EVE Fiction

This thread made me think, since capsuleers can have babies, wouldn't it follow naturally that they will also be in the financial position to make sure their children become capsuleers, making capsuleerdom not just an elite thing, but also a family driven liniage right?

Provided that the partner in question provided all the correct genetic markers. Not everyone can be a capsuleer because they want to. It requires a certain advanced mind and body. In a nutshell, we are the 0.000000001%. As a capsuleer your superior to everyone else in almost every way. Though, a little genetic nip and tucking could do the trick if that was your goal.

Born with a rare genetic defect, i can not reproduce. In turn a research organization was hired to begin my personal "Mini Me" project. Any donations are graciously accepted.

the children wouldn't be nessisarly capsuleers, so they may not be immortal... but obviously the family would have the clout and resources to make it happen once they reached the appropraite age. While not directly stated I dont think you can be a capsuleer till you have reached adulthood. 18 at the youngest.

Interesting topic.

From this character's bio:

"Name: Aasakaa 'Kaa' Amun.
Lineage: Krusual tsuuya 'half-blood'.
Age: 26.
Status: Single, two children."


I've been fascinated with this topic for a while now. Alica Wildfire (author of 'Log of a Minmatar Capsuleer' -IGS) examined this in good depth a couple of years ago and it piqued my interest enough at the time to fathom a guess at how my character would be able to balance being a loving mother constantly of the desire to raise as many children as possible ( even as she lives to see them grow old and die?) whilst plinking away at the savage Amarr in space, now and then. At least that's how I saw things at the time.

Here was the rationale for this particular modern capsuleer woman of YC 112 from some sketchy notes:

-> Bearing Minmatar children is a badge of honour as, for her, they're born free inside Matar space. Hardly a small deal, if you look at a bigger picture. To this end, being a mother takes absolute precedence over a capsuleer's career in this character's case, as a tribal (and maternal) traditionalist. She is, first and foremost, a loving and caring mother to her (currently) two children. That she was given a krusual tribal capsuleer sponsorship is of lesser importance. (OT -CCP why do you neglect krusual tribe so much?? )

They were both 'fathered' by artificial means as far as I can recall the idea behind any of this. I don't think she was particularly selective in one case -as long as she could continue to have more children, she would be very happy. Less so, that they'd not outlive her.

That was as far as it got really. Sadly, my interest in roleplaying in EvE took a downturn about then, and hasn't really recovered as there are better virtual spaces in which to RP. An unfortunate but a genuine opinion. Seriphyn, above, and some of his Gal Pals have seen her eldest daughter stealing stuff, throwing tantrums and behaving like a spoiled brat a few times in public places. Her mother is out of capsule, is in 'Mummy mode' and doesn't care about being a capsuleer in the slightest during these times. Amarr who? Sansha what? All she cares about is the safety and well-being of her children. Fin.

When she does connect with her pod apparatus, she has handed them over to professional, expensive nannies and/or family and can proceed with her business in space. But really, she is a mother first, capsuleer last. No contest at all.

As it stands now, the above has a lot of holes. It's a best-guess fudge and I'm glad this topic exists in case I get all RP again sometime and people posit some better information. In which case, this char may have more thought added to her status as a modern Matar mother.

I think it is more of a sperm and egg issue and not much of a problem at all.

A woman might have her eggs put in deep freeze before becoming a capsuleer and the same would apply for the male sperm, especially if the woman does not want to deal with the hassle of having a few special days in a month.

The second thing is that it in an universe with the same tech level as New Eden artificial wombs are probably common, at least for those living and working in space, because the risk of adverse effects like accidentially exposing the fetus to radiation would be much lower.

Still there are probably a lot of natural pregnancies but that is more likely the issue of choice rather then being forced to.

All the moral and kid-raising problems aside I don't see a reason why a female capsuleer wouldn't simply order a higher-quality clone breed for her, using her own genetic material and the like, maby even slightly modified to increase the chance of delivering a healthy child, to create a proper body for carrying a baby.

The clone would be safely tucked away in some high-sec facility, while the capsuleer continues her daily routines of slaughtering millions of ship crews, venturing to places she's not welcome in and sticking her nose nose into someone elses business and only activated when she wants to have a break to sit back, stroke her belly and feel the little legs kicking inside. It might also be used to take care of the child after it's born.

But in saying all of this you must remember that as a goo incased pilot for hundreds of years would get boring and i could not see the harm of retiring for the life of one of your clones and having a family i mean you have so much isk that you could go back to a Normal Life for 80 years relax with out a care in the world anywere you like in the hole of eve all you have todo at some point is step back into your pod and jump to a fresh new clone of your younger self now that we know you can have kids the question is how long can you stay unplugged befor your implants become null and void or ur mind wont beable to take the Jump to a new clone?