Spartan Nat

An armored woman standing on a pedestal. She's cradling a large rifle against her shoulder, with two SMGs on each hip, and an assault rifle on her back. She's slightly leaned back and smiling at someone close to her. Her armor is a deep indigo-purple with white accents, she's pale, her hair is dark, and her irises are lilac.

I DUNNO, I THINK I FOUND A GOOD PURPLE SHADE.

A chibified Spartan from Halo being held up like a child, mockingly. She's blonde, with reddish-magenta eyes, and gray armor. A quizzical expression from her partner is in the bottom corner. Her partner asks "where the hell is my CO (Commanding officer)", to which the chibified Spartan responds "Ma'am, put me down, I AM your commanding officer".

Maybe a bad first impression.

Small after work update. I don't think this'll be a character sheet in the conventional sense lol. But I love the sketch so far.

Text message from RNC 80810 text hotline “Our condolences are with the Hegseth family and everything they're going through. Read our update here: rnctxt.co/37KQFGK Stop2End”

Old phone number owner had the 80810 thing linked to my number and I’ve kept it as just odd fascination because there’s some wack ass texts I’ve gotten and I can’t seem to stop them either. What did they mean by this exactly?????

his time is eternal.

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It has come to my attention this is only the third mention of the Gemini spacecraft as the "Gusmobile" on Bluesky. 3rd place in a way. Which means this post is the 4th.

Wikipedia search bar with the text "Gusmobile" and "Project Gemini" as the search option.

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Text of note: Astronaut Gus Grissom was heavily involved in the development and design of the Gemini spacecraft. What other Mercury astronauts dubbed "Gusmobile" was so designed around Grissom's 5'6" body that, when NASA discovered in 1963 that 14 of 16 astronauts would not fit in the spacecraft, the interior had to be redesigned.[9] Grissom wrote in his posthumous 1968 book Gemini! that the realization of Project Mercury's end and the unlikelihood of his having another flight in that program prompted him to focus all his efforts on the upcoming Gemini program.[9]

Amazing redirect, thank you Wikipedia editors.

Completed commission for @pantsaredead.bsky.social . Was my first time doing an active camo effect, and I think it turned out pretty!!! Swell. Saucy, you could say.

I appreciate anyone here who's supported and/or commissioned me in the past few months. It means the world! 💜

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Currently designing the new flag for (Still tentatively named Nu-WKF) and I'm a bit sad the blue I intended for the flag to inherit from the old WKF flag doesn't really fit with any greens I want to use.

Guess I didn't really need TPR there.

Otherwise, that's all for now. It's a massive dump but I'm proud of it considering how long I've let it stew while trying to make Minmus have glass flats. 12/12

that's because the relative prosperity alongside a strong national identity due to geography and spaceflight of the WKF, the nation is at a point they want to attempt spaceflight again despite the captial L Liberals in government being in favor of private spaceflight otherwise. 11/12

these guys are kinda supposed to be a stand-in for people in my government (The US) right now versus a flawed ideal the Nu-WKF has been trying to build and maintain for almost 2 centuries at this point (37X PC). As for why exactly the West Kerbin Federation is interested in a space program... 10/12

For internal affairs, the Nu-WKF is mostly split between the socialists that have dominated the country's politics for years and capital L Democrat politician Liberals that have popped up in the last few decades and want to "trim the fat" out of the government and labor rights because yeah... 9/12

that can play in the background. Say, going back to right-wing vs communes, a small fleet of invading ships is warded off as some crew receive a news report in orbit. On the other hand and to round this overview out, I'd like to focus on the Nu-WKF once more because there's some notes I have. 8/12

number of other states of differing ideologies. Full-on monarchies, constitutional monarchies, "republics", dictatorships, etc. While I may not feature say, the rump state at odds with the anarchist communes as a character of sorts in the reports of missions, I do want a world of fleshed out... 7/12

both populations still have their own pushback against statehood despite a shared history and want to re-integrate. Despite not sharing a border or ocean, the desert eastern half actually has slightly stronger political ties to the Nu-WKF. Going back to a wider perspective, there will be a... 6/12

and some sort of right-wing rump state that believes it can, as a state, invade and occupy a non-state. On the other hand, moving back towards the WKF, the former China stand-in has turned into two nations divided by the mountain range between the two. While working toward becoming one state... 5/12

from neighboring proper states. In turn this means it has more of an industrial base as is required by circumstance. Their allies will be a flawed-but-actively-working-on-egalitarian-ideals communist state and adversaries will be a mix of an authoritarian state-capitalist "socialist" state... 4/12

attempt to close this fluid border-non-border to the detriment of both the free territories and WKF. Because of this, it will probably have a more pastoralist/agrarian society than other parts of the world. Also, there will be another non-state that has to defend their non-border... 3/12

In one case, bordering the WKF, one of the anarchist commune territories does not require much of a military force because their "border" with the WKF is fairly fluid and what is exported to the WKF and globe flows through "border" cities. One of the points of conflict is the liberals will... 2/12

A raw map of post-Cataclysm Kerbin, courtesy of SCANSat. Unmodified compared to how the map will sit in the political form.

As for post-Cataclysm Kerbin, there's now more than just 11 generic states and an international zone. Some of the first non-Nu-WKF "nations" are not nations but the equivalent of internationally recognized territory made up of anarchist communes with borders defined by the rest of the world. 1/12

Pre-Cataclysm Kerbin Political Map.

Regular map of stock Kerbin, "Pre-Cataclysm" Kerbin.

The flag of the West Kerbin Federation, purposefully evocative of the US flag to an extent. Note that compared to the WKF internal map, there is not a fifth start of Sydney, the capital itself. This was intended to draw a parallel between Sydney and Washington, D.C. for obvious reasons. The other stars represent (Top to bottom, left to right) Acadia, Tremont, Bartlett, and Manset. As you can tell by the names, all references to Acadia National Park and Mount Desert Island in Maine. Sydney just kind of came out of nowhere but you could count it as drawing from Halo where the capital of the Unified Earth Government is Sydney. What is ultimately cut from "release" but nonetheless is canon is Sydney was intended to gain statehood in mid-2003, around the intended time of the first crewed Mun landing. Of course natural disasters killed both the space program and prospects of statehood before the WKF itself fractured.

The states/subdivisions of the West Kerbin Federation.

So, for the old world setting this all descends from. It has no official name except Pre-Cataclysm Kerbin. The nation followed was the WKF, West Kerbin Federation. It was a US stand-in, had a kinda love/hate relationship with the China stand-in of the setting, the KRWN. Important stuff in alt text.

Just lost a whole thread of worldbuilding I was gonna post based off of my lore document. Which really sucks because it was cool! Anyway I'll work on a new one. Glossary here:
WKF/West Kerbin Federation - Old US stand-in.
Nu-WKF - Stand-in name for new version.
TPR - Techo's Stock Planet Revamp.

With the Kerbin biome map for Techo's Stock Planet Revamp now in my hands thanks to SCANSat, I can work on the solid color political map for Kerbin. Things are gonna get interesting and vexillology will soon happen. Still no name for the "main character" nation though.

1⃣ We demand ICE OUT OF MN now! No collaboration, only abolition. Let's build people power✊🔥

Minmus from Kerbal Space Program except it is the Techo version with the config modified to make the flats shiny. ScaledSpace version.

Also, slightly better shot of Minmus.

So now that Minmus is shiny, I get to work on the install proper finally. This means I have time to scan biomes which means I can start getting the proper geopolitcal map made. But I also kinda want to do it based off the visual one since there are "non-country" areas where nobody lives.

Well, actually, not exactly. I'm still editing it but like the fact Minmus's flats are shiny like glass is what I'm aiming for.