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News - Republic releases initial report on Molden Heath
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Morwen Lagann
Tyrathlion Interstellar
#1 - 2013-05-24 15:34:23 UTC  |  Edited by: Morwen Lagann
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Molden Heath – An initial report commissioned by the Tribal Assembly on those low security areas of Molden Heath under the control of cloned mercenaries indicates generally positive results. According to the report, the areas are “more secure, better protected, and free of organized criminal elements” but also cautions “violence between the military occupants is high” and “negative elements may be attracted.”
- Source

I have to admit that the results seem better than I was expecting when I first heard about the decision to open up Molden Heath, but I'm interested to see where things go from here.

I am definitely glad to see that the Assembly is concerned about the potential for collateral damage - both in loss of human life as well as environmental side effects - from orbital strikes, and that they are keeping an eye on the situation.

It would be interesting to see a stable and thriving Molden Heath, after all these years of it being a mostly dead region aside from the number of outlaw organizations living there.

Morwen Lagann

CEO, Tyrathlion Interstellar

Coordinator, Arataka Research Consortium

Owner, The Golden Masque
Cipher7
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#2 - 2013-05-24 18:59:18 UTC
Do you know who created these "clone mercenaries" and under whose control they operate?

Are they sentient beings or just follow orders unconditionally? I am picturing men that look like Sanshas.
Makkal Hanaya
Revenent Defence Corperation
#3 - 2013-05-24 19:04:13 UTC  |  Edited by: Makkal Hanaya
The one's I've met have displayed as much free will and diversity of thought as the average capsuleer. I've also notice a trend to negative short term and long term psychological effects. Also, much like a capsuleer.

Their default, unbaked clone is designed for rapid battlefield deployment so it looks unpleasant; like someone sculpted a person out of raw dough and didn't spend too much time on the details.

I've seen a few of them with personal clones they jump to after a battle and those look like normal humans.

I was under the impression that they were originally created by the Amarr Empire and the technology propagated somehow. The first generation clones suffered serious mental illnesses and many went on violent rampages or fled into hiding.

Render unto Khanid the things which are Khanid's; and unto God the things that are God's.
Cipher7
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#4 - 2013-05-24 19:13:02 UTC
Makkal Hanaya wrote:
The one's I've met have displayed as much free will and diversity of thought as the average capsuleer.

I've also notice a trend to negative short term and long term psychological effects. Also, much like a capsuleer.


So by "clone mercs" we mean they are simply humans who, when they die, their memories transfer to a clone?

For a minute I thought they were a vat-grown army, "clones" of some great warrior, like we see in holoflicks.

Must be that new "dust514" neural interface I've been hearing about.
Hulemand
Coreli Corporation
Pandemic Legion
#5 - 2013-05-24 19:14:55 UTC
All good propaganda from a central government losing control with their rim systems. Systems screaming for liberation. A not unheare call.

The Republic have no control with these mercs and no control with region of Molden Heath.

Admiral Hulemand Core Operations Overseer
Makkal Hanaya
Revenent Defence Corperation
#6 - 2013-05-24 19:23:24 UTC
Cipher7 wrote:
So by "clone mercs" we mean they are simply humans who, when they die, their memories transfer to a clone?

For a minute I thought they were a vat-grown army, "clones" of some great warrior, like we see in holoflicks.

Must be that new "dust514" neural interface I've been hearing about.

Yes. They are humans with specialized implants that allow them to shunt their consciousness into a waiting clone at the moment of death.

Render unto Khanid the things which are Khanid's; and unto God the things that are God's.
Jowen Datloran
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#7 - 2013-05-24 19:28:30 UTC
Ah, great. More loonies with demented megalomania. Just like capsuleers.

Mr. Science & Trade Institute, EVE Online Lorebook 

Andreus Ixiris
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#8 - 2013-05-24 19:53:33 UTC
Hulemand wrote:
All good propaganda from a central government losing control with their rim systems. Systems screaming for liberation. A not unheare call.

The Republic have no control with these mercs and no control with region of Molden Heath.

But, of course, one must remember that all these systems "screaming for liberation" are not directing their pleas to the Angel Cartel.

Andreus Ixiris > A Civire without a chin is barely a Civire at all.

Pieter Tuulinen > He'd be Civirely disadvantaged, Andreus.

Andreus Ixiris > ...

Andreus Ixiris > This is why we're at war.
Ari Laveran
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#9 - 2013-05-24 20:45:23 UTC
My brothers and I saw an opportunity to take something for our own and seized it. As I understand the earliest of capsuleers did much the same thing only on a much grander scale.

If there was a better offer with less troubled real estate we may have happily settled elsewhere. But the Empires sure did not want us on their doorsteps after the events on Caldari prime. Would you seriously we rather carved our small slice of new eden out by hand? I promise it would be far more entertaining for the eager consumers of the press, but maybe not so for the denizens on the surface

Don't even bother to mention Jamyl's "offer" of refuge she appears as mentally stable as a Caldari Executor. I do try to make it rule to never take anything a zealot says seriously.