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* BoomHeadshot: Kurt is seen employing the Mozambique Drill against a Blue Sun agent in the climax.
* BotheringByTheBook: Admiral Liu and Captain Tarrant, confronted by a Kerbal who's apparently gone nuts and forced his way aboard the Blue Sun ship carrying a weapon, immediately deploy a squad of SpaceMarines to "render assistance".
* BulletproofVest: Used rather realistically in the confrontation at the climax. Kurt has cracked ribs and a spectacular array of bruises from one pistol bullet, noted to be both a hollowpoint ''and'' cold-loaded for use with a suppressor. The Blue Sun agent who shot him takes eight rounds from Jeb's hold-out pistol and... Well, see below.
* BotheringByTheBook: Admiral Liu and Captain Tarrant, confronted by a Kerbal who's apparently gone nuts and forced his way aboard the Blue Sun ship carrying a weapon, immediately deploy a squad of SpaceMarines to "render assistance".
* BulletproofVest: Used rather realistically in the confrontation at the climax. Kurt has cracked ribs and a spectacular array of bruises from one pistol bullet, noted to be both a hollowpoint ''and'' cold-loaded for use with a suppressor. The Blue Sun agent who shot him takes eight rounds from Jeb's hold-out pistol and... Well, see below.
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* HardOnSoftSciences: Outright defied by Kurt's ReasonYouSuckSpeech at the climax. Sociology is ''far'' from being ADegreeInUseless when you're on a FirstContact mission... or when you work for the Kerbal equivalent of the NSA in the Psychological Warfare Department. ([[AuthorAppeal Strangely enough, sociology was the author's favourite subject in high school.]])
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* HardOnSoftSciences: HardOnSoftScience: Outright defied by Kurt's ReasonYouSuckSpeech at the climax. Sociology is ''far'' from being ADegreeInUseless when you're on a FirstContact mission... or when you work for the Kerbal equivalent of the NSA in the Psychological Warfare Department. ([[AuthorAppeal Strangely enough, sociology was the author's favourite subject in high school.]])
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* IMinoredInTropology: Jeb is a little surprised that his CommunicationsOfficer actually has a Sociology degree.
--> '''Jeb''': "They called you a 'signals intelligence specialist'. I took that to mean you did the interception, not the analysis."
--> '''Kurt''': "What can I say? We're a small Air Force, I have to wear several hats."//
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* LockAndLoadMontage: Bob, of all kerbals, gets one of these when he tools up to rescue Christopher. Complete with [[BadassesWearBandannas [[BadassesWearBandanas tying on a bandanna bandana just before putting his helmet on,]] which he admits privately is for pure RuleOfCool.
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''The Next Frontier'' is a ''VideoGame/KerbalSpaceProgram'' fanfiction -crossed over with ''something'', but that'd be a spoiler- by a guy who prefers to be known as "Jake Grey", or sometimes just "Tropers/{{Jake}}". It's being simultaneously posted [[http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/showthread.php/41675-The-Next-Frontier here]], [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/the-next-frontier-ksp-something.266217/ here]] and [[http://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/cross-post-the-next-frontier-kerbal-space-program-spoiler-redacted.869/ here]]. Act One is wholly in blog format, but Act Two has switched to a more conventional narrative.
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''The Next Frontier'' is a ''VideoGame/KerbalSpaceProgram'' fanfiction -crossed over with ''something'', but that'd be a spoiler- by a guy who prefers to be known as "Jake Grey", or sometimes just "Tropers/{{Jake}}". It's being simultaneously posted [[http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/showthread.php/41675-The-Next-Frontier now complete and can be found [[http://bbs.stardestroyer.net/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=159483 here]], [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/the-next-frontier-ksp-something.266217/ here]] and or [[http://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/cross-post-the-next-frontier-kerbal-space-program-spoiler-redacted.869/ here]]. Act One is wholly in blog format, [[note]]It ''used'' to be on the official ''Kerbal Space Program'' forums too, but Act Two has switched to a more conventional narrative.
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* ArtificialGravity: Lampshaded, played straight and invoked all at once. You know how it's a NecessaryWeasel trope here on 21st century Earth because simulating an aversion convincingly on screen is difficult and expensive, and shooting on location in space even more so? Well, the kerbals have much the same problem, and had presumed that the same applied to their new neighbours. Boy, were they surprised!
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Despite being a race of peace-loving explorers and scientists with a deep societal connection to nature, the Kerbals ''really'' know how to blow shit up.
* BulletproofVest: Used rather realistically in the confrontation at the climax.
* ChekhovsGun: A ''literal'' gun, as it happens.
* ChildSoldiers: Child ''SuperSoldiers'', in this case. Christopher isn't even a teenager yet.
* CruelMercy: The surviving Blue Sun agent's body armour prevents [[MoreDakka a whole panic-fired magazine]] of pistol rounds InTheBack from Jeb from killing him outright, but still leaves him with a crippling spinal injury.
-->'''Jeb''': "Maybe he'll get lucky, and they'll shoot him instead of making him do thirty to life in a wheelchair."
* DarkFic: By the standards of KSP fanfiction, anyway.
* DeadmanSwitch: It turns out that Blue Sun build these into those nasty little sonic weapons of theirs, which the good guys use to their advantage at the climax.
* DoesNotLikeGuns: All the civilian kerbal astronauts, none of whom had ever owned or even fired one before training for this mission. Bob adjusts surprisingly well though.
* DullSurprise: Outright invoked in the epilogue.
* EnhanceButton: Played with. The ''Fredricksson'' takes some long-range images of ''Starfarer 1'' while thinking she's an old human ship that fell victim to a nasty reactor accident. These are subsequently passed on to the backroom boys at Naval Intelligence who put it through the computers... and come back with something very grainy and contrasty but good enough to give them a rough idea of her shape. It's still enough to tip Admiral Liu off that the ship is unlike anything known to be in Alliance space.
* {{Fainting}}: Captain Tarrant, who was under quite a lot of stress already ''before'' the aliens turned up, suffers a combination of the Emotional Faint and the Exhaustion Faint type the moment the ''Starfarer 1'' sets up a video-conference link.
--> '''Captain Tarrant''': [[PartingFromConsciousnessWords "XO, you have the conn." *thud*]]
* FirstContact: Played with, kind of, because the aliens are the POV characters and it's a first for them as well.
* FacePalm: Turns out Kerbals do it too.
* FlagBurning: Blue Sun has ''not'' made itself popular with the average Kerbal on the street.
* FlatWhat: Jeb's reaction to finding out that Bob's absconded from ''Starfarer 1'' and taken a number of firearms with him.
* GenreSavvy: The Kerbals, most prominently Jeb, are ''very'' familiar with the tropes they're acting out.
* GoryDiscretionShot: In deference to the all-ages nature of the KSP forums, enough is said to make it clear that PrettyLittleHeadshots is being averted rather thoroughly at the climax while still keeping the gore to a minimum.
* GuileHero: To a great extent, ''Jebediah Kerman.'' Fanon might play him up as a FearlessFool, but this is the same Jeb who smooth-talked his way to getting the Kerbin Interplanetary Society a set of ''very'' expensive high-pressure gas tanks for free in return for painting the manufacturer's logo on the side of a rocket stage in ''First Flight''.
* GunboatDiplomacy: A rather subtle example, as in the spirit of cooperation and brotherhood the Kerbals send along some information about their FTL drive... including details of its tendency to [[SphereOfDestruction launch high-energy particles in all directions at light-speed]] whenever one turns it off, with before-and-after pictures of the dwarf planet they accidentally pulverised in the course of finding this out.
* HardOnSoftSciences: Outright defied by Kurt's ReasonYouSuckSpeech at the climax. Sociology is ''far'' from being ADegreeInUseless when you're on a FirstContact mission... or when you work for the Kerbal equivalent of the NSA in the Psychological Warfare Department. ([[AuthorAppeal Strangely enough, sociology was the author's favourite subject in high school.]])
* HairTriggerTemper: Captain Tarrant has a bit of an anger-management problem, but [[PercussiveTherapy he's got his coping mechanisms.]]
* HigherTechSpecies: With the sole exception of FTL, humanity is this to the Kerbals.
* HumansThroughAlienEyes: Downplayed pretty heavily what with NotSoDifferent being a big theme, but still played straight.
** HumanityIsFlawed: Fortunately, [[NotSoDifferent so are the Kerbals.]]
** HumanityIsInsane: Well, Scott thinks so anyway.
** HumansAreSurvivors: What Scott ''also'' thinks of us:
--> '''Scott''': "You've got to admire these people. They've been through such a cataclysmic catalogue of awful shit they're practically [[PlanetOfHats a whole race]] of [[UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist unsympathetic sitcom protagonists]], a fair bit of which they've done to themselves I might add. But not only are they still here, they've built themselves a thriving interplanetary empire! And an empire that hasn't destroyed itself in an orgy of blood, violence and fire despite apparently being run by a committee stuffed with cartoon supervillains, opportunistic plunderers and total cretins. I don't know how they do it!"
--> '''Bill''': "I'm pretty sure that was a little bit racist."
--> '''Scott''': "I dare say. But that doesn't mean it's not true."
** HumansAreWarriors: Hasn't really come up in this volume yet, but bits of background worldbuilding information posted on the various forum threads have revealed that the Kerbals have a tiny standing military compared to the Alliance even after they drew down pretty heavily post-Unification, and much less recent experience with armed conflict.
* IComeInPeace: Played straight, lampshaded and then subverted all in the space of two sentences by Jeb, who would make an excellent troper.
* InternalReformist: Admiral Liu and Captain Tarrant are a mix of Types 1 and 2, looking for any excuse to send a troop of SpaceMarines over to the Blue Sun vessel and serve a search warrant. Bob Kerman provides that excuse.
* KineticWeaponsAreJustBetter: The cutting edge of Kerbal laser weaponry is basically about where 21st century Earth is; it can reliably shoot down a missile but as an offensive weapon it's pretty worthless.
* LatexSpaceSuit: Played semi-straight; the kerbals have suits that work more or less like this, but they're intended for short-term use in emergency situations and only have a small internal air supply. Proper EVA suits look pretty much like what NASA use today, and are correspondingly heavy and awkward outside of microgravity.
* LittleUselessGun: You can have a sidearm that's effective against even the crudest body armour, or you can have a sidearm that won't punch holes in important bits of a spaceship and/or send you spinning like a top in microgravity, but not both.
* LockAndLoadMontage: Bob, of all kerbals, gets one of these when he tools up to rescue Christopher. Complete with [[BadassesWearBandannas tying on a bandanna just before putting his helmet on,]] which he admits privately is for pure RuleOfCool.
* NoodleIncident: Just what exactly did the crew of ''Serenity'' do to get the Alliance gunning for them, ''again''? We only find out at the very end: [[spoiler:They broke into the Academy and grabbed almost all the children, and are laying low while Simon and River's father raises an ArmyOfLawyers.]]
* MagneticWeapons: ''Starfarer 1'''s only offensive weapon is a [[FixedForwardFacingWeapon spinal-mounted]] railgun, and the Kerbals make more extensive use of railguns in their space combat doctrine than the missile-focused Alliance Navy.
* MinoredInTropology: Jeb is a little surprised that his CommunicationsOfficer actually has a Sociology degree.
--> '''Jeb''': "They called you a 'signals intelligence specialist'. I took that to mean you did the interception, not the analysis."
--> '''Kurt''': "What can I say? We're a small Air Force, I have to wear several hats."
* MookFaceTurn: A random Blue Sun employee who didn't particularly like his job anyway says "the hell with it" and throws his lot in with Bob.
* NarrativeProfanityFilter: Done just the once, purely for RuleOfFunny:
--> "There was a tremendous crash, followed by the Captain yelling every swearword in every language he knew. Him being a career naval officer, this was quite a lengthy process."
* NoBiochemicalBarriers: Played with; when they first meet the humans face to face the Kerbals wear full spacesuits and get hosed down with disinfectant to prevent cross-contamination, but it turns out to be unnecessary.
* NotSoDifferent: Kerbals and humanity have a lot in common, good and bad alike.
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: [[spoiler: The crew of ''Serenity'' staged a massive jail-break at Blue Sun Academy.]] WordOfGod would like it known that this will not be ''staying'' off-screen if he can possibly do it justice.
* PlantAliens: ''Not'' the Kerbals themselves, but they have a symbiotic relationship with the pre-sapient Kerm trees.
* PlugAndPlayTechnology: Averted, it takes several weeks and no small amount of effort on the part of the engineering teams on both ships to even display each other's text files.
* ReassignedToAntarctica: Admiral Liu got posted as far away from the Core Worlds as possible without sending him to another star system entirely because he has a tendency to speak his mind without thought for the consequences. If being the senior officer present for FirstContact hadn't already turned this into a ReassignmentBackfire, the events of the climax surely have.
* RoaringRampageofRescue: [[BewareTheNiceOnes Bob Kerman]] gets his ActionHero on versus Blue Sun, trashing the ship, shooting dead at least two personnel and badly injuring several more.
* SchizoTech: The kerbals are still using spacecraft propulsion technology that was already well on the way to obselesence when humanity left their home system several centuries earlier... on the spaceship fitted with their prototype ''warp drive.'' Having FasterThanLightTravel but no ArtificialGravity also counts, something that most contemporary theorists don't think is actually possible, but the Kerbals had a NegativeSpaceWedgie to poke with a stick; their understanding of the underlying physics of its working principles is ''very'' incomplete.
* ScienceAtTheSpeedOfPlot: Lampshaded in-universe, when Captain Tarrant notices that the Kerbals went from their first sub-orbital rocket flight to colonising the solar system in an awfully short period of time. Turns out they had some unique incentives.
* SimpleYetAwesome: Kerbal tech from humanity's point of view. Take for example the Homesteader utility spacecraft, a descendant of their original Mun lander. It's cramped, slow and can't take off from anywhere with an atmosphere, but replacement engine parts can be churned out with any half-decent CNC mill and it runs quite happily on 95% kerosene and 5% Avgas. A rather impressed petty officer compares it to something the late, great Mr Kalashnikov might have designed if he'd got a job in the Soviet space programme.
* SpaceBattle: Alliance Navy and Kerbals vs Reavers.
* SpaceElves: The kerbals have some elements of this, being a peaceful race of explorers, scientists and scholars with a deep connection to nature through the Kerm groves. ''Without'' being a smug MarySueTopia full of PerfectPacifistPeople, hopefully.
* StandardSciFiFleet: Played with; the ''Fredricksson'' is called a "patrol cruiser" by the Alliance, which is roughly equivalent to what the kerbals and many 21st century Earth navies would call a frigate. [[TheBattlestar She also has a fighter complement]].
* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: Or, as one reader put it, "Overkill is just a state of mind."
* TranslatorMicrobes: Averted. The "universal translator" is a hybrid of quite ordinary speech-recognition software and the Kerbal equivalent of Google Translate, running on a laptop computer. The first exchange between the ''Starfarer 1'' and the IAV ''Fredericksson'' even contains a bit of {{Engrish}} because Jeb hasn't installed the latest version yet.
* TwoOfYourEarthMinutes: A variant; Jeb makes reference to some technical information that will simplify the exchange of data between human and Kerbal sources taking "two ''local'' days" to arrive. Although they're essentially the same thing; see below.
* UniversalUniverseTime: The Alliance is still using EarthThatWas years and days for official purposes, which becomes a minor plot point when the Kerbals eventually figure out from the local TV broadcasts they've picked up that the standard day and year doesn't correspond to any of the planets the ''Starfarer 1'''s telescopes have found. This is one of the first clues that they've stumbled across someone's LostColony.
* ValuesDissonance: Invoked and then defied, ''hard''. Apparently, someone in the media back on Kerbin suggested that taking sides on the whole Miranda thing was "cultural imperialism". Jeb feels compelled to write a rather testy blogpost explaining that no, Crimes Against Humanity are not "part of their culture". [[ThrowItIn This was inspired by someone on the SpaceBattles forum thread taking a similar position]], which didn't go down well.
* WeHaveThoseToo: More examples than it's convenient to list, including several tropes.
* ArtificialGravity: Lampshaded, played straight and invoked all at once. You know how it's a NecessaryWeasel trope here on 21st century Earth because simulating an aversion convincingly on screen is difficult and expensive, and shooting on location in space even more so? Well, the kerbals have much the same problem, and had presumed that the same applied to their new neighbours. Boy, were they surprised!
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Despite being a race of peace-loving explorers and scientists with a deep societal connection to nature, the Kerbals ''really'' know how to blow shit up.
* BulletproofVest: Used rather realistically in the confrontation at the climax.
* ChekhovsGun: A ''literal'' gun, as it happens.
* ChildSoldiers: Child ''SuperSoldiers'', in this case. Christopher isn't even a teenager yet.
* CruelMercy: The surviving Blue Sun agent's body armour prevents [[MoreDakka a whole panic-fired magazine]] of pistol rounds InTheBack from Jeb from killing him outright, but still leaves him with a crippling spinal injury.
-->'''Jeb''': "Maybe he'll get lucky, and they'll shoot him instead of making him do thirty to life in a wheelchair."
* DarkFic: By the standards of KSP fanfiction, anyway.
* DeadmanSwitch: It turns out that Blue Sun build these into those nasty little sonic weapons of theirs, which the good guys use to their advantage at the climax.
* DoesNotLikeGuns: All the civilian kerbal astronauts, none of whom had ever owned or even fired one before training for this mission. Bob adjusts surprisingly well though.
* DullSurprise: Outright invoked in the epilogue.
* EnhanceButton: Played with. The ''Fredricksson'' takes some long-range images of ''Starfarer 1'' while thinking she's an old human ship that fell victim to a nasty reactor accident. These are subsequently passed on to the backroom boys at Naval Intelligence who put it through the computers... and come back with something very grainy and contrasty but good enough to give them a rough idea of her shape. It's still enough to tip Admiral Liu off that the ship is unlike anything known to be in Alliance space.
* {{Fainting}}: Captain Tarrant, who was under quite a lot of stress already ''before'' the aliens turned up, suffers a combination of the Emotional Faint and the Exhaustion Faint type the moment the ''Starfarer 1'' sets up a video-conference link.
--> '''Captain Tarrant''': [[PartingFromConsciousnessWords "XO, you have the conn." *thud*]]
* FirstContact: Played with, kind of, because the aliens are the POV characters and it's a first for them as well.
* FacePalm: Turns out Kerbals do it too.
* FlagBurning: Blue Sun has ''not'' made itself popular with the average Kerbal on the street.
* FlatWhat: Jeb's reaction to finding out that Bob's absconded from ''Starfarer 1'' and taken a number of firearms with him.
* GenreSavvy: The Kerbals, most prominently Jeb, are ''very'' familiar with the tropes they're acting out.
* GoryDiscretionShot: In deference to the all-ages nature of the KSP forums, enough is said to make it clear that PrettyLittleHeadshots is being averted rather thoroughly at the climax while still keeping the gore to a minimum.
* GuileHero: To a great extent, ''Jebediah Kerman.'' Fanon might play him up as a FearlessFool, but this is the same Jeb who smooth-talked his way to getting the Kerbin Interplanetary Society a set of ''very'' expensive high-pressure gas tanks for free in return for painting the manufacturer's logo on the side of a rocket stage in ''First Flight''.
* GunboatDiplomacy: A rather subtle example, as in the spirit of cooperation and brotherhood the Kerbals send along some information about their FTL drive... including details of its tendency to [[SphereOfDestruction launch high-energy particles in all directions at light-speed]] whenever one turns it off, with before-and-after pictures of the dwarf planet they accidentally pulverised in the course of finding this out.
* HardOnSoftSciences: Outright defied by Kurt's ReasonYouSuckSpeech at the climax. Sociology is ''far'' from being ADegreeInUseless when you're on a FirstContact mission... or when you work for the Kerbal equivalent of the NSA in the Psychological Warfare Department. ([[AuthorAppeal Strangely enough, sociology was the author's favourite subject in high school.]])
* HairTriggerTemper: Captain Tarrant has a bit of an anger-management problem, but [[PercussiveTherapy he's got his coping mechanisms.]]
* HigherTechSpecies: With the sole exception of FTL, humanity is this to the Kerbals.
* HumansThroughAlienEyes: Downplayed pretty heavily what with NotSoDifferent being a big theme, but still played straight.
** HumanityIsFlawed: Fortunately, [[NotSoDifferent so are the Kerbals.]]
** HumanityIsInsane: Well, Scott thinks so anyway.
** HumansAreSurvivors: What Scott ''also'' thinks of us:
--> '''Scott''': "You've got to admire these people. They've been through such a cataclysmic catalogue of awful shit they're practically [[PlanetOfHats a whole race]] of [[UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist unsympathetic sitcom protagonists]], a fair bit of which they've done to themselves I might add. But not only are they still here, they've built themselves a thriving interplanetary empire! And an empire that hasn't destroyed itself in an orgy of blood, violence and fire despite apparently being run by a committee stuffed with cartoon supervillains, opportunistic plunderers and total cretins. I don't know how they do it!"
--> '''Bill''': "I'm pretty sure that was a little bit racist."
--> '''Scott''': "I dare say. But that doesn't mean it's not true."
** HumansAreWarriors: Hasn't really come up in this volume yet, but bits of background worldbuilding information posted on the various forum threads have revealed that the Kerbals have a tiny standing military compared to the Alliance even after they drew down pretty heavily post-Unification, and much less recent experience with armed conflict.
* IComeInPeace: Played straight, lampshaded and then subverted all in the space of two sentences by Jeb, who would make an excellent troper.
* InternalReformist: Admiral Liu and Captain Tarrant are a mix of Types 1 and 2, looking for any excuse to send a troop of SpaceMarines over to the Blue Sun vessel and serve a search warrant. Bob Kerman provides that excuse.
* KineticWeaponsAreJustBetter: The cutting edge of Kerbal laser weaponry is basically about where 21st century Earth is; it can reliably shoot down a missile but as an offensive weapon it's pretty worthless.
* LatexSpaceSuit: Played semi-straight; the kerbals have suits that work more or less like this, but they're intended for short-term use in emergency situations and only have a small internal air supply. Proper EVA suits look pretty much like what NASA use today, and are correspondingly heavy and awkward outside of microgravity.
* LittleUselessGun: You can have a sidearm that's effective against even the crudest body armour, or you can have a sidearm that won't punch holes in important bits of a spaceship and/or send you spinning like a top in microgravity, but not both.
* LockAndLoadMontage: Bob, of all kerbals, gets one of these when he tools up to rescue Christopher. Complete with [[BadassesWearBandannas tying on a bandanna just before putting his helmet on,]] which he admits privately is for pure RuleOfCool.
* NoodleIncident: Just what exactly did the crew of ''Serenity'' do to get the Alliance gunning for them, ''again''? We only find out at the very end: [[spoiler:They broke into the Academy and grabbed almost all the children, and are laying low while Simon and River's father raises an ArmyOfLawyers.]]
* MagneticWeapons: ''Starfarer 1'''s only offensive weapon is a [[FixedForwardFacingWeapon spinal-mounted]] railgun, and the Kerbals make more extensive use of railguns in their space combat doctrine than the missile-focused Alliance Navy.
* MinoredInTropology: Jeb is a little surprised that his CommunicationsOfficer actually has a Sociology degree.
--> '''Jeb''': "They called you a 'signals intelligence specialist'. I took that to mean you did the interception, not the analysis."
--> '''Kurt''': "What can I say? We're a small Air Force, I have to wear several hats."
* MookFaceTurn: A random Blue Sun employee who didn't particularly like his job anyway says "the hell with it" and throws his lot in with Bob.
* NarrativeProfanityFilter: Done just the once, purely for RuleOfFunny:
--> "There was a tremendous crash, followed by the Captain yelling every swearword in every language he knew. Him being a career naval officer, this was quite a lengthy process."
* NoBiochemicalBarriers: Played with; when they first meet the humans face to face the Kerbals wear full spacesuits and get hosed down with disinfectant to prevent cross-contamination, but it turns out to be unnecessary.
* NotSoDifferent: Kerbals and humanity have a lot in common, good and bad alike.
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: [[spoiler: The crew of ''Serenity'' staged a massive jail-break at Blue Sun Academy.]] WordOfGod would like it known that this will not be ''staying'' off-screen if he can possibly do it justice.
* PlantAliens: ''Not'' the Kerbals themselves, but they have a symbiotic relationship with the pre-sapient Kerm trees.
* PlugAndPlayTechnology: Averted, it takes several weeks and no small amount of effort on the part of the engineering teams on both ships to even display each other's text files.
* ReassignedToAntarctica: Admiral Liu got posted as far away from the Core Worlds as possible without sending him to another star system entirely because he has a tendency to speak his mind without thought for the consequences. If being the senior officer present for FirstContact hadn't already turned this into a ReassignmentBackfire, the events of the climax surely have.
* RoaringRampageofRescue: [[BewareTheNiceOnes Bob Kerman]] gets his ActionHero on versus Blue Sun, trashing the ship, shooting dead at least two personnel and badly injuring several more.
* SchizoTech: The kerbals are still using spacecraft propulsion technology that was already well on the way to obselesence when humanity left their home system several centuries earlier... on the spaceship fitted with their prototype ''warp drive.'' Having FasterThanLightTravel but no ArtificialGravity also counts, something that most contemporary theorists don't think is actually possible, but the Kerbals had a NegativeSpaceWedgie to poke with a stick; their understanding of the underlying physics of its working principles is ''very'' incomplete.
* ScienceAtTheSpeedOfPlot: Lampshaded in-universe, when Captain Tarrant notices that the Kerbals went from their first sub-orbital rocket flight to colonising the solar system in an awfully short period of time. Turns out they had some unique incentives.
* SimpleYetAwesome: Kerbal tech from humanity's point of view. Take for example the Homesteader utility spacecraft, a descendant of their original Mun lander. It's cramped, slow and can't take off from anywhere with an atmosphere, but replacement engine parts can be churned out with any half-decent CNC mill and it runs quite happily on 95% kerosene and 5% Avgas. A rather impressed petty officer compares it to something the late, great Mr Kalashnikov might have designed if he'd got a job in the Soviet space programme.
* SpaceBattle: Alliance Navy and Kerbals vs Reavers.
* SpaceElves: The kerbals have some elements of this, being a peaceful race of explorers, scientists and scholars with a deep connection to nature through the Kerm groves. ''Without'' being a smug MarySueTopia full of PerfectPacifistPeople, hopefully.
* StandardSciFiFleet: Played with; the ''Fredricksson'' is called a "patrol cruiser" by the Alliance, which is roughly equivalent to what the kerbals and many 21st century Earth navies would call a frigate. [[TheBattlestar She also has a fighter complement]].
* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: Or, as one reader put it, "Overkill is just a state of mind."
* TranslatorMicrobes: Averted. The "universal translator" is a hybrid of quite ordinary speech-recognition software and the Kerbal equivalent of Google Translate, running on a laptop computer. The first exchange between the ''Starfarer 1'' and the IAV ''Fredericksson'' even contains a bit of {{Engrish}} because Jeb hasn't installed the latest version yet.
* TwoOfYourEarthMinutes: A variant; Jeb makes reference to some technical information that will simplify the exchange of data between human and Kerbal sources taking "two ''local'' days" to arrive. Although they're essentially the same thing; see below.
* UniversalUniverseTime: The Alliance is still using EarthThatWas years and days for official purposes, which becomes a minor plot point when the Kerbals eventually figure out from the local TV broadcasts they've picked up that the standard day and year doesn't correspond to any of the planets the ''Starfarer 1'''s telescopes have found. This is one of the first clues that they've stumbled across someone's LostColony.
* ValuesDissonance: Invoked and then defied, ''hard''. Apparently, someone in the media back on Kerbin suggested that taking sides on the whole Miranda thing was "cultural imperialism". Jeb feels compelled to write a rather testy blogpost explaining that no, Crimes Against Humanity are not "part of their culture". [[ThrowItIn This was inspired by someone on the SpaceBattles forum thread taking a similar position]], which didn't go down well.
* WeHaveThoseToo: More examples than it's convenient to list, including several tropes.
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** Apparently, Kerbals gained FTL drives by firing probes repeatedly into a NSW near their home system, then took the data they got from the returned probes and cobbled together a drive based on that. Even ''they'' don't completely understand how it works.
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* [[StandardHumanSpaceship Standard Kerbal Spaceship]]: ''Starfarer 1'' isn't described in much detail, but it's implied to be designed for function over form.
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* [[StandardHumanSpaceship Standard Kerbal Spaceship]]: ''Starfarer 1'' isn't described in much detail, but it's implied to be designed for function over form. Heck, someone later notes that most of the parts weren't bleeding-edge stuff, but mostly things you can find off-the-shelf.
** Justified in the story, as they note that this is an interstellar starship- namely, their ''only'' one. It's better to have parts that are durable and easy to fix than highly finicky and require spare parts... that are several light years away.
** Justified in the story, as they note that this is an interstellar starship- namely, their ''only'' one. It's better to have parts that are durable and easy to fix than highly finicky and require spare parts... that are several light years away.
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* ThrowItIn: In order to keep the story from becoming dated due to "First Flight's" updates or actual updates to the game (more moons, historical events being added, additional features), the story is deliberately written a little vague so the author can say "Sure, that's always been there."
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The Kerbal Space Program has come a long, long way from those first tentative steps. Permanent settlements on Duna and the Mun, mining operations in the asteroid belt, extensive orbital infrastructure... Not bad for a space agency that started as a bunch of enthusiastic amateurs in a shed behind a junkyard with NoBudget and very little idea what they were doing.
But for the men and women of the Kerbin Space Agency, there's no such thing as a final frontier...
''The Next Frontier'' is a ''VideoGame/KerbalSpaceProgram'' fanfiction -crossed over with ''something'', but that'd be a spoiler- by a guy who prefers to be known as "Jake Grey", or sometimes just "Tropers/{{Jake}}". It's being simultaneously posted [[http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/showthread.php/41675-The-Next-Frontier here]], [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/the-next-frontier-ksp-something.266217/ here]] and [[http://bbs.stardestroyer.net/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=159483 here]]. Act One is wholly in blog format, but Act Two has switched to a more conventional narrative.
But for the men and women of the Kerbin Space Agency, there's no such thing as a final frontier...
''The Next Frontier'' is a ''VideoGame/KerbalSpaceProgram'' fanfiction -crossed over with ''something'', but that'd be a spoiler- by a guy who prefers to be known as "Jake Grey", or sometimes just "Tropers/{{Jake}}". It's being simultaneously posted [[http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/showthread.php/41675-The-Next-Frontier here]], [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/the-next-frontier-ksp-something.266217/ here]] and [[http://bbs.stardestroyer.net/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=159483 here]]. Act One is wholly in blog format, but Act Two has switched to a more conventional narrative.
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The Kerbal Space Program has come a long, long way from those in the thirty years since their first tentative steps. manned launch. Permanent settlements on Duna and the Mun, mining operations in the asteroid belt, Duna, extensive asteroid mining operations, an orbital infrastructure... habitat in the works... Not bad too shabby for a space agency something that started as began with a bunch of enthusiastic amateurs in a shed behind a junkyard with NoBudget and very little idea what they were doing.
building sounding rockets out of scrap metal.
But forthe men and women of the Kerbin Space Agency, there's no such thing as a final frontier...
frontier. Their scientists have probed the depths of the mysterious space-time distortion known as the Deep-Space Kraken and learned the secret of faster-than-light travel, and now the five brave Kerbals of the starship ''Starfarer 1'' are setting out on their people's first mission to another star system...
And boy, are they going to be surprised when they get there!
''The Next Frontier'' is a ''VideoGame/KerbalSpaceProgram'' fanfiction -crossed over with ''something'', but that'd be a spoiler- by a guy who prefers to be known as "Jake Grey", or sometimes just "Tropers/{{Jake}}". It's being simultaneously posted [[http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/showthread.php/41675-The-Next-Frontier here]], [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/the-next-frontier-ksp-something.266217/ here]] and[[http://bbs.stardestroyer.net/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=159483 [[http://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/cross-post-the-next-frontier-kerbal-space-program-spoiler-redacted.869/ here]]. Act One is wholly in blog format, but Act Two has switched to a more conventional narrative.
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And boy, are they going to be surprised when they get there!
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* CaptainsLog: Parodied in-universe with the Captain's ''Blog''. And yes, Jeb thinks it's an IncrediblyLamePun too. It does however play the trope straight in the sense that it's a framing device for exposition and backstory.
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* MildlyMilitary: Lampshaded by Jeb, who expected career Air Force officer Kurt McKerjel to have more trouble fitting in with the mostly civilian crew than he actually did. Turns out that aircrew tend to leave salutes and rank behind on the ground because they get in the way, though this doesn't mean discipline is at all lax.
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* MildlyMilitary: Lampshaded by Jeb, who expected career Air Force officer Kurt McKerjel [=McKerjel=] to have more trouble fitting in with the mostly civilian crew than he actually did. Turns out that aircrew tend to leave salutes and rank behind on the ground because they get in the way, though this doesn't mean discipline is at all lax.
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* NoBudget: Played straight in the backstory, averted nowadays... up to a point. Some reference is nevertheless made to the fact that the Kerbin Space Agency has to keep to a budget.
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* NoBudget: Played straight in the backstory, averted nowadays... up to a point. Some reference is nevertheless made to the fact that the Kerbin Space Agency has to keep to a budget.are ''not'' an OrganisationWithUnlimitedFunding.
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** Recently put into a somewhat different context by an update to ''First Flight'' which reveals that the RT-5 "Trashcan" Solid Rocket Boosters have a craft beer named after them. Which RT-5 was involved in naming the incident? WordOfGod says: [[SureWhyNot "Let's go with both."]].
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** Recently put into a somewhat different context by an update to ''First Flight'' which reveals that the RT-5 "Trashcan" Solid Rocket Boosters have a craft beer named after them. Which RT-5 was involved in naming the incident? WordOfGod says: [[SureWhyNot [[AscendedFanon "Let's go with both."]].
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* FirstContactMath: Discussed briefly in Act 1, but ultimately averted. At interstellar distances they're almost certainly useless, and once the Kerbals are at inter''planetary'' distances they [[LearnedEnglishFromWatchingTelevision found an easier method.]]
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** The dwarf planet shaped like a female kerbal's... something reproductive[[note]]let's just say MaleToFemaleUniversalAdapter is averted here and leave it at that...[[/note]] is lifted more or less directly from ''Series/RedDwarf''.
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** The dwarf planet shaped like a female kerbal's... something reproductive[[note]]let's just say MaleToFemaleUniversalAdapter MaleToFemaleUniversalAdaptor is averted here and leave it at that...[[/note]] is lifted more or less directly from ''Series/RedDwarf''.
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* ShoutOut: As noted above, the TNF universe apparently has a game called [[VideoGame/BuzzAldrinRaceIntoSpace Buzz Kerman's Race Into Space]].
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** As noted above, the TNF universe apparently has a game called [[VideoGame/BuzzAldrinRaceIntoSpace Buzz Kerman's Race IntoSpace]].Space]].
** One of the blog entries discusses an SF novel Jeb read once about a method of detecting intelligent life. It's actually a reference to ''Nemesis'' by Creator/IsaacAsimov, in which the interplanetary [=EEG=] thing was crucial to the plot.
** The dwarf planet shaped like a female kerbal's... something reproductive[[note]]let's just say MaleToFemaleUniversalAdapter is averted here and leave it at that...[[/note]] is lifted more or less directly from ''Series/RedDwarf''.
** As noted above, the TNF universe apparently has a game called [[VideoGame/BuzzAldrinRaceIntoSpace Buzz Kerman's Race Into
** One of the blog entries discusses an SF novel Jeb read once about a method of detecting intelligent life. It's actually a reference to ''Nemesis'' by Creator/IsaacAsimov, in which the interplanetary [=EEG=] thing was crucial to the plot.
** The dwarf planet shaped like a female kerbal's... something reproductive[[note]]let's just say MaleToFemaleUniversalAdapter is averted here and leave it at that...[[/note]] is lifted more or less directly from ''Series/RedDwarf''.
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* BadassBookworm: Jeb's pretty badass alright, and he owns 57GB of ebooks.
* BoldlyComing: Spoofed when Jeb talks about hoping to find a planet of [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe pink-skinned space babes]].
* BoldlyComing: Spoofed when Jeb talks about hoping to find a planet of [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe pink-skinned space babes]].
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* CasualInterplanetaryTravel: Averted; getting from Kerbin to the gas giant Jool took three months.
* EpistolaryNovel: Act 1 takes this form.
* ExecutiveMeddling: "Hanfrod at KSC" tries to keep the irrepressible Jeb in line, without much success.
* FasterThanLightTravel: The [[AlcubierreDrive Alkerbierre Drive]].
* EpistolaryNovel: Act 1 takes this form.
* ExecutiveMeddling: "Hanfrod at KSC" tries to keep the irrepressible Jeb in line, without much success.
* FasterThanLightTravel: The [[AlcubierreDrive Alkerbierre Drive]].
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* FasterThanLightTravel: The [[AlcubierreDrive Alkerbierre Drive]].
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* HumanAliens: Played with. Kerbals might think a lot like humans, but there are... differences.
* HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace: Averted, to Jeb's mild disappointment.
* HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace: Averted, to Jeb's mild disappointment.
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* MissionControl: Hasn't played a huge role in the story so far, but a minor subplot involves the retirement of Gene Kerman, who performed this role for Jeb and Co.
* MundaneUtility: The [[SubspaceAnsible Quantum Entanglement Communications System]] is supposed to be for relaying data between the ''Starfarer 1'' and MissionControl back on Kerbin. Jeb is also using it to update his blog.
* MundaneUtility: The [[SubspaceAnsible Quantum Entanglement Communications System]] is supposed to be for relaying data between the ''Starfarer 1'' and MissionControl back on Kerbin. Jeb is also using it to update his blog.
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* NoodleIncident: The RT-5 incident, involving [[NoodleImplements some old solid rocket boosters the Kerbin Space Agency was getting rid of and a local body of water.]] The details are left to the reader's imagination, but apparently it resulted in Gene's car and a passing yacht getting totalled, Bob being MIA for a while and a ''very'' large amount of paperwork.
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* NoOSHACompliance: Averted, despite the source material. The accident report and environmental-impact paperwork after a particularly nasty chemical spill is implied to be considerable, at any rate.
* OrionDrive: Discussed in a blog post, but only as "an interesting might-have-been."
* OrionDrive: Discussed in a blog post, but only as "an interesting might-have-been."
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* RousingSpeech: Jeb's blog posts have a way of turning into these.
* SharedUniverse: The story acts as a kind of FullyAbsorbedFinale to [[http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/showthread.php/33400-First-Flight KSK's "First Flight"]], albeit in BroadStrokes.
* SpaceMadness: Of a rather mundane type, mostly to do with the lack of anything very productive to do between course corrections.
* SpaceshipSlingshotStunt: The realistic version, using Jool for a gravity assist.
* SharedUniverse: The story acts as a kind of FullyAbsorbedFinale to [[http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/showthread.php/33400-First-Flight KSK's "First Flight"]], albeit in BroadStrokes.
* SpaceMadness: Of a rather mundane type, mostly to do with the lack of anything very productive to do between course corrections.
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* SharedUniverse: The story acts as a kind of FullyAbsorbedFinale to [[http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/showthread.php/33400-First-Flight KSK's "First Flight"]], albeit in BroadStrokes.
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* AliensStealCable[=/=]LearnedEnglishFromWatchingTelevision: A rare, possibly unique PerspectiveFlip, as we get to see the process from the point of view of the aliens.
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* HiroshimaAsAUnitOfMeasure: Used regularly in Jeb's blog. The pusher plate for the hypothetical OrionDrive design is described as massing as much as an entire "Pioneer-type Mun lander", which is Kerbin's equivalent of a Saturn V, and on another occasion he claims to have so many ebooks stored in his laptop that taking them all with him to the Mun would have required its own mission. Out-of-universe, ''Starfarer 1'' is described being as comparable in size to a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panamax Panamax]] container ship.
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* HiroshimaAsAUnitOfMeasure: Used regularly in Jeb's blog. The pusher plate for the hypothetical OrionDrive design is described as massing as much as an entire "Pioneer-type Mun lander", which is Kerbin's equivalent of a Saturn an Apollo-Saturn V, and on another occasion he claims to have so many ebooks stored in his laptop that taking them all with him to the Mun would have required its own mission. Out-of-universe, ''Starfarer 1'' is described being as comparable in size to a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panamax Panamax]] container ship.
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* GameOfNerds: [[ShoutOut Scott]] [[LetsPlay/ScottManley Kerbley]], the chief engineer, is a fan of a Kerbal team sport very similar to {{Cricket}}.
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* GameOfNerds: [[ShoutOut Scott]] [[LetsPlay/ScottManley Kerbley]], the chief engineer, is a fan of a Kerbal team sport very similar to {{Cricket}}. {{Cricket}}.
* HiroshimaAsAUnitOfMeasure: Used regularly in Jeb's blog. The pusher plate for the hypothetical OrionDrive design is described as massing as much as an entire "Pioneer-type Mun lander", which is Kerbin's equivalent of a Saturn V, and on another occasion he claims to have so many ebooks stored in his laptop that taking them all with him to the Mun would have required its own mission. Out-of-universe, ''Starfarer 1'' is described being as comparable in size to a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panamax Panamax]] container ship.
* HiroshimaAsAUnitOfMeasure: Used regularly in Jeb's blog. The pusher plate for the hypothetical OrionDrive design is described as massing as much as an entire "Pioneer-type Mun lander", which is Kerbin's equivalent of a Saturn V, and on another occasion he claims to have so many ebooks stored in his laptop that taking them all with him to the Mun would have required its own mission. Out-of-universe, ''Starfarer 1'' is described being as comparable in size to a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panamax Panamax]] container ship.
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* CaptainsLog: Parodied in-universe with the Captain's ''Blog''. And yes, Jeb thinks it's an IncrediblyLamePun too.
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* CaptainsLog: Parodied in-universe with the Captain's ''Blog''. And yes, Jeb thinks it's an IncrediblyLamePun too. It does however play the trope straight in the sense that it's a framing device for exposition and backstory.
* GameOfNerds: [[ShoutOut Scott]] [[LetsPlay/ScottManley Kerbley]], the chief engineer, is a fan of a Kerbal team sport very similar to {{Cricket}}.
* MildlyMilitary: Lampshaded by Jeb, who expected career Air Force officer Kurt McKerjel to have more trouble fitting in with the mostly civilian crew than he actually did. Turns out that aircrew tend to leave salutes and rank behind on the ground because they get in the way, though this doesn't mean discipline is at all lax.
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* WeaponisedExhaust: The [[AlcubierreDrive Alkerbierre Drive]] turned out to have a little problem of releasing a ''lot'' of high-energy particles whenever it was turned off. The space agency suspected this would be a problem but somewhat underestimated the scale of it, and had to rethink their deployment plans considerably after a prototype ''[[PlutoIsExpendable blew up a dwarf planet.]]''
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* PragmaticAdaptation: WordOfGod on how to reconcile [=KSP=]'s AcceptableBreaksFromReality:
--> [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/the-next-frontier-ksp-something.266217/page-3#post-11697818 "Easy. I'm going to scale the Kerbol system up and pretend KSP's an "edutainment" game made by the Kerbals themselves, with some compromises between realism and playability. The reference to "Buzz Kerman's Race Into Space" in one of the blog posts is a nod to that."]]
* TheReveal: At the end of the update on September 2nd. Highlight this at your own risk, by the way: [[spoiler: It's a ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' crossover!]]
--> [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/the-next-frontier-ksp-something.266217/page-3#post-11697818 "Easy. I'm going to scale the Kerbol system up and pretend KSP's an "edutainment" game made by the Kerbals themselves, with some compromises between realism and playability. The reference to "Buzz Kerman's Race Into Space" in one of the blog posts is a nod to that."]]
* TheReveal: At the end of the update on September 2nd. Highlight this at your own risk, by the way: [[spoiler: It's a ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' crossover!]]
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''The Next Frontier'' is a ''VideoGame/KerbalSpaceProgram'' fanfiction -crossed over with ''something'', but we don't know what yet- by a guy called "Jake Grey", or sometimes just "Jake". It's being simultaneously posted [[http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/showthread.php/41675-The-Next-Frontier here]], [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/the-next-frontier-ksp-something.266217/ here]] and [[http://cy-fox.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=5 here]]. Act One is wholly in blog format. The as-yet unpublished Act Two will be more conventional.
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''The Next Frontier'' is a ''VideoGame/KerbalSpaceProgram'' fanfiction -crossed over with ''something'', but we don't know what yet- by a guy called "Jake Grey", or sometimes just "Jake"."Tropers/{{Jake}}". It's being simultaneously posted [[http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/showthread.php/41675-The-Next-Frontier here]], [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/the-next-frontier-ksp-something.266217/ here]] and [[http://cy-fox.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=5 here]]. Act One is wholly in blog format. The as-yet unpublished Act Two will be more conventional.conventional.
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** Recently put into a somewhat different context by the latest update to ''First Flight'', which reveals that the RT-5 "Trashcan" Solid Rocket Boosters have a craft beer named after them. Which RT-5 was involved in naming the incident? WordOfGod says: [[SureWhyNot "Let's go with both."]].
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* NoodleIncident: The RT-5 incident, involving [[NoodleIncident some old solid rocket boosters the Kerbin Space Agency was getting rid of and a local body of water.]] The details are left to the reader's imagination, but apparently it resulted in Gene's car and a passing yacht getting totalled, Bob being MIA for a while and a ''very'' large amount of paperwork.
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* NoodleIncident: The RT-5 incident, involving [[NoodleIncident [[NoodleImplements some old solid rocket boosters the Kerbin Space Agency was getting rid of and a local body of water.]] The details are left to the reader's imagination, but apparently it resulted in Gene's car and a passing yacht getting totalled, Bob being MIA for a while and a ''very'' large amount of paperwork.
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* NoBudget: Played straight in the backstory, averted nowadays... up to a point. Some reference is nevertheless made to the fact that the Kerbin Space Agency is ''not'' an OrganisationWithUnlimitedFunding.
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* SharedUniverse: With [[http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/showthread.php/33400-First-Flight KSK's "First Flight"]], albeit in BroadStrokes and several decades later.
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* SharedUniverse: With The story acts as a kind of FullyAbsorbedFinale to [[http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/showthread.php/33400-First-Flight KSK's "First Flight"]], albeit in BroadStrokes and several decades later.BroadStrokes.
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While I\'m here... Namespacing, and no real need for two links so close together.
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The KerbalSpaceProgram has come a long, long way from those first tentative steps. Permanent settlements on Duna and the Mun, mining operations in the asteroid belt, extensive orbital infrastructure... Not bad for a space agency that started as a bunch of enthusiastic amateurs in a shed behind a junkyard with NoBudget and very little idea what they're doing.
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The KerbalSpaceProgram Kerbal Space Program has come a long, long way from those first tentative steps. Permanent settlements on Duna and the Mun, mining operations in the asteroid belt, extensive orbital infrastructure... Not bad for a space agency that started as a bunch of enthusiastic amateurs in a shed behind a junkyard with NoBudget and very little idea what they're doing.
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''The Next Frontier'' is a KerbalSpaceProgram ''VideoGame/KerbalSpaceProgram'' fanfiction -crossed over with ''something'', but we don't know what yet- by a guy called "Jake Grey", or sometimes just "Jake". It's being simultaneously posted [[http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/showthread.php/41675-The-Next-Frontier here]], [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/the-next-frontier-ksp-something.266217/ here]] and [[http://cy-fox.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=5 here]]. Act One is wholly in blog format. The as-yet unpublished Act Two will be more conventional.
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* BeleaguredBureaucrat: When he's not acting as MissionControl, Gene's the one who gets stuck with the paperwork. And boy oh boy, there's a ''lot'' of paperwork...
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* BeleaguredBureaucrat: BeleagueredBureaucrat: When he's not acting as MissionControl, Gene's the one who gets stuck with the paperwork. And boy oh boy, there's a ''lot'' of paperwork...
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But for the men and women of the Kerbin Space Agency, there's no such thing as a final frontier.
But for the men and women of the Kerbin Space Agency, there's no such thing as a final frontier.
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The KerbalSpaceProgram has come a long, long way from those first tentative steps. Permanent settlements on Duna and the Mun, mining operations in the asteroid belt, extensive orbital infrastructure... Not bad for a space agency that started as a bunch of enthusiastic amateurs in a shed behind a junkyard with NoBudget and big dreams.
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* BeleaguredBureaucrat: When he's not acting as MissionControl, Gene's the one who gets stuck with the paperwork. And boy oh boy, there's a ''lot'' of paperwork...
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* OrionDrive: Discussed in a blog post, but only as an interesting might-have-been.
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* OrionDrive: Discussed in a blog post, but only as an "an interesting might-have-been."
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* SharedUniverse: With KSK's "First Flight", albeit in BroadStrokes and several decades later.
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* SharedUniverse: With [[http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/showthread.php/33400-First-Flight KSK's "First Flight", Flight"]], albeit in BroadStrokes and several decades later.
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The KerbalSpaceProgram has come a long, long way from those first tentative steps. Permanent settlements on Duna and the Mun, mining operations in the asteroid belt, extensive orbital infrastructure... Not bad for a space agency that started as a bunch of enthusiastic amateurs in a shed behind a junkyard with NoBudget and big dreams.
But for the men and women of the Kerbin Space Agency, there's no such thing as a final frontier.
''The Next Frontier'' is a KerbalSpaceProgram fanfiction -crossed over with ''something'', but we don't know what yet- by a guy called "Jake Grey", or sometimes just "Jake". It's being simultaneously posted [[http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/showthread.php/41675-The-Next-Frontier here]], [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/the-next-frontier-ksp-something.266217/ here]] and [[http://cy-fox.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=5 here]]. Act One is wholly in blog format. The as-yet unpublished Act Two will be more conventional.
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!!This fanfic contains examples of:
* AudienceParticipation[=/=]FourthWallMailSlot: All those comments asking questions that Jeb responds to were provided by readers.
* BadassBookworm: Jeb's pretty badass alright, and he owns 57GB of ebooks.
* BoldlyComing: Spoofed when Jeb talks about hoping to find a planet of [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe pink-skinned space babes]].
* CaptainsLog: Parodied in-universe with the Captain's ''Blog''. And yes, Jeb thinks it's an IncrediblyLamePun too.
* CasualInterplanetaryTravel: Averted; getting from Kerbin to the gas giant Jool took three months.
* EpistolaryNovel: Act 1 takes this form.
* ExecutiveMeddling: "Hanfrod at KSC" tries to keep the irrepressible Jeb in line, without much success.
* FasterThanLightTravel: The [[AlcubierreDrive Alkerbierre Drive]].
* HumanAliens: Played with. Kerbals might think a lot like humans, but there are... differences.
* HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace: Averted, to Jeb's mild disappointment.
--> '''Jeb's Blog''': It's not that I particularly ''wanted'' to be stricken blind or go gibbering mad the first time I looked out of the window, mind you. But it would at least have created a certain sense of occasion.
* InterplanetaryVoyage
* MissionControl: Hasn't played a huge role in the story so far, but a minor subplot involves the retirement of Gene Kerman, who performed this role for Jeb and Co.
* MundaneUtility: The [[SubspaceAnsible Quantum Entanglement Communications System]] is supposed to be for relaying data between the ''Starfarer 1'' and MissionControl back on Kerbin. Jeb is also using it to update his blog.
* NoodleIncident: The RT-5 incident, involving [[NoodleIncident some old solid rocket boosters the Kerbin Space Agency was getting rid of and a local body of water.]] The details are left to the reader's imagination, but apparently it resulted in Gene's car and a passing yacht getting totalled, Bob being MIA for a while and a ''very'' large amount of paperwork.
* NoOSHACompliance: Averted, despite the source material. The accident report and environmental-impact paperwork after a particularly nasty chemical spill is implied to be considerable, at any rate.
* OrionDrive: Discussed in a blog post, but only as an interesting might-have-been.
* RousingSpeech: Jeb's blog posts have a way of turning into these.
* SharedUniverse: With KSK's "First Flight", albeit in BroadStrokes and several decades later.
* SpaceMadness: Of a rather mundane type, mostly to do with the lack of anything very productive to do between course corrections.
* SpaceshipSlingshotStunt: The realistic version, using Jool for a gravity assist.
* TechnicianVersusPerformer: In a weird sort of way, Jeb and Bill. Bill's actually the better pilot, but Jeb is [[TheFaceOfTheBand The Face Of The Space Program]] because he's got a gift for showmanship.
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But for the men and women of the Kerbin Space Agency, there's no such thing as a final frontier.
''The Next Frontier'' is a KerbalSpaceProgram fanfiction -crossed over with ''something'', but we don't know what yet- by a guy called "Jake Grey", or sometimes just "Jake". It's being simultaneously posted [[http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/showthread.php/41675-The-Next-Frontier here]], [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/the-next-frontier-ksp-something.266217/ here]] and [[http://cy-fox.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=5 here]]. Act One is wholly in blog format. The as-yet unpublished Act Two will be more conventional.
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!!This fanfic contains examples of:
* AudienceParticipation[=/=]FourthWallMailSlot: All those comments asking questions that Jeb responds to were provided by readers.
* BadassBookworm: Jeb's pretty badass alright, and he owns 57GB of ebooks.
* BoldlyComing: Spoofed when Jeb talks about hoping to find a planet of [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe pink-skinned space babes]].
* CaptainsLog: Parodied in-universe with the Captain's ''Blog''. And yes, Jeb thinks it's an IncrediblyLamePun too.
* CasualInterplanetaryTravel: Averted; getting from Kerbin to the gas giant Jool took three months.
* EpistolaryNovel: Act 1 takes this form.
* ExecutiveMeddling: "Hanfrod at KSC" tries to keep the irrepressible Jeb in line, without much success.
* FasterThanLightTravel: The [[AlcubierreDrive Alkerbierre Drive]].
* HumanAliens: Played with. Kerbals might think a lot like humans, but there are... differences.
* HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace: Averted, to Jeb's mild disappointment.
--> '''Jeb's Blog''': It's not that I particularly ''wanted'' to be stricken blind or go gibbering mad the first time I looked out of the window, mind you. But it would at least have created a certain sense of occasion.
* InterplanetaryVoyage
* MissionControl: Hasn't played a huge role in the story so far, but a minor subplot involves the retirement of Gene Kerman, who performed this role for Jeb and Co.
* MundaneUtility: The [[SubspaceAnsible Quantum Entanglement Communications System]] is supposed to be for relaying data between the ''Starfarer 1'' and MissionControl back on Kerbin. Jeb is also using it to update his blog.
* NoodleIncident: The RT-5 incident, involving [[NoodleIncident some old solid rocket boosters the Kerbin Space Agency was getting rid of and a local body of water.]] The details are left to the reader's imagination, but apparently it resulted in Gene's car and a passing yacht getting totalled, Bob being MIA for a while and a ''very'' large amount of paperwork.
* NoOSHACompliance: Averted, despite the source material. The accident report and environmental-impact paperwork after a particularly nasty chemical spill is implied to be considerable, at any rate.
* OrionDrive: Discussed in a blog post, but only as an interesting might-have-been.
* RousingSpeech: Jeb's blog posts have a way of turning into these.
* SharedUniverse: With KSK's "First Flight", albeit in BroadStrokes and several decades later.
* SpaceMadness: Of a rather mundane type, mostly to do with the lack of anything very productive to do between course corrections.
* SpaceshipSlingshotStunt: The realistic version, using Jool for a gravity assist.
* TechnicianVersusPerformer: In a weird sort of way, Jeb and Bill. Bill's actually the better pilot, but Jeb is [[TheFaceOfTheBand The Face Of The Space Program]] because he's got a gift for showmanship.
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