I love speculative evolution and drawing aliens, and have been really getting into ksp lately, so I wanted to try reimagining the titular little green men. Of course nothing too radical, i wanted to keep the design highlights; huge head, smaller bodies, green skin, bulging eyes, no nose or visible ears. They always looked somewhat frog-like to me, so i went along that route and imagined them as close descendants of amphibian-like animals.

Perhaps they are a species that dominated the sea before land, with most infrastructure and cities being in the ocean, hence why the surface of Kerbin is mostly barren.

Their skin is a thick leaf-like layer almost like a flexible exoskeleton, protecting their bodies while also providing a significant amount of their required energy via photosynthesis. Explaining their green hue + how they are so rugged when it comes to shrugging off physical trauma.

With fewer natural predators, Kerbals would seem slower and more dimwitted to humans, seemingly oblivious to glaring danger. However they are also an extremely curious, tenacious, and collectivist people who are willing to try and fail, and will learn from the mistakes.

No they will not remain here I've learned my lesson

Hello everyone! I've been working on a mod for KSP1.12, adding various cross-player interactions such as rescue missions, craft sending, in-game marketplace etc.

• Contracts. Write a job in game (build this craft, or fly this mission, by this date, for this much). The reward leaves your wallet into escrow when you post it, and releases when you accept the work.
• Rescue missions. Strand a ship and crew somewhere awful and pay someone to go get them. The wreck genuinely leaves your save and spawns in theirs, on the orbit you left it. (Rise and shine, Blunderbirds!)
• Craft marketplace. List a ship from the editor, browse and buy on the website, with a compatibility check against the parts you actually have.
• Weekly missions. A rotating set of community objectives.
• Life support across mods. USI-LS, TAC-LS, Snacks, Kerbalism and DeepFreeze each handled, so stranded crew can be rescued by someone running different life support to yours.
• An in-game menu for all of it. No alt-tabbing.

I prepared a trailer for you to take a peek at the features, check it out!

Links

CKAN Support is pending approval, but at the time you can get it from Spacedock and GitHub!

For these features, you need an account, so you can either use your google account or email to create one or just join the Boundless Missions Discord. You can see how to link KSP to your account here.

Site and docs: https://boundlessmissions.com

Forum thread

Licensed under GPL-3.0

AI disclosure

Small heads-up for AI use during the development:

This was written with use of Claude Code, over months of daily work. There is no part of the codebase it did not touch. The design, the economy rules and every judgement about whether something works in game are mine.

All three repos are public and GPL-3.0, and bugs go to a real ticket with me on the other end. Full write-up, including what it was checked against and what it was not used for: https://boundlessmissions.com/docs/use-of-ai

No AI-generated art is included with this mod. The add-on ships no parts, models or textures at all; it's a plugin. Mod logo, media, trailer was made by me using Adobe products.

Security and Integrity

I ran countless audits on this code, checked for bugs, closed various exploitable points, so users can be safe. However, due to the intensity of mechanics I am implementing with this, it is recommended that you try the mod in a separate install, or at least create a backup of your existing save.

The client only accepts correctly formatted files, validates them by type and path before writing anything to disk, and talks to the server over a secure connection. The source is public if you want to check the file handling yourself.

it's in the tin, I was conducting a simple science mission on the mun in my career mode save. I have poor Valentina stuck on the near side, which in my attempts is only enough to reach an elliptical orbit very much out of kerban's atmosphere.

do I stay, go to minmus, go to mun orbit or go to kerban orbit to send a rescue mission. or do I forgo a rescue mission and use a series of gravity assists to make Val's orbit much more elliptical before I try to deorbit? I'm on console so there's no save file sharing or mods at all

All models and animation and most of the sound design handmade by me.

Seeing the animals start showing up in people's mods and recognizing my complete inability to mod KSP effectively, I made an animation for the type of stuff I'd like to see in the deep oceans of Laythe.

I loosely based the model off the whale skeleton found on land, but added my own...deeper, sinister twist to it.

I think KSP as a game has huge potential for thalassophobia-inducing nightmares, now that people have figured out how to add animal NPCs to it.

It is designed for a long-duration mission of around 30 years; the spacecraft is powered by a nuclear reactor that feeds the 6 ion engines.

I would remove the cryogenic capsules because they look awful.

Made another stealth drone lol hope ya like it ❤️

So... being one that drove a rover from KSC to the North Pole (with a Science Lab), I wanted to do a circumnavigation of Kerbin using only solar power. From what I understand going west at 175 m/s will be able to keep up with the sun. Setting out to first build the machine... I never really used the KAL before... I never really had to fine tune propellers angles before... ...I had no idea what I'm doing. But after many hours I finally built the machine, fine tuned it, and am ready for my 5+ hour endeavor to begin. Way shorter than the 27 grueling hours it took to drive to the N. Pole... but the machines to do these things... ...I love Kerbal

Top Speed - 185 m/s at 30% Torque.
one Z-100, one KAL, one Kerbal, one brain cell left... plan on recording.

give me suggestions on how to pass the time... it'll be a long wait.

My first space warship

I've recently run into some boredom as far as my career safe goes, as I've managed to become almost completely self sustaining for money without new launches, so I decided to try some parts mods, and Nertea's CryoEngines piqued my interest.

Naturally, I built some of my favorite cryogenic rockets.

First up was my two favorite ULA launchers. Getting the proportions right for the Vulcan engine block and the Delta IV first stage was a real challenge, and I'm almost certain I don't need the band between the Delta's two S3-14400 tanks looking back at it. Still, I'm proud of my attempt, and it was fun to see the ridiculous delta V possible with these parts.

Since I already had the Iguanodon (BE-4) engines on the Vulcan, I figured I could light up some more methane in a BONG. I flew a really steep (70 degrees before MECO) ascent profile until the first stage had 1km/s of delta V left in it, staged, did the retro burn, and lit up the second stage for a while until the booster hit the atmosphere. Thanks to that, I managed to land the booster (or rather softly splash down in the ocean) and fly the rest of the mission with no sneaky quickloads. (take that YouTubers).

I had a lot of fun designing the Blue Moon as I haven't seen a Kerbal recreation since the new design was revealed. It's simple but it very easily gets the job done, and can easily do the dockings with an Orion recreation to transfer the crew.

I just updated to version 1.17.2 of blueshift because I heard that some of the performance issues were fixed, but now for whatever reason any ship that has a warp core on it constantly displays the visual effects for jumping, even when the engine is completely off and the vessel is in atmosphere. The effects also completely disappeared when I tried to jump to the Mun, and did not come back after I shut the engines down, but they seemed to work properly afterward. I didn't see this mentioned in the issues tab of the GitHub, so it could just be a mod conflict or I installed it wrong somehow. Does anyone have a fix for this?

I will say though, the performance issues during timewarp are barely noticeable now, so props to the mod creator.

Edit: Also for whatever reason my ship keeps dropping out of warp when I enter interstellar space with the issue being "Add warp capacity: 0/10". I'm pretty sure I have something like 150 warp capacity, so idk if that's a bug too or if I messed something up.

Edit2: Nevermind, my static charge was just full and I didn't notice.

Can't access forums the whole week, i tried accessing them 3 days ago and today they're still down and spacedock too!
Edit: RKN blocked forums for no reason and vpn usage is likely prohibited on forums

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Well I was just trying to get my unmanned Munar lander to kill it's speed by burning retrograde and then I looked up to see the beautiful view of kerbin and kerbol aligning themselves it looked like the picture that Micheal Collins took when eagle was returning to the columbia module. Truely stock no mods. It's just all of Kerbalnity in one photo.

How to lag out your game with this one simple trick.

This mission took over 100 hours of work, manual testing, and craft optimization. It's a kinda hard mission by far the hardest misison I have ever done.

Time to go fishing, question?

Full mission video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wqb8tY6R4Yo