EVE Fiction

1) They do not sit in a cockpit/bridge. They float in a pod, hooked up by cables and surrounded by a breathable liquid.

2) As long as they are in the ship. They do get out of their pod when going out of the ship, like your Captain's Quarters.

3) No, it is how they control the ship entirely. They use the pod to connect mentally to their ship, allowing them to control it as if it were their own natural body.

4) Yes they have to be in the pod. The pod waits until a breach is detected in the pod and then fires off the transneural burn scanner, destroying your brain while creating a digital copy that it sends to your cloning facility. If you are on a planet and get shot, you have no trasneural burn scanner and so you die, though you can still be replaced if you had a backup clone (a previously-uploaded brain map saved somewhere on a computer somewhere). These backup clones however, due to being saved ahead of time, only have memories up until when they were made. Ergo you won't remember your death or anything from the previous days/weeks/months.

5) Can be nude, can be some clothing. Falcon has said in a previous post that whatever they wear "can't trap air".

6) Yes.

7) There is a support crew. Due to the capsuleer controlling many systems with their mind, capsuleer ships have about 50% less crew than a non-capsule ship.

8) If you mean in the pod? This would probably cause huge issues and might result in mindlock (coma) for both people.

9) No buttons, no stick. Look at your character in-game. See those implants on your back? Your brain is hooked up to the pod through those, and you control it the same way that you control your RL body. Once hooked up in the pod, the ship literally replaces the capsuleer's body. Your turrets are your hands and fingers, your engines are your legs, your reactor is your heart, etc. This includes even discomfort and pain when taking damage.

10) Yes, they can leave the pod and walk around like any other human.

11) Yes.


You should probably read through the lore on https://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Portal:EVE_Fiction , and the chronicles, stories, and scientific articles at the backstory part of the EVE website, http://community.eveonline.com/backstory/ . If you can afford it, you should also look into getting EVE Source if you are interested in learning more about EVE's lore.

Samira's answer is more accurate, AFAIK, but I have something to add:

When you are docked, you can leave the pod, but when not docked and in space, generally you can't get out and walk around your ship...unless it's a capital ship, because those have pod gantries on board. Recently I've found that some people think this article suggests that other ships can have pod gantries as well, but if you want to play it safe, asume no pod gantries on sub-capitals.

Some small ships, like shuttles and interceptors, can be flown fully fitted without support crew. A lot of frigates can also be flown without crew as long as there are no modules fitted. This is a guideline, however. CCP mentioned that if players want to fly crewless ships, there is some leeway. Some respected roleplayers fly fitted, crewless frigates, but you may get a lot of if you claim to fly a crewless Titan.
For average crew compliments per ship, check out New Eden Crew Guidelines