Intergalactic Summit

We Unbound lead a strange late-life cycle that is misunderstood and mis-represented. Our oft-whispered immortality is in fact a delicate chain of science, and sometimes rolls of the dice.
A million working parts must fire in perfect synchronicity and harmony to achieve a 'certified' clean 98% copy that then inherits all legal right to our assets. We've only been in wide service for a decade and a half, and already there are plenty of casualties to speak of among capsuleers. Degenerative cloning diseases and other factors sometimes render a once-feared force of nature into something unable to properly inhabit a body.

Sometimes it is not so simple. Some retire to enjoy the gains they have won. Some remove their pieces from the board to protect something. Some simply wish to retain some semblance of humanity.

Some were simply clonejacks and constructed aliases of others. There are plenty of ways to game the system, after all.

Regardless, the result to us is the same; silence. A dead end. A quiet link. De-Licensed. Gone.

The last month of increased capsuleer registration has produced a phenomenon, many sightings of long thought dead pilots, people missing for up to a decade. Rumors and sightings were fun to track. It got me thinking.
There must be plenty more.

I've started putting together a list of Lost Capsuleers, individuals who, if still out there in some form of sound body and mind, would be nice to see out there. Do you? If you show me yours, I'll show you mine.

Let this list on open Summit be a Beacon: it may be time for you ponder a return to the stars?

TL:DR which Lost Capsuleers would you like to see return?

Jade Constantine.

There. I said it.

She was always fun to spar with, even if she was so thoroughly buried in her own ideology that she lost perspective.

Ava Starfire, for one. Adreena Madevaeda, for another. Many others whose presence I've missed have returned, or never left.

I suspect Ava won't be back, given what I know of her circumstances at the time, and I think she'll be enjoying life far more for it.

I guess your right, but what is the role of the successor but to continue the predecessors work as they see fit? Their work is far from over but their guidance would be great. Those who wish to continue that path should hopefully have someone to pass that torch. Atleast, thats my humble opinion.

Cardinal,

I am afraid that I write for a reason other than that I am terribly concerned with the point of your post. The aim might be meaningful to many others but, due to timing and other chance circumstances, I was acclimated better, I think, to functional immortality than some. Especially more so than the First.

And, yet, the body of what you wrote struck me. Deeply. It was ghostly, stirring images and thoughts most unsettling.

I do not like it.

I guess the ex-capsuleer who pays for my license is somebody like that. She extracted all her piloting skills. After that she told me she doesn't dream about being a Maelstrom anymore. I'm still not clear on whether those were bad dreams or good dreams.

Scherezad
Shintoko Akahoshi
Makkal Hanaya

If there's something I could do for them...

The few I miss are better where they are. A little peace is the least they are owed.

Like many, I miss Ava; although I reckon I have more cause than most.

I have trouble thinking things through these days, Aria. You are probably right that her return would be problematic for both of you. I wish there was a safe way that I could see her again, though.
Dr. Sarain... I would have mentioned him as well, but I have no hope.

Sherezad...I'd like to see her return as well.

Ava Starfire...while I don't miss my arguments with her, or getting punched by her, she does make the cluster a more interesting place and I do miss her a little.