The ride of Tut-Un-Jeb-Ahn

It had almost been a year since the hypothesis of Finni but finally they had finished the calculations and found a way to triangulate the gravioli radiation to a precise location on Kerbin.

Sean Kerman was running a tight ship. This time he was navigating the waters at the helm of the N200 Neptune. A ship that had not seen much attention since the recovery of the Belle 09. His second in command was no-one less than Korolev Kerman who had created some of the new diving equipment.  He checked in with Scott and Valweg Kerman who helped him to hoist the mini-submarine, code-named “Blupje 01” to the center deck.

While the scientist in the crew joined the bridge deck did the engineering crew the final checks before lowering Sean in the first manned submarine below the waterline. Sean was one of the few pilots that had not joined the space program and preferred to go down rather than up.

The sub turned out to be well balanced, with a small tendency to rise. This was okay for Sean. He liked the idea that in case of an emergency he would float up rather than down. He extended the sensor arm and looked at the impulses from his Kraken specimen that was getting more and more excited.

“There! I see something,” Sean’s voice sounded distorted over the crappy comms line. “Yes, we have tea over here too,” Elifal tried. “It’s a saucer!”, Sean said. “Yes, tea should be served with a saucer, what is this man babbling on about?” Elifal wondered.  Meanwhile, the Kraken in the back of the craft was nearly exploding with activity, the idea to revive small Krakens and use them to detect graviloli sources was clearly a success.

After two passes, Sean managed to dock with the saucer and prepared an EVA to see if they could gain access to the craft and maybe lift it.

962 meters below the water line, Sean Kerman embarked on an epic quest to find the door handle to this alien craft. After some wiggling, he managed to open the cargo bay doors and restore power to the docking clamp, but other than activating the indoor lights there was little he could do. “It seems the power is missing,” He said to himself “and it might not be a good idea to let in several tons of seawater into the cabins.

Realizing that there was little else he could do, other than mark the location. He returned to the mother ship to show his friends what he had found. (and get some tea himself, having turned thirsty) Where Valweg hoisted him up and tried to secure the Blupie to the deck. Not noticing that the Kraken in the container was starting to heat up.

The next morning they brought the Clock into position. This was a single-use deep-sea vessel based on Krolev’s lunar lander design. It would basically, sink and then drive, decouple and resurface. Simple but effective and it could hold three. And so Sean, Valweg, and Elifal traveled down to the depths of Bascillia Bay and attached themselves to the Unidentified Sunken Object (USO) “You are not seriously calling it that!” Valweg said. “We’ll see what they will label it later on,” she replied.

The next mission was Valweg’s and he discovered two large lead blocks that weighted the vessel down. The blocks had the same dimensions as the stones the pyramids were made with, and it felt like sacrilege to blow them up, but he saw no other way. Two small timed explosions blew the saucers anchor and slowly the craft started to float up.

“I better hurry to get on that craft,” Valweg said to himself as he saw how the Clock started to shift. “get here now,” Sean’s voice came in loud and clear over the intercom and he saw how the winch was spinning to give length to the stretching cable, he had just grabbed the ladder when the Clock was pulled from the ocean floor and lifted.

The Neptune first secured the Kerbals on board, but as they put the 3-ton lander module on the deck the Blupie exploded. Simultaneously the Clock was thrown overboard and deep in space a tight graviloly beam knocked out UKSS. It appears that using the Kraken as a bait is not without consequences.

The next hours the team secured the saucer and lifted the spacecraft on the folding deck. They then set a course for KSC island and requested silent support from the KERF carrier to make sure no further incidents would happen. Under complete secrecy, the entire island was cleared and the saucer was put in one of the old hangars.

“This is the most amazing find in Kerbal history,” Korolev said. “The other saucers were crashed, eroded and destroyed, but this thing looks even flyable. “We will need Dr. Erilorf for this, get her here fast!” Sean looked at her, “Yes, well I just spoke to KSC, and that is going to be a 100-day problem.”