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She’s Leaving Home | KSP Beyond Home Part 1| Reclaimer Program

Long ago, around a distant star, there once lived a people called the Kerbals. These Kerbals were a curious people, and dutifully watched the planets around their star dance around the sky in a state of glee and wonder. But, of course, all things must come to an end and eventually their star exploded, killing them all.

In a moment of pity, the almighty Krakens that be took a small group of Kerbals to a new star, and to a new planet “Rhode” so that once again they could watch the stars above in peace.

Or so it is Believed

Welcome to Kerbal Space Program: She’s Leaving Home, a Career Mode Screenshot Let’s Play of Gameslinx’s Beyond Home planet pack.

Long ago the Kerbals fled their dying home system to a new system. The Tempus System, a binary star system with two stars, Destiny and Fate. Unfortunately during the colonisation efforts Kerbal society has kind of stepped backwards into the pre-space age, with many believing that the idea of Kerbalkind ever having had the power to travel the stars being lunacy at best.
In defiance of this an intrepid group of rocket enthusiasts have begun a new space program, in hopes of reclaiming what once was Kerbalkind’s greatest achievement.

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Autumn on Mars A science fiction novelette by Matthew Crane. Mika’s Martian Travel Guide, Part 5: Think before you do When you’re exploring Mars, you might get into trouble. We are in trouble. A bigger-than-we-should-be amount of trouble. It all started when we reached Blackshear 57. The map called it a “Desert”. that’s quite funny

The Short Way to Paradise, A sci-fi short story by Matt Crane

12 years. Millions, nay, billions in research, countless backroom bribes, regiments of protesters hushed, ethics rewritten, favours taken and 5 aftermarket rocket launches, all to put a little grey box next to Pallas, a little rock far away from where most cared to venture. I admired the box; a rounded cuboid smooth and shiny, betraying

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Autumn on Mars A science fiction novelette by Matthew Crane. Coldbrook Citizen 127-b J.P. Clarke – Seismologist VOIP Session Transcript 3075 Recipient: Mackenzie Hogan, Secretary Director-General, Olympia Base. Begins: Hello, Olympia Director’s office… Mr… Clarke? Um… Hi? Hello. Yes? … I’m afraid you’ve been terribly vague with your urgent audience request form… You’re lucky it’s