No, I don't like RL stuff being dragged in at all and that name is so far back in our history, it seems stupid that they'd have that namne for anything.

Could you take that seriously calling mercs that? We are clone scum, accept it.

Sub human seems more fitting, upgrade our clones natural survivability and I believe we'd be worthy of a cooler name.

Something to do with data transfer seems more appropriate seen as our consciousness lives on regardless getting endlessly transferred from onre clone to the next. Our bodies are temporary whether we like it or not as clones.

Necromancer would be more appropriate, but iv just taken the name from a classic book that influenced hacking cultures greatly and inspired the matrix.

That is the current gallente fw nick name (among others)

Since our tech is from Sleepers, ...

I believe you mean Neuromancer

Because to be honest Mercenary is something age old and pre-existing before us.

Eve Players get called Captains (though by nature of ship command)
Capsuleer (by trade and lore is the name)
Empyrean (by the Amarr)

Among those most common titles they do have a large number of derivatives and cultural references but for the game's context these are the only three used.

Enter Dust 514.

While we are soldiers of fortune, we're absolutely no different from an eve pilot on that aspect, they too get paid for their immortal services as do we.

I purpose we be named things more tangible usable and something not as confusing.

Operators - This covers a wide variety of play styles, and who is to say that dropsuits are not the only thing we suit up in? What if our MTACs are like living coffins similar to the warhammer dreadnought and starcraft dragoons. Operators are a type of highly specialized soldier but the name has yet to be widely used in eve lore on a significant level. An operator can perform such a large variety of roles on and off the field that it would not be in lore violation of being a mercenary.

Elysians and for the matching lore name calling from the Amarrians (from Geek Elysion pedion "Elysian field," where heroes and the virtuous live after death, from a pre-Gk. word of unknown origin) We been delivered from the clutches of death, and by Amarrian thinking delivered from the jaws of damnation and into a path of salvation.

So your thoughts?

Actually, CCP calls the EVE players "Capsuleers" after the capsules that they are stuck in while piloting pod capable ships. Other references are made to "Pod Pilots" as well. But not "Captain" as the point of a pod capable ship is to reduce the crew to few or none. The pod pilot does all the work. If there was a Captain, it would be the head officer other than the pod pilot on the ship and more for traditional purposes.

Operators wouldn't sit right with me. It is a term derived from "Special Ops" as in Special Operators. Since the new "immortals" are designated to replace the normal troops, they really aren't special ops but instead like an advanced soldier. They aren't infiltrating, assassinating, rescuing, etc.

Empyreans refers to those capsuleers who when out to create empires out in unclaimed 0.0 security space.

Because of the DUST 514 reference, the majority of people refer to DUST mercenaries as Dust Bunnies. It also can be referenced back to The Guristas who were the first to "liberate" the technology from the Amarr and distribute it to the other empires. Their symbol is a skull with bunny ears.

I prefer the term GroPo (grow poe), short for Ground Pounder because that's what ground forces do as they cross over land, they pound the ground with their feet, their weapons, and their vehicles.

Another term from Battletech was "popcorn" as they guys runnin around in suits on the ground would die like popcorn when hit with laser fire etc.

In the end, a DUST Mercenary is EXPENDABLE. That is the whole point of hiring someone else to fight your battles.

Another term that comes to my mind is "lemmings" because we all jump outa the MCC like a bunch of lemmings off a cliff.

Maybe someone can come up with some cool thing based off the fact that we are always using dropsuits. Like "dropbears" or some such silliness.

But in the end we are just a form of "augmented infantry". So maybe that is the name we would be called officially and Dust Bunnies would be the slang. But I still like the term gropos. ;)

in common speak we are dust mercs. or just mercs.
but to the lore we are also called empyrean's.
the same cloning tech is being used as the pod pilots, its just a miniaturized and implanted .

Einherjar.

The einherjar (Old Norse "single (or once) fighters") are those that have died in battle and are brought to Valhalla by valkyries

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einherjar

I am going to disagree with nephilim due to the recent over use by other platforms fiction and games.