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Momo is glad to see Meme!

Everyone looses him sometimes. He is simply reincarnated as a star when that happens.

Yeah, but I spent the past three days--half of the Let's Play--trying to rescue the bastard. And now I've stupidly taken someone's advice and I've lost him.

On the other hand, they're less likely to have Jebediah rocket off into space because you suck at rocket-pack controls.

Again.

Any advice on how to get out of that pickle?

Wait. Does this mean that the mirrorverse relationships are the same as this universe or what?

Some are.

She should be fine considering she even has a power from the original's OP.

Also it's Meme's power. And kinda Nuriel's.


I'm sad. I think I just lost Jebediah Kerman in space forever.

Quote from: Radio Controlled on February 24, 2014, 05:53:20 pm

Quote from: Xantalos on February 24, 2014, 04:25:04 pm

Miyamoto has it.
Do you know about the pill incident?

Sure do. Gonna give it back before we leave the planet if he wants to. Not very logical in-game after that incident, but taking away other people's toys when they were having fun with them isn't very nice.

I'm going to say that it's a good sign for Grate keeping that thing that Simus doesn't know it help precipitate Grate-3² (or was it Grate-2³? I can't recall).

3², because A. that equals nine and B. it was the third Grate.

Crap, how did I end up in atmosphere? Oh dammit, I just ejected the stage instead of throttling why do I always do that? Now I'm coming out of atmosphere crap.


_{Oh, how I wish I shared your enthusiasm, Archie.}

Despite my best efforts (not much--basically lowering the landing struts and extending the antennae to try and reduce drag), it takes fourteen more effing orbits before I slow down enough to land Archibald. The sixth brought my apoapsis into the quintuple digits, the eighth brought it below 95k (it started above 107-108 klicks, I forget exactly), the ninth almost takes it down to 90k, the eleventh makes it just above 81,500 while also taking us about a third of the orbit in atmosphere, the twelfth brings the periapsis below 65k and the apoapsis to a few hundred above 75k, the thirteenth had the apoapsis shifting so I had to move my cursor to keep up and brought the apoapsis into atmosphere (ends ~65k) yes! as well as bringing the periapsis below 60k but not below 1k sadly. Half an orbit later, though, I get a landing about a sixth (?) of the planet past the KSSC. (We land about a quarter before the Center.)

It is DULL. And I can't just switch or speed through blindly, because I'm always worried that this is the orbit we land, this is the orbit I'll need to pay attention for.


<sub>Come on, you selfish inanimate bastard. Let us effing land!

Why are there targeting circles around random planets?

We prepare for landing. FINALLY!
...It's neat to see the land moving at an appreciable rate from this high up.</sub>

A problem occurs. The charge runs out for the reaction wheels and whatnot, and the command pod...well...


<sub>Oh dear.

"You've got mo' bad news for me, 'avenchoo?"

"No maneuverin'? Bit rum, don'choo think?"

"Groun's approachin' awful fast, guv'na...think Oi need mo' tea..."

Almost there...

"Well, tha' wen' bettr'n 'xpected. In th' bloody deset again, though."

"An' Oi need a bit o' 'elp..."</sub>

Eight hours and forty minutes, a day and a half, in space.


_{Oh, right, I was supposed to science something. What was that thing again?}

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I'm sick of this capsule. Rescue came so close...then went so very far away...I can't take it.

I wait for apoapsis, point retrograde, and detach the useless rocket. Then I get out and see what I can do.


_{Space looks much emptier when you're so close to falling into it...}

It...I don't do much...


_{That's Jeb, behind the pause menu.}

The more I try, the more I fail.
I'm probably doomed. Well-done, Jeb...

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So. Um. Any advice on how to retrieve Jeb, and ideally the SciMax 5? (Hey, that's a good chunk of science!)

Which direction do I burn. Wiki research suggests that the lavender ones are prograde and retrograde for the targeted thing's orbit, but why would you need that?

Will punches Kyle.
"I guess that's a no."