Intergalactic Summit

As some of you may have noticed I am back in Empire space having suspended my deep space operations (if anyone is hiring/recruiting drop me a line). it got me thinking about the empire corporations that sponsor unaffiliated capsuleers.

Now I understand the reason Capsuleers who aren't in a capsuleers corporation are relegated to one of these corporations; CONCORD likes to keep an eye on us, but what do the corporations that take on capsuleers stand to gain from it? They generally have a contingent of baseliner employees and most capsuleers don't do all that much work for those corporations.

My initial thought was they get a tax break, but I don't have any information regarding the matter.

Personally, I think we can only guess, the answer is unclear.

The tax one is plausible, after all why have a tax rate anyways otherwise, but then there's also a problem that Mr Killhappy J Shootingham with negative standings to the known universe can leave his corp anytime and find themselves with a Scope, Caldair Provisions or whatever tag.

I suspect something more mundane, the pod interface for some reason feels the need to assign any live capsuleer signature a tag of some sort. Which you think would be a fixed issue considering how much money goes into maintaining the pod interface and the neocom system in general.

Unless you've got a friend with Rorqual, you're tied to the government... or at least your clone is, like it or not.

Though why the government would let -10 pilots back into their subsidiary companies is indeed a darn good question.

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On the topic of corporations, I feel that everyone previously has brought up valid points. I know that some people create their own corporations simply to avoid paying taxes to people that will not reimburse them in any way directly.

However, I feel that taxes and regulation are more as a by product of the situation.

A Capsuleer's corporation is where their identity lies. A Baseliner may not be apart of these corporations because they do not have the opportunities Capsuleers do. They do not have nearly as much freedom, and are far easier to keep track of.

Expanding on what Mr. N'maro Makari mentioned, I believe that it mainly has to do with identification for our interfaces. A way to keep track of every capsuleer's identity in the cluster.

Miss Katran Luftschreck made an interesting point as well. While I can entirely agree that someone with a -10 security status being allowed back into a non-capsuleer company is illogical, I would have to go back to my previous point of it having mostly to do with classification.

The system our intergalactic network is designed around is entirely dependent on identifying capsuleers by their corporation. It simply is incapable of having a capsuleer not in a corporation.

The other point Katran Luftschreck mentioned about your clone being entirely tied to the government is not entirely true, although I see her point. If you own, or know capsuleers who own, a station in Nullsec, you are able to use a medical facility that is outside of any Empire's reach. The Rorqual is certainly one way, but it is not the only way.