DarkOwl57 Posted April 5, 2017 Share Posted April 5, 2017 4 minutes ago, Kuzzter said: And last but not least, --command author Kuzzter Kerman, sanity M.I.A. after managing multiple plot threads and almost as many save files HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deddly Posted April 5, 2017 Share Posted April 5, 2017 You're doing a fantastic job of this, @Kuzzter. Keep up the good work, the result has been brilliant so far. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rlin Posted April 5, 2017 Share Posted April 5, 2017 5 hours ago, Railgunner2160 said: Define "Survived" please. So far we have the NCC-1701-A that burned up reentering over Genesis, the NCC-1701-D which made an emergency landing after an emergency saucer separation & warp core failure. Also technically the Kelvin Timeline NCC-1701 in "Star Trek: Beyond" after it was torn to pieces.... Not really a confidence inspiring streak of incidents, the only thing that really survived was the crews rather then the starships.... ...The saucer survived. I don't really care about the stardive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Railgunner2160 Posted April 5, 2017 Share Posted April 5, 2017 (edited) 9 minutes ago, rlin said: ...The saucer survived. I don't really care about the stardive. Which was promptly dismantled by the crews on the 3 rescue ships to adhere to the prime directive due to the inhabitants of the planet that the moon they landed on orbited being pre-warp. Starfleet chopped up the saucer and carted it off. Can't really call it a win if the end result is it still wound up in a million pieces..... Edited April 5, 2017 by Railgunner2160 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0111narwhalz Posted April 5, 2017 Share Posted April 5, 2017 2 minutes ago, Railgunner2160 said: Which was promptly dismantled by the crews on the 3 rescue ships to adhere to the prime directive due to the inhabitants of the planet that the moon they landed on orbited being pre-warp. Starfleet chopped up the saucer and carted it off. Can't really call it a win if the end result is it still wound up in a million pieces..... Deconstruction != destruction Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rlin Posted April 5, 2017 Share Posted April 5, 2017 Just now, Railgunner2160 said: Which was promptly dismantled by the crews on the 3 rescue ships to adhere to the prime directive due to the inhabitants of the planet that the moon they landed on orbited being pre-warp. Starfleet chopped up the saucer and carted it off... So they did. Apparently they did not want the tech going there. I'm getting back on topic. No!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultimate Steve Posted April 5, 2017 Share Posted April 5, 2017 If only Shirley had bailed! The terminal velocity of a Kerbal on Kerbin is low enough that they won't die 90% of the time (provided they hit water)! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dman979 Posted April 5, 2017 Share Posted April 5, 2017 10 minutes ago, Ultimate Steve said: If only Shirley had bailed! The terminal velocity of a Kerbal on Kerbin is low enough that they won't die 90% of the time (provided they hit water)! The captain goes down with her ship. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 5, 2017 Share Posted April 5, 2017 5 minutes ago, Dman979 said: The captain goes down with her ship. And with some justification! As we've seen, the commanding officer's first responsibility in a crisis is to get the crew off safely. But once that's done, and the captin is the only one aboard, somebody's got to fly the darn thing--leaving a few hundred tons of burning metal to fall where it may isn't exactly the responsible thing to do. I haven't yet published any General Orders pertaining to this, and I'm not sure I need to--perhaps it's simply a long-standing tradition of the Service. Also unstated in canon: whether the recurring theme of capital ships' escape boats being exactly one seat short is intentional or not Some good stuff on this in the Real Life tab of the tvtropes "going down with the ship" article -- it's not all about honor and suicide, there are plenty of good practical reasons for a capt(a)in to remain aboard until the last possible moment, and maybe beyond. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zhetaan Posted April 5, 2017 Share Posted April 5, 2017 39 minutes ago, Kuzzter said: Also unstated in canon: whether the recurring theme of capital ships' escape boats being exactly one seat short is intentional or not [...] [T]here are plenty of good practical reasons for a capt(a)in to remain aboard until the last possible moment, and maybe beyond. Perhaps enough captins either went down or swore they'd go down with the ship that the engineers removed the extra seat with the claim that it was parasitic mass. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soda Popinski Posted April 5, 2017 Share Posted April 5, 2017 2 hours ago, Ultimate Steve said: If only Shirley had bailed! The terminal velocity of a Kerbal on Kerbin is low enough that they won't die 90% of the time (provided they hit water)! Jeb begs to differ. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpaceplaneAddict Posted April 6, 2017 Share Posted April 6, 2017 23 hours ago, Soda Popinski said: Jeb begs to differ. I beg to differ, because he forgot his jetpack! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soda Popinski Posted April 7, 2017 Share Posted April 7, 2017 18 hours ago, SpaceplaneAddict said: I beg to differ, because he forgot his jetpack! Actually, he forgot to buckle his seat-belt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angelo Kerman Posted April 7, 2017 Share Posted April 7, 2017 On 4/5/2017 at 0:51 PM, Dman979 said: The captain goes down with her ship. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The solid fuel chemist Posted April 9, 2017 Share Posted April 9, 2017 as far as water impact resistance goes, i don't think the chair would have changed anything. the big question is if whether the enterprise crushed her on impact. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
superstrijder15 Posted April 11, 2017 Share Posted April 11, 2017 On 9-4-2017 at 6:39 PM, The solid fuel chemist said: as far as water impact resistance goes, i don't think the chair would have changed anything. the big question is if whether the enterprise crushed her on impact. You're trying to apply RL physics and logic now, that will never work Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
something Posted April 11, 2017 Share Posted April 11, 2017 Kerbal physics allow for part A to crash into part B with only part A exploding. That means survival is a question of the cabin crashing or being crashed into by something. With the bridge down, there could be good chances that the bridge actually survived... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sanic Posted April 15, 2017 Share Posted April 15, 2017 (edited) Well... time to catch up on... 19 chapters. Edited April 15, 2017 by Sanic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 24, 2017 Share Posted April 24, 2017 On 4/15/2017 at 2:16 PM, Sanic said: Well... time to catch up on... 19 chapters. I'll wait No, seriously, here's what's going on--this year has been, well, one of those "series of unfortunate events". Some of you know what I'm talking about, most of you don't, and I'm afraid we're going to have to keep it that way. But the main reason (other than me being really busy and/or not having the emotional bandwidth to create comics) there haven't been updates is that I lost the use of the computer where Kerbfleet is made. Worse than that, it happened to be a computer with certain...countermeasures built in against transferring large files. And it's not just the "Kerbfleet save" I had to transfer to another machine--it's all the saves (and there are several!) required to tell the story. And it's the mods... the ships... the flags and labels... the uniforms, Kerbulan beards... and worst of all, the raw powerpoint files, five pages at a time, hoping and praying that I didn't miss anything because there was no going back to the old machine after a certain date. So, where are we now? Well, I'm pleased to report that after a lot of work we're here--right where we left off Spoiler ...I did end up having to reconstruct a lot of stuff but it all seems to have worked. Ships are where they should be, kerbs are dressed properly and the action will continue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deddly Posted April 24, 2017 Share Posted April 24, 2017 Wow well done Kuzzter! I am very impressed you managed to piece it all together again after all that. What you have done is the equivalent of moving a building stone by stone to a new location. Amazing work Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
something Posted April 24, 2017 Share Posted April 24, 2017 Was already beginning to wonder what was (not) going on here.... Yeah, losing a computer is a pain in the R S. Nice to see, you somehow managed to recover some/most/all of that data. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultimate Steve Posted April 24, 2017 Share Posted April 24, 2017 @Kuzzter just out of curiosity, under what circumstances would a computer have those countermeasures? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 24, 2017 Share Posted April 24, 2017 32 minutes ago, Ultimate Steve said: @Kuzzter just out of curiosity, under what circumstances would a computer have those countermeasures? The sort I'd rather not discuss But before anyone jumps to any conclusions, I'll just say that having Kerbfleet on that computer is not the reason I no longer have that computer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dman979 Posted April 24, 2017 Share Posted April 24, 2017 (edited) I'm glad to hear you're alive and well, Kuzzter. I was starting to get concerned about you. Also, in case anyone is wondering- Kuzzter recreated an entire save, from almost scratch, just for a bunch of online strangers (and maybe his kids). That's dedication. Edited April 24, 2017 by Dman979 Corrected info. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenTurtle1134 Posted April 24, 2017 Share Posted April 24, 2017 3 hours ago, Kuzzter said: ...I did end up having to reconstruct a lot of stuff but it all seems to have worked. Ships are where they should be, kerbs are dressed properly and the action will continue. Hmm, Ship of Theseus. If the entire fleet, including ships, flags, and crew has been reconstructed and replaced to be exactly the same as it was before, is it the same fleet? Hmm. Hmm! HMM! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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