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Cornell 77
Roy Baty Brigade
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Posted - 2013.12.28 06:01:00 -
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Or, "Do replicant clones dream of electric sheep?"
In the off-world colonies, the life of the replicant is the life of a slave. Slowly, over time, the replicant becomes aware of the truth, only to see too late....Death comes just as the realizations emerge.
Roy Baty lead combat replicants to victory on the off-world colonies. He was designed to be stronger and more intelligent than the engineers that created him. It was inevitable that he would come to question the story of his own existence.
He and 3 others battled their way back to earth, through the Blade Runners and the Tyrell corporation, only to discover that their memories where implants, and that their lives and all they had fought for were nearly at an end.
Having learned from their story, new replicants chose the only path left to them: Live forever through cloning. In the grim world of a Dust combat clone, the replicant is free of the limitations of a four-year lifespan, but they are made to endure the new brutality of a life of endless battle.
Which is better? Ask a Dust combat replicant. Even they might not have a clear answer.
Roy Baty....ya, that guy, from the movie Blade Runner...Replicants live on through cloning....They're not bad fighters
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True Adamance
Kameira Lodge
Amarr Empire
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Posted - 2013.12.28 23:47:00 -
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What in the hell is a replicant?
To a Texan like you, a hero is some type of weird sandwich, not some nut who takes on three Gunlogi.
Reference = ISK
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Ronan Elsword
Dead Six Initiative
Lokun Listamenn
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Posted - 2013.12.28 23:55:00 -
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True Adamance wrote:What in the hell is a replicant?
A replicant is a fictional bioengineered or biorobotic android in the film Blade Runner (1982). The Nexus seriesGÇögenetically designed by the Tyrell CorporationGÇöare virtually identical to an adult human, but have superior strength, agility, and variable intelligence depending on the model. Because of their physical similarity to humans, a replicant must be detected by its lack of emotional responses and empathy to questions posed in the fictional Voight-Kampff test. A derogatory term for a replicant is "skin-job." (Note: This term reappears in the reimagined Battlestar Galactica in derogatory reference to Humanoid Cylons GÇô who could also be considered a type of replicant.)
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One who replies. So in this case you and I 
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Cornell 77
Roy Baty Brigade
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Posted - 2013.12.29 01:14:00 -
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Couldn't have said it better myself!
Roy Baty....ya, that guy, from the movie Blade Runner...Replicants live on through cloning....They're not bad fighters
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Denak Kalamari
Intaki Liberation Front
Intaki Prosperity Initiative
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Posted - 2013.12.29 06:45:00 -
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This is a really bad idea. Mixing lore from completely different universes make no sense, especially as New Eden has nothing similar to Replicants at all. Crossovers should stay away from here.
Grahisha of ILF // Writer of Thoughts of a Clone Soldier // Latest entry published Dec. 27th
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Cornell 77
Roy Baty Brigade
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Posted - 2013.12.29 07:44:00 -
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No worries, man. It's just a single post about my character. We probably all imagine our own backstories to make the game more interesting and fun for ourselves. I am in no way saying that all Dust mercenaries are replicants. I just like to think of my own single character as one. I'll edit my original post to make that clear. Surely there's room in the vast universe for that?
Roy Baty....ya, that guy, from the movie Blade Runner...Replicants live on through cloning....They're not bad fighters
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Cornell 77
Roy Baty Brigade
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Posted - 2013.12.30 02:29:00 -
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Denak Kalamari wrote:This is a really bad idea. Mixing lore from completely different universes make no sense, especially as New Eden has nothing similar to Replicants at all. Crossovers should stay away from here.
After some thought, I do see your point, although I don't entirely agree. We probably all imagine our own backstories to make the game more interesting and fun for ourselves, and those may sometimes include references to other ideas that came about before Dust. I am in no way saying that any or all Dust mercenaries are replicants. I just like to think of my own single character as one, or at least something like that idea. Maybe there's a couple other players out there who can imagine their character as being some kind of "skin job" that resorts to cloning themselves. Who knows? I see you've put a lot into developing a lore around Dust and I respect that, so I'll edit my original post to make it refer less to any particular movie or character.
"How does it feel to live in fear? That's what it is, to be a slave."
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sira draco
Ancient Erectiles
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Posted - 2014.01.24 11:16:00 -
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I dont care what anyone says, I like this idea, Blade Runner was epic, it was a masterpiece, it can work in new eden |
Cornell 77
Roy Baty Brigade
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Posted - 2014.01.26 02:41:00 -
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I've been thinking a bit more about this and here's what I've come up with:
1. If the technology exists in Eve to clone, the technology would also most likely exist to genetically engineer people from the ground up.
2. If that technology existed, people would use it.
3. If these "synthetics" existed in Eve, they would probably be constructed for the purpose of creating slaves.
There would be several types:
One type would be made to do labor. They would know that they were created for that purpose and they would know that they are slaves. They would be kept isolated in work camps and hunted down if they escaped. They would be worked until they died.
Another more ambitious type would be made to serve some function within the general human population. The problem with this is that, once a synthetic is released into the general population, it both has to act exactly as a real person would and also have to somehow be controlled.
And that's where I rely on the movie Blade Runner, because in that movie they describe what would have to be the best logical alternative to this problem: Create memories and implant them in the synthetic person so that they believe that they had always done whatever job they do. By the time they begin to realize that they have been told nothing but lies, their lifespan ends.
There could be many more types of synthetics in the Eve universe as well. The first thing that comes to my mind is some kind of breed from a very disciplined line that is aware that they are synthetic, but are so useful and important in the role they fulfill, and so heavily indoctrinated into their society, that they chose to remain loyal to their makers.
Another bizarre rogue-type would be groups of synthetics that escaped and somehow figured out how to create more synthetics on their own (a very frightening thought!). I suppose they would all kind of stick together.
Most likely, however, there would be more of the second type roaming the general population. It comes down to free-will. If an engineer goes about creating a genetically engineered person that acts just like a real person, they would have to allow it to have a certain level of intelligence and free-will. Without that, it would not behave like a real person. It would also not behave like a real person if it was aware that it was not a real person. At the same time, due to the huge investment in the creation of the synthetic, they would want to control its behavior as much as possible. Therefore, the synthetic would have free-will, but believe that the job it does is what it chooses to do. Hence the memory implants.
And that's where cloning comes in. If you are a synthetic and you realize that you are, and you find out that your time is about up, and you've been engineered for combat, where else can you go but into the ranks of DUST 514 clones?
"How does it feel to live in fear? That's what it is, to be a slave."
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