EVE Fiction

It's probably a lot easier to grow a biological body than build a prosthetic one.

We have few indications as to the kind of technology present in the prosthetics industry in EVE, aside from body modder culture in TBL and a few chronicled tales of bionics to replace lost limbs. It may be possible that a completely prosthetic body is possible, as one character is noted as having been completely modified, with the exception of his brain and skin (of which he was exceptionally proud/vain). So it is certainly possible to have an almost complete prosthetic body, but the state of the technology in use is very much in question.

The issue we get here is compatibility. It may not be possible to directly map the nervous system, instead using a brain-stem 'hack' to provide equivalent enough results that with time you can adapt to your new body. This may cause issues with ill-understood, vary advanced interfacing technologies such as the capsule. The brain in the body is capable of interfacing with the pod, but without the organic nervous system, with the specialized genetic traits that prevent mindlock and the other fates that can kill the incompatible, a connection is impossible or at least, highly detrimental.

I would argue that the capsule is so specifically calibrated to human/near human use (in the case of Jovians), that an artificial body changes too many variables. Additionally, economic factors may come into play - cloning seems to be a very well explored area of research in new eden, and more than that, is a very lucrative business (to the point where Genolution and Cromeaux managed to get CONCORD to agree to enforce a mandatory cloning agreement if you wish to carry a capsuleer license). It is quite possible that with research, an artificial body is possible for capsuleers, but such technology is barred due to the cost, and existence of biological alternatives that are currently 'in vogue'.

Storing the consciousness in a 'save state', or even in a simulation (emulation?) of some form of cyber-world is beyond the realms of current understanding to describe. Thinking purely on the difference between physical experimentation and simulation in research, there is a vast difference between a modeled system and a physical system. In this case, the mind, freed of the brain, acts in a manner dictated by the system storing it. If that system is designed to simulate consciousness to allow prolonged life in this new domain, it is likely that processes extraneous to the perpetuation of that state are cut to save on processing power (and thus cost). Essentially, the mind is virtualised in a simulated reality, but as the mind is now 'software' running on a 'virtual machine' that represents only those parts of the brain responsible for ordering the neuronal processes at work, it is not a 'brain' as we understand it.

As the capsule interfaces with the brain, via the nervous system, not the ephemeral conceptualization of the self that we refer to as the mind, I posit that artificiality changes too many variables for it to be capsule compatible.

HM... So if a capsuleer wanted to. Could they transfer they're consciousness, memories, abilities into lets say... A geneticly modified goldfish? Suddenly can imagine an extensive variety of player portraits that are just bizzare. Forgive my tendacy to find comedy in everything. I can't help it. Hehe.

I misread the title and opened the thread thinking it was about capsuleers having prostitute's body.

Left dissapointed.

I remember either a chronicle and/or art where some capsuleers choose (or didn't care enough to hide it?) to display their robotic augmentations as such that they were likened to inhuman monsters, and that most choose to hide this behind a human facade.


Falcon, are those tattoos? I must have missed something.

I was thinking of this:

http://web.ccpgamescdn.com/newssystem/media/3034/3308/capsuleer_idealized_940.jpg

I can't remember if there was a chronicle too though.

Or maybe the pilot wasn't even a capsuleer? There is another faction who might be interested in the resources of a planetary body... One who uses mechanical augmentation.. And dislikes humanity...

My "guess" is that despite the ability to do so, there are inherent pitfalls to such a transfer. One being the human brain's(psyche's) need for light (hint, hint), and sensory stimulation. i.e. circadian rythm

Vis a vis, the deep depression that many experience during the winter months, here on earth. Multiply that a thousand fold and you end up with something like the Jovian disease...

Imagine placing yourself into a sensory deprivation tank for many years. One might go mad....

So despite the vast amounts of synthetics used, the baseline is still nothing more than augmented human(carbon based life). And biomass, in a hugely overpopulated cluster, is cheap... Money still makes the world go 'round...

Never said he was Jovian, I implied a True Slave.. Don't believe the author stated anything definitively, no matter what the planetary administrator believed to be truth...

The latter, above post was in response to Sam's post about consciousness transfer to a machine.. And hints at something I am pretty certain of regarding other parts of the Sleeper "mystery"..

And you all think I'm hung up on the Jove, lol...

Why would a Capsuleer employ all the smoke and mirrors, when Concord gave Capsuleers free reign in PI? The simple fact that he was a Capsuleer would have cowed just about anyone... In reality, there was no need to subjugate an existing colony, no need to look like Jason X... While Nation would have to employ different methods to acquire planetary resources.. Much as they do other resources..

Seems to me the move was designed to keep Capsuleers away from baseline colonies..

In short, I was nudging friends still exploring the mystery down avenues I have already explored...

If a mechanical body was superior to an organic one, would not the Jove have resorted to that path a long time ago, to save themselves? Why then, also, the organic appearance of their tech? Seems to me carbon based organic technology is superior in many ways.. Even Nation and the Rogue Drones appear to use it, to mankind's horror...

Sansha's Nation requires the same resources as any other faction.. Given the timing of the chrons release, I rather think it was a True Slave, but, I have no concrete proof... Most communication in the cluster is holo projection.. Not that it matters either way, I suppose.. Until the author clarifies, it is all guess work.. Many of the chronicles are purposely vague..

And exactly, Nation would not engage in PI for itself. Too risky. They would threaten and cajole baseliners to do the work, as demonstrated in another chronicle concerning an asteroid mining station, I believe.. When the administrator refused to return to their service, they sent his own daughter, abducted and brainwashed years earlier, to kill him...

In Xenocracy (rule by xtraterrestrials\aliens\strangers?) the pilot seems to have little desire to do it himself, instead, he threatens to orbital the planet and drop his own PI equipment only if they don't cooperate... Why would a Capsuleer risk the wrath of Concord, already giving him license to "do it himself" for a single PI installation? Concord would certainly frown on Capsuleers performing orbital strikes on innocent, independant civilian facilities...