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Kerbfleet: A Jool Odyssey-END OF CHAPTER 21! (and hopefully not so many talking heads in 22!)


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2 hours ago, KSK said:

Uh-oh, lemme count those shadows.

Well I wouldn't want you to forget all about the Kerbulans, would I?

2 hours ago, Emperor of the Titan Squid said:

"It's not like the moons are going anywhere" On no, someone's building a Death Star.

I think @SaturnianBlue might have already tried that one...

2 hours ago, Dman979 said:

But why is Sarge making the beeping noises himself? Is it because it's fun? Or is he compensating for the lack of a transmission system on the rover?

Well, the rover doesn't really have a transmission system; each wheel has its own independent electric motor, right? :P 

But yes, you do point out a very curious and potentially contradictory situation.  After all, this is a comic where docking goes "CLICK!" and undocking goes "UN-CLICK!".. where brakes go "Squeek!" and parachutes go "floomp!"...where breaking a writing rule makes the ship go "WHOOOP! WHOOOP! WHOOOP!" and writing itself sounds like "typa-typa-typa". But when a rover backs up, the driver has to go "Beeeep! Beeeep!" all on his own. I'd like to explain it all to you, but as you well know I can't because I'm dead. *SLUMP*

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7 minutes ago, something said:

If I remember correctly, the Kerbulans do not have RTGs and they do not have nukes because Wernherr took all the data with him. So why is that Kerbulan vessel propelled by LV-Ns?

We've seen Kerbulan ships before with LV-Ns; Kenlie Kermulan flew one to destroy Evestation and Le Scansat. Apparently they were able to figure it out from information Werhner did not destroy; here's the page where that was discussed, from the Evil Interlude "Military Intelligence" :) 

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Fortunately the Kerbulans are still stymied by Werhner's clever misdirection (he changed all his notes to read "E=mc3") and have been unable to extrapolate from the LV-N to any other nuclear technologies.

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Well, "riding a bullykow"? My guess that would be the Kerbal equivalent of bull riding. Yeesh! That Melbe's completely mental (never even seen the pastime in person but I once met a rider, broken bones seem to be just all in a day's work).

Also, I don't know why but most of the time I see Sarge speak (unless he's talking to the probes or "speaking freely"), my mind puts in a "classical butler" voice, probably his high formality combined with his "take everything in stride" attitude.

Just wondering what kind of voice was intended for the others (Melbe & Clauselle are quite obvious), does Nimzo have a Russian accent?

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4 hours ago, Dman979 said:

And Oh, Crap! That's the Joolian system in the background of the Kerbulan ship!

With Jool at that size, they'd still be what, over a week or even more out, and it may still need to swing through the inner system for a grav assisted capture, so they may just want to stay there and have intrepid come to them. Unless it sent its escorts? fighters? on ahead, intrepid should be safe for the few days of refueling remaining, right?

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32 minutes ago, AkuAerospace said:

Well, "riding a bullykow"? My guess that would be the Kerbal equivalent of bull riding. Yeesh! That Melbe's completely mental (never even seen the pastime in person but I once met a rider, broken bones seem to be just all in a day's work).

Also, I don't know why but most of the time I see Sarge speak (unless he's talking to the probes or "speaking freely"), my mind puts in a "classical butler" voice, probably his high formality combined with his "take everything in stride" attitude.

Just wondering what kind of voice was intended for the others (Melbe & Clauselle are quite obvious), does Nimzo have a Russian accent?

You read Sarge in a butler's tone? Wha?

No, he's definitely Gunnery Sergeant Hartman from Full Metal Jacket. Also the voice of virtually every Marine sergeant you see/hear in media (first one that comes to mind is the sergeant toy from Toy Story). He's very polite to officers because that's military decorum, but if you're below him in the rank structure, hoo boy you're going to get an earful if you do something wrong.

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4 hours ago, FyunchClick said:

With Jool at that size, they'd still be what, over a week or even more out, and it may still need to swing through the inner system for a grav assisted capture, so they may just want to stay there and have intrepid come to them. Unless it sent its escorts? fighters? on ahead, intrepid should be safe for the few days of refueling remaining, right?

But if they have nuke engines, as mentioned above, then they can burn prograde/radially to get there faster, and then use the gravity assist, or even aerobrake if they need to.

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13 minutes ago, Kuzzter said:

Yeah? I'd like to see you get one of those to escape velocity....

Why won't the internet tell me how much the Gold Prince Mill weighed?! I mean, it's pretty easy to tell how much the stamps weighed in total, but I can't figure out how much the rest weighs.

What's the dry mass of the Intrepid again? The stamps weighed roughly four and a half tonnes, though I'm not sure if that's the entire stamping mechanism or just the stamp head. The internet can't agree.

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39 minutes ago, 0111narwhalz said:

There were stamp mills in the 1800's that processed 500 in a day...

 

32 minutes ago, Kuzzter said:

Yeah? I'd like to see you get one of those to escape velocity....

 

6 minutes ago, 0111narwhalz said:

Why won't the internet tell me how much the Gold Prince Mill weighed?! I mean, it's pretty easy to tell how much the stamps weighed in total, but I can't figure out how much the rest weighs.

What's the dry mass of the Intrepid again? The stamps weighed roughly four and a half tonnes, though I'm not sure if that's the entire stamping mechanism or just the stamp head. The internet can't agree.

Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to the Kerbal Space Program Forums. When you say something's "Out of this world!" you'd better mean it!

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21 hours ago, Trios said:

You read Sarge in a butler's tone? Wha?

No, he's definitely Gunnery Sergeant Hartman from Full Metal Jacket. Also the voice of virtually every Marine sergeant you see/hear in media (first one that comes to mind is the sergeant toy from Toy Story). He's very polite to officers because that's military decorum, but if you're below him in the rank structure, hoo boy you're going to get an earful if you do something wrong.

Well, aside from the "toy story" example, I haven't seen/heard any examples (and neither do I want to), however that one I do know a bit (maybe I'll try that one). As for the "butler tone", I guess I've seen more examples of that than "marine sergeant" (not that that's saying much), it's mostly how he was so matter-of fact with Melbe's lunacy and similar circumstances.

As for reading it in a specific voice, I might clarify that it is how I hear it in my head.

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Oh, my 2c on the "stamp mill", there may be the issue of carrying all the materials needed to run it (e.g. air), not to mention that ore processing may be more complicated than separating gold. However, I agree with @Dman979's sentiments (I think, no offense intended, just being cautious about the intended meaning) that this side conversation is even happening.

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6 minutes ago, AkuAerospace said:

(..), it's mostly how he was so matter-of fact with Melbe's lunacy and similar circumstances.(...)

Well, that's probably because a seasoned sarge in any organization knows that taking any other tone with whomever this incarnation of an LT is only makes em more determined and it's best to just treat them with polite exasperation and hope they grow or get promoted out of it before they hurt themselves too much.

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1 hour ago, FyunchClick said:

it's best to just treat them with polite exasperation and hope they grow or get promoted out of it before they hurt themselves too much.

My thoughts exactly. Two factors to consider: one, the CO (Val) had ordered Sarge to take Junior Looty Melbe "wherever she wants to go." Two, nothing Melbe was doing put Sarge or the mission in serious danger. Contrast with Sarge under Bill's orders trying to land the prototype Longboat on Kerbin without a parachute :) 

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I tease:

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Okay, so it wasn't six hundred tons of ore--it was eight hundred. The ship now masses a whopping 1400 tons fully loaded, but minus a few probes. Interested parties can calculate the dry mass from the open resource window. And you can see that Bill and Tedus are really excited about the next phase of their excellent adventure! 

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Dry mass plus the USI resources of 455T, I don't have those densities on hand at the moment, so it's probably about a hundred tons lighter, largely thanks to the fertilizer. Assuming their densities are equal to those of LFO, the real dry mass is ~352T. However, you can't use fertilizer as propellant (at least not very successfully), so the 455T is probably more true.

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6 minutes ago, something said:

Yeah, I haven't heard of Jeb since he was doing the ATC when the Gumdrops came in...he is a bit silent as of lately...

Don't worry, I haven't forgotten about him... or Bob, Bill, Val, Clauselle, Kenlie, Lisa, Melbe, Sarge, Dilsby, Nimzo or even Tedus! But unfortunately the last bit of business for Pol is to visit the Poles, and that's not really a job for the rover. Hm, can we all stand one more Gumdrop mission?

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I did forget one! Fixed.
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