My kerbals were reproducing.

[Tw1]

I set up a simple plane.

The mission- drop a kerbal on each of the three islands that were not airstrip island. (Using EVA parachutes.)

To find out which pod Matdas was in, I EVA'd him. Then he took a half-step down, and tried to get back in, but...

There was another kerbal in there! Another "Matdas Kerman" in the same spot as the first. I got this one out the same way.

..And another took his place.

Soon, I had a whole stream of Matdas Kermani, with a few of the other guys as well.

Eventually, it stopped working. Perhaps because the plane had stopped rolling, perhaps I was moving them differently.

One kerbal EVA'd and was not cloned. But, when I put him back, he vanished?

I tried grabbing one of the clones, and putting him in the cockpit.

He vanished as well! My maker of kerbals had become an eater of kerbals.

So I decided to continue with two only. I put my many Matdas Kermani somewhere out of the way.

The rail track. Perfect!

Watched as my plane collapsed, launched a new one...

And continued on the mission, which had a 1/3 success, crashed on landing at airstrip island, and ultimately crashing the game...

Not quite sure what was going on, perhaps some weird bug of crewmanifest, who's icon has been awol for a while now, or just another version of the older bug that could make multiple kerbals show up in the same ship.

But it made for an interesting session.

Edited October 21, 2013 by Tw1

[Sirrobert]

It's a clown car!

[katateochi]

It's often been speculated that their reproductive cycle involved some form of cloning. This goes further to suggest it has something to do with a symbiotic relationship with cockpits. Cockpits need kerbals in order to exist, kerbals need cockpits in order to perpetuate.

Seriously thou, I think it might have something to do with crew manifest. A couple of versions back I found that crew manifest + command chairs could also be used to create as many copies of a kerbal as you liked. But I always start feeling really uneasy when I end up with clones!

[Odo]

What mod is giving your kerbals different colored helmets?

[Scotius]

Universe Replacer Check it out - some pretty graphic options.

[Tw1]

It happened again! I forgot to move the parachute out from the first stage, so it deployed at luach. rather than abort the flight, I slowed it to a crawl, and had Erbald EVA to cut it and pack a new one. However, the Erbald who went outside could not get back in, as another (the original?) was already there. So I deployed the EVA parachute, and let Erbald II fall.

I like the pod/cockpit symbiotic relationship theory. It goes some way to explain why you always need a pod if you want to get a kerbal. That's where they come from. You can get them from seats.

[Custard Donut (In Space)]

lol nice, those spacesuits are pretty snazzy

[Tw1]

lol nice, those spacesuits are pretty snazzy

All of them, found in the univerce replacer thread floating around in orbit, some other space programs clearly weren't having much luck..

This was a handy find when all my white ones needed washing...