I found why KSP is special with kerbals in this game nowadays.

[Efour]

Kerbalnauts makes a craft as only vehicle. Not a main actor, but disposable vehicle.

Other simulation games handle craft as a main actor or player. But kerbals make a kerbal as main actor and crafts are just tools.

This is important and really making missions living. If there is no kerbal, expedition missions for KSS are just docking and reentry missions. But there is a kerbal and kerbal makes expedition missions meaningful like changing kerbals.

[PT]

And if you go KAS/KIS, it makes Kerbed flight even more intriguing! 

[Guest]

Precisely. KSP has personality, and it's those little green guys and girls that do it. I've lost one (so far) in my current career and I named the space station that killed him after him. Without the kerbals, that would have been a minor mishap, quickly forgotten, now it was a tragedy and a lesson bitterly learned.

[fulgur]

This is why there are so many Mission Reports with an element of fan-fiction. And indeed why the Fanworks topic exists at all?
Remember Gregmore Kerman?

(That was a joke. If you don't know why, start here.)

[KSK]

20 hours ago, fulgur said:

This is why there are so many Mission Reports with an element of fan-fiction. And indeed why the Fanworks topic exists at all?
Remember Gregmore Kerman?

(That was a joke. If you don't know why, start here.)

Age shall not weary him, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning. 

We will remember.

And your post works the other way around too. Quite a few fanfics here with an element of Mission Report. And some more-or-less ignore the Mission Report altogether.

 

 

Edited October 12, 2019 by KSK