EVE Fiction

I always thought the crew complements given assumed the minimum required for continued operation. If that was the case then you would a need a crew complement that is 2-4 times larger than it has to be due to needing people to man a 24 hour shift cycle on the vessel. This would make sense for Navy vessels that might be given a set patrol route in their territories for days or weeks at a time.

A capsuleer vessel generally might not need to operate continuously because they have the option to do what they need to do for a few hours and then dock that vessel back up, so that potentially cuts down required crew by 1/2 to 1/4. As for what crew is still needed then depending on the hull there's probably people still needed for handling the Fire Control and electronics data, engineering, and damage control. The fire control and electronics teams are probably the most valued because while the capsule replaces the need for a bridge and its crew there's still a need for people to assist with managing data, weapon systems, and ship electronics like its sensor suites to feed to the capsule. They might prove helpful in not overloading a capsuleer with information when they're performing difficult tasks like trying to manage nano-scale repairs over thousands of square metres of armour plate so having an FCS crew might prove beneficial to a capsuleer because then there's people to delegate certain tasks to.

Training in weapon systems or armour and shield skills etc., might reflect the increasing ability of a capsuleer to perform the data analysis and processing for specific aspects of their ships instead of the FCS crew which might mean rookie capsuleers need a higher FCS bridge crew than a more veteran capsuleer, perhaps negating their need entirely depending on ship class and training. Casualties among a capsuleer's FCS crew might be the lowest since they can potentially operate within a hardened section within the very centre of a vessel and have the entire module eject safely along with a pod or have them operate the closest to escape pods.

There might even be a form of heirarchy among a capsuleer's hired crew staff where the more rookie or junior staff work in the more dangerous and hazardous roles like damage control, maintenance, or engineering and you work your way up to an FCS team where life could potentially be far less risky and more valued by your capsuleer overlord.

There are infact human farms in eve. I have links to the "LCO human farm", and "Amarrian breeding facility" saved in my notepad of interesting things. Although the latter has a disturbing description to it.

Besides that, thinking about 10 year olds in space militaries just makes me want to stab Japan.

I always thought that was just some sort of IVF, but even if the child were grown ex utero, that still raises the question of who would look after the children after birth.

To be honest, one of the main immersion-breaking things for me about futuristic fiction is the unreasonably large populations in EVE, Warhammer 40k etc. We, at the start of the 21st century with barely suborbital flight, have reached a cultural point where 2 children/parent is the average, and some developed countries have even smaller birth rates. This trend ought to continue into the future, and so it is unreasonable to expect future populations to grow exponentially to trillions of people.


In the EVE books, there are escape pods, even for NPC ships, and the Sisters of EVE routinely pick them up, etc.

As a joke, I previously wrote a short piece encouraging people to save the crewmembers inevitably trapped onboard titan wrecks, before they succumbed to the atmosphere of the gas giants they had fallen into.

There are a lot of logistics in the game as it is which is something I personally like about it but isn't to everyone's taste.
You can add things like crew and fuel but given you can have a ship docked and refitted to fly in less than a minute, do you really want to worry about bonuses for giving your crew the optimum number of carbohydrates for wormhole space ?

Amarr could have the possibility of slave revolt, other factions could have saboteurs infiltrating their ranks but it is all a bit out of the scope of this game. I don't know what the lore says but that complication is avoided by saying capsuleer ships are totally automated.

I'm fairly sure all my ships work on nothing more than a keyboard a mouse and a monitor.

Interesting that you see it that way.

Actually I'm not, virtual controls for vehicles, aircraft, spacecraft is real.
So the programmers work for CCP instead of NASA it's still user interface software, it just connects to a virtual environment instead of a real one.

Lol, Dear thread viewer please remember the relevance of Ralph's comment and forget all about my side tracking about whether or not you need a crew which was obviously trolling as this thread is not about that.

Considering this link PF Crew Guidelines in Eve, crews are a necessity on all but the 'smallest' ships (who are still the size of a big airliner)

Obviously, this crew isn't made out of trit, they just get employed after the ship's finished. Just imagine that part of the tax you pay on bounties, trade etc etc goes to your crew as payment.

Capsuleers (us) don't care for crew in general, due to various traits in our life, we're wealthy beyond imagination (we own several full fledged starships as personal property), We are immortal( kill us! we just come back!) and common folk hate us capsuleers because we tread the loss of a ship along with crew so lightly (oh darn lost a ship, better buy a new one)

On the volunteer thing, you are partially right, while the chance to die is high aboard a capsuleer ship, the pay is great as well. This attracts a large variety of people who want to test their luck. Just imagine you got the Firefly or Millenium falcon crew aboard and you are the all knowing-all powerful AI aboard who commands & controls the ship with his mind, through his pod/capsuleer interface.

Remember, this is the fiction section, not the gameplay section, so you'll find things that have barely any representation ingame, crews are among this, albeit there's several ingame items that refer to ship crews.