EVE Fiction

I've been looking at the EVE wiki but it isn't clear... from what i get, capsuleers are thoroughly trained and that training is hazardous to their body and mind, but, what the EVE wiki doesn't tell is, how does someone become a capsuleer? Why are there so few capsuleers, when being a capasuleer is the biggest thing in New Eden?

What prevents the ordinary denizens of New Eden to become immortal demigods?

It's because of money, as in becoming a capsuleer is expensive? It's that the access to the capsuleer training is limited by law/politics? It's a genetical thing? It's a kind of repulsion to the extensive body modifications required by capsuleers?

What is the canon/lore on why there are so few capsuleers around?

Yeah to expand on the Amarr bit from Mr. Caul's explaination...

For the Amarrian's (highest population if you consider that both the Khanid and Ammatar have simular beliefs) cloning yourself is reason for damnation. Basically by nature capsuleers, according to the Amarr faith, are damned from the start. Regardless of how much good works they may (or likely wont) do. Kinda the high price for immortality.

But then, me and my main are Khanid... which opens a door to being a bit heterodox, i think.

Anyway I can see my roleplaying for my main was reasonably thorough... possibly she could had chosen to study, thus become a capsuleer after showing the appropiate genetical traits. Which in turn would open a door to checking the genes of, say, her younger cousin, once she was a rich capsuleer.

Yep, i pretty mcuh suspected that... that the players of EVE represent every last capsuleer supposed to exist in New Eden, so they are like one in a million compared to the total population. In a way, capsuleers in New Eden are as rare as billionaires in our real world.

That seems unlikely. The nations wouldn't be funding Capsule training programs if they didn't benefit from it, by and large.

The existence of navy capsuleers like Korvin Lears suggest that the bulk of capsule graduates wind up serving their empire in the military, or something along those lines. There was also an old chronicle that had somebody using the capsule as a controller in the interstellar FTL comms network.

I suspect that our characters are the minority who've gone "rogue" - preferring a lifestyle of freedom and potentially unlimited power over patriotic service.

Among other things, that would imply that Caldari PCs like mine aren't actually very good Caldari - they had an opportunity to serve the State, and instead chose to be independent freelancers beholden to nobody except the allegiances they choose.

I believe the vast bulk of capsuleers continue working for their respective governments. The playerbase represent the 'free agents' who leave their governments in an official capacity and go 'freelance'.

IE what sane government would spend billions on educating and training immortal and incredibly deadly demigods only to give them the keys and then say 'ok go off and do what you want!' after training them?

Something that will be cleared up in the future I'm sure, but I imagine some terms of the Yulai Accords and conditional terms from the Jovians have something to do with this. IE we give you the technology for the capsule and you agree that x % of your trainees will be allowed to leave of their own volition, etc.

Regarding the rarity, as was pointed out earlier it is primarily a genetic issue. Many factions run extensive civilian testing in order to find viable candidates, them being so rare.

As for Amarrians/cloning, Royal Flesh only -really- applies to higher up Holders. I'm sure a mid-level Tash-Murkon wouldn't balk at the benefits of having a few clones around.

I'd probably liken it to how 90% of catholics still use birth control even though the Pope says it is forbidden.

I have been looking for the lore to this question and how long does training take? If some one has prior experience from being a Navy Vet does this limit the time?

Also I have been looking or time lines, leading to the current in game year. I have found some here and there but they are usually broken down into race based time line. Is there some long post covering it?

One last high jack question, In eve what counts as a generation? I have heard it said some races live in to their early to mid 100's.

Thanks for your time, and sorry to dis-rail a bit, but I am looking to wirte a bio and try some RP.

Faith be with you, flay safe

Well, consider for a moment that even one capsuleer is often a military asset equivalent to hundreds or thousands of regular, baseliner-piloted ships. It is, to my mind, not entirely too far-fetched to assume that player capsuleers are by and large all the capsuleers that exist. Keep in mind that there are a lot of people who still run missions for their respective faction, as is evidenced by the huge proportion of the population that never leaves high-sec (though granted, a number of them are miners, traders, researchers, et. al.).

Although I say this largely because having a mass of unnamed NPC capsuleers would dramatically reduce the mystique and prestige of being a capsuleer, something that is highly unappealing to me...

Actually I found a massive time on including all races a few days ago, but I never thought of googling it lol. For some reason I was only finding it broken down by race, what ever.

But thanks again