Horrible idea I had: The cinematic for The Female Kerbal Update.

[Whirligig Girl]

I had a horrible idea with my sister, creating a horridly humorous "script" for the cinematic for whatever update adds Female Kerbals. No I'm not serious here, yes there will be female Kerbals in the game eventually (probably after scope-completion). If a moderator could please lay down some ground rules for discussion of this I can copy them into the O.P.

Camera zooms into the Astronaut Complex

Jeb, Bill, and Bob walk down a hallway together, presumably towards the lunchroom. Jeb has a black-charred smear on his face.

Bill and Jeb argue about something along the lines of dangerous space maneuvers. Bob rolls his eyes at his brothers. Bob then sees a Kerbal walking the other direction.

A choir sings, a pink haze fills the edges of the screen, the Kerbelle's hair flowing like a fan blowing on it.

Camera cuts to Bob, who just stopped there in awe.

Bob snaps out of his trance and then runs to catch up with Bill and Bob.

The camera pans across to see Bob runhning to his brothers, seeing that a considerably less idealized Kerbelle walking towards the lander training simulator.

Jeb looks back at his little brother. He says something along the lines of "Emmany again? You should just talk to her." Jeb chuckles at himself.

Bob responds. "I can't talk to Girlbals." Bill and Jeb chatter amongst themselves, and Bill nods "yes" to the idea that Jeb had.

The scene ends, cutting to Jeb in the Mission Control Office

Jeb approaches Gene Kerman, who is busy with paperwork. Jeb says something like "I want you to replace Bill with Emmany for the next mission."

To illustrate this to an audience, the scene cuts to a piece of paper marked "Kerbal Roster for Station Resupply"

The paper reads the following:

Jebediah #0001

Bill #0002

Bob #0003

Gene erases Bill's name and number and replaces it with Emmany #0004.

The scene cuts to a rocket at the launchpad.

Jebediah gets in the command pod (the bottom section as usual), followed by Bob, and to the latter's surprise, Emmany. Bob stares at Emmany as the hatch is locked. His "cheeks" go red.

Camera cuts back to top of the VAB with Bill waving at the rocket as it flies into space.

THE END.

The rocket then cuts to a black background and the animated KSP Logo Rocket Zooms up into the Kerbal Space Program 0.31 (random version number chosen) logo, like in the end of this video.

I know this is horrible, don't take it seriously. Alternatively, something along the lines of THIS, maybe?

Edited September 20, 2014 by GregroxMun

[Whirligig Girl]

Of course all voices are in backwards spanish and are up to the viewer to decipher.

[Helix935]

i could see this happening (only in video form though, not in game for like a while)...

[mythbusters844]

This is a great idea and even if this isn't the video made I'm 99% sure Squad will make the video like this for the introduction of female kerbals.

[LitaAlto]

Cute, but I'm really hoping that "female" Kerbals are not made into a huge fuss. It's one thing to encourage representation--and boy, do I want that--and another to introduce the kind of dynamics between genders that already exists here.

Here, in RL, it's a mess, and it's hard to talk about what a mess it is without violating a few KSP forum rules, so I won't.

In-game, I want to see a feminine face and that's about it. And with Texture Replacer, I already do.

[Wahgineer]

Someone actually came up with a representation of a girl kerbal that is not sexual in any way. The only difference between the two genders is that the girls have longer hair, narrower, more angled heads, and a thinner body. The guy who came up with this representation also makes the Kerboom! comics.

[LitaAlto]

Someone actually came up with a representation of a girl kerbal that is not sexual in any way. The only difference between the two genders is that the girls have longer hair, narrower, more angled heads, and a thinner body. The guy who came up with this representation also makes the Kerboom! comics.

I saw that and that was pretty nice.

[undercoveryankee]

I'm afraid publicizing the change or acting like it's a major feature will draw critics out of the woodwork. Might be better to make a generic change description like "Support for multiple kerbal models. Support for separate name pools per model." and let the fans figure out for themselves what it means.

[problemecium]

When you said "horrible" this isn't what I was imagining. This isn't horrible at all, rather it's kinda cute!

[Commissioner Tadpole]

I agree with parameciumkid. It's not all that bad.

[Whirligig Girl]

Someone actually came up with a representation of a girl kerbal that is not sexual in any way. The only difference between the two genders is that the girls have longer hair, narrower, more angled heads, and a thinner body. The guy who came up with this representation also makes the Kerboom! comics.

There's a drawing of mine that's my own interpretation of Hayoo's drawing.

http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/86295-Girlbal

[OrbitusII]

There's one particular image that I will consistently return to for a good idea of what Female Kerbals should look like, and it's this one:

Helldiver also made some good renders of his interpretation, check those out here: Kim Kerman Thread

Fantastic script, by the way! I could totally see something like that being used for the release video. Hopefully we don't have to wait until 0.31, though.