Scanners finding distress calls...

[heng]

Basic idea:

Instead of having stranded Kerbals magically pop up as a contract, have the survey scanners suddenly find a distress signal - which will lead to a lone Kerbal sitting in a capsule/destroyed hab on the surface in need of rescue.

- M700 Survey Scanner:

: location accurate to plus-minus 2.5km

- M4435 Narrow-Band Scanner

: location accurate.

- Surface Scanning Module

: on the surface. gives you direction to signal. can be used for triangulation

Advanced idea:

Connected story contracts...

Contract one:

"We heard of some trees that look astonishingly unlike normal trees. Do a visual survey above 15km of the area." (Crew report - general area)

Contract two: (only available after completing above contract)

"The trees turned out to be no trees at all, unless genetically modified trees were created to look exactly like a crashed spaceship. Go there and investigate." (Crew report, landed, general area)

Contract three: (only available after completing above contract)

"XY Kerbal seems to be alive and has left the ship. Find him!" (Rescue Kerbal by finding him/her (see scanners above) and return him/her home)

Contract four: (only available after completing above contract)

"After debriefing, XY's original mission turned out to be <general manned mission>. Help her/him complete it." (must use rescued Kerbal to complete mission

[sal_vager]

This would be awesome, I approve.

[Yukon0009]

Perfect idea. I support.

Squad/modders, please find some way to implement this.

[Ival70]

This would be awesome, I approve.

Ditto for me.

[Wjolcz]

Awesome idea. I'm all for that. Just no face huggers once I get there, please.

[Thomas988]

This!