Intergalactic Summit

Indeed. The cool kids on the block come to terms by proclaiming that they only have a "rudimentary concern" left.

Silly people like me come to terms with it by reminding myself that every life is still a life, no matter how many had to die at my hands in this insane universe.

Have you considered purchasing some sun glasses? They'd look good on you.

I find myself agreeing with Silas on this matter. It's not just because it has been so long since I've been called a "cool kid," but also because her statements make the most sense.

There is some effort needed to ensure a function ship and crew, and as we all should know, that includes regular combat, firefighting, depressurization, and escape drills. Beyond that, the crews serve their purposes as planned, and when one dies it's not like tens more don't step up in order to become crew in the next ship. Wouldn't it be more accurate to say that it is already your responsibility to keep your crew alive?

Were you not already drilling them, and keeping them combat ready? If not then the failure lies with your leadership.

Besides if the life of crew was so poor, it is unlikely we would have crews at all, let alone the legions of crew that seem to flock around the very prospect of flying in capsuleer ships. This gives me the indication that their salaries and death benefits should and likely do take care of their families in the event of their demise.

There is a phenomenon as old as our races that captains of vessels tend not to think about the crews of the ships that they destroy, to many captains they are not shooting at living people - they are shooting at a starship hull, an unliving thing animated by power reactors and driven on star-hot plasma, that is shooting back at them.

At most, many capsuleers (and i have myself, at times, thought this way in the heat of combat) think of their target as another pod pilot, not a pod pilot and his or her crewmen.

It is a way of dealing with warfare on this scale, one that probably have been with us since our ancient ancestors came through the EVE Gate to this cluster, and reborn with us into the society that we now know. Tanks shoot at tanks, areospace craft shoot at areospace craft, naval vessels shoot at naval vessels, and starships shoot at starships - in every case it is a way of thinking that insulates one's mind and sanity from knowing that I just launched a salvo of anti-ship missiles that will kill a hundred or more people who crew that vessel.

In this regard, then, only the foot soldier knows the true horror of warfare, as they usually see the person they kill - and if the whispers of immortal clone soldeirs coming to the fore are true, even this may become far more cold and impersonal.

As capsuleers, our immortal status means that we will be reborn when we die in combat via a new copy of our cloned body, but I think it distances us farther from just how horrible warfare can be, and with that distance comes a coldness for some in regard for the fates of others, be it the crews of the ships that we fire upon, or the crews of our own vessels.

I hear there's insurance you can purchase to help alleviate the problems of crew casualties.