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Lucson Eversore
Whiskey Prospects
#1 - 2011-11-09 05:16:50 UTC  |  Edited by: Lucson Eversore
I have been playing about a year now, and I have gathered some of the background story line information. But there are a couple of things that I have been unable to find.

1st: How does one become a capsuleer. I read some of the short fiction about the first test subject, how he was conscious but unable to communicate after the initial communion with his ship. But beyond that, nothing. It seems something important, to be chosen for immortality, and yet I cant find it.

2nd: I thought, but may be incorrect, that capsuleer ships had crews. I believe I ran across it in another short story but I may be mistaken.

I would really love to find some sort of archive of this sort of material. Any help would be most appreciated.
Nova Fox
Novafox Shipyards
#2 - 2011-11-09 05:27:27 UTC  |  Edited by: Nova Fox
1 Genetics are Tested for at least, one in multimillions have the genes to be a capsuleer pilot. The process begins with training and to complete the training is to euthanize the original body and activating the capsuleers first of many clones to come. Its assumed that empires foot the bill for these screenings and training becuase a capsuleer on thier side is worth every isk for thier efficency freeing up thier navies of counter menacing the pirates. Even if the capsuleer later flip sides later on its a risk they rather take.

2 Ships do have crews specially larger ships, capsulleer ships takes out alot of mid-shipmen thus signifincalty reducing crew sizes
up to 90% on some ships. Most ships are built for both operations in mind these days.

Thats my short and sweet nutshell of the two. A real lore buff should be able to link the rest of it.

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Cloora
APEX Unlimited
APEX Conglomerate
#3 - 2011-11-09 05:27:47 UTC
As someone who used to RP in this game and wants to again some day I hope to help.

You aren't chosen to be a capsuleer, you go to training/school for it and they put you through a battery of mental tests that determine if you would have any chance of interfacing with ship controls on that level without wetgraving.

Only an EXTREMELY small percentage of people that go through this schooling/training are deemed capable of handling this exteme mental task and are cleared by CONCORD to fly capsuleer vessels.

I cannot remember where i read this, but as someone who has read every chronical/short story and both novals on EVE I am pretty sure that is canon.

Someone please correct me if i am wrong.

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Nova Fox
Novafox Shipyards
#4 - 2011-11-09 05:30:50 UTC  |  Edited by: Nova Fox
Wet Graving sucks it be like screaming inside your own skull and only you can hear it.
I think the term was used in the books though.
And yes, Concord is the overall ultimate authority on this since they do control pod tech as well, concord's bills are however paid by the empires.

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Xercodo
Cruor Angelicus
#5 - 2011-11-09 05:43:06 UTC
Well i know capsuleer ships have crews but as far as i know on the "become a capsuleer thing" it was mostly based on having an "aptitude" for the pod tech. Having a brain compatible with the system, that sorta thing. How they find people and evaluate that compatibility i dont know, I havent dug that deep hehe.

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ACE McFACE
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#6 - 2011-11-09 07:51:58 UTC
Quote:
Its assumed that empires foot the bill for these screenings and training becuase a capsuleer on thier side is worth every isk for thier efficency freeing up thier navies of counter menacing the pirates.


Whoops, I guess the Gallente invested in the wrong capsuleer, I have almost -5 standing with them

/slightRP

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CCP Spitfire
C C P
C C P Alliance
#7 - 2011-11-09 08:12:47 UTC  |  Edited by: CCP Spitfire
Moved to a more appropriate section.

Nova Fox wrote:
1 Genetics are Tested for at least, one in multimillions have the genes to be a capsuleer pilot. The process begins with training and to complete the training is to euthanize the original body and activating the capsuleers first of many clones to come. Its assumed that empires foot the bill for these screenings and training becuase a capsuleer on thier side is worth every isk for thier efficency freeing up thier navies of counter menacing the pirates. Even if the capsuleer later flip sides later on its a risk they rather take.

2 Ships do have crews specially larger ships, capsulleer ships takes out alot of mid-shipmen thus signifincalty reducing crew sizes
up to 90 percent on some ships. Most ships are built for both operations in mind these days.

Thats my short and sweet nutshell of the two. A real lore buff should be able to link the rest of it.


You are definitely correct on the point 2 (there is actually a wiki page with some guidelines), and I'm pretty sure on the point 1 as well. Paging CCP Dropbear for a more qualified opinion than mine. Smile

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Lucson Eversore
Whiskey Prospects
#8 - 2011-11-09 16:04:58 UTC
Thanks for the Wiki post. That was exactly what I was looking for.

Also thanks to everyone else concerning the Capsuleer info. Hopefully there is some sort of Wiki out there concerning that.
Mal Darkrunner
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#9 - 2011-11-09 18:29:03 UTC
If you're interested in the story of the first capsuleer, and what happens when you're not mentally strong enough to use the capsule interface, see here: http://www.eveonline.com/races/wetgrave/
Lucson Eversore
Whiskey Prospects
#10 - 2011-11-10 05:44:32 UTC
Yeah I loved that one.
Xadiran
Moira.
#11 - 2011-11-23 00:30:49 UTC
Nova Fox wrote:
to complete the training is to euthanize the original body and activating the capsuleers first of many clones to come.


Actually, that bit was only introduced recently with the introduction of the new Incarna tutorial.

It's been mentioned in canon fiction, especially in the "Empyrean Age" novel, that the capsuleer didn't have to have his original body destroyed. Case in point: Korvin Leers was in his original, uncloned body during the fight at the Malkanen disaster, when his pod was scrammed and webbed, and "All he could do now was wait for his real capsuleer legacy to begin; to cheat death as the body he was born in was executed."