What is the most evil thing you can do to your Kerbals?

[Nick7892]

I invented a blender in KSP, but I want to see what evil things you do to your Kerbals?

[RSwordsman]

The evilest thing from a roleplay perspective is to put them in a box on the ground. They yearn for the stars! Even setting them adrift in space is not so cruel.

I have seen some intricate death machines though, usually with a rocket beneath a platform as a sort of giant grill of doom.

[cantab]

I'm not sure what the most evil thing you can do is, but the most evil thing you can't do would be to grant their wish to walk on the Mun - by deorbiting it.

[Xavven]

Take them to Minmus, where they come to the crushing realization that it is not edible. MUHUHHAHAHAHAA! MUHUHUHUHUHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAAAAAA! The mental anguish is delicious!

[Xacktar]

Sending them to work for me.

Alternatively... Danny used them as landing gear. Gotta say, pretty mean.

[nekogod]

I put a manned probe in a tight orbit around the Sun before realising I didn't have enough fuel to return to Kerbin, so I had Jeb get out and EVA into the Sun.

[costermonger]

Lithobraking.

[Geschosskopf]

It depends on what you mean by "evil". Some would consider my entire space program inherently evil because it views Kerbals as mere functional parts that at best provide only menial, unskilled labor. Thus, most astronauts are pressganged vagrants or deported prison inmates sent to do things like pump gas on Vall for all eternity. But for all that these Kerbals themselves are not valued members of society, their tasks are important to the greater good so I try not to kill them.

That said, the R&D Department has wild ideas from time to time. R&D actually means "Ruin and Destruction" and asks the usual important Science! questions like what's the best way to catapult Kerbals, how high can you launch Kerbals using only Seprtons, can the Great Panjandrum actually be made into a serviceable rover, etc.

[TranquilTempest]

Make Jeb sit next to the launchpad and watch unmanned probes launch for exciting missions.

[timsfitz]

Make Jeb sit next to the launchpad and watch unmanned probes launch for exciting missions.

Yeah that would break his little green heart.

[Xacktar]

Make Jeb sit next to the launchpad and watch unmanned probes launch for exciting missions.

OMG, that is mean. *applauds*

[Jart]

Make Jeb sit next to the launchpad and watch unmanned probes launch for exciting missions.

My thoughts too, but in my case it was poor Loman, that poor Kerbal sat at the launchpad in his little lander can. Forever watching launch after launch while he performed his duties inspecting the pad and runways. Each pillar of fire and smoke that went into the stratosphere and beyond burned his soul down to a dried husk cast off in the rubbish pile.

I am not cruel, he did get rewarded with a mun trip including spacewalk!

[Madrias]

Either it was the EVA seat spaceplane where the wings folded on me during reentry and they smacked the Kerbal out of his seat at 3000 m/s, or the takeoff of the next version where I'd put the pilot in a 'safer' position under the craft. I dragged his helmet down the runway like someone playing with matches, pulled up to a 50 degree climb, and touched off the Mainsail at full throttle. It ripped the craft apart, ejected the Kerbal, and shot him down into the dirt with enough velocity to have atmospheric effects as he went through the Mainsail's exhaust blast.

[Javster]

Make Jeb sit next to the launchpad and watch unmanned probes launch for exciting missions.

Or even worse, send all your recent recruits up, and leave him on the launch pad for every launch.

[Whovian]

The meanest thing you can do to your kerbals?

Without a doubt, copying them from your persistent.sfs file and sending them to Danny2462.

[Poryy]

I have a "Jeb Deletion Device" on all of my manned missions. Jeb respawning and jumping into EVERY rocket is very annoying, so I make him sit in a comfy seat and decouple him off the side. When he respawns, I repeat.

A long time ago I was VERY mean to my Kerbals.

-I launched Doodmund into Jool to see if I could land.

-I made a giant grill out of girders and engines, and had a Kerbal barbecue.

-I flung Bob into the sun.

-All of my Eve landing missions were manned. 'Nuff said.

-I didn't bother returning Kerbals, even if I had enough Delta-V.

-I used Kerbals as a source of Kethane.

-I made jet packs with seperatrons, and no parachutes.

-I made giant cannons and shot Kerbals at rockets on the pad.

[Nepos]

Give Jeb a desk job, working 12 hours a day, in a dimly lit room with no windows.

[pauix]

You guys are evil. I just leave bad pilots stranded in their crash sites:

[Sargent890]

I made a couple of jet powered centrifuges, one capable of pulling 16 Gs. I'll post pictures later.

[syfyguy64]

Using KAS as just cause 2 grappling hook dangling traps.

[AlamoVampire]

in a picture this:

Jeb on re-entry.

[Dooz]

Go to sentar and dangle them from a KAS rope from a air ship and drop them in.

Sounds pretty evil?

Sentar is a gas giant from planet factory

[Tex]

The most evil thing would be to deny the Kerbals their evolutionary niche, and taking away their one goal in life: flying in the furthest reaches of Space.

[kola2DONO]

Using them just to recover probe parts using airplanes.

[Alex_Leonardo]

I would get a kerbal cannon, like the one used in Hocgaming's "THAT'S NO MOON BASE!" and launch a kerbal from jool's least massive moon, around jool, and straight back to the planet. That kerbal was thinking he was leaving, but he wasn't.