Avallo Kantor
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Posted - 2015.10.06 06:59:00 -
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One key aspect of the lore is that all of the stuff we use on a daily basis is not some "plug and play" equipment that any mook off the street is capable of using. The whole point of SP abstractions in EVE and DUST is that it takes a long amount of training and skill to operate the equipment we do. For spaceships this can be more "easily" done for mere mortals via years of training, VR simulation spaces, and the fact that most naval vessels aren't being slaughtered by the millions. As for petty crew, well they are more a dime a dozen for most menial tasks.
Soldiers on land however have always been more resource intensive due to the high attrition rates of ground combat. This is why most soldiers are not actually outfitted in dropsuit technology. It is not a matter of cost but of skill and training, and the fact that many of these systems link up directly to the body so certain... augmentations have to be made.
All of this time and training however is easily lost in an instant via a single sniper bullet or likewise so such units have always been used by elite forces (such as the Elite Valkears or the Black Eagles) who had the training necessary to use them, and the skills / expertise needed to ensure a high survival rate. Anybody capable of wearing a dropsuit to any useful degree has undergone intense training, body augmentation, and has been deemed skilled enough for this training to be worth while.
The introduction of sleeper-derived neural cloning centers (the implants that allow us to be immortals without a pod) has allowed for a shift in fundamental practices of this as anybody who could be successfully integrated with such technology (i.e all of us) could -easily- accrue the experience needed to operate dropsuits and other high skill weapons to high degrees, AND be able to then field these soldiers without risk of losing that incredibly valuable experience.
To the mortal forces of the Universe we are valuable due to our ability to retain experience and then having that experience to operate the most complicated prototype weaponry and dropsuits available. In "current" New Eden Warfare military commanders are less worried about the cost of equipment and supplies and more worried about the cost of experience and skilled personnel. To manufacture a prototype dropsuit is nothing compared to obtaining somebody with the skills to use it to any real degree. With that in mind, no commander in their right mind is going to just throw away any number of mortal soldiers with useful experience against immortals unless the need was -truly- dire, and the battles we fight simply do not qualify.
"Mind Blown" - CCP Rattati
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