Mercenary is fine.

Mercenary is fine.

So how exactly does the consciousness transfer process work, anyway?
Is there some centralized system that buffers the consciousness after death? Or does the consciousness instantly enter another body? The former seems to be implied by the map screen and spawn selection you get after death.

There are certainly times a FUS-RO-DAH would be useful in matches.

novam immortalem

that's the one.

Call us 'Suits.' Corporate lackeys to the almighty ISK.

Nephilim may be a fitting choice.

im gonna vote for "suits".


probably 5 years from now Eve CEO's will be threatening others that they will be sending suits to their planet.

Cavaliers? - Means a variety of things including, a "knight, mounted soldier," "a person with the spirit of a knight," and as far as adjectives go, "disdainfully proud." Would be a definite distinction for infantry such as ourselves but I also believe it rolls off the tongue quite well, especially when speaking of Capsuleers as well.

Cadavers? Kinda morbid but fitting in the EVE Universe. We don't have much of a good reputation anyway so it could probably fit. I also think it's ironic since you'll NEVER find a dead mercenary due to the mechanism that turns us into dust upon death and the fact that dying is pretty much a part of the job.

Edit: We're also pretty dead on the "inside" so it kinda works well with that.

DOUBLE EDIT:

If not those, what about Minute Men? I'm not sure if it's licensed or not but I do know it would suit is pretty well. It takes Dust mercenaries less than a minute to get fitted and drop down on a battlefield.

Fluid router in your spine sends state data to a predefined clone vat

Why not Effigy?

From Wikipedia:
"An effigy is a representation of a specific person in the form of sculpture or some other three-dimensional medium. The use of the term is normally restricted to certain contexts in a somewhat arbitrary way: recumbent effigies on tombs are so called, but standing statues of individuals, or busts, are usually not. Likenesses of religious figures in sculpture are not normally called effigies. Effigies are common elements of funerary art, especially as a recumbent effigy (in a lying position) in stone or metal placed on a tomb, or a less permanent "funeral effigy", placed on the coffin in a grand funeral, wearing real clothing. Figures, often caricature in style, that are damaged, destroyed or paraded in order to harm the person represented by magical means, or merely to mock or insult them or their memory are also called effigies.

It is common to burn an effigy of a person ("burn in effigy") as an act of protest.

The word comes, perhaps via French, from the Latin, meaning "representation", and originally was used in English in the plural onlyGÇöeven a single image was "the effigies of ...". The word occurs in Shakespeare's As You Like It of 1600 (II, vii, 193), though it first appears in 1539. "In effigie" was probably understood as a Latin phrase until the 18th century.[1]"

Capsuleers are represented by their ships that they become one with. Dust mercenaries, or dare I say Effigies, are a literal physical representation of the human being they represent. May I also note, unless they are being burned or discarded, Effigies are meant to last the test of time, AKA immortal.

Something to think about.

Fluid router in your spine sends state data to a predefined clone vat

We already have a name


IMMORTALS

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Capsuleers are also immortal.

Cons as we are all just plug and play consciousness.

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