Intergalactic Summit

Now THIS is interesting. I hadn't known that there exists a group out there who skirts the laws of concord to further transhumanist ideas, especially interesting is your acceptance of multiple consciousnesses. I myself maintain a fleet of holodrones and a custom set of implants tooled to help me shunt mental resources between them, a sort of 'quasi multiple' if you will. Your and my bodies simply MUST meet to discuss such things.

as for my crew, I maintain a very personal and intimate relationship with the crew of my primary ship, a heavily customized Anathema class black ops frigate by the designation "Kyubey". I suppose it helps that its a black ops frigate and thus is at far less risk of being lost. Plus the fact I've ripped out the missile computers for advanced escape pod tech and systems to increase crew survivability in a crisis. Still, a capsuleer is nothing without the baseliners behind her.

I don't get to interact with them as much as I'd like. There is simply no time. Some do stand out though. But while I can keep a larger ship alive for years at a time, it's only a matter of time before we lose people.

You see I can tell when they know they are going to die by how they operate various controls on the ship. I "feel" everything. We all do.

That does not make it easier. But keeping the crew alive longer takes a lot less work than the everyday effort that goes into trying to forget that you have human beings working on your ship. And every last one of them has someone who will miss them for any reason.

And I should know. My father was on a crew. Still not sure what happened to him. I could give details of the after effects of that loss, but by sister would object to letting out so much information that involves her own life.

So you still try to put our Max's fires by relatavising what he really said.

Informing about the dangerous nature of an employment is hardly the same as whole-heartedly begging someone not to accept it because it would just break one's heart.

The Harbinger of Lies shines through again.

To the OP: I party hard with my crew like there's no tomorrow. I also provide my crew with state of the art armoured escape pods with a built in holocast suite. Through this the operate the vessel through remote drones as if they were at the stations themselves.

I find this gives them the best survival chances in the event of a disaster as they are already in their personal pod ready to eject if at all possible in the event of a catastrophic hull failure. You'd be surprised how much such a small dense armoured capsule can take before being breached. Given that most weapons fire is absorbed by the physical structures of the ship this gives an excellent compromise between utility and crew safety.

An interesting side note is how many of the crew actually get quite attached to their work drones, almost like a pet. Many of them even back up the O/S and on board memory banks to be able to transfer their favourite drone into a new chassis in the event of excess damage.

One can't truly know his or her own ship until one has touched the internals of her power reactors.

Dude.

Too much information.

He fingers his crew.

I sometimes do.
I try to show them I'm still human, and that I care for them. Sometimes I shake their hands before jacking in. Sometimes I eat with them, or take them to a bar after a succesful SAR patrol.
I can afford to do this, I've only lost a crew once, and I don't intend to repeat that mistake. I have become more distanced since that loss, but this starting to reverse since coming to Origin, where the risk of permanently losing crew is reduced significantly.

Before I came to Origin, or even since coming here, the only crew that I grew very attached to is my sub-warp racing crew. I hope to race with them again some day.

Nope, all human.

What's so interesting about the internals of fleshbags?