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My name is Dunrick Kerman. If anyone should find this file, I just want you to know that I tried. At this point, I've given up any hope of rescue. It's been eight years since I've received any form of transmission from the KSC. It's only a matter of time before something happens. My fuel cells could go out. The algae tanks could freeze over. I could miss a rung on a ladder. I could spend the next hundred thousand years living in this base as Laythe's orbit slowly decays until Jool's radiation belts melt the poles and I drown in the ocean. It's no longer a matter of how long I'll be here until rescue comes. It's a matter of how long I'll be here until I die. I am the only one on this planet. It is only me, the uncaring cold, and the faceless green light of Jool. I haven't received any communication from another person for nearly three thousand five hundred days. I can feel my mind changing, slowly numbing to the loneliness, becoming a scheduled machine. My only solace is this writing, hoping that maybe in milennia to come by pure chance someone will land here and find this hard drive buried in the permafrost and the wreckage of my eroded base. That maybe someone will know I existed. I've come to accept that no one will take me back to Kerbin, back home. I can't accept that mission control has forgotten me. My mission was successful. The ISRU is working. I am ready to refuel spaceplanes. But no spaceplanes come to be refueled. I've been given no further instructions from mission control. They haven't even checked to see that I am still alive. My antenna isn't powerful enough to reach Kerbin, but KSC should be able to reach me with theirs. Are they punishing me for something I've done? There have been seven transfer windows since the base was established. They've spent years and millions to establish this base. Even if they throw me away, could they really throw all that away? I have an entire planet to myself, but the only thoughts in this whole world are my own. Some days I pretend I've died. Some of those days pretend stretches into belief. I'm trapped in an eternal twilit purgatory. I drink the same thick algae soup every day and check the same air filtration and drilling systems, watched the same unsetting green sphere in the southern sky. There is nothing I wouldn't give to see a real sunrise. To hear music, to see someone smile. I try to smile at myself in the silver reflections of the air ducts, but I've almost forgotten how. My facial muscles have atrophied. Why am I even writing this? No one's going to find it. It would be fantasy to think that someone would find this hard drive intact if at all. It would be fantasy to imagine writing this isn't a waste of time. The icy Laythe atmosphere will find it first. No one will ever know about me; for all purposes I am already dead. My time is already wasted. The fantasy world is the only world I can live in, the only world with hope. There is no hope in the real one anymore.

So, I've been scouring CKAN for mods that don't seem to be getting any love these days. It's difficult considering that a lot of the creators don't leave behind an email address or anything. However, I am really interested in learning how to program and mod; how best to learn than with my favorite game and it's respective community. Now, I could look through the 1,900-some-odd incompatible mods on CKAN or I thought I could come here and see if there are any mods you all wish were still supported because you enjoyed having the content. Point me in the direction of a mod (particularly a plugin or simple part mod, conducive for learning) that has been opened up for adoption and I'll take a look and try to contact the mod author. Thanks for the help and hopefully I'll be able to bring some of your favorite content back to life and learn along the way!

I thought some parts from Making History (specifically the round pods) were overpowered so I made this little modlet to fix that. Downloads, documentation, source code, issue tracker, place to fork it and try your hand at my code, etc - all on Github. Requires ModuleManager. Get that on Github or via CKAN. Questions I will likely be or am frequently asked (TL;DR FAQ): Is it on CKAN? - No. I'll try to get it on, but I need to learn how and would appreciate support in that aspect. Does this break saves? - Maybe. Currently, be careful if you have one of the round pods in flight (particularly the Pea and Pomegranate - size changed) as they have their mass and size changed to match the Mk1, Mk2 and Mk1-3 pods. (When) Will you update to KSP x.y.z? - It should work with all KSP versions 1.4+ (but not below because Making History didn't exist back then), just modify the version file so under KSP_VERSION it says: I've found a bug! - Report it on Github How can I trust a mod made by a wibbly lander? - (wobble, wobble) (kraken) (flies to pieces) Full list of changes? - Not many, just 3 parts with 5 changes at the moment - all in my documentation. NOTE: Thanks to @RoboRay's fantastic explanation of the balance of the new pods, I have decided I do not want to continue the mod. Feel free to use it, but consider it abandoned. Thread will remain open for discussion and if anyone wants to take the mod over, but no support will be provided by myself and I will get the thread locked should it spiral out of control. BLANKET PERMISSION TO DO ANYTHING WITH THE MOD