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CHAPTER 13: HOME RUN
Several weeks later…
ANSI/Stanley: â€Å"Alert, the Kerbin transfer is in T-1 hour. Please prepare to separate the lander and plot trajectories.â€Â
Scott: â€Å"Stanley, could you plot the trajectory please?â€Â
ANSI/Stanley: â€Å"Affirmative. Calculating… complete. Transfer trajectory plotted.â€Â
Scott: â€Å"Thank you.â€Â
ANSI/Stanley: â€Å"You’re welcome, Captain Scott.â€Â
Scott: â€Å"Anyway, you heard Stanley, guys. Let’s get the lander ready for separation.â€Â
Sigler: â€Å"Why are we leaving yet another lander behind? It’s an incredible waste!â€Â
Scott: â€Å"Actually, this one is going to be re-used, according to control.â€Â
Sigler: â€Å"What? How??â€Â
Scott: â€Å"The Duna re-colonisation initiative calls for a few base sites to be located on the surface as well as an orbital spacedock capable of refuelling even the largest ships. However, that station must also play host to a Duna and Ike lander. That’s where our friend here comes into the equation.â€Â
Sigler: â€Å"Oh, cool!â€Â
Mernie: â€Å"You’re damn right that’s cool.â€Â
Hans: â€Å"I guess it is pretty good.â€Â
Mernie: â€Å"Hans.â€Â
Hans: â€Å"I know, I know. I am trying to cheer myself up, but… I don’t know.â€Â
Mernie: â€Å"I’m sure we can get you some help back home.â€Â
Scott: â€Å"And we’ll still be doing our best for you.â€Â
Hans: â€Å"For which I’m grateful, but you really don’t have to.â€Â
ANSI/Stanley: â€Å"It would be in everybody’s best interests to help you, Hans.â€Â
Sigler: â€Å"Besides, it’s giving me something to do, which is a bit unusual for one of our usually perfect missions.â€Â
Hans: â€Å"Well, you might be occupied for the rest of the trip home.â€Â
Sigler: â€Å"I’d hope not, but we’ll just have to see.â€Â
Scott: â€Å"Alright, enough lingering, we’ve got a lander to undock.â€Â
Half an orbit later…
ANSI/Stanley: â€Å"The lander has separated from Venturer . It should carry out the commands I’ve assigned it to settle into its parking orbit. Please finish final preparations for the Trans-Kerbin Injection burn.â€Â
Scott: â€Å"Roger that, Stanley.â€Â
Another half an orbit later…
Scott: â€Å"5… 4… 3… 2… 1… commencing burn.â€Â
Hans: â€Å"Engines are looking fine, structural integrity is nominal.â€Â
ANSI/Stanley: â€Å"3 minutes remaining. Fuel reserves adequate.â€Â
Mernie: â€Å"My leg isn’t agreeing with this acceleration.â€Â
Sigler: â€Å"We’re not accelerating that much.â€Â
Mernie: â€Å"Yes, but that doesn’t mean my leg is agreeing with the acceleration… ow.â€Â
Sigler: â€Å"I’ll come over and have a look.â€Â
Mernie: â€Å"Please do.â€Â
ANSI/Stanley: â€Å"Negative. Wait until the transfer burn is complete.â€Â
Sigler: â€Å"How much longer, Stanley?â€Â
ANSI/Stanley: â€Å"2 minutes and 30 seconds to TKI completion.â€Â
Sigler: â€Å"Mernie, do you think you can wait for that long?â€Â
Mernie: â€Å"I suppose I can, but it’s really hurting me now.â€Â
Sigler: â€Å"Stanley?â€Â
ANSI/Stanley: â€Å"Negative. Wait until the transfer burn is complete.â€Â
Sigler: â€Å"Mernie, you’re just going to have to wait, I’m afraid.â€Â
Mernie: â€Å"Damn it.â€Â
Two minutes later…
ANSI/Stanley: â€Å"Transfer burn complete. Kerbin encounter confirmed in 89 days and 21 hours.â€Â
Sigler: â€Å"I’m coming now, Mernie.â€Â
Mernie: â€Å"Thank Kerbin for that…â€Â
Hans: â€Å"Everything looks fine, Scott.â€Â
Scott: â€Å"Alright. So long, Duna. I think this is the most evil you’ve been to us.â€Â
Hans: â€Å"It wasn’t Duna, it was Firespitter. Don’t go blaming that planet.â€Â
Scott: â€Å"You’re still determined to frame them for that?â€Â
Hans: â€Å"I’ll find something, but it makes sense to assume it was them after all they’ve done.â€Â
Scott: â€Å"Hmm, perhaps…â€Â
A few months later…
Scott: â€Å"And there’s home. Beautiful.â€Â
Sigler: â€Å"Meanwhile there’s probably some space battle going on between us and Firespitter.â€Â
Scott: â€Å"I very highly doubt that, Sigler.â€Â
Sigler: â€Å"You never know.â€Â
Scott: â€Å"No doubt that we’ll be told to watch out though.â€Â
ANSI/Stanley: â€Å"I’m monitoring incoming transmissions to ensure nothing like the end of the first Venturer mission happens again.â€Â
Scott: â€Å"Good idea, Stanley.â€Â
ANSI/Stanley: â€Å"Also, I probably won’t overload this time.â€Â
Scott: â€Å"Good to hear.â€Â
Sigler: â€Å"Yeah, that was scary, Stanley.â€Â
ANSI/Stanley: â€Å"To be fair, Captain Scott, you were asking for it.â€Â
Scott: â€Å"Asking for it? I only forgot your name a few times.â€Â
ANSI/Stanley: â€Å"217 times, Scott. That’s more than a few.â€Â
Scott: â€Å"…Depends on what you define as a few…â€Â
ANSI/Stanley: â€Å"…â€Â
Sigler: â€Å"Riiiight.â€Â
Scott: â€Å"…Anyway…â€Â
A few hours later…
ANSI/Stanley: â€Å"Aerobraking commencing.â€Â
Scott: â€Å"Let’s hope nothing bad happens.â€Â
Mernie: â€Å"Now that you’ve said that, something’s going to happen.â€Â
Hans: â€Å"I’d rather it didn’t.â€Â
Scott: â€Å"Just keep an eye on the ship, Hans. You’ll be the first to know if something does happen.â€Â
Hans: â€Å"Great.â€Â
Sigler: â€Å"Mernie, how’s the leg support holding?â€Â
Mernie: â€Å"It’s strong. I think I’ll be fine through this aerobrake.â€Â
Sigler: â€Å"I think you’ll be fine, too.â€Â
Hans: â€Å"External temperatures rising considerably. I’m reading 2000K so far. Structural integrity is remaining constant at 89.4%.â€Â
Scott: â€Å"Got it.â€Â
ANSI/Stanley: â€Å"Alert, current aerobraking will reduce the apoapsis to below an acceptable altitude. Commence an emergency burn.â€Â
Scott: â€Å"Oh, ok... looks like something did happen, then.â€Â
Scott: â€Å"We’re coming out of the atmosphere. Report?â€Â
ANSI/Stanley: â€Å"Optimal apoapsis achieved. Inclination changes will need to be performed, but we are mostly equatorial. Fuel reserves are optimal.â€Â
Hans: â€Å"Nothing unusual to report here, Scott.â€Â
Mernie: â€Å"My leg survived.â€Â
Sigler: â€Å"I told you it would!â€Â
Mernie: â€Å"And I believed you, alright??â€Â
Sigler: â€Å"Hah, alright then.â€Â
Scott: â€Å"Ok, all that’s left now is to circularise and wait for pick-up.â€Â
A few hours later…
Sigler: â€Å"Well, I think I know what I’m going to do, next.â€Â
Scott: â€Å"And that is…?â€Â
Sigler: â€Å"I’m putting my name down for that Ike base.â€Â
Scott: â€Å"You might want to check the spacedock openings, seeing as that’s the first thing they’re sending out there.â€Â
Sigler: â€Å"Hmm, might be worth a look.â€Â
Scott: â€Å"You’ll always be able to get to Ike from there, and they’ll definitely want a doctor as good as you around.â€Â
Sigler: â€Å"Nah, I’m not the best… oh, who am I kidding, of course I am.â€Â
Scott: â€Å"Anyway, I think I may join you out there.â€Â
Sigler: â€Å"That would be fun.â€Â
Mernie: â€Å"I don’t know what I’m going to do with this leg…â€Â
Sigler: â€Å"The only reason it’s like that is because I couldn’t fix it all the way out here. A surgery on Kerbin will definitely sort that out for you.â€Â
Mernie: â€Å"I was hoping you’d say that. What sort of geologist would I be if I couldn’t walk around?â€Â
Sigler: â€Å"That would be a downer.â€Â
ANSI/Stanley: â€Å"Transfer vessels are en-route now. ETA 3 hours.â€Â
Scott: â€Å"Thus concludes the third Venturer mission, eh?â€Â
Sigler: â€Å"It’s been good fun.â€Â
Hans: â€Å"That it has.â€Â
Mernie: â€Å"You sound more optimistic.â€Â
Hans: â€Å"Aside from losing Franklin, it’s definitely been one hell of an experience.â€Â
Scott: â€Å"Indeed.â€Â
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