Intergalactic Summit

Yes, you can be a father.

Unless you have undergone significant genetic engineering with your clones, or are using a sterile clone, there should not be any difficulty in reproducing with a baseliner. You're not a different species. You just happen to possess a few genetic traits that make you more compatible with hydrostatic capsule technology. It's similar to how you have genetic traits that give you blonde hair, or a big nose, or a certain susceptibility to male pattern baldness, or genetic predisposition to certain diseases.

That being said, being a parent is not something that should be undertaken lightly. You must treat your status as a capsuleer as you would any other profession when judging if you can be an effective parent based on what criteria you believe defines an effective parent. If providing financial and political security is what makes a good parent to you, then being a capsuleer is most fitting. If being an active and present father figure in your child's life is more important, perhaps you should reconsider your deployment out in null-sec.

In my opinion, which is purely my own and should not determine your choices, I believe a father should be a constant influence on a child. I feel that if you already don't see your lover very often, this is not a good precedent for raising children. You need to, at the very least, see her more regularly and frequently before committing to marriage or children. Your children will not have the luxury of being independent adults that do not need you around all the time. They will require your presence, and a sense of regularity with it. Being an absent lover is controversial. Being an absent father is not an option.

In short, you will need to take a close look at your career choices and determine how best to approach the responsibilities of parenthood.

Your visible age is entirely determined by what choices you make on what your clones look like. You can look 20 years older or younger simply by filling out some forms for a new clone appearance. Keep in mind that the supposed immortality of being a capsuleer would suggest you will outlive your own children by nature.

Of course, you could, but would?...
Before thinking what really do you want, have you ever considered others? For example, what would be life for your children...

I pray to the Winds that a capsuleer can make an effective father, because I intend to pursue that vocation myself in the mid-term. I have the same problems you mention and the added issue of being tubeborn and never having witnessed parenting in the truest sense. On the other hand, I am aware of the negative impact that parents have made on some of my friends - so perhaps I'm simply getting a clean start.

Good luck with your decision making. I don't agree that a parent needs to be in constant contact with their child in order to make a good father, but I do think you need to make sure you're a part of their lives and keep that connection alive. Don't forget that, as a capsuleer, you may be comitting to much more than a single child, you may be devoting the rest of your VERY long existence to a dynasty.

Also, always remember that your family will be something that others seek to use against you. Keep them secret and keep them safe.

If I wanted you to do anything for me, even the most humiliating of acts... I'd only have to take your child.

You almost make it too easy and on a very boring day something very tempting to do.

Because I love watching an immortal beg.

You know what is more curious to think over? -What would happen if I gave your child to some dark corner of a station's underbelly that we don't talk about. All the lives us capsuleers walk over as I become the better option for entire corporations than a staff of mortals.

All those people out of a job...

All those people who've had to commit atrocity to survive and probably still have failed to...

All that hate...

'Give them a chance to get back at all our kind has done.

It'd be interesting to say the least.



You wannabe mortals are cute when you don't think.

Legacies are written in more than just offspring.

History, more like. Last I checked, Tovil-Toba is remembered for his actions, not for his offspring.

You're such a ray of sunshine, Isis darling.

You win.

The wonders of cloning technology. Why punish once when you can do it over and over until the lesson actually sinks in?

This is exaggeration.
For example, I hide my family and "my" former name (as a name of person whose memories I inherited), because I know what I (or she) did, and who wants me and why.

As for general population, no one will want to do anything for your children, if you haven't done anything to anyone so wrong that it might happen. The world is full of parents and children, you see. Of course, accidents and maniacs happen, but if you don't provide reason, chance that your children will be hurt are zero to none.

For capsuleers, there is another problem, however. It is not a great secret, that general citizens aren't very fond of capsuleers (hell, even myself would prefer a company of a State citizen to a capsuleer). And this attitude towards capsuleers might, hell, not just might, it will transfer towards his children. We don't care what baseliners think about us, but our children will live among them. I know very well how hard life can be, when there is something not right about your heritage.

I think, that it is cruel for a capsuleer to have children.