EVE Fiction

From what I understand, the pod carries the neural-mapping technology that takes a "photo" of the pilot's brain activity upon detection of a pod breach. This is then transmitted to their new clone. Without that brain scan, or if the scan is somehow compromised, the clone never receives the data and the pilot's consciousness is destroyed.

Killed outside the pod, the pilot would also die just like anyone else. There are various theories for ways around this, but they are not in practice afaik. There are also "backup" clones for wealthier clients, which have their brain scans updated periodically. When the person dies, their clone is awakened and all memory from the last brain scan until the time of death is lost.

Hope this helps.

Pro tip, don't put all your soft clones in the same statiion.
Sincerely,
Otro Gariushi

Might explain the deviancy of capsuleers in the some of the bars I've been in....

It's entirely different tech, and not likely to be converted for capsuleer use anytime soon.

The Broker is a special case and a special individual. It is posited by some that he may be a Sleeper, or a Jovian who has mastered infomorph technology..

He is more akin (I think) to the Caldari who uploaded himself into his own computer, only he seems to have the ability to move between mediums at will. And may have multiple clones active simultaneously. I have often wondered if Sansha has embarked on a similar path..

Yeesh, letting just about anyone become a pod pilot these days. The days of prestige seem to be long gone.

Actually, from what I gather from reading Templar One, the Dust 514 ground forces have to have cloning facility in close proximity to the battlefield. Unlike the clonign technology afforded to us capsuleers, where we "respawn" clone potentially light years away from our previous location.

As for the OP's question. We only clone when killed from our pods. Clone jumping from a station uses slightly different technology, and is not instantaneous or triggered automatically.

The immortality of ground forces will bring in a new conflict, in my opinion. Capsuleers will see these new Dust 512's as a threat to their supremacy. I can see the old wars (Factions) ending and this new conflict arise. Perhaps not in-game, but it should certainly occur in the fiction of EVE.

John Varley's written some great (pre-EVE) SF around this very concept. Several of the stories in his The Barbie Murders collection revolve around cloning, memory recording and memory loss.

Glasshouse by my old schoolmate Charlie Stross also plays tricks with the concept.

More specifically, since a soft clone is basically just a normal clone (as we in IRL understand clones), you would lose all memory between the point of the soft clone being made, and the time you died. There is no way to mimic this in game, of course, because there is no mechanical way for you to die outside of your pod. It's just a way we Silly RPers have got around the idea that we can leave our pods, and therefore be killed in an RP sense, but we would really rather not delete our characters (most of the time).

Affirmed. It is something which helps people - like me - to not step in the trap of the superheroes/villains which can everything; such a mode becomes boring and predictable in the outcome of events. I for example play sometimes around the idea, that "Yes! We cant die, but hang for the rest of our lifes on a microcontrollers like a zombie."

By the way Tony G had given in the last book the Kingdom the ability to erasing and/or replacement of memories: it goes so far that even in the end just the skills are there.




Thx for the links.... I was honestly searching for some imputs on that front.