Footsteps on Laythe

The Hikimo “Be careful that you don’t scratch the paint,” Judith said to Katerny who was juggling to get the Hikimo to dislodge from the cargo hold. Bob was smiling in the back, the whole team was excited to be underway. As they drifted away from the mothership, they said their goodbyes. The Shadowmage would […]

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 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 […]

A thaw in space

C017E Charon Heavy 07 was launched for the second time. Rather than advertising spacecraft reusability, KOS was now calling it “flight-proven” and KSC liked that idea. And so 07 flew again. Carrying the relief crew to UKSS. Katerny would be in command of this mission. The engineer was Valwig and Elifal and Fjalarr would continue […]

Almost a colony

A workshop on the Mun L201A Base 02 took off on the latest contraption of the Kerbin Design Bureau. It could put 40-tons in LKO and a serious payload to the Mun. The two large solid rocket boosters added quite a punch and damaged the launch pad upon launch. The payload was a workshop and […]

All your bases belong to us

It was early in the morning when the N100B Orca I got sight of a nice flat beachhead in the Sea of Kolus. Captain Sean Kerman had been traveling for almost a week, sailing from Cape Town, through the Great Ocean and then northwards to the shores of Firesar. Onboard were Sergent Kateny Kerman a […]