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Padishar

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Stranded on Mun after driving his rover a bit too fast down a steep crater rim.

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The debris 600m away is a small monoprop tank that got knocked off when he first flipped over. He fell off after 8 or 9 rolls and the body of the rover exploded as it bounced and rolled down the hill. He came to rest about 100m away from the main wreckage.

The only other lander on the station in Mun orbit is a single person one with no remote control so he'll either have to wait for backup from Kerbin or hang on to a ladder...

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On the mun

no ship, or even debris for hundreds of Km...

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what happened?

Forgot to throttle-down before an EVA. Good thing I was fast, and saved him from the hundreds of feet of scary empty space below him with his EVA pack!

One man capsule, so that ship is now unmanned, and floating in a weird eliptical solar orbit.

Planning a mission now to go get him.

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Stranded on Mun after driving his rover a bit too fast down a steep crater rim.

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The debris 600m away is a small monoprop tank that got knocked off when he first flipped over. He fell off after 8 or 9 rolls and the body of the rover exploded as it bounced and rolled down the hill. He came to rest about 100m away from the main wreckage.

The only other lander on the station in Mun orbit is a single person one with no remote control so he'll either have to wait for backup from Kerbin or hang on to a ladder...

Due to a mix-up in the VAB, that other lander didn't actually have enough dV to land and return to orbit anyway so he had to wait for a new 2 person lander to be piggy-backed onto a refuelling ship from Kerbin. He's now back on the Mun station while the useless lander was returned to Kerbin with some science data. Now waiting for another new design lander and a couple of new rovers to be delivered before venturing back down to the surface...

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In my main career save, my Jebediah is dead. Sort of.

In that save, I play with permadeath. Jeb died during the very first mission to land on the Mun. I sent up 4 missions at the same time, with Jeb's being the first. Once they were all in Munar orbit, I sent Jeb down to land and get that coveted "First Kerbal on the Mun" honor. My landing skills were horrible at the time; his lander ended up touching down on a crater wall and tumbling 4 or 5 times. Amazingly the only thing knocked off was the command pod. Still, Jeb got the first landing flag, so he was happy.

So I tried a precision landing with Bill in the second lander, came within 10 km of Jeb. Started walking Jeb to the rescue, realized how long THAT was going to take, and started using my EVA jets to speed it up. I thought "I'll be able to stop in time, no problem. The Kerbals slide when they hit the ground anyway, he'll be fine."

2.2 kilometers from being rescued, I miss time an upwards thrust, going at what must have been 30+m/s horizontally. "BAM! poof...." pause... "NNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO JEBEDIAH!!!!! NNNNOOOO!!!!" alt-f4 (didn't know about quicksaves yet), sweat, restart, sweat, load save, pray, check tracking station, not listed, load his command pod... still dead...

I was devastated. I walked Bill 2.2 km to where Jebediah had died to plant a flag marking his grave.

I spent the next few weeks real time (2 years Kerbal time) without Jeb, killing 5 more Kerbals during that time, until I couldn't stand not seeing his manic grin anymore. Went into my persistent file and edited Jeb back to life (also discovered 2 of the other Kerbals I killed were flagged Badass, but I only resurrected Jeb). I pretend this is actually Jebediah Jr. Jr started his career riding a rocket to orbit Strangelove-style, then test-piloted space planes until he got one into orbit and docked to a station. Amazingly, I've never had to f9 any of his crashes despite being unable to land on a runway.

Jr is currently in my interplanetary dock station in LKO, waiting for Bill and Bob to bring back my interplanetary tugs from Duna. Once the Tangy Trio is re-united, they'll be off to either Jool or Eeloo. Or Gilly. Basically anywhere that's not Eve, because I don't have a lander that can re-orbit Eve yet and I want Jr to still have a chance at success after making a mistake pulling a Jebediah.

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When I first started playing, I think Jeb died at least 20 times because I was just goofing around without any real purpose for about a week. Since I started my career mode, I haven't lost anyone. :) Jeb is now the full-time new rocket model test pilot. He is growing quite fond of parachutes now.

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Due to a mix-up in the VAB, that other lander didn't actually have enough dV to land and return to orbit anyway so he had to wait for a new 2 person lander to be piggy-backed onto a refuelling ship from Kerbin. He's now back on the Mun station while the useless lander was returned to Kerbin with some science data. Now waiting for another new design lander and a couple of new rovers to be delivered before venturing back down to the surface...

He's gone and done it again... Bill spotted an arch during a low level orbit so dropped his lander down right alongside it. When Jeb heard about it back on the station in orbit he jumped into one of the new rovers and headed down to meet Bill. Unfortunately he was in such a hurry that he made a right mess of his landing and used up far too much fuel.

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Despite Bill having a spare seat in his lander, mission control has told Jeb that they are sending a specially designed, remote control ship that can dock to the top of his rover and refuel it (or theoretically just lift it back into orbit). The ship has been delivered to the station so he shouldn't have long to wait now...

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The others are having a great time but Merlong really doesn't like it in that cupola...

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well, right now, he's on an offshore tropical vacation, after spending about 10 years or so in the hab module on my space station. the rest of the kerbals from the station are there too. finally unlocked the secrets of functioning docking ports with the Crew manifest Mod. he'll be off to duna soon enough, he'll be shuttled over once I get my 13 kerbal housing unit set up. I think i'll need to send over the new space stations for duna though, along with the tankers, so the duna surface-> orbit shuttle can fuel up. or he'll ride in another housing unit...

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In my current game, he's technically available in the roster for upcoming flights, but I've decided he's doing PR appearances for the Program, exploiting the fame of being the first to orbit Kerbin.

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Same here. Well actually no. I forgot where he is, but he's either in my in-progress Minmus mission (which I have tested and does definitely have the fuel to get him home) or aboard the LKO space station.

I care for my Kerbals. In fact I haven't killed or permanently stranded a single Kerbal (quickloading does not count) since I upgraded to 0.21.

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