EVE Fiction

Capsulers do not go down to the planet. The infantry are just soldiers. Also alot of what you said was incorrect regarding pods, but I'm too lazy to explain..

The capsule is a way to instantly scan the infomorph, but the process kills the meat to do so. However much slower processes can be done to scan the infomorph periodically which do not damage the brain in anyway. Such a thing may be considered routine. So on death outside a pod (accident, assassination, etc) a stable infomorph could be uploaded to a clone. Although every bit of learned information between time of the last brain scan and death would be lost forever.

The dust implants are unique and so special because it functions exactly like a pod... without the pod. It is entirely and completely separate system and unable to work with capsuleer implants. A capsuleer cannot under any circumstances also have dust implants. In addition the technology that makes both Dust implants and capsuleer implants are not very well understood by anyone but the Jove and Sleepers, so it is very unlikely any new technology blending the two together would be discovered for a very long while.

So, Capsuleers aren't as immortal as their ego likes to make them think.

Their immortality is based around the capsule's hardware, combined with the technology of cloning.

Basically, if they're in flight and a breach is detected in the capsule's hull, in a split second, several things happen.

Firstly, the neural scanning hardware is activated. This takes a digital imprint of the entire brain, noting the state of every neuron. This effectively creates a digital copy of the brain, which is burst transmitted back to the capsuleer's selected cloning facility.

This causes massive tissue damage, and pretty much destroys the brain, so once this process is compete, a neurotoxin is injected directly into the brain to euthanize the capsuleer, killing them.

Once the cloning facility receives the burst transmission from the capsule, the data is downloaded directly into the waiting brain of the fresh clone, and the clone awakes with memory up to the point of death.


Before the capsule and the clone were brought together, there were still capsuleers. Some saw action as far back as the end of the first Caldari-Gallente war. These capsuleers however were a one shot deal. The only benefit they had was the near zero reaction time of neural control over their ship, and if they were podded, they died just like any other pilot.

When a capsuleer unplugs, they're basically as much of a bag of meat as any other citizen of New Eden. Some do employ the use of "soft clones" as backups in case they're killed out of pod, but again, there's loss of memory involved that runs back to their last neural backup.

They're branded as immortals because technically, thanks to technology, they are. Stuff can still go wrong though, and it's still VERY possible to kill a Capsuleer with the right resources and dedication.

If I remember correctly it is the neurotoxin that enables the scan to be completed quickly by freezing the brain for an instant allowing the scan be completed on a stopped brain making the scan faster. Correct me if I got the lore wrong.

As far as cloning, forking, data-brain dumping and such goes, I recommend the read of the Eclipse Phase tabletop RPG core book. It delves pretty deeply into this side of technology, and most of what it sais could very well be applied in EvE Online.

DUST can transfer without a pod, however those implants are incompatible with Capsuleers implants so they are still very much bound to their pods.

the chronicles detailing capsualeers on station usually have them guarded by armed escorts and when something happens to them **** usually goes down the story

that being said, a soft backup wouldnt be a copy of the current consciousness, meaning the capsualeer would technically die, leading to some crazy debate about life and cloning

Once a year?
Assuming the capsule can perform a memory slow scan and upload that to the database, I would think it would be something that is regularly scheduled, and any smart capsuleer would start it whenever they anticipate a need to get out.

If it has to be done in a facility, it's still likely it would be done monthly or bimonthly.

Remember, smart capsuleers are paranoid.

Soft clones, and memory back to the previous clones.... this is my hope for fighting in stations and buying guns with Aurum.

Seeing the answers in this thread and the recently started thread regarding the 'offical' fiction, I have decided I am going to write a short regarding the subject using a 'softclone' andmake it something rare even for capsuleers. I will consider it a deviation from the lore however and note it as such.