EVE Fiction

So capsuleers are supposed to never leave their capsules or something because they might die permanently.
However, what about their fundamental human needs such as food, water, and air (water could be explained via a tube in the hydrostatic capsule, as could air, but not food.)?

Furthermore there are some chronicles I read (can't find them now tho) where the capsuleer was walking around talking to someone critically on life support.

Does this mean that they leave their capsules when in station? If so what is to prevent normal fist fights or other potentially harmful/deadly events from occurring that might permanently kill the capsuleer?

On a side note, how would this work for pilots who are graveyard'ed, or in other words buy a supercarrier or Titan and never dock again? I suppose they're big enough to hold food for entire crews for years. Oops, just answered my own question there. Does anyone know the answer to the other questions posed, though?

EDIT: I believe the chronicle I was referring to was All These Lives Fit To Ruin or something along those lines.

As Samira said, capsuleers are quite capable of leaving the capsule and regularly do so.

Capsuleers appear to breathe using a liquid breathing technique fed by a mask over their face; waste is most likely removed by either wearing a vacuum cup system similar to actual space toilets aboard the actual spacecraft, or via some form of catheter.

A capsuleers outside of their pod could theoretically do anything a normal human could do - including getting into a bar fight or whatever - but keep in mind that capsuleers are highly-trained, incredibly rich, and quite intelligent. They are going to know how to avoid fights, or fight unfairly if it comes to that.

According to my experience, at least one point regularly falls short of the expectations.

Since it's something else that comes up frequently, what's the deal on garments worn by capsuleers in the capsule itself? Just underwear (the boring grey shorts/panties/bra shown in the character creator, and iirc on frozen corpse objects), or are "podsuits" a thing?


Your ship gets moved too, iirc, so that bit might need some tweaking.

I don't see why podsuits wouldn't be a thing, if people preferred to wear them. So long as there were access ports for neural jack-in, and they didn't trap any air and cause potential pressure issues, then im my opinion it'd be fine really.



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If that's an actual mechanic (i.e. done by the server without GM intervention) rather than a policy implemented by people, have the possible implications of unlimited skill queues allowing subbed supercapital pilots to remain logged off for a very long time been considered?

In before a flood of Aeons undock from EFA to engage in flag-waving exercises because their respective pilots got stuck in the middle of nowhere and stayed logged out after jump drive changes.

ORLY?

So that's where all those Highsec Capitals come from... :-D

Clone soldiers aren't soft clones, though are similar. Their kind of cloning is quite a bit different from capsuleers though so not a good comparison to use here.

Hard cloning, which is what capsuleers do via the pod, means that the scan kills the person immediately when it is made and a replacement clone wakes up instantly with all memories prior to the death. Soft means a 'slow' backup scan in a lab somewhere that saves the data on file for use at a later date instead of immediately. Soft scans may or may not kill the current body in the process (this is something that lore does not clarify), but their key benefit is the saving of a backup for later use in case the capsuleer dies outside the pod (or if the pod scanner fails). EVE Source verifies the existence of backup clones, though obviously any backup clone will only have memories up until the date the backup was saved. Soft clones are not something that has any analogue in game mechanics due to us always being in pod in-game (aside from CQ).

And if a capsuleer gets into a bar fight and dies in it and don't have a backup then they die permanently. If they do have a backup then the backup wakes up. Either way, it is intentional that capsuleers are more vulnerable outside the pod. If a capsuleer is paranoid about their safety outside of the pod then one can assume that capsuleer would avoid heavy "baselining" (interacting with non-capsuleers outside the pod) and stick to just their pod and the capsuleer sections on stations. Not every capsuleer is quite so concerned about the "danger" of baselining though--afterall, we all as human beings have the potential to die permanently IRL in accidents and that doesn't stop us from going out and about.

I disagree with the fist fight analogy a capsule and station is linked via a subspace interface with the stargate system (eve: a burning life) this is what allows a capsuleer's mind to be transmitted to his new clone. when in station the capsuleer implants would be wirelessly connected to the stations subspace relay allowing transmission to a new clone. A permadeath can only be done by preventing the transmission of the mind or by killing every single clone a capsuleer has in reserve.

That is contradictory to eve: empyrean age early in the book the broker enters into a blast furnace and is transmited to a new clone and that was done on a planet outside a capsule.
And when CCP adds the destructible station mechanic what would happen to the capsuleer in station?