Jebediah Kerman POV
I sighed as I walked through the deserted halls of the R&D building. It had been too long since we had made any breakthroughs regarding rocketry. We had already been to Minmus. We had already been to Moho. We had even been to eeloo. But since we had been to all these places, all of our sources of new information had dried up. No more Duna colonies. No more being propelled across the solar system by a bomb. No more space. The Kerbin government had cut off our funding, so we couldn't even try to explore outside the Kerbol system. At this rate, the kerbal race would go extinct. We were quickly running out of supplies, and Kerbin was beginning to divide itself. Small countries had begun popping up, separate from the rest because of their need for resources. War had begun between the remaining Kerbin and the largest of the new countries, Paria. So far, little had happened other than brief border disputes. However, there had been talk of use of nuclear weapons against Paria if this continued. I hated the idea of the weaponization of my creation. Weaponize the Nerv? Never! But they had begun to pressure us into doing so, and I feared mutiny. They had begun bribing us, saying they'd give us funding if we gave them access to the Nerv engine.
Bill and Bob agree with me, however terrified bob may be of the consequences, but the rest of the team have begun drifting away from us. Dylan, the newest addition, seems to stick to our opinions. Those of us unwilling to use the Nerv for war have begun a project separate from the rest. We are working on looking for a new planet outside the Kerbol system, which we could use for colonization so the Kerbal race could continue to survive. However, with such a small group, it's taking forever. We had been working at it for about six months, yet we had yet to even spot an asteroid we hadn't already seen. Dylan, the new recruit, was currently on duty monitoring the telescopes we had in a high orbit above Kerbol. The rest of the team had begun to suspect that we were working on something. They weren't sure what yet, but they knew it was important. They had sent people to try to tail us into meetings, or question us. My own team is dangerously close to committing mutiny! I grumbled as I got into our new meeting room after the last one was compromised. Bill and Bob were already there, and looked up as I walked in.
"Hey. Where's Dylan?" I asked. They shrugged, but looked over at the hall when we heard someone crashing down the hall.
"There he is." He burst in, waving pictures about.
"OH MY KERBIN GUYS GUYS GUYS!" He shouted, bouncing up and down.
"What? And calm down before you break so-"
"I FOUND A PLANET!"