EVE Fiction

To cut a long story short, this wouldn't be feasable.

If we break cloning down it basically fits into three separate, distinct categories :

Standard cloning :

Anyone with the money to afford it can do this, and have a replica grown and a neural backup of themselves stored. A lot of famous people, people with insane wealth, political figures and suchlike do this, effectively like life insurance. Some Capsuleers also do this as a fail safe in case of capsule hardware failure or death out of pod.

Regardless, this has the disadvantage of amnesia that reaches from the point of death back as far as the last memory imprint stores up to, so fairly regular neural scanning to keep the records up to date is required. The soft scanning process is also far more lengthy, lasting up to an hour and way more inefficient in terms of time commitment.

Capsuleer cloning :

The cloning we're all familiar with. Automated neural burning, then the injection of a nanotoxin to effectively euthanize the pilot on breach of the capsule's hull. The technology only went into full scale commercial use in 104-105YC after decades of testing and the final success of merging the capsule and the clone.

Before then, Capsuleers used to fly ships the same, via neural control with all the benefits of reaction time, but no neural burning equipment, effectively still leaving them "mortal".

The technique in use today involves basically the same process as standard cloning above in terms of mind scanning, but the scan takes a nanosecond and records the state of every neuron in the brain. The process is destructive, and causes damage to brain tissue, thus the nanotoxin is used to effectively kill the pilot.

From here the data is uploaded via burst transmission to the pilot's registered cloning facility, then parsed to the memory of the new clone where the pilot awake with his memory right up to the point of death, probably annoyed with himself, other people, and with a considerable dent in his bank balance.

DUST Cloning :

This uses a "Fifth lobe" cerebral implant that allows the instant transfer of consciousness at the moment of death, and is a vastly different technology to that used by capsuleers. The implant is not naturally grown, it's harvested from... other means... and is implanted into the subject to be cloned. In short, like becoming a capsuleer, the success margin for this is VERY small, and you have to be very lucky and genetically sound to be able to survive the process.

Right now, we can't talk much about the backstory as a lot of it is still under wraps.


In the same respect, there are CONCORD laws that are enforced very vigorously regarding the activation of more than one clone of an individual at the same time to prevent "Clonejacking". Only one person has ever been successful at this, The Broker, who subsequently developed all kinds of physical and mental issues due to it.

There are several chronicles that detail the cloning process, clonejacking, and the laws surrounding it. You should check them out on the EVE Wiki.

So... You're only immortal inside your pod? Got it. Thanks.

Bloody dust bunnies.

The crucial element in the process relies on a brain-scan snapshot being taken at the precise time of death and transmitted to the waiting clone, and so the transneural burning scanner required to do so needs to be mounted somewhere close to the person at all times.Since the snapshot itself causes massive physical damage to the gray matter, there can be no margin of error; it needs to be done at the exact time of death. In planetary vehicles, the cloning companies have experimented with mounting the transneural scanner in a variety of locations, but the almost limitless potentiality of planet-bound environments has proved time and again that it just isn’t safe – snapshots either go off due to false stimuli, leaving healthy clients in a vegetative state, or fail to go off due to circumstances unforeseen by the safeguard mechanism, leaving clients dead with no chance of retransplantation.

In the capsule, however, things are different...

Or in other words, you're not immortal. While the Mercs of DUST 514 get to go wherever they please.

It's okay though, I'm just waiting till I can nuke them from orbit