Kerbal History Reborn

[Goodle...]

601: kerbals start sailing.

[megatiger78]

603: kerbals notice that a large amount of the population has vanished mysteriously.

[KerbinW365]

604: New planet: Mamoma is discovered.

[Goodle...]

605: Goodle is pleased as his game is revived.

[NuclearNut]

605: Project "Minerva" starts, a program to determine the possibility of producing usable energy from various nuclear interactions. The first test rig shows the first signs of nuclear fission, however kerbals are more interested in the "pretty lights" produced by the nearby scintillator than the anomalous chemical changes produced by the bombardment of uranium with neutrons.

[megatiger78]

606:porject Minerva kills 5000 kerbals

[KerbinW365]

607: Project Atlas begins, a project to make the world's smartest AI

[CAKE99]

608: Project Atlas is successful but the AI breaks free and escapes.

[MrWalrus123]

609: The ai leaves the urban land and makes a small cabin in the mountains, there he writes an autobiography on his intreating journey there.

613: 4 years later, the AI is a profound author, until his story "The Trip to the Mün" however due to suspicion of him breaking the law of no spacecraft until the set time, a team of highly experience Kerbals assassinate him.

[problemecium]

615: Plans are drawn up the for the Great Kathedral of Khalesm, which is meant to stand for centuries as a testament to the advanced state of Kerbal culture.

616: Leonardo da Kerman paints the Kerba Lisa. That same year, the painting is stolen and a convoluted investigation takes place, headed by the brilliant but clumsy Inspektor Klouseau.

[megatiger78]

617: kerbals discover the multiverse. they see KH 1, 2, 3, X, and whatever the other one was. the researchers responsible commit suicide from the horror of what they saw before they release the info, so it remains unknown.

[Sanic]

633: An insane dictator named Kadolf Kerman takes power in Kermany, desiring to hoard all of Kerbin's snacks.

639: Kermany invades the central Sean's Cannery snack factory in Koland, starting World War Kerbin 2.

644: Kermany invents the mighty K-2 rocket, a missile that travels to space on the way to its target. Kermany also invents the K-262 Jet Fighter, using two J-20 Basic Jet Engines. Jet engines are invented and widely used as a 'less explody' alternative to rockets.

645: After failing to take all of the Koviet Union's snacks, Kermany is defeated.

To all readers, I advise you to go back and read the whole history so you don't end up doing something that's already been done.

Edited November 15, 2015 by Sanic

[HoloYolo]

645: Kermany is split up by East and West.
645.5: The other major opponent, Kapan, is defeated with an atom bomb.
640's: More atom bombs are tested, Kold War escalates.

[problemecium]

646: Fortunately for Kerbalkind in general, the Kold War "escalates" so high that it drifts off into space, out of Kerbin's SOI, and eventually out of the Kerbolar system altogether. Peace is restored on Kerbin, and those directly involved in the war, such as Kadolf Kerman, are doomed to fight one another forever in the depths of interstellar space (but somehow using biplanes and K-boats rather than spaceships). Needless to say this gives rise to many a legend among extrakerrestrial civilizations yet to be discovered.

647: In an effort to bring the explodiness of rockets down to around that of the new jet engines, the StrutCo company is founded and begins marketing a device which, when attached to two spacecraft components, allows them to structurally brace against one another and thereby create a more durable whole. These "struts" become wildly popular among Kerbals, and before long all Kerbal architecture features them prominently (in a similar fashion to columns in ancient Rome on Earth, not that the Kerbals would know anything about that).

647: Bruce Kerman is mugged in an alleyway, and in an effort to reduce crime rates in his hometown, proceeds to reinvent himself as Bat Kerbal. Edited November 16, 2015 by parameciumkid
dananananananana dananananananana BAT KERBAL!!!

[Sanic]

648: The Great Strut crisis begins, caused by a massive strut shortage. Without struts, rockets are exploding left and right, causing anarchy among Kerbin's many space programs.
648.5: The Koviet Union restarts K-2 rocket production, while the Kerbal States use old K-2 rockets as sounding rockets. Edited November 16, 2015 by Sanic

[Hysterrics]

[U][B]649: [/B][/U]Kerbals gaze into the sky with state of the art telescopes. They see a grey dot with a hint of blue a think it could be a distant planet orbiting a main sequence star they named "Sol"

[HoloYolo]

650: Life is theorized on those distant places. With the atom bomb, propulsion with such things is theorized.

[Hysterrics]

651: Theorists write papers on combining nuclear power and rockets. These papers are sent off and read by the R&D team.

[UnionPacific1983WP]

652: Giant alien monkeys come and destroy any buildings on Kerbin that in the space age may become rocket builders.



In case you don't get it, it's a reference to the imminent annihilation of the RB subforum.

[Hysterrics]

653: Kerbals believe that this strike was from the recently discovered planet. They wonder if that world is a higher power than them, and could there be a chain of higher powers?

[Findthepin1]

653.1: A signal is sent to the planet by Kerbals.

[Sanic]

654: An angry squad of space monkeys from the planet come and burn every building on Kerbin, because they thought Kebrin looked cluttered. Luckily, kerbal scholars managed to archive most Kerbal knowledge, saving Kerbin from reverting into the dark ages.

#RocketBuildersReference

[Djslime6764]

655.: A response has come with a mission for the kerbal to begin the journey to explore The Universe.

[HoloYolo]

657: The Korion Project to use the atom bomb to explore the universe is almost complete. Tests start to occur.

[problemecium]

658: The R&D facility comes to the conclusion that Kerbalkind isn't quite ready for nuclear power in the conventional sense. Instead they find small-scale, non-explosive ways to exploit nuclear energy. While this leads to dismay among Kerbin's large demographic of pyromaniacs, it also leads to the development of prototypes of two important technologies: nuclear thermal rocket motors and radiothermal generators.

659: After extended deliberations, representatives from various rocket building companies finally reach a consensus on what to do moving forward. First, an agreement is made not to pursue any rash actions such as mass resignation, nuclear apocalypse, or interstellar wars with any rumored "monkey" creatures. Second, rocket builders will have the option to resume business after a short delay under a new unified bureaucratic structure, wherein they can publish designs and distribute craft blueprints in a sort of "Spacecraft Exchange." Third, [b]since the mysterious event has been covered sufficiently, no further records are to be made of it in the official Kerbal historical records[/b].

659: Later the same year, Rockomax corporation, concerned about their future in the space industry, demolishes the Great Kathedral of Khalesm and builds a large supermarket known as Rockomart.