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Kerbfleet: A Jool Odyssey-CHAPTER 22 pg 2: Yet >another< narrative device!


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9 hours ago, Kuzzter said:

...well this is strange, I'm trying to get a shot of a Kerbal on the ground walking towards the camera and can't do it. "W" makes the kerbal turn around and walk away, and "S" just makes her walk backwards. But I know I used to be able to do it because that's what I did for the shot of Tedus walking away from the crashed Dipperkraft. Did something change?

I don't know if anyone has said this yet, but press "alt." It stops it, last time I checked.

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Oof! it seems K. Kermulan hasn't progressed in his writing like K. Kerman.

Wait a second ... Kenlie hiding this from the others isn't helping one bit. Characters who never were told about what happened are being seen by K. Kermulan. This seems to indicate his "know about what is going on and they can see you" theory isn't true, the Kenlies' perspective simply follows whatever events being depicted, it just happens that with K. Kerman all the Kerbulans involved became aware of the events as they entered the story. As a result, his hiding the full situation from the others isn't helping one bit, it doesn't seem to protect them and even worse, they are going to be unprepared for what comes, Nice Job Breaking it, Hero.

I've been suspecting this for a while, I think this supports my theory.

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3 hours ago, something said:

Nukular? Gotta be a Simpsons reference, if I am not mistaken. 

Nope, not intentionally Simpsons, it's just a common way a lot of Americans (but not your Author) pronounce the word 'nuclear'.

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Still wondering why the Kerbulan Empire uses army ranks instead of naval ranks?

Do they? Kerbulans have Commanders, Sub-Commanders, Centurions, Legates and Sub-Legates. This "mirrors" Romulan ranks to some extent, which in turn echoes Roman ranks...so yeah that's why. Ask the Romulan Navy why they did it that way. :) 

1 hour ago, SpaceplaneAddict said:

B: Are Kerbulans really THAT far from the thought of non violent customs? Or is that ture only because the opposite seems true for Kerbfleet?

Well, Kenlie Kermulan can't quite seem to grasp it... though someone with a little more "intelligence" might. (See what I did there?)

1 hour ago, AkuAerospace said:

Wait a second ... Kenlie hiding this from the others isn't helping one bit. Characters who never were told about what happened are being seen by K. Kermulan. This seems to indicate his "know about what is going on and they can see you" theory isn't true, 

Well, maybe not. First off, exactly one person on each side not named Kenlie has read a Kenlie story. Coincidentally (or not) both of these non-Kenlie people wear blue uniforms. Second, the Kenlies have always been able to see all the mirror characters, it's getting into their points-of-view that doesn't happen. This could explain how Kenlie Kermulan gets things so very wrong in his story about Samantha's mission; it's in a third person perspective, and so his understanding is limited to how he interprets what he sees and hears. We've seen Kenlie Kermulan POV in a Kenlie Kerman story before, which you may recall drove our poor Kenlie a little nuts. We haven't seen any stories yet that take advantage of the other connections, but maybe we will :) 

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Nice interlude!

I laughed out loud at "If only we were not hopelessly and inexplicably stranded in this crew compartment." :) Sums up those contracts very well!

 

8 hours ago, something said:

Still wondering why the Kerbulan Empire uses army ranks instead of naval ranks?

I know Kuzzter's already answered this one but I kinda figured it was a throwback to Kerbulan psychology. If you're not killing the enemy up close and personal then you're no kind of warrior. And since no Kerbulan would ever admit (or be allowed to admit) to being anything less than a warrior, all their armed forces use infantry ranks.

To misquote Heinlein, "We let the flykerbs and water-rats come along to hand us the saw. We do the work."

 

 

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7 hours ago, KSK said:

If you're not killing the enemy up close and personal then you're no kind of warrior. And since no Kerbulan would ever admit (or be allowed to admit) to being anything less than a warrior, all their armed forces use infantry ranks.

That makes a great deal of sense to me, and writing a story where Jeb's rank is "Centurion" does indeed help me push the militarism dial to 11... that moment where he pulled a knife on Bob comes to mind.

7 hours ago, KSK said:

To misquote Heinlein, "We let the flykerbs and water-rats come along to hand us the saw. We do the work."

Ah, Fleet Sarjint Ho, I remember him well :) 

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I`ve spent the last hours to read further in your amazing and absolutely funny comic, and ran out of replikes on page 140.
(Memo to myself: put bookmark in page 140:D)

It`s just great storytelling, big pleasure! Cheers!

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27 minutes ago, Mikki said:

I`ve spent the last hours to read further in your amazing and absolutely funny comic, and ran out of replikes on page 140.
(Memo to myself: put bookmark in page 140:D)

It`s just great storytelling, big pleasure! Cheers!

Very glad to see you on the thread again, Kadet Mikki! I enjoyed following your progress through the comic pages as you repliked each one, much appreciated :D 

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I am once again in the outer reaches of the system.  I found a local commsat and had a chance to read the interlude.

Beautiful work, as usual.  So much fun and several lol's.  Gotta love that Duna bar.

Nervous landings!  (I don't know how to select text with the tablet).

 

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1 hour ago, Starhawk said:

I am once again in the outer reaches of the system.  I found a local commsat and had a chance to read the interlude.

Hope you have snacks! 

And, progressing:

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Val is ordering a nice tight 15km equatorial orbit around Tylo to make things as easy as possible for the Quammer to get down and up. This will require a burn of over 800 m/s at periapsis, which of course means we need that much again to escape Tylo and transfer to the next moon. Good thing there's over 5 km/s in the tanks, because Tylo is not the sort of place I expect to leave with more fuel than we started!

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2 hours ago, Kuzzter said:

Hope you have snacks! 

...because Tylo is not the sort of place I expect to leave with more fuel than we started!

I don`t remember exactly the specs of the Quadhammer (:D), but now as your happy crew is encountering Tylo i am gonna cross my fingers for them... you could go deeper like errrm 12... maybe 10 (:0.0:) km but it depends on your inclination... there is a deep valley around which can get really ugly if one of the vessels doesn`t fit through while orbiting that low...  I don`t know but when i was once hanging around there i felt quite... lucky :wink:. Orbiting that low around Tylo makes timewarp a pain in the [redacted]...
Okay, good luck and for science! No scratches!

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science yeah;D mooooaaaar typos:D
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1 minute ago, something said:

Instead of 25 images per chapter you publish 25 per second (PAL FTW) and that's it. ...

25 per second? I'd wear out my F1 key! But thanks, and seriously,  the main reason I publish teaser images is so that you know that I'm still progressing...and no one ever feels the need to ask "when is the next page coming?" Believe me, it works out better for all of us that way :) 

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59 minutes ago, Kuzzter said:

Just as soon as I reload the courtroom set... (Spoiler! Deeman Kerman gets disbarred for 'poking the author'!)

Nolo Contendere, Your Honor.

Well, I was joking. Weren't you?

 

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