Worst way to ruin Jeb's Monday

[Zild]

Now that's a fine idea for my next game!

Also adds challenge to career mode as you end up effectively paying for funeral expenses.

Another option for you: monuments to Kerbals for great achievements, such as first Kerbal in space or first Keral on the Mun.

[Goddess Bhavani]

How about....

Jeb gets married.

Prohibited from participating in any further aerospace flights on wife's instructions

[Sharpy]

There's my Kerbality monument on Minmus. A bare minimum MK3 rocket (no cockpit, just a blind adapter/nosecone) standing on its engine, snapped in half, the upper half displaced by some 20cm relative to the bottom.

[guitarxe]

Jeb comes to the launchpad only to find... MechJeb took his place!

DUM DUM DUM

[eataTREE]

"No, Jeb, you aren't flying today. As the Program's only four-star pilot, you are far too valuable to risk on routine missions like this, and besides, Teedon needs the experience. But don't worry! You'll command the great Sarnus-5 mission, and the launch window is only... 1 year, 237 days away. So turn that frown upside down, pilot!"

This is Jeb's situation in my current career save. Nothing like getting promoted out of the job you love...

[Captain Vlad]

Sees a note from Valentina in the pilot lounge, saying she's taking the new Mach 6 spaceplane for it's first outing because they bumped takeoff up to 15 minutes before he usually arrives. Sees that she puts little faces as dots on the 'i's', all sticking their tongues out at him. Then realizes his powdered doughnut box is empty, and Bob and Bill had just walked past...they'd said the stuff on their hands was chalk from Werner's board, but doesn't he use dry erase now?

He ponders this as the sonic boom rattles the Astronaut Complex's windows, and he can hear a chirpy, female "yeee haaaaa!' from the radio room down the hall.

[2001kraft]

"Jeb, the Mun became pissed at you for colliding too many rockets into it. A small rock broke off and will hit your command module on the next mission to Bop."

"But sir, Mun isn't.."

"No buts. Your mission will be delayed until further notice...Planned time for mission: 3 years, 97 days, 4 hours, 2 minutes. Go drive a car or something, you know, while you wait."

[Voyager275]

Runs out of snacks. Enough said

[Sharpy]

Valentina: "Jeb, darling, now that we're going to have a child, we can't risk leaving him or her fatherless or motherless. Our astronaut days are over. I've already filed the papers reassigning you to administration."

[KerikBalm]

Sorry Jeb, with the new probe cores, we don't need pilots anymore.

Only scientists and engineers are eligible on the limited space for our interplanetary missions.

You can still "drive the bus" to take scientists, engineers, and their equipment to orbit though... at least until we add the new probe cores to our SSTOs too, then its foreced retirement for you.

Valentina stays on because she's good for PR.

[GoSlash27]

To all personnel,

We are conducting a base- wide safety standdown. All flight ops are cancelled effective immediately.

All section leaders are to conduct procedure reviews and safety training until further notice.

-Mgmt

[totos_totidis]

Jeb congratulations you just got promoted to doing inspirational talks at universities and other events.

[User Unrelated]

I'd say to hear Valentina's name called over the intercom in the astronaut lounge instead of his... Because that rocket over on the pad looks exceptionally unstable and dangerous (fun)

[GDJ]

Given his reputation, I'd get him to sweep off the runway with a push broom.

[cantab]

Jeb arrives at the Space Centre one Monday morning to find it eerily quiet. The Launchpad, VAB, and a few other buildings are still piles of rubble like he left them after his last attempted tower buzz rocket launch. The rocket part storerooms have been left open, their insides bare. Nobody else seems to be around.

Peeping into the Astronaut Complex, Jeb sees the lounge empty, and a notice pinned up on the wall. He walks over to it.

NOTICE TO PERSONNEL

Effective immediately we are moving all operations to KSC West to reduce building maintenance costs.

Ensure you are booked on either the Saturday or the Sunday ferry flights. If you miss them you will HAVE TO WALK.

- Werner von Kerman.

As he walks back out of the Astronaut Complex Jeb looks up and sees the exhaust plume of a launcher circularising overhead.

[GeneralVeers]

When Jebediah sees his command module being removed from the next test vehicle and replaced with a Probodobodyne HECS.

"You replaced me with a HEXAGON!?"

[Edax]

Telling Jeb that the last launch disaster cost KSC dearly and they their in financial trouble, and that he'll have to get a part-time job at Valentina's Spaceplane & Automobile Carwash, where he'll have to spend his days. He can only hope his plan to mine Minmus and build a blue rock-candy empire will bring him the riches needed to save KSC!

[lordlundar]

When Jebediah sees his command module being removed from the next test vehicle and replaced with a Probodobodyne HECS.

"You replaced me with a HEXAGON!?"

And along those lines...

http://www.kerbalcomics.com/2013/08/19/episode-29-youre-terminated-wrecker/

[Turk_WLF]

If he gets measles before the flight, If you get the reference.

To go farther on the idea, he got the news before the flight & 2 days (on Monday) after the Launch only to find out that the Flowers DON'T Bloom.

[Xyphos]

"Where will YOU be when diarrhea strikes?" -- Television commercial for Bismuth

(and truth be told, I've had this happen to me while riding a public bus)

[Samniss Arandeen]

Revert.

Seriously, this must be what Jeb's life feels like with all the failed launches and reverts.

[Jett_Quasar]

There\s only one way to ruin Jeb's Monday - No flights scheduled!

JR

[Xyphos]

There\s only one way to ruin Jeb's Monday - No flights scheduled!

JR

for the next 68 days, due to time warp.