EVE Fiction

I know I'm maybe being a bit simplistic, but wouldn't it just be easier to have CONCORD ban personal weapons outside personal areas in stations? I'm assuming that if they've got devices that can scan your ship and cargo hold, it would be just as easy to scan you and take your guns and knives.

Just a thought, but it seems a lot less complicated to just leave people with nothing to fight with but their fists. That isn't likely to kill a capsuleer before station guards break the fight up.

Maybe plastic cutlery? Sporks?

See, be careful with that part. You're stating a lot of ultimatums as if the Broker truly terrifies you and upsets your concrete world of what you envision capsuleers are.

I herald from a time prior to DUST mercs ever existing, I know the feeling.

But technology evolves and capsuleers want more and more ways of being able to venture outside their capsule within the lore. Presently, there's a lot of freedom to do so, but also high potential to take a **** on the lore too.

Am trying to avoid that.

Yet an example being where I recommended the mechanics of the DUST implants. I'm not talking about the implant itself, only the vehicle aspect that allows for a wireless transfer.

Isn't it not far-fetched to say that it's possible to use the router portion ONLY from DUST implants to extend the range of the brain spike to a limited range outside the capsule? The router featured within DUST implants combined with a new (possibly illegal?) implant that features a mobile brain spike? Basicly, just a wireless connection to your capsule?

Am not trying to integrate DUST tech, am looking only to steal a component of it (for sake of helping RPers out).

And I can't find anything in the lore of DUST or EVE to suggest it wouldn't be possible.

(It would be new if so, possibly even an implant constructed by Serpentis Inquest...)

(double post)

Speak with him yourself if you need further clarification, the point is there's no getting around it. You leave the pod, you are a weak flesh bag with no second chances.

Can't have it all.

It's very easy to say that The Broker was a one off, and that quite literally no else in the cluster would have access to the technology, funding and capability that he did. His pockets were quite literally bottomless. He also did not use the same technology as DUST mercs do, and was around way before the technology ever existed. It was several years after he died that it was discovered, concieved and reverse engineered.

It's also good to look up your prime fiction with regards to how the capsule works. The Neural burning hardware used in a capsule quite literally fries your brain during the process of capturing its state once the pod is breached, turning you into a dribbling simpleton. It's so intrusive that it bombards the brain with all kinds of nasty radiation and causes instant breakdown of cellular integrity and the destruction of tissue.

The capsule's on board systems effectively euthanize you once the scan is complete with a lethal dosage of a methylmercury based neurotoxin that quite easily crosses the blood brain barrier and causes massive damage, in order to prevent you from being exposed to vacuum and dying far more painfully and horribly.

I just finished writing the technical backstory surrounding the capsule and it's basic operating principles a few weeks back

It's not possible to be both a DUST mercenary and a capsuleer, hence why you have seperate characters for each purpose. The two technologies operate completely independantly of eachother and are so fundementally different that it makes them incompatible on the most basic of levels.

DUST mercenaries are an entirely different, albeit equally dangerous type of immortal.

*sigh* I give up.

Again, never was trying to mention trying to be a DUST merc nor use the implants of. The question was always could capsuleers construct technology similar in function to extend the capsule's functions beyond the capsule.

I guess everyone literally hates the idea or cares too much about people trying to play god in their own little story lines. I'll stop bothering people now.

COULD they?


Seems like RP god says no.

I think you finally touched on Isis' suggestion, DZ. Until now, nobody had any idea how big or bulky the equipment actually was. We only knew that it existed in some form and for some reason wasn't available outside the capsule.

Realizing that it's (seemingly) a kitchen refrigerator sized 150kg block of machinery really explains why we can't just walk around with it outside the pod.

As DZ says, nothing prohibits you from developing your own fiction, most of which is OOC anyway. If you, as a Capsuleer, had developed this groundbreaking technology, would you REALLY share the fact? I know I wouldn't....

I played a lot of Shadowrun back in the day, and it's one of those things where sometimes they simply say things don't work. Sometimes, it does make a lot of sense, though. Some thing are just incompatible.

For example, let's assume most of the capsuleer implants are meant to interface with a ship. That probably requires a lot of neural invasion. It's probably quite a rig. There may simply not be space to put a neural mapper and copier in there, so it has to be in an external package. DUST mercs don't get that treatment, since they only have to run their bodies. That leaves a lot of space to shove the mapper in their skull. In that sense, there may just not be enough space for both in the body.

That said, there's never been that much agreement on what precisely the implants need to be. I'm sure you can't be a DUST merc, but their bod implants might be transferable. You don't need your arms or legs to telepathically fly a ship. I think that's sort of where Isis was going at present. The headware might be incompatible, but you might get some of the other implants to make you stronger and faster than even a regular Capsuleer. That might not do us all much good, since capsuleers aren't often known for shooting rampages outside the pod (we've just got bigger guns on the boat). But in an RP sense, it might be feasible.

That also seems limiting to say it will never happen ever. Not in game terms, as obviously that's not going to happen in the near enough future to make it in the game. But I think Isis is talking about how the technology will probably eventually rise to the level that both will work simultaneously. Maybe the Jovians worked it out already.

At present, I'd say it's sort of in that holy-grail stage of weapons development. Everyone wants it, but the technology is just too big to fit both at the same time. Maybe the skull isn't big enough or the brain can't handle the strain of both at the same time. It's not impossible, but no one has developed it yet and aren't likely to develop it soon enough to matter for our purposes.