been armed, T-15 seconds and counting, 12, 11 Launch Commentator: T-10, 9, 8, 7, we are go for main engine start Alexa: There goes the Gs Launch Commentator: 3, 2, 1 THAT CUTS IT THERE.

Dear curious individual, We went back into the excess Jeb's Co. stock and found an LV-900 "Beagle" engine. This engine was made as a higher tier version of the LV-909 "Terrier" engine. - Elon Kerman, SpaceY CEO and co-founder of KPal

We are in the process of creating an unmanned Komodo spacecraft, that will be remote controlled by our SpaceY crew, that still want to be on the shuttle. Thanks to the craziness of my mind coming to its senses we are not doing a manned mission.

It's from Undertale, the epitome of cringy fanbases.

lol

SpaceY Inc. - Cheaper. Better. Quicker. The Raven (SCANsat) given to us broke the space time continuum. We did not like that. So we had to rebuild our rockets, and then we did a new paint job. Say hello to the Raptor 1 v1.1! An artist's rendition of the Raptor 1 v1.1 sitting on its strongback. [SpaceY] Since our last payload submission broke the space time continuum, the Kerbals at Kermigan State University and Missikute Institute of Technology in a joint effort built us the first ever QBEsat. And they gave it to us, seeing how the Raptor 1 v1.0 could lift a payload into LKO with relative ease. This is also the first operational flight, marked Raptor 1 Flight 2. The first maufactured Raptor 1 v1.1 captured by a launch camera; the strongback is in the process of retracting. [SpaceY] Nearly the same launch process was observed. Liftoff was captured to be nominal. The Raptor 1 v1.1 lifting off on the first flight. [SpaceY] The rocket was observed by about 20+ Kerbals near the launch site, and about 15,000 Kerbals on a live stream on KTube. The rocket observed by a chase camera just after launch. [SpaceY] The rocket nearly immediately headed on its trajectory to a low Kerbin orbit. The rocket's launch captured by an onboard camera. [SpaceY] Chase cameras and onboard cameras captured the rocket's ascent on its ride to orbit. A chase camera capturing the rocket during ascent, showing the "Kiwi" engine's gimbal. [SpaceY] Now the rocket was on its course, and Mission Control in Glaryview, Kalifornia was waiting for first stage separation. The Raptor 1 v1.1 captured by a high-quality advanced chase camera. [SpaceY] Then the stage burn out, with its last gasps of fuel. The flight computer sent the staging command, and the first stage separated. The first stage separating from the second stage of the Raptor 1 v1.1 rocket, seen via onboard camera. [SpaceY] The second stage ignited on the QBEsat's way to orbit. After about a minute, the fairing separated. We did not capture the separation, but were able to taake an image for later surverying. We have that image right now. The fairing fragments shown after having an image digitally altered. [SpaceY] Now we were waiting for orbit. And then we got orbital insertion and some nice shots. The second stage firing, captured by an onboard camera. [SpaceY] After about 30 seconds or so, they deployed the satellite. This was met with huge fanfare as the Raptor 1 kept its 100% track record (for now). The QBEsat just after being deployed into orbit by a Raptor 1 v1.1 rocket. [SpaceY] Now that's a success. We'll hope the Saturn Shuttle on SSM-M1 (now designated KQTF-001 here at SpaceY) will perform well. We wish luck to you all, and keep submitting. Thank you for the support, and that is it for the progress report. - Elon Kerman, SpaceY CEO, and co-founder of KPal

Dear @ZooNamedGames, In response to: Yes, because I am a visionary, a big and great visionary. Should the crew die, we shall train a backup crew and perform an unmanned test flight. - Elon Kerman, SpaceY CEO, and co-founder of KPal

@ZooNamedGames seeing as you changed the name of the topic, I will cancel the KQTF and make this the KQTF.

In my notification box: Wow. Thanks.

3 HOURS LATER Zurich: OK guys, we have commanded the commander of Starlab, Scott Kelly Jr., to open the hatch Jeb: Hey we know that guy! Gene: Yeah! Zurich: Jeb, press the CAM view on the dashboard, you will get the inside Starlab feed Jeb: Button *presses button* Gene: Woah, is that him? Scott Kelly Jr.: Yup it's me Scott: Wait a minute, get ready for hatch opening, Zurich we are go Scott: First I have to get my crew Then Alex Aveira (ESA, Portugal) and Valentina Navichsolev (Roscosmos, Russia) come out from the lab module to the starboard hatch of the core module. Alex: I am Alex Avuera of Portugall (I am trying to get on an accent here) Val: And I am Valntina Navishlev of Rrusha Koro: Heyu *waving* Scott: 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 *hatch opens* *the crew swims through the hatch and into the station* Scott: Hey lil dudes, come on in! Gene: Aww thanks *Gene hugs Scott awkwardly* Val: You vanna do sciunce? Because ve got sciunce! Scott: First introductions Jeb: I'm Jebediah, and I'm the main pilot of the space program Gene: I'm Gene, and I'm the mission control director Xander: I'm Xander, I direct the space program Wernher: I Varnar, I rrokat scintist (Accents again) Johnny: I am Johnny, president of Ekuando, the nation in which the KSC is in Robin: I am Robin, president of the United Provinces, just above Ekuando Koro: Fellow spacefarers, I am the honorable Koro, prime minister of the stand-out country named Zakan Vladimir: Comrades, I am Vladimir Kerman, respectable ... "president" of only and best Ussari Federation Jini: And I am Jini, prime supreme of Khina, that country that is almost knockoff of itself Alex: I ahm glud we did introducktions, get a tour of the statshion Scott: Alex I'll do it, grab the camera Alex: Recoarden Scott: Welcome to Starlab, our cozy home in space for just a few months Scott: We are currently in the core module, Kinship Scott: We have a docking hub for multiple resupply and crew rotation crafts to come into the station Scott: Now we come into the electrical and life support areas, as well as the main station control area, with a joystick to tilt the station, no touching Jeb: Just on- Scott: Nope nope nope, I said you can't touch it, you are not touching it Scott: We have sleeping quarters over here, just a sleeping bag, onesies, and a computer to access the Internet Koro: What is this Internet you speak of? Seems cool Scott: It's this giant computer network with tons of hubs called sites and they are connected by links which you click to go to other files on the internet Whole Kerbal crew: Oh Scott: Also we put some personal stuff like pictures of our family and things like that Scott: There are the Kinship port and starboard solar panels, as well as as the aft docking port of the module, we have the ATV-III over here from the European Space Agency Scott: Come on we are going to the next module, Van Allen, with radial docking ports Scott: This is the main operations berth, with controlling for the dockings and things like that Scott: We do observations here Scott: Above is the truss segments, port is the airlock, and starboard is the Adventure lab, let's go over there Scott: This is the main lab, we currently have a plant growing experiment Scott: We are growing potatoes Xander: Can you eat them? Scott: We will see Scott: Here is a potato, let's slice it *Scott slices the potato into french fries* Scott: Now I put it in the microwave *Scott sets the microwave for 5 seconds* *whir whir whir* *ding* Scott: Ready! *microwave open* *plate put out* Scott: Let me try it *crunch crunch crunch* Scott: A bit hard, but it passes, eat them *Kerbals eat* Kerbals: Meh Scott: Anyways, that's probably it, we're doing a time lapse of Earth a bit later Alex: Done recoarden (still accents) Scott: OK, that's it NEXT: HUMANS GO TO KERBIN THIS TIME HOW DO YOU THINK WILL THE STORY END?

Dear @ZooNamedGames, I announced the Komodo craft to the public. I hope you will also make an announcement for the flight. Schedule the mission after the KQTF. - Elon Kerman, SpaceY CEO, and co-founder of KPal

With some contracting from the Kerbal Space Program (run by @ZooNamedGames), we have slated a launch with a prototype for a new spacecraft for Komodo. The spacecraft is meant for Munar exploration, but this mission will only get the craft to 500km orbit, and then getting back to the SOV. We also have a crew, Staselle and Meremy Kerman, both rookies. Before we fly on SSM-M14, we will perform a Komodo Qualification Flight Test (KQFT) with an unmanned version of the craft, and with slightly less fuel. For this we will debut a new launch vehicle capable of lifting heavier payloads, like the Komodo spacecraft. The spacecraft will come back to Earth and be recovered to be refitted for either another KQFT flight, or a Munar resupply mission for a future space station. Thank you, - Elon Kerman, SpaceY CEO, and co-founder of KPal

Yes. But as half stages.