The Skies Are Red Again
Mar. 8th, 2025 06:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_sky_callsThe Skies Are Red Again
I haven’t played Kerbal Space Program for almost a year (since the death of KSP2) and I hadn’t played with the Tantares mod and its Russian space systems for almost five years. I was missing it.
And so, I return. Maybe. Sort of. I don’t know. We’ll see if I can maintain this.
The author of Tantares is still doing updates and some of his updates still break earlier versions. In my previous playthrough this lead to the destruction of my Mun orbital station and the loss of its crew. I was able to write it into the Red Skies narrative and space is, after all, dangerous, but I still didn’t like having to rebuild a lot of things for the sake of improved graphics. I get it. He is modding and giving it away for free, we can’t demand things of him, but I still don’t like starting over.
And I did have to start over. The old Red Skies file save wouldn’t load any of the craft I had built. I’ve just started over from scratch and have built back up to where I can pick up the narrative where I left off.
When we last left out intrepid socialist adventurers:
A small asteroid had been captured and put into Kerbin orbit (link)
The LOS-2 Udacha (“Luck”) station, a replasement for the Salyut station destroyed under mysterious circumstances, had been inserted into Munar orbit. (link)
A probe mission had been launched to Duna. (link)
The Zvezda Munbase, known to its crew as “Kermangrad”, had been quickly established. (link)
The entire run of Red Skies is available at this link.
I haven’t played Kerbal Space Program for almost a year (since the death of KSP2) and I hadn’t played with the Tantares mod and its Russian space systems for almost five years. I was missing it.
And so, I return. Maybe. Sort of. I don’t know. We’ll see if I can maintain this.
The author of Tantares is still doing updates and some of his updates still break earlier versions. In my previous playthrough this lead to the destruction of my Mun orbital station and the loss of its crew. I was able to write it into the Red Skies narrative and space is, after all, dangerous, but I still didn’t like having to rebuild a lot of things for the sake of improved graphics. I get it. He is modding and giving it away for free, we can’t demand things of him, but I still don’t like starting over.
And I did have to start over. The old Red Skies file save wouldn’t load any of the craft I had built. I’ve just started over from scratch and have built back up to where I can pick up the narrative where I left off.
When we last left out intrepid socialist adventurers:
A small asteroid had been captured and put into Kerbin orbit (link)
The LOS-2 Udacha (“Luck”) station, a replasement for the Salyut station destroyed under mysterious circumstances, had been inserted into Munar orbit. (link)
A probe mission had been launched to Duna. (link)
The Zvezda Munbase, known to its crew as “Kermangrad”, had been quickly established. (link)
The entire run of Red Skies is available at this link.
