EVE Fiction

Now with the DUST bunnies running around I finally went though a bit of a thought process that led me to this conclusion. Do we really need pods anymore in there present form. Meaning the whole bubble of goo you are in connected to the ship too insure that if you die your brain gets scanned correctly.

What I am thinking though is more of an RP standpoint of the pod now only has the function of being a very good escape pod while the whole brain scan saving your bacon bit is done by a small efficient implant similar to the dustys helmets. I still see the ability to connect to your ship through your pod but instead of the jar of goo you float in it would be more akin to a chair that in a time of emergency would close up like the standard pod.

Thoughts, comments, more importantly corrections if my lore is wrong .

But if we wanted too (from an RP standpoint not a game one) could we now leave our ship on mostly auto pilot, leave the pod, walk around the ship and not risk getting killed permanently if the thing pops?

Ah, well that solves everything for me. Thanks for filling me in mate

Right. Basically the implants you need to interface with your ship are mutually exclusive from the implants you'd use as a DUST trooper. Convenient, but keeps us space jockeys employed :)

To add to this the pod is also to protect the pilot as the ship conducts rapid and violent maneuvers that would be impossible for a cockpit based pilot to conduct, first of all because the purpose of the pod is to deprive the pilot of his bodies senses, and make the ship basically his body with regards to maneuvers and senses, and also to protect him against the forces exerted on the crew during the rapid and high speed moves a capsuleer ship makes in combat or dodging rocks. The goo absorbs these forces. I suppose this means the crew have to be either lashed to their stations or get flung about the ship during maneuvers but that not really much of a concern of a capsuleer pilot.

The DUST implant may seem way more advanced, but it has one big disadvantage, for the transfer to work, the soldier needs to be within a few miles of its CRU. the capsule can send the pilots mind from across the cluster and even from Anoikis. so both have their pro's and con's.

Indeed, but i was just comparing the cloning capability's of the two technologies

DUST implants are like a recorder - they record all the mercenary's memories up to the point of death so they can be re-implanted in a new body.

Burning scanner actively scans the neural structure of the brain and transfers that data over to the cloning facilities to recreate the brain structure at the moment of death. The scanner is so violent and fast that it destroys the brain tissue, that's why capsuleers are injected with neurotoxins at the moment of breach-of-pod and during the scan.

And capsule itself is a spaceship control device that does away the hand-eye sync and many other links between the starship pilot and his/her ship. Though the original capsule design (given to caldari by the Jove) has been modified to include some of the more familiar controls and the burning scanner, which lead to current capsuleers.

This leaves me wondering, however, is there a possibility for the capsuleer be killed by a stray projectile penetrating the hull of the capsule before the burning scanner finishes?

edit: Capsuleers, among the optional implants available for your selection on the market, have some mandatory implantation, the neural interface implants that actually let us use the capsule. Now those are incompatible with the DUST implants. Or did you think those sockets on your neck and back are just for show?

So what stops a capsuleer jump cloning into a DUST clone?

I mean, as pod pilots we're able to jump clone into various clones with different implants and such installed, as long as the infomorph data is transferred via the pod interface implant, then any other additional implants don't seem to disrupt the process. Of course the DUST implant is a different technology, but it does a similar thing, which is to transfer infomorph data to and from the clone.

So if the pod technology infomorph data is the same as the DUST implant infomorph data, then jump cloning from a pod clone to a combat clone should be entirely possible. Even if the data was different or the interfaces were incompatible, meaning a conversion was required, I'm sure it could eventually be solved.

Just a quick comment on the 'pod absorbing g-forces:'


PF has established artificial gravity as a technology in common use.

Hovercars, floating chairs for Amarr Holders, etc.

Especially on spaceships.


No one on the ships will feel a thing with the ships flying around and changing directions, as artificial gravity likely compensates 100%. Ship banks right, artificial gravity compensates.

No seat belts needed.



The insane maneuvers pod ships can perform is more a factor of the interface and immediate feedback and control, rather than through special ship ability.