umbra humanus Posted February 28 Share Posted February 28 (edited) Prologue 150 years ago: Quote Bob : Hey Ludrick. I have some science experiments that I need carried to the Island airfield. Would you like to carry them. Ludrick: "Sure. I was scheduled to test out the new experimental aries 3a high speed jet this afternoon " "Ludrick to tower. This is ABWCV(alpha bravo whisky charlie victor) requesting clearance for takeoff." Tower:" This is the tower. You are cleared for takeoff" Ludrick: " Roger cleared for takeoff." Mayday, Mayday this is ABWCV. I have a loss of control. Avionics are not responding. I am requesting clearance for an emergency landing! " Edited February 28 by umbra humanus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umbra humanus Posted February 28 Author Share Posted February 28 "Hello to anyone who reads these logs. My name is Ludrick Kerman. You may be wondering how I ended up in this capsule here: It all started 2 weeks ago(for my time. It has been 150 years since that day for the people on Kerbin). I was one of the top pilots of the Kerbal aeronautics, and space adminastration. Until one seemingly ordinary day. I was flying the Aries 3a experimental high speed jet plane when I ran into a technical malfunction, which caused my plane to spin out of control, hit the tracking station, and crash onto a walkway not far from the VAB. I was, and still remain adiment that the accident was not my fault. Nevertheless I was summoned to a court hearing by KASA. They claimed that I had caused the millions of dollars in damage to the tracking station, and the plane. They said this, because Bill had seen me in the SPH, thinking that I was doing something to the plane, when in fact I was simply getting a grilled cheese sandwich from my stash hidden beneath the plane. I was therefore discharged from KASA. You may ask" Then how are you in space in your capsule". Well one of the sattelites in Munar orbit had detected a anomaly in Munar orbit. All of the other Kerbonauts were on vacation for khristmas so me, and my colleauges were the only kerbals on hand." I will continue my story in the next log seeing as it is already midnight on Kerbin." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umbra humanus Posted March 4 Author Share Posted March 4 (edited) Log 2: Quote Mission log: y1 day 14 mission time. Year unknown. This capsule has been floating in space for 2 weeks(my time). To anyone listening to this log let me continue to tell you how I got here. After the anomaly was detected we thought it was just a simple sattelite glitch, but we sent the kerbal X just to investigate: It was to be my last mission before being dismissed from the space program for an accident that was not my fault to begin with. They had another kerbal, who was not as decorated as I was, but was not about to be dismissed. Instead they chose me. Me. The first kerbal to land on Minmus now fallen to this: accepting a mission given to me out of pity. Jebediah, who told them that the accident had been my fault . It was he who appointed this as a "pity mission". Shortly after arriving in the Mun's SOI the sensors began picking up an anomaly as well. We were set to rendevous with the anomaly one hour later. Unfortunately the anomaly caused a glitch causing the engines to burn the rest of their fuel, and causing such structural stress that the stage ripped away from the capsule. This sent us on a trajectory set to encounter next with Kerbin in 15 years. This capsule only has enough food and water to support three people for 10: After the incident we recieved some strange radion transmissions from Kerbin about advanced engines hundreds of years beyond our technologies being created. We deduced that we had been flung into the future.Our scientist, Jonkin calculated that the anomaly had sent us 150 years into the furure. End of log 2. Edited March 4 by umbra humanus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkedZero Posted March 5 Share Posted March 5 Dude great storry,. Spoiler And how did he get over 150 years inspace? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umbra humanus Posted March 6 Author Share Posted March 6 Quote And how did he get over 150 years inspace? The anomaly flung him not only in space, but also flung him forward in time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umbra humanus Posted March 7 Author Share Posted March 7 Quote Log 3 Log: Ludrick Kerman . Date: unknown. After the encounter with the strange anomaly we had been having issues with our pod's built in antenna so we had Corman take a look. After that we had a malfunction which caused our pod to start spinning, and it knocked Corman unconcious. The injury was so bad that he did what kerbals normally do when they are seriously injured, and went into a long 1 week healing coma. We thought he had poofed, but he had actually been unconcious for a week. Imagine our surprise when 1 week later he rendezvoused with our vessel: But his jetpack did not have enough fuel to get him onto the ladder so we sent Jonkin to get him onto the vessel. Unfortuneately that did not go as planned, and he accidently severed a life support line in his spacesuit, which caused him to go into a spin, and we realized it was hopeless. So Jonkin went sadly back to the ladder. Log end Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umbra humanus Posted March 29 Author Share Posted March 29 Quote Log 4 Log: Ludrick Kerman Date: unknown Nothing interesting has happened since the presumed death of Corman Kerman. Except that we have been attempting to modify our antenna array in the hopes of contacting Kerbin: We are bored. Very bored. The only thing to watch on this whole capsule is ONE episode of Kerb Trek(which we have watched about 10 times since this mission began). Not even a Human Space Program video. Oh well. At least we have one Kuzzter comic, and a book called " Modifying Standard Spacecraft Antennas" that Corman smuggled on board before launch. It has really proven useful. Jonkin, and I have been reading it. Unfortunately Jonkin is very incompetent at anything non-science related, which reminds me. Jonkin how are the modifications going: "Ow! Not well thank you". OK carry on. So as I was saying, Jonkin has been modifying the antenna, and it isn't going to well. BANG. End of Log " Sorry, Ludrick. I seem to have bumped into the capsule causing it to spin out of control.": " Jonkin, did you even get basic EVA training." "No, Ludrick, I did not" "It's okay. Most don't. Engaging SAS to compensate." "Jonkin, the sensors seem to be glitching slightly. You should probably go outside to look" "There is a small breach in the hull near the instrument circuitry compartment. Probably caused by a micrometeorite. I am attempting to fix it." " Uh, Ludrick. Don't panic yet...but I appear to have made it worse" " What do you mean you made it worse?!" "I appear to have accidentally punctured a small hole in the craft. You may start panicking now" Computer message:Warning. Depressurization immenent. Please consult the emergency depressurization manual." Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! To be continued Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umbra humanus Posted March 30 Author Share Posted March 30 (edited) Quote Part 5 Warning: depressurization immenent Warning: depressurization immenent Warning: depressurization immenent Log: Ludrick Kerman Date: unknown This is my last log entry. I will probably die within the next day. There was a breach in the hull due to a micrometeorite. Thanks to the blunders of Jonkin Kerman that breach has gotten worse. Warning: pressure at dangerous levels. End of log "Huh? Wher am I? Am I dead. No. I can't be dead. I seriously doubt that there are cryopods in the afterlife. But if I'm not dead, where am I?" " Jonkin? You're here too? Where are we? " " I don't know" " That was a rethorical question, Jonkin. I am going to explore the other modules in order to see what is giong on. You stay here." "Corman?! I thought that you had poofed! Where are we?" "I am not sure. The computer says that we are on Bop. " " I am going on EVA to take a look." "I wouldn't do that if I were you, Ludrick. There is a weird squid/ octopus thing out there." "Hello, Ludrick Kerman." " How do you know my name?" " I am the kraken" "You mean the mythical beast from Kreek mythology?! I think that Corman was right. I think that I should leave." "Stay. Stay." " You, Ludrick have been part of a simulation playing out in your head at around ten times speed. You have only been on Bop for a few days. Your spacecraft is still orbiting around the Mun. I transported you, Corman, and Jonkin here to this base on Bop." "But why?" "The reason I did this was to see the limits of kerbal endurance. We wanted to see if kerbals should be wiped out or not to make a new homeworld for us krakens. Our homeworld is in a system far away. It was destroyed millions of years ago. You failed. The Kraken fleet is on it's way to Kerbin. Due to the vast distances between stars it will arrive here in 30 years. If you try to resist us you will fail. You will remember nothing that has happened here. You will be deposited back into your spacecraft in munar orbit. You will return to Kerbin, which will be destroyed in 30 years. Goodbye." to be continued Edited March 30 by umbra humanus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umbra humanus Posted Saturday at 01:41 AM Author Share Posted Saturday at 01:41 AM Quote Epilogue And so each member of the crew woke up in their capsule in a 350km by 350km orbit, not remembering anything about their experience: Jonkin:"Huh? What happened." Corman:"We seem to have been rendered unconcious by the anomaly. Either the mission timer has glitched out, out we were out for 3 days." Jonkin:"Three days?! Have we been out for that long?" Corman:"It would seem so. I shall try to re-establish contact with the KSC, but by now we have probably been written off as dead" Jonkin:"That can't be good" Corman:"KSC, this is Munar 20. Do you read?" KSC:" We read you, Munar 20. You gave us one hell of a scare. What happened?" Corman:"We're not sure. We think that the anomaly knocked us out for a while." KSC:"The anomaly seems to have dissapated a few days ago. Begin plotting burn to Kerbin" Ludrick:"Roger. Plotting Munar escape burn now" The mission from there on out went flawlessly except for a bit of a close call on re-entry with the 2nd stage: Jonkin:" Whoa! that was close." The parachute deployed successfully, and soon they were taking their compulsory post landing photo: The matter with the aries 3a was resloved in court, and it was decided that Ludrick would keep his job as pilot for the KSC. The photo still hangs in the astronaut complex to this day of the kerbals standing triumphatn, and Jonkin in his "triumphant" photo pose: (author's note: Jonkin Kerman spazzed out after the photo. He'll be fine. He's a kerbal) Ludrick Kerman went on to be one of the KSC's most respected pilots, second only to Jeb. He later went on to become a flight instructor, and was the one, who trained pilot Valentina Kerman: He also said that Valentina was quite a daredevil after she decided to buzz the KSC tower at nearly 500m/s. He was also one of the leading advocates for kerbal space center rebuilding, and expansion into what it is today. Evidently the memory wiping process of the kraken had not worked as intended on Ludrick, as later in life he claimed that memories were starting to resurface of seeing a kraken on Bop. He also warned of a kraken invasion fleet heading towards Kerbin. He was last seen stealing a standard KSC supersonic trainer aircraft, as seen on this security camera image taken on year 15 day 203 hour 5: Later that night the Baikerbanur ground station picked up an unauthorized aircraft flying over sector 1az in Kerbin's Great Desert heading due west. That plane was suspected to have been piloted by Ludrick Kerman. The end. For now... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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