EVE Fiction

Like I said in my previous post, it's not about piloting ships, it's more about being inmortal because clones. Which real world governor wouldn't want to be inmortal if they could?

You're doing it wrongside. Except for Sarum, none of those people were famous to us before they got the positions they have. They all are magically compatible because they are the ones who survived becoming capsuleers, and lived enough to claim their current positions. We don't know how many people died trying before them.

You are infering again that it's just ilogic chance that they are in their positions while having those traits.

Let's imagine that we have subjects A, B, C, D and E. All of them are rich and powerful planetside, but they want more, much more. They want to control states. They want inmortality. They want more money than what 100 generations of their family could spend.

First of all, they decide that becoming a capsuleer, and thus inmortal (not necessarily a pilot, just the clones) is worth the risk. Remember that at the time the DUST tech wasn't invented yet. So they pay and the process starts. During it, B and C die, leaving A, D and E as rich and powerful capsuleers. This is where each of us are, lorewise.

Now, they want even more, and they are interested in politics. But only capsuleers A and E are charismatic and handsome or what you have to become real politicians. At the end, and after a long time, A becomes president of the Gallente Federation. His name was Jacus Rodent all this time. We will never know the names of B, C, D and E.

D became Dagan and went on to **** off many many people

E became leader of the largest alliance of corporations and took over all of null and invaded empire

i think it only works for corp because they take photos of the location with geo-tagging on and send it to their corpmates on their phones

inb4 no phones in space

No, what ships and all stations and even gates have are fluid routers. Stations especially have stacks of the things with people from Interstellar Service Department servicing them at all times. Thus with fluid routers is http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/FTL_communications born.

Well actually, canonwise, it has to do with the way fluid routers are designed.
It can only send and receive that much information in one go because of those limitations. (which is why there is a limit on chat message characters). Which also explained why bookmarks used to be too big to be shared.
Only now that Corp bookmarks are a thing, the canon is no longer up to date.

I have no idea how they'll explain it this time (if they ever do)

What irks me about capsuleer lore is that it is inconsistent with the players themselves. According to lore, to become a capsuleer one must be chosen - both literally and metaphorically. This implies that is limited only to the elite of the elite, whether that means the best pilots or those from families with massive influence (be it nobility or criminal connections).

Anyone who is familiar with the old Cyberpunk RPG knows exactly where I am going with this: "Selling Out." There is little conceivable way for anyone to become a capsuleer pilot without either signing their soul over to an all-powerful government agency or being born into a family of billionaires. Either way, those who paid to put you into that capsule are going to want a return on that investment, and a commitment from that pilot to whatever cause they stand for.

Meanwhile, back in the game, Joe Bogwart the Plumber's Son gets thrown into a pod, given a free ship by their government and then set free to fly off to nullsec & start a life of pillaging and plundering from the very people who sponsored them. In other words, player capsuleers are all-too-often just run-of-the-mill nobodies of consequence who just happened get made into capsuleers by no virtue other than the fact that they gave CCP $15 to make an account. Furthermore, they have no sense of obligations & no loyalty to anyone but themselves.

Let's be realistic for a minute here and think about this. If the US government, for example, were to invest $50,000,000 into turning someone into an elite cyborg super-soldier, you bet your ass they'll install a kill-switch somewhere in their head while they're at it. And that solider better follow every order they give him for the rest of his life if he doesn't want them to hit that switch.

That's what I mean by "selling out" versus "anarchy with spaceships." Even in the original X-Beyond the Frontier when it first starts off your ship is unarmed, stranded and helpless. Some Taladi merchants reapir & upgrade you ship into a basic, newbie fighting thing... at a price. They give you a strict time limit in which to cough up money to pay for this service or they'll repossess your ship (read: game over). Even though you have total freedom from that point forward (and that freedom is only because you've lost contact with the Earth government that sponsored you), there is still some sense of logical justification & obligation to your new status as "independent captain."

Seriously, why would (picking at random) the Imperial University keep dumping billions of ISK into turning Regular Joes into Immortal Capsuleers when 99% of them bail out from them in under a week? Where is the return in the investment? What about the pirates? As far as game mechanics go, zero pirate factions actually have their own capsuleer programs. No one can make a new character in a pirate faction. You have to make a new character from a law-abiding nation and then defect to a pirate faction. Looking at the sheer number of pirates out there... yeah, I'd say installing kill-switches seems like a logical choice, here.

Again, this is not done because CCP wants to encourage player freedom. I get that - marketing commands it to be so. But sadly that freedom comes at a cost, and that cost is having any kind of believable lore around capsuleers.

I was under the impresion that we, in fact, we're all insanely rich planetside and that's where the money came from. 'Picked' capsuleers do indeed stay under the orders of the npc corps, but those are only npc characters.
In fact, RL money = planetside money. There, you have an explanaition for where does the money for PLEX come from.

then give us the option to get illegal implant jobs so we can finally go full space criminal