I was thinking of staying away from the forums to do more thinking and characterizing but I can't resist..... must reply...
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That's got to be one of the best posts in this thread so far! :thumbup:
I had to restrain myself on that one. It could have been longer, and with more ideas. But I had stuff to do. Wait till you read this post. Could be the longest on the forum, maybe.
Accuracy is also important, but it depends on what type of failures. She's not stupid and clumsy like Emuii (who had, uh, computing problems :lol
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, but some uncontrollable physical things, like RCS fuel leaks, did happen.
So imagine her slowly tumbling in space, trying to stop the fuel leak as if trying to get water out of her ear. Or like a nervous twitch that she can't control.
Remember, they still have nonhuman hardware like RCS. They're more like humanoid robots, like how Vocaloids are sometimes depicted.
I wasn't going to go extreme on this, just take cues from real life for some interesting plots like the OAMS problem on Gemini 8 that you mentioned. One thing that we could think about is a bladder problem with the spacecraft itself on
Gemini 5, though I doubt we could get away with that.
About one of the non-human hardware things that I am wondering is about is the service modules for Apollo and Gemini. Should they sit on top of them or should they be something they can wear? Some sort of dress could work for Gemini, so she dosen't run about in a swim suit all the time.
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Whatever the Service Modules end up looking like, they should resemble the real-life ones(more or less) and should be detachable. This is for a visual person, not I.
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Also, she is probably bad with cameras. IIRC, Gemini has somewhat of a history with cameras. :lol:
Really? I would like to hear what you heard, because I never heard anything bad with cameras and Gemini.
LOL, I'm not one for glasses moe, but I can certainly understand it! Anyone else who can draw is welcome. Or maybe I'll do some fanservice some time.
I'm not big on glasses moe either, but I like the head on view of a Gemini capsule and I want it to be part of Blue Gemini. Mainly because in order to impersonate Gemini she would have to take them off, and that would mean she is somewhat unable to see what she is doing. Its good for stories so I tossed it in.
Hehheh, yes, that was also the case with Vostok. I'm thinking she could cover the distinguishing "US AIR FORCE" markings with a paper thing taped on that says "UNITED STATES". And no one would be the wiser! Like the Thnikkaman, or the Rock Mask in Majoras's Mask, or the Spy in TF2, or...
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Yeah, that's exactly the kinda of stuff I was thinking.
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:rofl:This is from Space Cadets, right?
What is Space Cadets? I was making fun of the fact Blue Gemini didn't fly in space and rolled with it.
You have to tell me the one about the alligators some time.
The Atlas Target Docking Adapter, ATDA, aka " The Angry Alligator".
Flown on
Gemini 9. It's a bit complex but simply put the Agena for the mission flew itself into the Atlantic, so NASA flew the ATDA in its place. The ATDA made it to orbit, but do to an on the ground screw up a fairing didn't jettison because wires weren't connected. Astronaut Stafford said "It looks like an angry alligator out here rotating around." Hence the name.
And why not have Apollo 13 personified? There's a whole film about it, and no one died. If I feel crazy enough I might even make a whole comic about it, like Orenzi Zerii's Hayabusa comic.
I didn't think a comic about the LM trying to keep the half blown-open and rapidly freezing CSM alive would be a good idea. For one thing it would be so sad that the LM wouldn't be able to come home after all that. And how would blowing the side off of a spacecraft girl work without being gruesome?
As for the names, mission context would be fine. There would literally be all of them, since it's not like any of them flew at the same time. In that case their real names would be used, but general nicknames for any CSM and LM are up to the forum.
At this point I'll leave it open as to whether Gemini and Apollo are all the spacecraft separate or all blended in to one. If each craft is separate it means a boat load more work for me, but I'm up to it, if it is demanded(utill that point I'm going for a blended approach).
You should be the one stopping me from bastardizing such things, not the other way around! :lol:
I'm not adverse to poking fun at my own country and its government, especially when the supreme law of the land is designed to allow me to!
So hopefully it won't be anything bad if she says something about beating "those darned Commies."
After all, that was one of the most charismatic things about the Space Race. If it can even be called that. :huh:
I was thinking Blue Gemini could be the one to be with the emphasis on "those darned Commies" but they'll all have it to some degree. I will keep an eye on you, because I do want to do something where the LM has a dream where her and the
Soviet lander frolic on the Moon, and that can't be possible if Blue Gemini poisoned her brain with Red-hating propaganda. This would take place after the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project has had a mellowing effect on the American Space-tans, making them less apprehensive about space developments on the other side.
Once again, you should be the one stopping me from bastardizing such things! I mentioned this once a long time ago in this thread, and I do plan on this completely (I've been doing it actually but it hasn't been very noticible so far). See the XR5 Vanguard from earlier.
Fear not though, this will never become vulgar- not with me drawing. I tend towards drawing them as, uh...つるぺた。
Google translate came back with peta vine for つるぺた :dry:. I get what your talking about, and I think we need some one to reign us in if we get out of hand. Any takers?
But here's a challenge I know you math nerds can't resist:
:rofl: The best part is that a math nerd just might pop up!
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Eyes tired? Well I hope you like long posts, cause I'm putting a long post in my long post, so now that you read my long post you can read my long post. Muhahahahaha!
This is more of my numbered individual points, with various spacecraft in it. I might have to go back and arrange all the previous stuff in a blog, but that is for some other time. Onward!
1. I was thinking about how both Apollo and Gemini land in water and then deploy floats(pictures:
Apollo,
Gemini1,
Gemini2). It looks like Apollo is in an inner tube. As for Gemini she could float on one of those bed things for pools.
2. Since Gemini is the 'Gusmobile', I was thinking she would be afraid of drowning like Liberty Bell 7(Gus Grissom's Mercury). I will back off of this if anyone wants me too.
3. I decided that my previous idea of how much Gemini resents Apollo was a bit extreme. Gemini still resents Apollo for being the reason why she never was able to go and do more than she did, but now she isn't so partisan as to suggest that Apollo was completely unnecessary. I'm still working out this though.
4. Mulling over pictures of the LM, it became obvious that any LM character we make would have to throw some accuracy out so as to have a cute LM, but I am a bit confident this won't be too much of a problem. We could reference her being called the 'bug' by making her hair have two strands stick up like antennae. There is the fact that half of her could end up stuck on the Moon, but that could be mended by make the LM Ascent Stage the LM character, with LM the Descent Stage being just as it is in real life.
5. Still on the LM, what happens to her after the CSM undocks from her at Earth after the trip. Staying accurate to Real-Life at this point would mean she dies a fiery death. I am going to invoke a creator protection clause here. The LM lives happily with the CSM, and damn what actually happened. I'm not budging on this; its too bad that we couldn't bring them home in real life but we don't have to do that to them in fiction. And they will come home, even if it isn't accurate.
Well, it is 12:20AM local time now, time to go to bed. As in the last post, feedback isn't just welcomed, it is asked for, if it pleases you to post it.