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So... KSP lore. This has been discussed in the occasional forum now and then, so I figured we needed some kind of megathread to discuss our view on KSP lore. *If something like this already exists, please delete this thread. Who are the Kerbals, anyway? Why is Kerbin so barren? Why do they want to go to space so badly? And what do the Monoliths and Easter Eggs mean? And then maybe some less important lore, like: What do Kerbals eat? How do they survive in a tiny cramped capsule on long voyages? What is Jeb's personality? What about lore about your space program? Who runs it? How do they treat Kerbals? Why do they explore? I'll go first. If it's a long explanation, please put it in a spoiler tab like I am. What do you think?

Not exactly as it was before of course. But from everywhere I've heard they removed it in 2. I think it would be very sweet of the devs to give it a proper polishing and return it eventually.

Journey to the Center of the Thing Prologue Billions of years of nothing. Straight-up nothing. A few asteroid impacts here and there, but they were lost in the heavily dimpled face of Dres. Perhaps the most interesting thing to hit it would be a car, thanks to a private space company. Gray. Desolate. Rings arcing across a deep back sky, the most interesting feature to remain for millions of years. For billions of years, Dres whirled around a distant sun, almost undisturbed, until an alien race particularly good at leaving trash on other planets made it the focus of their attention. Chapter 1: Anomalies “Another one?” “Looks big. Should we take the rover?” The orbital scans had been acting up for months. Ever since they arrived, the polar observation satellites had been reporting anomalies everywhere. Everywhere on the supposedly empty surface of the dwarf planet Dres. (Well, except for that sports car.) And mission control back on Kerbin wanted them to find out what was going on. Because people in charge like picking on people they are in charge of, Arcturo I Commander Jebediah Kerman had been tasked with figuring everything out. Like most people in charge being picked on by higher-ups, he picked on someone lower than him to help. Specifically, Head Scientist Bob Kerman. “Perhaps. We’ll get Mission Control to weigh in. You’ve tried debugging the sats?” Jeb asked. “I’ve tried debugging the sats.” Bob replied. “You’ve tried a hard reboot.” “I’ve tried a hard reboot.” “What we have yet to try is to go where they’re telling us to.” “There are too many locations- we can’t ever hope to visit them all, not within the expected lifetime of Arcturo, anyway.” “Maybe something’s interfering with the signal? Maybe they’re getting a false reading from something?” “Like what, something at the center-” Bob cut off. “What?” Jeb asked. “I need to see the lab. Now.” Bob’s voice was chock-full of urgency. “What? What did I say?” Bob didn’t respond. He had ran out of the office and down the hallway. “You know I outrank you, right?” Jeb shouted. Bob’s reply was distant: “Not that you care!” “Fair point.” Jeb sighed to himself. Bob wasn’t seen all that night. The other research scientists said he was in the lab with “one of those conspiracy theory boards” and papers scattered everywhere. Jeb placed Bob’s dinner by the bulkhead and rapped gently on the sealed door. “Whatcha doing, buddy?” he called through the thick metal. There was no reply. “Um- come out when you feel like it, I guess. Just eat your food.” Jeb’s words hung in the air, unanswered, as he left the meal behind and headed back into the base. He could only speculate on Bob’s shenanigans, and it wasn’t the first time he’d had to do so. <><><> beep beep be- *SLAM* Jeb peered upward at the ceiling, and unfortunately, directly up Bob’s nostril. “I know what the anomaly is.” Bob’s voice was ragged, tired, clearly showing he had been up all night. Yet full of excitement that made a kid on Christmas Day look absolutely depressed. “Grug. Flzmp.” Jeb flumped back onto his pillow. It was too early to be early in the morning. “Jeb, this is important- you’ve got to listen!” “Who let you into the coffee again, Bob?” Not again, Jeb thought. “No one. Isn’t adrenaline wonderful? But that’s besides the point, look at the map!” Jeb was slowly coming to. As he shook off the shackles of sleep, he noticed Bob had dragged in a painter’s stand. A map projection of Dres was resting on it. The stand looked like it had been jury-rigged out of various pieces of scrap lying around, which wasn’t far from the truth. “Whazzat?” Jeb was still one-fourth asleep. “Look! The patterns! And the frequency, too-” Jeb cut him off. “As your commander, it is my duty to leave the knowing and understanding things to people lower ranking than me, or whatever.” “But- but- look!” “I am looking, and I almost wish I hadn’t. S’plain.” As Jeb woke more fully, he noticed various scientific instruments and papers had been brought in and his commander’s desk pushed into the hall. “See, see- right here, they’re all the same distance apart, and here, a reduced signal, corresponding with higher elevation, and here-” Bob’s arms were waving frantically, spreading the smell of unwashed kerbal everywhere. “Just tell me what it is already, OK?” “Well, isn’t it obvious? From the data here, we see-” Jeb sighed. This was going to take a while. He decided to let Bob rant. He was shaken out of his stupor when Bob said: “-at the center of Dres.” <><><> Arcturo I revolved around a central hub, shaped like a dome. Most of the time it was a cafeteria, but it could be rearranged into practically anything with its cleverly designed modular tables and chairs. (One of the more popular arrangements was an arena, where dart-gun battles were held every Saturday. It was every kerbonaut’s goal to make sure no one back home found out, and also to someday be champion of the dart battle.) Currently, it was something like an auditorium, with Arcturo’s crew spread out in rows of chairs in front of a cluster of tables grouped into a stage. Bob was setting up his makeshift stand up there, with several sheets of scientific diagrams and a laser pointer. Jeb was up there as well, delving into the mysteries of the microphone and sound system. The crew’s seating choices had placed them as far away from each other as possible. Most sat clutching a warm drink or other morning food with a space blanket wrapped around themselves. After a few minute’s tinkering, the sound system sputtered to life. “Testing test- ahh!” The volume was intensely loud. Some might have said it rivaled a Saturn V launch. A quick adjustment decreased the volume to more of a Saturn 1B . Jeb realized the hub was small enough a microphone wasn’t really needed, and switched it off. “Ahem. Uh. Well. We are gathered here for an emergency meeting, I guess. Sorry about waking you up so early, but Bob’s got something important to say.” As Jeb sat back down, he walked by Bob and whispered into his ear. “Remember, you’ve already interpreted the data. Just tell them what it means. But don’t-” Bob didn’t hear the rest of the whispered sentence as he stood up and grabbed the laser pointer, overly enthusiastic to begin. “So you guys know the anomalies we’ve been seeing, right?” A brief chorus of agreement from the audience. “So uh, I had an idea today-” “Yesterday.” Jeb muttered as he sat down. “Right, yesterday, so I went to the lab and took measurements of all of the anomaly’s locations, signal strength, etc. and I got this chart here.” The laser pointer rested its sights on the map of Dres. Higher elevations were marked in red, and lower areas in blue. Thumbtacks had been placed in various locations and connected with string. “Um, one of the things I noticed was that they’re all an equal distance apart from their neighbors. And that the signals were weaker in higher elevations and stronger in low elevations.” Jeb noticed that the thumbtacks had been color coded to show signal strength. Anomalies didn’t really emit signals, they just bounced back interesting variations from the background that scientists took a look at and said, “Hey, that’s weird.” But these anomalies were signals themselves. “It’s not much variation, but it’s enough to suspect that something underground is causing this.” The crew began to mutter amongst themselves. “Something deep underground, and, since they are all around the planet, probably at the center of Dres.” “I don’t buy it. I still think the Mun landing was fake!” Dasmir, head of the fuel refinery, was a person who would make statements like that even if he had been the first kerbal on the Mun himself. “Dude, you’re literally standing on Dres.” That was Dasmir’s assistant. “Wait, guys, I’ve got an explanation for this. It’s-” Bob was cut off by more shouts and louder conversations from the crew. “All I’m saying is, the Mun landing’s photos-” “Come on, let’s not start that again, Dasmir-” “I think Kerbin is flat!” That quieted things a little. “Wait, really?” “Well, no-” The noise picked up again. “I just want to say it’s-” Bob struggled to be heard. Uh oh, thought Jeb. At least don’t let him say the A-word… “I know, I know, it seems unlikely, but it might be-” The shouting was growing louder, and the chaos escalated rapidly. A bottle of water soared over the audience to end up splashing on someone’s hot chocolate. Don’t say it, not now, they’re not ready, don’t say it! Bob’s devotion to science was too much. Yelling to be heard over the mess, he said, “Considering the data, it’s likely to suspect it’s-” I believe you, Bob, but this needs to be broken to them slowly- “Alien in origin.” He said it. Complete silence dominated the hub. Normally, there would have been an errant cough to break a silence like this, but even those were restrained. Jeb took advantage of the moment to regain control over the crowd. “Yes, alien. We don’t know anything about it except that it’s at the center of Dres, so I don’t want a million questions about it, alright?” One of the crew members hesitantly raised his hand. Jeb nodded, and the kerbal said “What do we do?” Jeb thought for a moment. “I think our first priority is to report it to Mission Control. Secretly, of course. Any other questions?” “If it’s at the center of Dres, how are we gonna get to it?” “I never said we were going to go to it-” Jeb suddenly was interrupted by Bob. “Well, Dres’ core cooled down about a billion years ago, so sufficient equipment could reach it.” Silence reigned once again, until someone fed up with its rulership said: “Isn’t there that drilling device en route to Jool?”

People who have played, "Outer Wilds," will know what I am referring to. That game, similar to KSP, doesn't do a lot of hand-holding, so players are encouraged to explore the universe for exploration's sake - which I love! Outer Wilds enhances this by placing "clues" hidden on each planet which the player can discover and log in a dashboard/tab so that they can try to piece together the secrets of its universe. I'm not saying that KSP 2 needs to develop an intricate weaving storyline for players to discover, but since they've already announced that they'll be hiding anomalies throughout the game, I thought it would be cool for there to be a place where players can review everything that they've discovered and try to piece together what it all means. Some legacy KSP players have admitted that they never felt compelled to leave Kerbin's SOI, so adding something like this would allow for story/narrative driven players to feel like it's more than a physics playground.

Challenge: Find and Screenshot Easter Eggs in KSP Rules: No mods, Spacecraft need to be Stock, No kerbnet, No cheats Difficulty: Easy=Screenshot Minimal 2 Easter Egg Medium=Screenshot Minimal 5 Easter Egg Hard=Screenshot all Easter Eggs in KSP Good luck if anyone wanna do this challenge!

what are some easter eggs you might want in ksp2? Here are some that i might be interested in tributes to the original game terrain locations seen in the trailer some returns, though not to many

RealSolarSystem Easter Eggs hunting! In my rp-1 career, as I was doing some unmanned Moonar landing mission, I saw, once orbiting the moon, that an anomaly was in my orbit trajectory, so I decided to precise land there, and I found this: A Neil Amstrong memorial!!! It excited me to found all others ones present in Real Solar System. So just started a new sandbox game to give it a try, and challenge my self. First I'll deal with Earth of course. Here's what the map says: I will start with the one which is North-East of Cape Canaveral Let's HUNT!

For me honestly the first Kerbal Space Program Easter Egg I found was the Monolith near the KSC (smaller and floating in 0.18.3). Here's an image of it: What was your first Easter Egg you found and what was the date?

This is a thread where we discuss and talk about... you guessed it-Easter Eggs! First and Foremost, the Orange Circle on Bop. I have not gone there myself, but I've seen pics of it. What do you think? My guess is that the corpse of the Elder Kraken is interfering with Bop, due to being buried in the rock of Bop.

I finally got my latest video done from my biggest mission so far where I visited all KSP easter eggs with my friend on local ksp server (KSP dark multiplayer). So if anyone is interested you can check it out and tell me what to improve or your opinion. OR I made also longer version of it just in case you want to see me and my friend how do we made our small KSC with all hardware and some timelapses. https://youtu.be/QASo0D_Spl8 My home KSC

In the last times i was seeing the easter eggs in the game, and i noticied some things that can be improved in this area, in my personal opinion 1-The easter eggs on Kerbin: There some easter eggs that have to be replaced (like the monolit in a mountain near KSC that is in the underground in the default terrain configurations), and the Island Airfield could be buyed and make part of KSC, and could be evolved with much money, an turned into a second runway, where you can launch planes. 2-The easter eggs in Mun: The Mun arch could be bigger in my opinion, and the Neil Armstrong memorial could be redone, smaller and with a good detalied Lunar Module. 3-The Mohole: The Mohole could be bigger, less tapering and less bugged (in the @Matt Lowne Mohole base video a report inside the Mohole sayed that the ship was in the south pole of Moho, and the Mohole is in the north pole. 4-Easter eggs in Duna: The face on Duna could have a own biome, with own reports. I even imagined a EVA report in the face: "You see a kerbal face in the rock, and you start to think if the trip don't let your brain crazy." The Curiosity camera could be in the ground, and could even be replaced with a complete real-scale Curiosity. 5-The dead Kraken in Bop: The dead Kraken could be bigger, with the 2 eyes in his face, lying, and not dead, but just sleepening 6-Easter eggs in general: The easter eggs could be in every planet and moon, and could exists a purpose to visit they, like a contract to explore the easter eggs when they are only a anomally in the Kerbnet, or a reward for discovering they, like when you discover the Island Airfield. 7-Easter eggs that could be in the game again: All of the easter eggs that was removed, like the SSTV Signal Piramid in Duna, or the Carl Sagan face. And for you, what can be improved in the easter eggs?

I'd love directions on how to get to the Neil Armstrong memorial.

This was brought once before some years back, but I thought I would revisit it. I thought I could grab the Kraken's eye and bring it back to Kerbin, only to discover that Easter eggs are not movable. They seem to be part of the terrain. I think it would be cool if there were a special class of Easter eggs that one could move around and collect. Maybe something in the lines of a vessel that does not show up on any maps or the control center. Sort of like souvenirs or trophies you can put in your very own Kerbal museum.

So, I had dabbled in SCANsat prior to 1.2, but now that Kerbnet is here I'm quite content with the stock solution. I'm presently living happily with Kerbin and Mun each having a triplet of relay satellites. Having over a dozen probes other spacecraft with probe cores, sometimes anomalies show up... And sometimes they don't. It seems as though one given probe sees a handful of them, another probe might see the same ones or different ones. I found one on the Mun and landed near it - the lander probe core never saw it no matter how close it was, but the surveyor that marked it with a waypoint spotted it from the SOI change on. I'm wondering if this is limited to a vessel or a core. I.e. if I have 30 probe cores on one craft, am I more likely to find more anomalies, or would 30 separate probes do the trick? Does anything reset them so it's prudent to check again later? Do different cores have better odds? Do the old ore survey scanners come into play? Why isn't there a KSPedia page that gets me pointed in the right direction with definitive answers? Despite the rant, I'm mostly just curious. I'm excited to start finding some of the easter eggs I've never seen for myself, but I just wonder what it'll take to be sure I've got them all. Prior to 1.2 I've only ever spotted the closest few to KSC and one Mun arch. Today I've found the Armstrong Memorial with the help of my probes - yay!

I'm very confused on a 'discovery' i found somewhere in a desert. It's a pyramid i found, but i'm confused if i discovered it, or i'm unaware that it has already been discovered. The image is here. The part that confuses me is that I have BD Armory, Kerbal Konstructs and Kerbinside. When I check the map I see no symbol on the location that I am on. Is this an undiscovered easter egg or something? If anyone wants the coordinates, they're 10° 49' 0" N, 127° 24' 16".

Are they available in the game files anywhere? Could we use the model for a part by referring to it in the .cfg like we can with other part models?

Would just like to thank squad for their excellent work ☺ can't wait to play the full release of ksp. However I would like to ask if squad have any plans to upgrade the graphics on planet surfaces like duna etc and add more unique geographical futures to explore?simmiler to what they have done with mun and kerbin.i understand they were restricted by the old unity engine and 32 bit before. Again love your work ☺