EVE Fiction

I was surprised I didn't get any hits on this but since I remain perplexed - I am forced to turn to the forums in order to satiate my abiding desire for an answer.

I don't think I need to reiterate all the contents of "The Capsule And The Clone" and "The Jovian Wetgrave" as I'm sure everyone here is familiar with it so I will just simply ask my query. Given that capsuleers are inherently confined and excluded any physical access to ship facilities - What happens if you need to take a ****?

And possibly more importantly, what happens if you do? Does it just.. sort of, float around with you like a giant Port-A-Poddy? Did the Jovians consider this? Do the Jovians even drop deuces?



I could buy that, being in stasis, certain biological functions are suspended or at least slowed down but in order for the brain to function it requires fuel, assumingly supplied by the pod liquid, which would require a medium such as blood and the heart to circulate it - and possibly other organs but IANAQP. However, given these requirements, you would think they suggest a minimum amount of waste is produced.

I would imagine that would be pretty unsanitary. So I'd imagine if you were advanced enough to construct a neural interface with a ship and be able to do a neural scan microseconds before your body is exposed to the vacuum of space. That you would have the technology and probably enough foresight even if by trial and error to have nanites or a combination of that and or micro equipment installed in the back end of your digestive system to convert waste product into something your body can use in conjunction with the pods nutrient system.

Professor Farnsworth > Good news! It's a colostomy bag!

I think this may be the most logical or at least consistent with my level of understanding. While a solution does present itself in having a bag or apparatus; it would create a large disparity between the technology level of the rest of the pod equipment.

However, rather than any modification or equipment in the human body I would find it more acceptable that the pod alone has nanites that keep an eye on and attack foreign matter in the pod liquid, analogous to white blood cells - or the pod liquid itself maybe capable of breaking down waste chemically.

On a side note, I may have been initially wrong in assuming you cannot exit the pod while in a ship. One of my coworkers said he may have read in one of the first two EVE novels that the Amarr empress toured her ship after exiting a pod and was able to walk around. He also said he wasn't very certain though - Can anyone confirm this?

what about titan/super carrier (i saw that those where removed from the market BTW) pilots. they spend days/weeks/months/years in the pod. what will hapen to them?

that kinda confirms my theory. ships warps to deadspace. turns all combat systems of and go into hibernation mode where the generator and life-support is the only thing online. CONCORD modify your camera drone so that you cant see the ship from your own capsule. like how they modify them so you cant see escape pods

Probably an exercise room/bedroom above the gantry. Or, as noted, for shorter trips just have the implants keep the muscles active.
Anything that can redirect neural impulses to control hardware can also easily be set up to send impulses to control the body, so it doesn't seem unreasonable to have a computer playing a routine of isometric exercise to the muscles of the capsuleer while they are otherwise occupied.
To a certain extent, they might be getting more ripped and fit when they get out of the pod than they were when they got in. Still need to do stretching and move around and get some impact exercise to keep the bone density up.

I've always assumed, given the high state of technology, that the pod acts in this respect like a stillsuit..

Knowing the state of the cosmetics industry, It wouldn't suprize me if some of the... ummm... 'fluids' could be sold off into some expensive perfumes or 'age defying' creams. Particularly popular in the Federation I hear..

But I always assumed the tubes that connect up to me in the pod took over all my bodies functions or at least supplemented them.

There's some far out theories that say it's possible to repress biological urges through brain modification and manipulation, which can also be combined with further electronic manipulation of nerves to stimulate uh...organs, to make them do what you want them to do. This could also include erm.."holding it in."