Jeb's Company...

[Guest Fyre Flare]

A very understated topic... Jeb's Spacecraft Company.

You know how you see "Jebediah Kerman's Junkyard and Spaceship Parts Co."

Jeb not only is a Kerbonaut. But he Makes some of the most overused parts.

Like:

LV-N Nuclear Engine.

LV-909.

RT-10 Boostarz.

HITCHIKAHS.

FL-800 Fuel Tanks.

Mk1 Lander Can.

CUPOLAZ.

So... You can thank literally thank Jeb for letting your Space Station exist.

[Yellowburn10]

Yeah, I feel that Jeb's company isn't acknowledged for his fame as much as other things. He basically provides your first parts in career mode, and is *ahem* willing to try them out for you. Honestly, we definitely do as many things as we could without his rocket parts.

[ScopusAurelius]

Jeb can divide by zero. Jeb knows Victoria's Secret. Jeb can eat just one Lay's potato chip and Jeb can tear the tag off of a sofa cushion. Ghosts sit around, telling Jeb stories. Lightning doesn't strike Jeb; Jeb strikes lightning. Jeb has a "badass" flag in his config data, and a "badass" bumper sticker on his '71 Barracuda. Jeb drinks his whiskey from the bottle and fries eggs while not wearing a shirt.

[michaelhester07]

Jeb once parallel parked a train. His small talk is the basis for foreign policy.

[problemecium]

The reason no palm trees grow around KSC anymore is because Jeb dared them to.

Jeb doesn't usually drink, but when he does, her prefers Dos Boosties. Jeb is... the most interesting Kerbal in the universe.

[Rowsdower]

The countdown to Jeb Norris comments begins now...

[LethalDose]

I'm actually more concerned about all the parachutes being found on the side of the road.

also, lol:

The countdown to Jeb Norris comments begins now...

[KasperVld]

Jeb Norris once.... nah I won't go there

[bigyihsuan]

So, Jeb owns a company that sells reaction control system tanks (but not thrusters), adapters, medium-sized liquid fuel tanks and engines, and exactly 3 parts that hold Kerbals. And boosters.

Hmm, this gives me an idea for doing a challenge involving a single parts manufacturer...

[Jouni]

I just built an SSTO rocket using Jeb's parts. Works well enough with FAR and DRE.

[Holyvision]

Didn't Jeb also invent the KerTesla cars? Maybe I'm thinking a different kerbal...

[SkyRender]

I like to think that Jebediah Kerman originally started the space program as a hobby with his brothers Bill and Bob, and that the popularity of their launches (and subsequent explosions) in the early days caused the Kerbal government to take notice and give them a shot at running a formal space agency. It seems suitably Kerbal to me.

[ximrm]

Jeb counted to infinity...twice.

[AlternNocturn]

Jeb never stays dead. Though he doesn't say why, one can assume the denizens of the afterlife can't handle his radiant glory, so they keep sending him back.

[Tanner Rawlings]

jeb was attacked by the Deep Space Kraken, after 3 days of agonizing pain, the kraken died, and now rests on bop

[Vallius]

Theory of Awesomeness Relativity

1. Jeb has constant awesomeness in every frame of reference, and this is a universal limit.

2. If anything else in the universe approaches the awesomeness of Jeb, they experience coolness dilation.

3. A consequence of this theory is that the sum of two things that are each 80% as awesome as Jeb will still not add up to his glory.

[samstarman5]

And then there is the more obscure 'Found on the side of the road'....

I just built an SSTO rocket using Jeb's parts. Works well enough with FAR and DRE.

http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/jltsiren/ksp/jeb_ssto.jpg

Doesn't the use of those mods affect how those parts perform? It would be worth performing it again with stock performance as a control test.

Edited July 8, 2014 by samstarman5

[sumghai]

I'm sure everyone has their own head-canon on why the most prolific Kerbalnaut has a Junkyard and Rocket parts firmed named after him, but here's mine:

Major Jebediah "Jeb" Kerman

was a distinguished combat pilot during the global war on Kerbin that eventually led to the unification of the Kerbal civilization. His career was cut short when the development of ballistic missiles rendered aircraft obsolete (or at least, that was what the top brass thought), and he was forcibly retired.

After the war, Jeb was relegated to running his late uncle's junkyard to help pay for the bills and feed his family. Occasionally, he would find some surplus ballistic missile parts and struggle to sell them to hobbyists

and military history re-enactors (nope, I have no idea how that works either)

. As it so happened, the nascent Kerbal Space Administration was in desperate need of rocket parts after suffering a string of launch failures for their first Kerbal-made artificial satellite, which put Jeb in an advantageous position.

Jeb, however, initially refused to sell the surplus parts he found (or have anything to do with the 'gubment, for that matter) until his old war buddy Captain Bob Kerman persuaded him that the KSA had expressed interest in crewed flights and were looking for volunteers. A series of back-and-forth commutes by Bob later (Jeb had his phone lines cut last month after being unable to pay the bills), the following arrangement was agreed upon:

- Jeb would have his Air Force commission reactivated, and be first in line for the first crew spaceflight with his test pilot expertise, in return for

- KSA buying up all the rocket parts that Jeb had in possession in order to meet their launch schedules

- The few metalworkers Jeb could still afford for his junkyard at the time - his cousins - would rework and refurbish rocket parts at lower wages compared to skilled technicians at the KSA

As it turned out, Jeb's cousins weren't as dim as most folks assumed, and managed to extend their employment contracts by turning plentiful scrap metal into decent-quality fuel tanks for smaller rockets, hence the rebranding of a simple junkyard to a serious rocket parts contractor.

[Jouni]

Doesn't the use of those mods affect how those parts perform? It would be worth performing it again with stock performance as a control test.

In stock you would need more fuel, but landing would be much easier. With FAR, the terminal velocity of the descending rocket is about 200 m/s at sea level, and the command pod isn't strong enough to rotate the rocket away from retrograde.