History WMG / KerbalSpaceProgram

[[WMG: The Kerbals are evolutionarily related to the [[WesternAnimation/DespicableMe Minions]]]]

** Expansion part is Jossed, as WordOfGod from side of WesternAnimation/DespicableMe states that Minions are genetically engineered from a kernel. That's not to say that some Minions somehow ended up in Kerbin.

We can't actually see the kraken, but it obviously still exists. The Pa'anuri are likewise invisible to the naked eye. Their method of attack (making your ship shake itself to pieces) could be done easily with the gravitic manipulation that the Pa'anuri are capable of. (In fact, it's their main way of interacting with baryonic matter.) Plus, the idea of the Kraken's tentacles being barely visible to some imminently doomed kerbals as gravitational lenses just seems like it fits.

Planets in the Kerbol system are smaller and significantly more dense than their real world analogs. This means that the acceleration rate of gravity changes more drastically with altitude—you might even feel less gravity on a mountaintop than you would at sea level (on Earth, the effect is much more gradual). This means eruptions will spew matter not only into the stratosphere, but on globe-spaning suborbital arcs. Worse still, with that average density of Kerbin being greater than osmium, and those volcanic bombs weighing several tons hailing in from suborbital arcs—let’s just say there might be good reason to assume the Kerbals probably live underground.

The sequel will have interstellar systems. Wouldn't it be great if you could go to our own solar system, make contact with humans, get a message from one of the devs congratulating you for finding Sol, and getting some sort of reward, like in ''VideoGame/{{Spore}}''?

* Future Kerbals know what happened, but are trying to figure out the specifics. This is the reason why the clock starts at Year 1, Day 1, Time 000. When Kerbals went to space is when Kerbal Historians agree the new calendar started. Also, the Revert button? Maybe some historian realized the events didn't make sense, so they try to figure it out again.

[[WMG: KerbalSpaceProgram takes place in the same universe as the board game GalaxyTrucker.]]

* Okay, but: it's LetsPlay/Danny2462. One, he makes ''Kerbal Space Program'' break all the time, two, Jool is his arch-enemy, and is bound to be depicted as a villain.

** Given their tendency to... ahem... fail epically...

The Ku Klux Kerbals.

[[WMG: Kerbals are a strand of [[WarHammer40000 Ork]].]]

[[WMG: Kerbals are somehow related to [[DwarfFortress Dorfs]]]]

He's arranged his life so the space program can only function if he stays on the ground.

They both involve adorable little guys in spacesuits cobbling spaceships together out of spare parts which tend to go hilariously wrong. Presumably the Mission Control Center reorganizes itself into the Corporation Incorporated transportation company after interstellar travel is developed.

* As an extension of this, it's the egg equivalent of [[EldritchLocation whatever Jool is.]] Or [[GameBreakinBug Kraken.]] [[FridgeHorror Or Both.]]

Kerbals also seem to have a lack of gender variation, which is something they have in common with Orks.

It can explain why there appear to be no above-surface cities or structures besides the space program's headquarters. The Asteroid update implies that Kerbin is amid a very dense asteroid field and is constantly bombarded by meteors large enough to do serious damage to the surface. Kerbin has very close encounters class E asteroids on a yearly basis. Our real world planets very rarely have collisions that large.

It also explains their apparent lack of gender diversity, what with Orks not having sexual reproduction

They're green, they have no brains, and they can apparently survive on nothing but sunlight for days on end.

Considering all the other things that have occurred around it and the nature of its' glitchyness in universe coupled with the [[PaintingTheMedium recent inclusion of asteroids threatening the home world on an unprecedented scale]], it's only likely that some Kerbals will go right off the (deeper than deep that they're already on) end and draw their own conclusions. Namely that it is best to found a ReligionOfEvil dedicated to trying to "unleash" the holy Kraken Race and/or Jool for...whatever maniacal purposes the Great Green "Planet" and/or the Great Green Tentacled ones intend to do. How they will factor into the gameplay- and whether the player will [[HeroicSpirit stand against them]] or [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential join them]] = is uncertain and/or up to the player, though.

Considering all the other things that have occurred around it and the nature of its' glitchyness in universe coupled with the [[PaintingTheMedium recent inclusion of asteroids threatening the home world on an unprecedented scale]], it's only likely that some Kerbals will go right off the (deeper than deep that they're already on) end and draw their own conclusions. Namely that it is best to found a ReligionOfEvil dedicated to trying to "unleash" the holy Kraken Race and/or Jool for...whatever maniacal purposes the Great Green "Planet" and/or the Great Green Tentacled ones intend to do. How they will factor into the gameplay- and whether the player will [[LastStand stand against them]] or [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential join them]] = is uncertain and/or up to the player, though.

Considering all the other things that have occurred around it and the nature of its' glitchyness in universe coupled with the [[PaintingTheMedium recent inclusion of asteroids threatening the home world on an unprecedented scale]], it's only likely that some Kerbals will go right off the (deeper than deep that they're already on) end and draw their own conclusions. Namely that it is best to found a ReligionOfEvil dedicated to trying to "unleash" the holy Kraken Race and/or Jool for...whatever maniacal purposes the Great Green "Planet" and/or the Great Green Tentacled ones intend to do. How they will factor into the gameplay- and whether the player will [[TheEternalChurchill stand against them]] or [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential join them]] = is uncertain and/or up to the player, though.

* As an extension of this, it's the egg equivalent of [[EldritchLocation whatever Jool is.]]

[[WMG: There will be an ApocalypseCult worshipping Jool.]]
Considering all the other things that have occurred around it and the nature of its' glitchyness in universe coupled with the [[PaintingTheMedium recent inclusion of asteroids threatening the home world on an unprecedented scale]], it's only likely that some Kerbals will go right off the (deeper than deep that they're already on) end and draw their own conclusions. Namely that it is best to found a ReligionOfEvil dedicated to trying to "unleash" Jool for...whatever maniacal purposes the Great Green "Planet" intends to do. How they will factor into the gameplay- and whether the player will [[TheEternalChurchill stand against them]] or [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential join them]] = is uncertain and/or up to the player, though.

* As an extension of this, it's the egg equivalent of [[EldritchLocation whatever Jool is.]]

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[[WMG: The Kerbals are evolutionarily related to the [[DespicableMe Minions]]]]

** Expansion part is Jossed, as WordOfGod from side of DespicableMe states that Minions are genetically engineered from a kernel. That's not to say that some Minions somehow ended up in Kerbin.