Intergalactic Summit

Perhaps you are ill-prepared. Perhaps you have not yet had digital mind-maps stored in a heavily-protected citadel hidden away deep in space.

But there were once a people who did, and we are closer to understanding their technologies now more than ever. At this point if a capsuleer is intelligent, prepared, and a tad paranoid, there's really no excuse for them going out like this.

Further reason to avoid work on Sunday.

Cheap.

I thought immortal and invulnerable were different words.

Speaking personally, I intend to live forever... or die trying.

True... a combat pilot who's pod is destroyed once per year has a 30% chance of permanent death after only one century. After three centuries that becomes 90%.

And forget combat... what if you take up dirtside farming and only die of old age once every 100 years? Well that's still 30% every 1000 years.

So figure an average of about 3500 years, tops, before your number comes up. Impressive, yes. Immortal... not so much. And that's assuming that somewhere along the way you don't go completely insane and just kill yourself.

And consider this... how much memory can your brain hold? How much do you remember of the first year of your life? Not much? Keep that in mind because that's how much you're going to remember of this life right now after a century or two. Ask a five hundred year old capsuleer where they were born and they probably won't remember.

And then when you put all of this on a cosmic scale... planets and events that make a million years look like a tick of the clock...

In the end, we are all very very small creatures that only exist for a brief time. To the Universe, the difference between a hundred years and ten thousand isn't even worth noticing.

I seriously doubt we have souls, and if we did, we left them when our original body was killed.

I think that in the end all we are is scanned memory engrams (and i doubt scanner copied information transmitted across space counts) transferred from one prepared custom cloned meatpuppet to another, and that's all.

Speaking of which, isn't it the Amarr belief that the soul moves on after your body dies which makes subsequent clones soulless husks or something?
How do you reconcile that as a capsuleer?

The opinions differ on that matter.

Roughly 140 years or so worth of second-to-second memories, but only those with "perfect" memories recall every minute detail of everything they have ever consciously experienced. Shave off all the boring and needless stuff and you likely have a capacity for memory stretching to ten times that at the least. Even Capsuleers who are a century old by now will be quite fine for a good while more.



I'm confident that no-one except absolute sadists want to actually recall the birth-trauma and the utterly boring monotony of being a less-than-a-year toddler. I'm happy not to recall this, and that one of my earliest memories that I can actively recall stems back to my 3rd year, sitting in my mother's lap, playing. It was apparently enjoyable, and in my own current age, I can enjoy the memory of how my mother looked like at the youngest point I can recall.



I will. I will also recall the high and low points of my pre-Capsuleer life, all the events and days of note in my capsuleer career as well, and likely countless other situations that were of less... interest.



Makes any human's life-span rather irrelevant and fickle, yes. But much can still be done in half a millenia or more of active capsuleer service. Heck, a century will do to leave a good solid mark. Many of us just now celebrate a decade. There are nine more of those to go for most of us to reach the levels of the oldest Capsuleers around.



No, but for all of us being around for ten thousand years would be quite the achievement. Just because the universe is millions of years if not trillions of years old and not likely to end in heat-death for at least that long, don't mean we can't all aim rather high. After all, we will achieve that goal, or die trying.

All I wish would be for all the people thinking it will be easy, to learn some sense of scale and calm down the self-entitlement a bit. All the "I am a demi-God!" stuff get's very old, very fast, and it is proven often to be an incorrect assessment of one's own position anyhow.