The Mystery of Vall

Scott looked at the stars and daydreamed. It had only been a few weeks since they had gotten to the Jool system, she had really expected to go through with the Jool-5 mission. Her thoughts went back to the trip to Laythe and then Vall, back when the ShadowMage was a magnificent vessel. Sure she […]

Jooltopia Planetia Shipyards

Times of change ‘Sometimes the loss of something inspires us to do something greater.’ – Kelvin Kerman, Chief Designer of the ShadowMage Class The reports on the damage to the drive of the ShadowMage were conclusive, firing it for a long period of time was extremely risky and it was with a heavy heart that […]

Traveling to the moons of Jool

The refueling station In the days that followed the remainder of the flotilla arrived. It was interesting to see how minor changes in trajectory had resulted in large fluctuations of arrival time. The Galahads had departed hours apart but arrived days if not weeks apart. After a few maneuvers, mainly gravity breaking and plane corrections. […]

The Green Furnace

Waking up *blib* cryo pod 3 thawed, Judith yawned and opened her eyes. “Hi Judith, you should be hearing this message. This is Gene.” sounded the intercom, she wanted to respond, but then remembered that she was probably deep in Kerbol system and there was a time delay. “Anyone else awake?” no response came. “Odd, […]

The Shadowmage

The secret briefing “Welcome people,” Gene began. “I’m sure you are wondering why you are here.” he looked around the room. There was the charming Scott Kerman, one of the original kerbonauts, Bob Kerman renowned scientist, Valwig, and Judith Kerman veteran engineers with moon landings on their name, Dr. Erilof, and Katerny Kerman. “This is […]

The Jump To Jool

Codenamed “The Jump to Jool” KSC cleared an exploration mission to the green gas giant in preparation for a manned mission. Though the Duna mission was much further in the planning phase and would launch at the end of this year, Jool required more upfront activity. And so launched the R002C Spirit 05 with a […]

The rocky return of Beale 01

The three-stage departure The return from Eve would take an unusual series of burns. First, they left Gilly to enter high Eve orbit. The second burn took them out of the sphere of influence of Eve and into interplanetary space. From there our brave Kerbals reoriented themselves and started a 30-minute, 2300 m/s burn to […]

Moonwheels Part 2

Mission commander Scott Kerman was really excited about the Delta 16 flight. Despite being one of the original 4 Kerbonauts, she was the only one that had not set foot on one of Kerbin’s satellites. The Thor class launcher performed the standard launch, match inclination, raise orbit, followed by payload pickup maneuver before deorbiting. The […]

The dress rehearsal

Mission Commander was Wehrdard Kerman, the first time a mission would be lead by a scientist. Pilot Thompwin Kerman would remote control the landing craft and Judith Kerman went along for any repairs if they would be needed. The Delta 10 took off KSC main pad, was it the 15th Thor launch? Gene had lost […]