I'm fine with finding a different name to refer to us as, but just slapping us with a name that has strong religious implications for no reason other than 'it sounds cool' isn't really my cup of tea. EVE players dont have a fancy name. I mean, capsuleers are called that because they're pioneers inside capsules. Or at least that's what I'm assuming. I may be using pioneer wrong. Not to mention your suggestions aren't something that'd work for everyone. Capsuleer as a term still manages to embody the entire EVE Playerbase because, regardless of what they choose to do, capsuleers is still what all of them are. Calling us apostates when there are still plenty of die hard faction loyal players who see themselves more as soldiers than mercenaries is a slap to their face.

On the other hand, though, I have no clue what I could possibly suggest for an alternative. I don't know any lore to cite potential terms from that, and most terms we'd use nowadays for the kind of people were playing, funnily enough, wouldn't make sense for the kind of people were playing. So many similarities, too many differences, and some of the more 'sensible' terms, like 'gunslinger', are outdated by the setting.

And on this third, invisible hand, I could just be talking entirely out my ass.

Since there's no denying that every single one of us is a clone, and the clones all eventually 'break', or go mad, maybe something to do with sickness, insanity, or violence?

I'm sorry, I don't mean to come off as rude here, but maybe I misunderstood. At we talking about terms that we, the players, use to refer to our in-game characters? Or are we talking about terms we, as our in-game characters, use to refer to each other?

Because if we're talking about what we, the players, refer to our characters as, it doesn't matter one iota what the Amarr say. If we're talking about an in-game term, then can't you just say whatever you want? Different races will call themselves different things and for different reasons. Of course the highly religious faction is going to use religious terms for what are basically immortal beings running their own armada and empires. And if we are talking about actual in-game terms, won't we need to come up with more than just a single, flat term for everyone, since obviously the Amarr has to be special?

But, again, I know next to nothing about the lore, so I'm speaking with nothing to back me up.

Even if the Amarr did create the first cloned soldiers in this manner, which they called Templars if I'm not mislead by the title of the book Templar One, however that seems oddly specific to them as a culture and not really encompassing what we are in New Eden.

Duster personally sounds fine to me for what we are currently. Pointless and non specialist super soldiers who are basically tossed into the sands outside places of real value and told that you're to be paid ridiculous sums for capturing jack ****.