EVE Fiction

Hello,

This is primarily directed to the storyline developers responsible for DUST, but others are welcome.


I'm concerned about the upcoming DUST 514 trooper cloning technology, and the impact it will have on the human drama of EVE itself. Capsuleers in EVE are notorious for their treatment of non-Capsule people, particularly crews of starships and space installations. There's a lot of death, fear, desperation, and negative hoo-ha attached to being in space, particularly the military / combat aspects of it.

The DUST 514 trooper cloning tech, as far as my awareness goes, only seems to be limited by money. Capsuleers clone through the Capsule, which is limited by a genetic affinity only an extremely small fraction have. Soft-cloning and back ups are available to anyone with the money, but they're expensive, time consuming, and do not update the clone with the last memories before death. The Sansha's method of cloning is not elaborated on, but in function appears to be similar to Capsule cloning.

My driving fear is that DUST 514 will devalue the ongoing human drama about spaceship crews, cloning, and death by giving people an easy cop out. In the Incursion expansion and precursor storyline, the Nation's full scale cloning capability was/is an extremely Big Deal. Its possible that they got that ability from the same source as the DUST troopers (Sleepers), but it is not elaborated on and one of the mysteries in the storyline currently.

I do not know your intentions for those plot aspects, and what little I know is not very comforting. Perhaps this will be answered when DUST is released, but as far as I can tell nothing of that nature seems to be hinted at yet.

There will now be death, fear, desperation and negative hoo-ha attached to being on the ground. I'd think that would increase the human drama significantly, not diminish it.


My guess is Nation's cloning is very similar to Sleeper cloning. Build the body, input the mind. Not really necessary to have a predisposition to pod piloting, except in that rare percentage that does indeed have the ability to interact with the Pod; then, you get a Citizen Aster or Heavenbound.

Did you know that Jove are born fully mature?

The DUST chronicles on the DUST 514 site are very awesome, and have shades of that whole Sleeper tech idea (as well as a possible hint of some PVE opponents). I don't know... I don't think they're just shooting darts blindly at a "big ideas board" to make up their backstory.


Think of it like this; given Nation's cloning technology, and the source of said technology (Sleepers), is it not easy to infer exactly why he's upset with Capsuleers? Couldn't it be that very point you started with?

"Humans playing with technology and powers they don't understand, with consequences they can't possibly fully comprehend? Capsuleers using DUST soldiers as pawns in a galactic chess game? I for one think that is atrocious, and should be stopped before it can start!"
/Kuvakei


I'd say voice concern now, hope that it is heard and is either appreciated (because they're already taking care to watch for exactly what you are discussing) or taken into consideration into the grand scheme of Dust 514 development. Everything I've seen points to these concerns being addressed, and if they weren't before, I'd imagine that it really SHOULD be now.

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