EVE Fiction

If I had to guess, I would treat it like in Vampire: The Masquerade -Some reject to have any children at all, in order to mantain their properties under control, avoid emotional ties and potential competitors. Others have them to gain pawns, allies and company-.
Depends on the guy.

Do we agree on that capculeers CAN have children? I see no reason for why shouldn't they. Anyway, I'm sure anticonceptive methods are pretty advanced in the future.

We have crews?

Oh I guess we do

I don't see why, though - I always pictured Capsuleer ships being like the Mothership in "Homeworld"

I find this thread very interesting gratz to the OP. Having read the published EVE books and a fair amount of posted fiction I believe it fair to assume that capsuleers both have communications with their crews and maintain the ability to procreate.

Sex is a powerful motivating force in the history of the human species and I suspect that eliminating it from the existence of capsuleer life would make it far more difficult for them to stay in touch with the non-capsuleer human experience, say after a couple of hundred years.

I am writing an EVE based fiction about a capsuleer and his multi-generational relationships with his families, the downside being outliving both spouse and children and remaining as a living ancestor while all the time keeping control of the financial empire he creates as a capsuleer.

Out of the pod life for the capsuleers as envisioned in my writing does allow them demi-god detachtment/ status when interacting with other humans both family members and crew. Over the centuries I suspect that the communication between crew and capsuleer is what helps them maintain their connection with the mortals they have to interact with everyday be it agents or passengers or spouse and great great great grandchildren.

I was drawn to this area because it was an area of EVE fiction I found to be not deeply explored or defined so it allows me great lattitude with a solid foundation to build upon. The competition against other capsuleers goes far beyond spaceship battles and is in fact a multi-genrational game of high stakes chess on a level few other humans can see let alone try to control.

Power To The Players!

Gotta correct you. A capsuleer who started right at the beginning could conceivably have teenage kids by now. Admittedly, teenagers are completely bloody useless.

As I said "Hardly any capsuleer's chieldren has had any time to outgrow their father/mother". As in "At best, capsuleer children will be around 15 years old, which can't be older than how old their parents were when they became capsuleers, because otherwise they couldn't have concived them". Much less generate grandsons.



That changes things then, thank you.

I find the idea of a capsuleer pilot cavorting with her crew while in space highly improbable. The question of re-entering the capsule in an emergency such as an attack makes the concept unrealistic at best, even if it only took the pilot 2 to 3 minutes to get make into the capsule lots of fights do not take that long thus you are dead.

The idea of a capsuleer pilot needing to transport crew members as lovers from port to port is equally improbable, these are extremely wealthy individuals mental instability or not, i'm sure proficient lovers of all types would be available for "rent" in most stations, thus the need to have a lover in the crew is really non-existent.

Even in today's world the uber rich have lovers in any port they visit if they so desire i see no practical reason why a capsuleer would want to transport her own harem, as a plot element i think it would be comical and a total failure.

If you are thinking of it from a writing point of view the ship minds in Ian M Banks culture novels are proabably a good way to go, having a variety of ways to comunicate (the minds choice really) with crews from good old disembodied voice through screens, drones to lifelike avatars. The tech is substantially lower of course so crew in eve do actually have a purpose while in the culture novels they are there more to keep the ship company, plus the ship mind doesn't need any downtime or even sleep like a capsuleer might.

I tend to imagine the main job of the crew is looking after the ship while the capsuleer is "logged off". While its sitting in deep space powered down the capsuleer chills out/sleeps etc. while the crew do all the maintanance/admin whatever.

So in other words... you'd turn into a WoW player?

I work off the idea that there would generally be different crews for the different ship classes. For your combat ships there would be a combat crew, indy ships an indy crew and so forth. To a certain extent for each ship there would be a number of permanent crew members who would specialise on the ship. There would also be a number of lower skilled crew members who just float from ship to ship. When you left a certain type in dock then I imagined the crews left on station would remain on standby/drink/gamble/read novels until they got the scramble call.