EVE Fiction

New Eden prosthesis can be more capable than the real thing. If you read the description for the arms in-game, it describes the range of their capabilities.



There are a few differences with capsuleers, and many differences with dust soldiers.

Capsuleers: Have implants in their spine and head that allows them to interface with ships directly. This interfacing allows them to control the ship as if it were their own body. The implants in the head also allow the downloading of knowledge (skillbooks) and rewiring/strengthening mental traits (attribute/skill implants). Lastly, most capsuleers are clones.

Other than this, capsuleers are just like any other human.

Dusters: Are cybernetically if not genetically modified superhumans. Their core consciousness is saved on a database and transmitted out to a "6th lobe" sleeper-derived implant in their head which acts as their personality and memory center. The remainder of their brain has been converted into essentially a hypercharged cerebellum that gives them enhanced reflexes and so on. Their bodies meanwhile are heavily augmented, and often times built directly into their suits. This gives them strength, durability, and speed far beyond that of a regular human.



There are no sapient aliens.



The New Eden empires do not speak any modern RL language. They all speak their own languages. Amarrish/Amarrian for Amarr and Modern Standard Matari for Minmatar, for example. I don't know the names of the Gallente and Caldari languages.

English/French/etc are not spoken.

Beyond the game mechanics there might be some very real limitations Capsuleers have in regards to body modifications that normal humans do not as a result of needing to keep us compatible with Capsule technology. So it might not just be that the game isn't set up for us to do extensive body mods it could be that they're not possible or practically feasible for Capsuleers to do.

I've gotten the impression that a regular capsuleer is also superior to a regular human in unarmed combat (provided they are trained with martial arts), because they also have superior reflexes and augmentations that are normally too expensive for regular people or even most military units. Regular capsuleers are nowhere near the ballpark of DUST soldiers of course, but still superhuman to a degree.

Ships in eve are slowed down by the effects of their warp cores on the space around them. Hypothetically if a ship didn't have a warp core, it could achieve relativistic velocities.

They aren't really "super human". They're simply given the ability to resurrect themselves, just like capsuleers, as lone as they remain close to a clone bay. They are no physically superior to any other human than a capsuleer or rich non-capsuleer would be.

The EVE: Templar One novel provides some great first person insight.

Since I'm given the opportunity, and this thread is one among several reasons I decided to re-sub, I'd like to clear up a few misconceptions EVE players tend to have about the Immortal Clone Soldiers that they would typically encounter and the ones players of Dust 514 have access to.

https://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Item_Database:Infantry_Gear:Dropsuits

If you scroll down a bit further it explains the make up, formation, and additionally the capabilities of cloned soldiers as well as the weapons we make use of, these being significantly different to those which mortal soldiers use in the field.

For starters the average combat is clone is little more than biomass, a particularly enigmatic compound that apparently seems to compose the great part of the Duster's physical bodies. They stand at 2.5m in height (8' 2"....eight feet and two inches tall), weigh several hundred pounds more than a baseline human, and are functionally densely packed sheathes of muscle, redundant organs, and reduced senses of pain held together by a reinforced skeleton.

If the 'combat clone' did not already have impressive physical characteristics the typically come encased in a Dropsuit which only serves to enhance the natural durability of the operator especially when you consider dropsuits all have their own design tenets (such as Amarrian spinal integration or the Minmatar powered exoskeletons).

Indeed I recognize that there are many forms of augmentations that Capsuleers have access to and given that they are functionally independent starships equipped with weapons of mass destruction controlled through a neural link the suggestion that a Capsuleer outside of their pod rivals or surpasses the raw combat potential of a specifically designed immortal super soldier with the combined combat experience gleaned from say 8000 or more individual lives would be tenuous at best.

Now I've not read Templar One but from the synopses of various others who have I gleaned a particularly clearer picture of what an Immortal Cloned Soldier really is.....and they are frightening especially if you consider the psychological implications of being killed dozens of times per day or killing thousands of their counterpart soldiers individually.

On the note of the falling from orbit thing...... there are two instances of this as far as I am aware of in trailers both of which display a particular piece of technology known as the inertial dampener will allows mercenaries to drop from great heights and touch down as though they had fallen a few feet.

The other thing worth mentioning is the nature of the technologies at work. Combat clones are not supposed to be long term homes for a soldiers consciousness and thus most of the technologies Dust soldier are dangerous enough that they threaten the operators themselves. Take a look at the Drop Uplink....arguably the most commonly used (in-game) equipment item....

"The drop uplink is a slave transponder, a short-range tether that produces the precise spatial coordinates necessary to generate a localized wormhole, traversal of which allows the user to travel short distances instantly. Highly experimental, the process is excruciatingly painful and exposes organic tissue to excessive radiation, resulting in accelerated cellular decay and, ultimately, death."

That was actually a section from the book I was going to ask someone to look into, whether or not Dusters were infomorphic.

Bio-cyber knights?

Who has suggested that? No one in this thread, at least.