and like i said before, the players of EVE have their say in this also, and i think, no, i'm positively sure they're not gonna let it happen

I'm sure that they do like the concept; it's such a fun idea, it would be amazing, but it cannot happen without putting EVE players at the mercy of Dust players. It would come down to mercenaries saying "move us here or we wont defend you" or "give us this or we will kill you" perhaps even "ha, you paid us to board and protect your ship.... bad idea. *proceed to list ransom demands*".

what i'm saying is beyond in-situ..... but you're not listening....

Then tell me, how are mercs going to move between stantions/planets/systems/regions if we have to be lugged around by EVE players? Dust mercs are capable of independent movement.

The fact that you think Dust is supposed to rely on EVE for all of its supply, shows that you are unaware of what Dust is meant to be in relation to EVE. CCP have directly stated that if one game were removed from the server, the other would survive just fine.

Dust is going to have manufacturing, resource gathering, somehow even sovereignty. Having a corporation made 100% of Dust players, will be able to provide for all of their own needs, and own their own planets/systems.

That said, giving Dust players the ability to board player owned ships, would sky rocket their value, and suddenly EVE would rely on Dust. It would make having mercenaries aboard your ship for protection, a necessity in hauling, PvP, exploring, mining, etc. If you did not having anyone aboard your ship, a group of total noobs would be able to take you out, so long as they have some Dust players to throw at you.

The all of the ships main functions are controlled by the capsuleer as far as I know, and mercenaries are created specifically as war machines, they don't have much other value. So what "actions" would they be tasked with?

We could use dust soldiers to harvest areas far to dangerous/expensive to pay a for a non immortal to give up 20 years of schooling for in one shot.

Belive it or not mercs and capsuleers are 'cost effective' vs using regular humans.

The only kind of ship boarding that's possible is mcc boarding in the style of bf2142, there are ex dice at ccp so maybe that will happen at some point, but as far as eve ship boarding goes.........forGET it! Not gonna happen......ev-er.
like someone else posted on this thread....they would have to create full maps for the ships interior, x that buy the amount of ships IN new eden.....on top of all the data for the planetary maps.............toooooooo much data.

The major issue with ship boarding is that both parties will have to sit around for 10-20 minutes. In high sec concord will just come and blow the offender up, In Nullsec the person being boarded can just call his friends and they'll destroy the other guy.

Plus it is much easier to just kill someone yourself then sit around for that long waiting.

cough, cough ur a *** cough, cough

While it can be used to mine its a waste of a hull with the new mining changes in that gives some barges more hp than some battleships and of course better yeild.

Unfourtuantely its in published material, EON magazines. Capsuleer ships have some extremly nasty defenses becuase they can be more automated than regular crewed ships which is more reliant on crew to repell intruders and even worse is the outership defenses, trying to dock with an active eve ship that doesnt want you to dock can be rather dangerous.

Only once in the lore had a capsuleer ship had ever been boarded without inbound incident all because slaves aboard the ships released a poision that forced evactuation of the entire crew and pod captain. The slaver hounds left on the ship ate well that night however and they wherent even part of the original defense plans.