Intergalactic Summit

He didn't ask for this...

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On topic though, I reckon I've done pretty well at keeping many of my crews alive, despite them all being willing to die for their Goddess of the Hottest! Having literally hundreds upon hundreds of fanatics willing to devote their lives to skills I can utilise on my ships and even willing to die in honour of me? It's pretty sexy to be honest.

But the supreme irony is that actually most of my crews live peaceful lives and only a few actually get to martyr themselves for me in a glorious explosion, before embracing the void. I have a habit I've picked up over the years of using damage controls on any ships larger than destroyers and only the most devoted get to die in such proximity to me, as a frigate can give.

I save them for my personal quarters... surely the new skill set would put them in a more technically skilled profession description?

I wonder how many exotic dancers die on a daily basis in New Eden...

I tend to substitute flesh and blood crew with automation systems (with redundancies) and drones wherever I can. For instances where flesh-and-blood requirements area unavoidable, I make sure to drill them very extensively on evacuation procedures on top of their SOPs and insist that when the klaxon starts ringing, get to the escape pods, do emergency repairs remotely and no playing hero. Heroics will result in cuts in posthumous pay remitted to their families.

I am still in the process of eliminating the need for flesh-and-blood crew members entirely. Progress has been stalled, unfortunately.

Also, I made it a point for the recruiters to review the crew hopeful's backgrounds both personal and professional to determine if they are of much better use anywhere that isn't the ship. It is a waste to squander any other talents they might have on a starship that will see much action.

The technology is available but the will to implement them to the ends of fabbing a fully crew-independent starship larger than a frigate isn't, hence the stunted development in this area.

I am in the process of remedying this. If you like, I could send over an overview on how I plan to achieve this.

While individual self-repairing components are already fabbed and stress-tested, the drones aren't ready and the starship prototypes haven't been planned on yet. The drones are currently my biggest headache since their development involved using processor architecture that hasn't been used for drone controls (ternary logic systems heavily used by the Caldari) extensively by anyone but the Guristas. The Guristas themselves are, well, less than cooperative in providing the publication to assist in the development of such drones.

Also, another note about automation: There hasn't been a single essential module in a capsuleer vessel that's hand-operated for at least a century now. Gunnery/Missilery has been operated by auto-loaders, targeting computers, fire control directors and feed mechanisms. Shields emission systems are computer-controlled, same with power grid management, propulsions, drone launchers and retrieval arms, damage control (to some extent), armour repair and integrity management, sensors systems, tactical suite, and, well, that's just about it.

The crew we do have running around had always been there to ensure that all of these are in proper working condition at all times. In other words, maintenance tasks. You will be surprised how quickly and easily these machines break down, at least in a standard capsuleer vessel.

Yes.



A lot.

Kinky <3

Yes, I've done a little digging after I asked my question. The multiple and divergent transhumanist projects going on in the Origin system seem... radical.

As far as the topic as concerned, providing cloning services for crews is, from my standpoint, incredible.

I don't pretend to be an expert regarding cloning technologies, but I do know a little. How do you do it? Rework capsuleer implants to create pseudo-capsuleers? Use a buffered version of dropsuit soldiers' CRU? Maybe you've even reverse-engineered Nation tech...

Maybe none of the planets support tall people

I do not care about ethical side of the problem, but I do care about the convenience.

My crewmembers are professionals trained to maximize ship combat ability. They are military personnel who realize that they are going to war, who are ready to sacrifice their own lives for the State and commit suicide to prevent being taken captive by Gallente forces.

I am responsible for them and I will do whatever I can to make the gallentean oppressors ship to blow up to kill their crewmembers, and to return mine alive home.