Denak Kalamari
Intaki Liberation Front
Intaki Prosperity Initiative
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Posted - 2014.05.06 16:52:00 -
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I'll just make a small argument about the whole dusters not being persons thing from a lore perspective, I do agree that CCP Z's wording on the matter was a little exacerbated though. But consider the fact that for most dusters, a human body is a superfluous thing, a replaceable pile of flesh and bone. You die over and over again, sometimes more in a day than an average capsuleer dies within months. Since you can switch consciousnesses between bodies at pretty much any moment, the body itself becomes less important, what matters is the information its brain carries.
We are persons, yes. We have a personality, we like and dislike certain things and we have our quirks. But we don't really have a body to identify ourselves with, only our voice. Heck, I've yet to see any footage of a duster outside of his dropsuit aside a single trailer and one concept art with the helmet opened up. I would go as far as to say that we aren't 100% human because of it.
For many, selecting your favorite fitting was a matter of dropsuit aesthetics, not for the actual frequent usage of the dropsuit, as a way of distinguishing yourself from the others in a Warbarge. More often than not these favorite fittings were special edition suits, BPOs, aurum or any dropsuit with a special coloring on it. For me, and I am fairly certain for many others too, the type of dropsuit you selected to your favorite fitting became a part of your identity, a way to show your status and sometimes your views on different matters and alignment to factions and empires, much like clothing. The clothes you wear are as much part of your identity as is your face and your voice.
Then there's the fact that all clones that use dropsuits are mass-produced biomass, with no personal characteristics to speak of. And since I never leave my dropsuit, it may as well be my body, that's why I have a special kind of dropsuit for my favorite fitting so I distinguish myself from the others, instead of just being a faceless grunt. Instead of a body to identify myself, I have a dropsuit with a neat color scheme.
That's my 2 ISK on the subject.
Grahisha of ILF // Writer of Thoughts of a Clone Soldier // Latest entry published Apr. 1st
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