MrShooter01
Expert Intervention
Caldari State
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Posted - 2013.02.11 00:18:00 -
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Icy Tiger wrote:JP the Merc wrote:Disturbingly Bored wrote:JP the Merc wrote:But it's not like we are criminals right? We're worse than criminals. We're an existential threat to the established order of things. Then aren't we the superior? Technically yes. We're the war tools they didn't want, but need.
We're the best of the best, we answer to nobody. When we die, we remember how it happened. We remember where the enemy emplacements were. And we go right back into battle to correct our mistake. Death is just a learning experience.
Where conventional armies have to worry about things like morale and human life, we will happily go on suicide missions for any reason at any time for the right price. Normal human beings think war is horrifying, we think it's profitable entertainment.
Our very existence is a nightmare for the people of New Eden. Immortal, fearless soldiers sold to the highest bidder, who can only reliably be repelled by hiring more immortal soldiers to fight back, or by causing catastrophic damage to the environment with orbital weapons.
Priceps Gaius wrote:Why doesn't everyone in the EvE universe become immortal themselves? Is it expensive to get this immortality implant? I mean, hell, the capsuleers have had their immortality for God knows how long, they've just been too jealous to share it. My question is, what's so special about this immortality thing that we as dirty mercs have?
The cloning technology uses by the capsuleers is different from the tech we're using. The short version is it uses a brain scanner outside your body to transfer the state of every neuron in your brain to a clone body. It requires absurdly ideal conditions and bulky equipment that you can't exactly walk around with.
After the capsule technology was invented, some guy said "hey, the pilots cybernetically connected to the ship are in one spot all the time that they can't move from ANYWAYS, why don't we put a brain scanner there too?"
And SHAZAM! The people who can control giant spaceships with absurd levels of efficiency and skill with their brains are now IMMORTAL.
Thing is, if they're taking a stroll outside of their pods they're just as squishy and murderable as any average joe, which is why you almost never hear of capsuleers leaving the safety and immortality of their pods in anything less than a maximum security area.
The fun cloning technology we are using allows us to die wherever we damn well feel like, public areas be damned! It's probably really expensive, though. Maybe more and more people will begin to have access to it. Maybe we'll move towards a future where everybody (still alive) in New Eden is immortal.
The question is, now that far superior cloning technology exists, when are the capsuleers going to start using our version so they don't have to be so paranoid about leaving safety? Is there prehaps some limitation to it, like not being able to transmit the absurd amount of information in the average capsuleer brain? (You think driving a tank is hard, how about knowing how to precisely control every electrical and mechanical system of every ship ever made as if it was a living part of your body WITH YOUR BRAIN?) |