Kerbal Space Program: Letters from the Planets

[rdude71]

Hello everyone. I just sent a ship to Duna called the KSS Iridium, and I figured I would make a series about it. This series will focus on the misadventures of the ship/station's crew, and their adventures on Duna. I'll keep posting updates until I move on, and then i'll end the series with a season finale. I hope this will be awesome, and I hope everybody likes it! Anyways, here's part one:

KSC: KSS Iridium this is the KSC do you read?

Nelely Kerman: Affirmative KSC, I read you.

KSC: Mission status?

Nelely Kerman: We have undocked from Alpha 001 and are preparing to leave Kerbin. The crew is ready.

KSC: Roger.

Richburt Kerman: This is Dr. Richburt, we are preparing for the transfer burn, and Nelely and Mitton are strapped in and ready for ignition.

KSC: Affirmative. By the way, we forgot to install soundproofing.

Mitton Kerman: What wha- *loud bang followed by a thud*

Nelely Kerman: Hang on to your cans people! Yeaaaaaaaaa-

Richburt Kerman: Oh god...

A little over 5 minutes later-

Nelely Kerman: Alright, we have completed our burn, throttling down.

KSC: Roger that. Go at throttle down.

Nelely Kerman: Got it.

Richburt Kerman: Engines throttled down. Has anyone else noticed a weird tingly feeling? It feels that i've been irradiated.

Nelely Kerman: *cough* *cough* I wonder why?

Richburt Kerman: I hope to god you're being sarcastic.

Mitton Kerman: Anyone up for Scrabble?

Richburt and Nelely: NOOOOOOOO-

26 days later - Course Corrections

Nelely: Well, we seem to be slightly off course, so we'll need to perform some course corrections.

Richburt: We're headed into the sun! You call that "SLIGHTLY" off course?!?

Mitton: Maybe he was trying to avoid panic.

Richburt: Panic my a-

Nelely: Well sorry to interrupt you Mr. Peanut gallery, but we're throttling up now!

Richburt: Whatever.

Richburt: Well, we're back on course.

KSC: Commander Nelely, do you copy? You're trajectory was going directly into the sun!

Nelely: Oh yeah about tha-

KSC: Yes?!

Nelely: Well, we had a spare spacesuit, so I figured we'd have some fun.

KSC: And?

Richburt: He filled it with plastic explosives and threw it out the airlock, and the resulting explosion pushed us off-

Nelely: What Richburt means to say is that I am a very well-behaved commander who was acting for the benefit...and entertainment of the crew.

KSC: Oh right...Guess what? There's gullible written on the ceiling!

Mitton: What? *looks up*

Nelely: *facepalm*

Mitton: Oh shut up...

Nelely: Well we have 60 days to go until we arrive at Duna, so...board games anyone?

Mitton and Richburt: No!

And that concludes Pt1 of Episode 1!

Well I have decided that it would be better if I just turn this into a mission report thingy, because the dialogue just isn't working out too well. Anyways, expect updates soon.

Edited November 2, 2013 by rdude71

[Lundmunchkins]

Gullible on the ceiling, is that an ASDF movie reference?

[rdude71]

Yeah, kind of.

[rdude71]

Here's Part 2 of Episode 1:

KSS Iridium has began it's voyage to Duna. Aboard the ship, all is well, and spirits are high. There was a disaster involving the onboard supply of chocolate running out, the Kerbals almost killed themselves in the ensuing panic. All they are doing is sleeping and eating. Meanwhile, the KSS Iridium silently drifts through deep space, flying ever closer to it's destination...

81 days later - HELLO BEAUTIFUL

The ship's engines than fired once again.

Because the initial orbit was too high, an aerobrake maneuver was performed.

Orbit achieved. Beginning colonization operations.

EDIT: Well, I have postponed this project indefinitely. I decided to move on to other projects for now.

Edited November 8, 2013 by rdude71

[Sesni]

"There was a disaster involving the onboard supply of chocolate running out, the Kerbals almost killed themselves in the ensuing panic."

XD

[Krevsin]

This is a rather delightful read. I shall keep my eye on this.