History Fanfic / KernyKermansJournal

Kerny Kerman's Journal is a ''VideoGame/KerbalSpaceProgram'' fanfic written by adsii1970. It is written in a first person POV from the perspective of the titular OC, Kerny Kerman.

** The four space shuttles revealed at the end of Chapter 55 are named the ''[[GratuitousForeignLanguage Tsoolik]]'', [[AwesomeMcCoolName ''Dauntless'']], [[UsefulNotes/NASA''Challenger'']], and [[MeaningfulFuneral''Jala Kerman'']].

* AerithAndBob: Naturally, against names such as [[OldSoldier Edmund]] and Piper, there will be quite unusual names like Obney, [[RedShirt Jala]], [[TheHero Kerny]], [[PintsizePowerhouse Triy]], [[CantLiveWithThemCantLiveWithoutThem Hildi]], [[BrainyBrunette Gilti]]... and [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters the list goes on.]]

* BadassBeard: Jebediah used to have one… until he went crazy and [[spoiler: hijacked a plane in Chapter 38 because he was upset about Valentina’s promotion]].

* BeardOfEvil: Jebediah had a BadassBeard until he [[spoiler:caused the plane crash in Chapter 38 which killed an innocent Kerbal]].

Kerny Kerman’s Journal is a VideoGame/KerbalSpaceProgram fanfic written by adsii1970. It is written in a first person POV from the perspective of the titular OC, Kerny Kerman. The fanfic is published on the Kerbal Space Program forums. The most recent one can be found here:
https://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/index.php?/topic/126814-kerny-kermans-journal-mission-reports-from-a-kerbals-point-of-view-chapter-73-too-many-variables-and-not-enough-answers/&tab=comments#comment-2695049

Status: Active (last updated April 19, 2019)

--> '''Jebediah''': "I don't care what Gene said, I'm your superior officer, and I am now in charge of this...wait, who told you to send out a radio signal…"

--> '''Agay''': -alling NKC, this is Ah Cancun flight-
--> ''[[HellIsThatNoise master alarm starts in the background]]''
--> '''NKC Control''': -Flight, go ahead... status?
--> '''Agay''':"[[OhCrap -omething wrong]]. We have a- oh, gods... we have a maste-
--> '''Senfry''': -an explosion! Repeat, we've suffered a mal -- [[HonorBeforeReason ...et the old Kerman out!"]]
--> '''Agay''': [[OhCrap Can't! the door is jammed!]] NKC, [[HarbingerOfImpendingDoom we are going down. Repea-]]

Kerny Kerman’s Journal is a Kerbal Space Program fanfic written by adsii1970. It is written in a first person POV from the perspective of the titular OC, Kerny Kerman. The fanfic is published on the Kerbal Space Program forums. The most recent one can be found here:

* MoralEventHorizon: In Chapter 38, [[spoiler:Jebediah]] causes a [[spoiler:plane crash that kills an innocent kerbal and wounds three others]].
* MostAnnoyingSound: The "beep" that Kerny hears before he gets a flash message from someone else.

* WhatAnIdiot: Jedner, who tried setting the record for the lowest flyby in the forces - ends up crashing his plane into the hill. He survives, but he’s fired [[PutOnABus (and is never seen or mentioned again)]].

* DoNotSpoilThisEnding: In Chapter 74, after Karloff fixes the radiator, Gilti tries to mention that [[spoiler:The Saga of Emiko Station is cancelled]], and gets cut off. [[LateArrivalSpoil"No spoilers!"]].

Accidentally deploying the LM’s parachutes so they couldn’t land on the Mun. (In fact, [[RunningGag there’s a joke]] that if something was broken, it was [[spoiler:Jeb]]’s fault).

** In Chapter 37, Kerny buzzes the tower with his training craft (which is what Jebediah did beforehand). Gene yells at him to come in and Kerny thinks he’s screwed up.
[[spoiler:The very next line]]:

* CallBack: In Chapter 1, Kerny talks about how Jebediah will be testing a new launch vehicle that would make LKO routine, and how it would be easy to achieve. In Chapter 19, LKO is so routine that they have become complacent.
Kerny even [[LampshadeHanging Lampshades this]].

* AscendedFanon: Both The Saga of Emiko Station and Recover Mine: A Survival Story (which
are both KSP fanfics) are shown in the story. Also a ShoutOut.

ActuallyPrettyFunny: A cadet named [[EnsignNewbie Denzer]] cracks a joke to Kerny in Chapter 55. His question? "What's it like to fart in outer space?. ''Everyone'' cracks up at this, except for Kerny, [[TheStoic Gene]], and Obney.

AerithAndBob: Naturally, against names such as [[OldSoldier Edmund]] and Piper, there will be quite unusual names like Obney, [[RedShirt Jala]], [[TheHero Kerny]], [[PintsizePowerhouse Triy]], [[CantLiveWithThemCantLiveWithoutThem Hildi]], [[BrainyBrunette Gilti]]... and [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters the list goes on.]]

AffectionateNickname: Gene gets the moniker of “Old Man” in Chapter 19.

ApocalypticLog:
* While [[spoiler: Jebediah]] doesn’t die in the [[spoiler: plane crash he caused in Chapter 38]], his last recorded words on the voice recorder are:

* PlayedStraight with [[spoiler:Dr. Edmund's plane crash]] in Chapter 59. [[spoiler:Agay and Senfry survive the plane crash, but Dr. Edmund doesn't]].

AscendedFanon: Both The Saga of Emiko Station and Recover Mine: A Survival Story (which

AndThereWasMuchRejoicing: Megby shoots down an [[spoiler:alien craft]] in Chapter 31.

AxCrazy: Jebediah Kerman. Although it’s initially not that obvious, it becomes increasingly clear when in Chapter 38, he [[spoiler:hijacks the controls of a plane and kills an innocent Kerbal… just because he was upset that Valentina got a promotion]].

ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Kerny mentions Eribie’s promotions in Chapter 8:

AlwaysAccurateAttack: The pink slime. Whatever it is, it makes a very sudden appearance (Chapter 66, at the end of the [[spoiler:plane crash that killed Dr. Edmund]].) The worst part is that no one knows what it is, only that it can strike at any time.

AtrociousAlias: The Jool probe launched at the beginning of Chapter 42 is called… “The Green Blob”.

BadassBeard: Jebediah used to have one… until he went crazy and [[spoiler: hijacked a plane in Chapter 38 because he was upset about Valentina’s promotion]].

BaitAndSwitch:
* In Chapter 37, Kerny buzzes the tower with his training craft (which is what Jebediah did beforehand). Gene yells at him to come in and Kerny thinks he’s screwed up.

* In Chapter 14, Jebediah crashes his Knat on landing and the image all but says that Jeb is dead. In the next line, he says that the canopy will need to be replaced. [[SkewedPriorities The canopy]].

BeardOfEvil: Jebediah had a BadassBeard until he [[spoiler:caused the plane crash in Chapter 38 which killed an innocent Kerbal]].

BerserkButton: Don’t tell Gene that you like The Saga of Emiko Station.

BigBad: [[spoiler:Prime Consul Katrine.]] [[spoiler:She]] forces a software update on Kerny's ship to cripple it, has thoughts about arresting [[AxCrazy Jebediah]] and [[OnlySaneMan Bob]]. [[spoiler:Evil seems to run in the family as well - as her daughter is '''Consul Rayven''']]. [[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer No, we're not joking.]] Oh, and did we mention that in Chapter 59, [[spoiler: she planted a bomb on Dr. Edmund's plane? Yes, that's the plane crash we're talking about. She caused it.]]

BobFromAccounting: Kerbbe, the mechanic, and Kevine, a generic crewmember.

BrokenBird: Poor Agay ends up as this after [[spoiler:Dr. Edmund's fatal plane crash in Chapter 59]].

BuffySpeak: Kerny in Chapter 13: “He’s a lithologist. In other words, [[ItMakesSenseInContext he studies rocks and dirt]].”

ButForMeItWasTuesday: The [[AcronymAndAbbreviationOverload STS R-14]] mission in Chapter 74. It's officially designated as a [[GasLeakCoverUp satellite repair mission.]] Although given Kerny's [[OverrankedSoldier high rank]], it's probably the truth.

CallBack: In Chapter 1, Kerny talks about how Jebediah will be testing a new launch vehicle that would make LKO routine, and how it would be easy to achieve. In Chapter 19, LKO is so routine that they have become complacent.

CantHoldHisLiquor: Gene gets drunk after a few glasses, and reveals that it was [[spoiler:Bill]] who buzzed the tower in Chapter 2.

CaptainCrash:
* Jebediah is very, ''very'' prone to crashing anything he gets his hands on. His current record is [[RunningGag seventeen plane crashes]].
* Takes a ''heavily'' darker turn in [[spoiler:Chapter 38]], when Jebediah [[spoiler: causes a plane crash that injures four kerbals and kills one innocent kerbal.]]

ColorCodedForYourConvenience: KDF cadets wear pale blue jumpsuits until they specialize in something.
* Pilots wear yellow.
* Engineers wear red.
* Scientists wear green.

CoolShip: The UKRN Menzabac, Dres, and Eeloo.

CloudCuckooLander: Bill, at least until he gets [[spoiler:abducted by a UFO]].

CrazyPrepared: It's revealed that [[OldSoldier Dr. Edmund]] installed a [[OverrideCommand retinal scanner which would override the software update]] in case of [[spoiler:his]] death.

DisproportionateRetribution: Jebediah [[spoiler:causes a plane crash]] because he’s upset at Valentina getting a promotion.

DudeWheresMyRespect: Jebediah often said this. Until the [[spoiler:plane crash which he caused]]. He didn’t have that much respect [[spoiler:afterwards]], anyway.

DamnedByFaintPraise: Kerny hasn’t crashed a Knat once, where Jebediah has crashed one… [[RunningGag seventeen times]].

DarkerAndEdgier: [[spoiler:Chapter 38]].

DeadpanSnarker: [[BrainyBrunette Gilti]] and [[BigBad Katrine]].

DidntThinkThisThrough: [[TheEngineer Angelo]] makes it so that the lab can be jettisoned, but forgets that Kerny can’t dock without jettisoning the lab in the first place…

DrillSergeantNasty: While he doesn’t swear, in Chapter 3, Jebediah takes all of the cadets out on a brutal fitness run. His reason? “Fat kerbals don’t squeeze into pressure suits very well!”

DoNotSpoilThisEnding: In Chapter 74, after Karloff fixes the radiator, Gilti tries to mention that [[spoiler:The Saga of Emiko Station is cancelled]], and gets cut off. [[LateArrivalSpoil"No spoilers!"]].

ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: The CTV (Crew Transport Vehicle) is a Crew Transport Vehicle. The Minmus missions go to, well, Minmus.

FromNobodyToNightmare: A heroic example. Kerny went from the 23rd kerbal enlisted in the Forces to [[spoiler:the highest-ranking member with the highest security clearance on Kerbin]].

Foreshadowing: In Chapter 23, Jeb complains about Val’s promotion on a ship. In Chapter 28, Jeb [[spoiler:causes a plane crash, killing one kerbal and injuring four]], because he was upset about Val’s promotion.

FunetikAksent: Dr. Edmund.

HellIsThatNoise:
* The [[spoiler:software update]] in Chapter 73.
* The master alarm found on spacecraft and aircraft. When you hear it, something has gone [[OhCrap very, very wrong]].

HowTheMightyHaveFallen: In Chapter 39, [[spoiler:Jebediah undergoes a court-marshal by the Council of Five]].

IdTellYouButThenIdHaveToKillYou: [[spoiler:Section 31]]. It’s extremely secretive, and there are only two levels: [[spoiler:Ah Cuxtal]] and [[spoiler:Ohoroxtotil]].

IsThisThingStillOn: Gilti and Hildi have a very awkward argument in Chapter 51 about how [[spoiler:Gilti loves Jim]], but both of them forgot to turn the VOX off. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded by Triy]]:

LittleStowaway: Cadet Triy stows away on the Excursion in Chapter 45. It’s revealed she was sitting in the cockpit the whole time… [[FridgeHorror but what if something happened]]?

LethalChef: The Grand Committee, apparently according to Kerny in Chapter 19.

KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Jeb causes a plane crash]], and completely gets away with it. [[spoiler:Until episode 41, anyway. Then he [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere steals a plane to get away]] so he doesn't face courts-martial...]]

KnowWhenToFoldEm: Averted with Jebediah, who apparently lost [[EpicFail half of his monthly salary]] while playing a poker game in Chapter 11.

MassOhCrap: Chapter 24. [[spoiler:Alien ships appear all over Kerbin]], [[spoiler:Bill]] is abducted by [[spoiler:an alien ship]], and the KDF reaches its highest alert level.

MoralEventHorizon: In Chapter 38, [[spoiler:Jebediah]] causes a [[spoiler:plane crash that kills an innocent kerbal and wounds three others]].

MostAnnoyingSound: The "beep" that Kerny hears before he gets a flash message from someone else.

NoodleIncident: Jebediah’s had a few. The First Four aren’t immune to it either.
* In Chapter 1, [[spoiler:Bob]] was the only kerbal who didn’t crash his Knat. Yes, including [[AcePilot Jebediah]].
* In Chapter 2, [[spoiler:Gene and Jebediah]] have a staring match about… [[TheGreatestStoryNeverTold something]].
* Jebediah’s first island night flight. "[[WatchThePaintJob You didn’t just scratch the paint…]]"
* Kerny accidentally buzzing an aircraft carrier.
* [[spoiler:Buzzing the tower]]. Kerny tries it in Chapter 37, and it goes badly.
* Whatever happened between Bob waking up Jebediah in Chapter 10 is a mystery to anyone but them.
* Kerny crashes a plane because of a sneeze in Chapter 12. [[ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext Explaining won’t help]].

NoodleImplements: The [[spoiler:Monolith]].

NothingIsTheSameAnymore: Several moments in the story, particularly:
* [[spoiler:Bill]]’s abduction by aliens in Chapter 24.
* [[spoiler:Jebediah]] causing a [[spoiler:plane crash]] in Chapter 38, killing an innocent Kerbal.
* [[spoiler:Dr. Edmund]]’s death in a [[spoiler:plane crash]] in Chapter 59.

NothingIsScarier: In Chapter 16, every craft vanishes from radar completely. Calling it NightmareFuel doesn’t even begin to cover it.

NoSell: Jebediah attempts to shoot down an [[spoiler:alien spacecraft]] in Chapter 23, but the [[spoiler:UFO]] avoids the missile completely.

NotSoStoic: Gene is stoic most of the time, but he does have a funny side, in Chapter 12:

NotWhatItLooksLike: Apparently, [[spoiler:Jebediah and Rayven]] were caught together in the spacecraft simulator. Only [[spoiler:Dr.Heywood and Jeb/Rayven themselves]] know what really happened. Everyone else, however…

OOCIsSeriousBusiness: In Chapter 11, when Jeb is the one to shut people up rather than Gene, people actually pay attention for once.

PutOnABus:
* Podget, Kerny’s roommate who is only mentioned in Chapter 1, yet never actually appears In-Universe. Also a case of TheGhost.
* Kerbbe, the “Wrench”, who only appears in Chapter 2 and is never seen again.
* Zebulan, a war veteran and supposed hero, who has a space station named after him but never shows up in the story.

RuleOfCool: The Excursion may be a big, unwieldy beast that constantly rotates, but it looks cool, dammit!

ScrewThisImOuttaHere:
* Jebediah [[spoiler:steals a plane and flies to the North Polar Base in Chapter 40 to avoid getting court-marshalled]].
* Happens to almost all kerbals if something goes wrong during a launch or a plane flight.
* In Chapter 45, after the Excursion starts spinning violently, Kerny orders the mission to be aborted.

ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem:
* Kerny, being the mission commander, uses some monopropellant to sightsee Minmus in Chapter 27.
* When [[spoiler:Katrine]] asks Dr. Edmund why Kerny kept Triy on the crew, Dr. Edmund replies with [[ShutUpHannibal this gem of a comment in Chapter 55]]:

ShipTease:
* Gilti with Karloff, Jebediah, and J. Jim.
* Karloff with Triy. Lampshaded by Kerny in Chapter 49.
* Jebediah and Consul Rayven (introduced in Chapter 18). While the former is stoically unmoved, the latter is mildly interested.
** Heavily transitioned into ShipSinking after [[spoiler:Jebediah caused the fatal plane crash]].

ShinyLookingSpaceships: The four [[WagonTrainToTheStars space shuttles revealed at the end of Chapter 55]]. Although they are [[UnnecessarilyLargeVessel a lot bigger than they need to be for their purpose]]. Also doubles as a ShoutOut.

ShoutOut: Both InUniverse and in the [[RealLife real world]].
* The four space shuttles revealed at the end of Chapter 55 are named the ''[[GratuitousForeignLanguage Tsoolik]]'', [[AwesomeMcCoolName ''Dauntless'']], [[UsefulNotes/NASA''Challenger'']], and [[MeaningfulFuneral''Jala Kerman'']].

SpellMyNameWithAnS:
* Anything kerbalized, with the first letter usually replaced by a "k".
* The “Duna E'''k'''splorer” probe launched in Chapter 9.

SkewedPriorities: In Chapter 74, Karloff goes out on a spacewalk, but gets distracted by the beauty of space. Kerny has to remind him that [[ContinueYourMissionDammit "this isn't a sightseeing trip, Commander".]]

TeethClenchedTeamwork: J. Jim and Gene meet together at New Kerbin City in Chapter 48.

TranquilFury: Kerny gives a speech to Prime Consule Katrine in Chapter 55.

TheCuckoolanderWasRight: [[spoiler:Bill]] eventually ends up being [[right about the aliens]], although he gets [[spoiler:abducted by them]] before he can tell anyone.

WeHardlyKnewYe: Poor [[RedShirt Jala Kerman]], only making one appearance in Chapter 38 before [[spoiler:dying from that fatal plane crash.]]

WhatAnIdiot: Jedner, who tried setting the record for the lowest flyby in the forces - ends up crashing his plane into the hill. He survives, but he’s fired [[PutOnABus (and is never seen or mentioned again)]].

WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong: Gene orders the crew to hold onto the second stage - ''in other words, the stage that gets ejected during reentry'' - until reentry is over. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded by Gilti]]:

WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Podget, Jedner, and Kerbbe, who are never mentioned after their brief appearances in Chapters 1, 3 and 2, respectively.

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