EVE Fiction

I don't have a quotable source, but it's generally accepted to be a capsuleer's registered callsign, not their real name (unless they used their real name for the callsign, of course).

I believe there was a Chronicle covering capsuleer planetary interaction (in which a capsuleer threatens orbital bombardment unless a city evacuates out of the area he planned to drill on) wherein an Amarrian capsuleer communicated using an altered image and callsign.

He called himself Omnistus though that likely wasn't his original name. So yeah, I imagine that a capsuleer can choose to broadcast his callsign to others rather than his registered birth name.

I imagine it can be either or.

I often preferred to be called Q. Also, as far as a roleplay/fiction side of things, as my character was made back in 2007, I don't remember if there was even an option for a surname at that point.

But when I see someone with a name "Nevergonna have grandkids" ganking in high sec, I imagine that's basically what information shows up in your ships scanner, as the top post shows, as his unique identifier.

I will explain my call sign. So I wanted my characters name to represent a terror, of the black abyss we call space. So I had the word Tyrant in mind. I made it female. Hence Tyrana. Now the second part its fairly simple. I wanted to PvP/Pirate.

Names can have a psychological effect in game. If I jump into a lowsec system, most young characters will jump out. Although sometimes I am just there to PvE I don't mean to scare them off lol.

My character name is a persona of what I do in game. I'm not a fluffy miner by any means.

I think most names can represent you character take for example one of the funniest character names & avatars in game. Manface Missiletits. I think this is one of the most posted characters in a local chat that I have ever seen lol.

Capsuleers are infomorphs, we do not have to be locked into a single physical form if we don't want to be. New Eden also has access to technology that would allow any person to look like whatever they want over a communication line. I mean in the real world you can make a digital avatar that follows your facial movement, it is a very fair assumption to assume that these sorts of technologies would be even more polished in YC 119. This is also probably why capsuleer names are locked down on CONCORD provided communication channels. It is really there only way to track the immortal demigods that have been released on the cluster. I think a big part of this lore wise is who is the capsuleer talking to and what channel are they talking in. Talking down to a planet probably does not use the same tech that allows for instantaneous conversation between capsuleers across the cluster.

The stuck with a single name thing that us capsuleers deal with in game is a function of having to interact with a market, and CONCORD exerting there infinite control on your immortal life.

This is my favorite part of the lore of EVE glad to see a conversation on it.