EVE Fiction

It's been mentioned before that the nullsec capsuleer capital fleets are nothing compared to the armadas empires and pirate factions have.

If you look at the video of Empress Jamyl's coronation, you can spot 24 Titans + the support fleet sitting on the grid. And this is just the ceremonial guard.
Now take into account the actual security of the coronation, ships on field being there more or less for show.
Now take into account that the coronation happened in the middle of the war with the Republic and that the most of the Amarr Navy was probably stationed elsewhere on high alert.

Now take into account empires have cyno jammers and CONCORD in highsec has total EWar supremacy over capsuleers.

Simply put:



No.


Also, if they'd really be worried about the capsuleer capital numbers for whatever numbers, this event wouldn't make them clean their pants, it would cause them to open some champagne - a large amount of 'scary' capsuleers just killed their big capital fleets, yay. \o/

There is a very big difference between a Titan piloted by a capsuleer, and a Titan piloted by mortal soldiers. Just look at how easily a capsuleer Ishtar can break up a Serpent is blockade with 18 battleships'

OP has dropped one of the questions that really confounds me in terms of where the storyline has been heading lately.

Keep in mind that capsuleers still use a system overwhelmingly designed by CONCORD.
- We do not own any of the endlessly-used highsec manufacturing and research lines; the highsec Big 4 do.
- We do not claim soveriegnty on our own; we pay CONCORD for the right to do so.
- We do not construct stations without CONCORD's okay.
- We cannot put up starbases in highsec without paying a charter to the empire that owns the space.
- We get our insurance from a CONCORD-approved business.
- We only use models of ship approved by CONCORD for capsuleer access.
- We only use weapons approved for capsuleer use by CONCORD.
- Hell, we can't even jump a stargate without CONCORD giving the go-ahead.

We get information from CONCORD, use only mechanisms and systems CONCORD approves as okay, and even have to go through a CONCORD system for the right to perform basic actions such as docking or jumping.

And yet, neither CONCORD nor the DED seem willing to issue even a slap on the wrist when capsuleers increasingly act out. One might think shutting down capsuleer gate travel to certain regions, or freezing the bank accounts of certain particularly troublesome capsuleers would be in order.

"But the capsuleers would rebel!" you say, "They'd invade and roll over CONCORD and the Big 4!"

Putting aside the wildly varying power of CONCORD warships, remember CONCORD can and does prohibit us from doing certain things. How dangerous would we be if we warped in and discovered that all of our weapons were locked from firing, or the corporate hangars we had been storing war supplies in were suddenly locked to us?

And most of all, if some capsuleers tried to invade and were crippled by CONCORD, how many other alliances would turn on them and rip them to shreds before a workaround could be found?

Missions and NPCs are, at this point, very broken in terms of PF. Much like rescuing the damsel five times a day, or missing huge fleets that have somehow gotten dozens of jumps in from the border, or missions which simply plain-out violate existing PF, it's best not to look at PvE to closely.

"Damn capsuleers, they're at it again..."

Personally I hate the idea of concord, in the universe where we are elite of the elite, best damn pilots around, I find it immersion breaking that concord can just act like we are nothing. For the good of everyone I hope concord gets more and more impotent as we gain more and more power.