So, this used to be my basic understanding of Factions. There are four factions named Amarr, Caldari, Gallente, and Minatar. Amarr and Caldari formed alliances and Gallente and Minatar are aliies with each other as well. Thus I thought the war was Amarr, Caldari VS Gallente, Minatar and the my Factions (in my case is Gallente) pays me(the mercenaries) in ISK to either defend from or attack the enemies. However, when I played the game, I saw mercenaries from my Faction in enemy team... So now I am really lost. Can someone help me to understand how this Faction and Corporation works?

So, this used to be my basic understanding of Factions. There are four factions named Amarr, Caldari, Gallente, and Minatar. Amarr and Caldari formed alliances and Gallente and Minatar are aliies with each other as well. Thus I thought the war was Amarr, Caldari VS Gallente, Minatar and the my Factions (in my case is Gallente) pays me(the mercenaries) in ISK to either defend from or attack the enemies. However, when I played the game, I saw mercenaries from my Faction in enemy team... So now I am really lost. Can someone help me to understand how this Faction and Corporation works?

You're an Immortal Merc. Regardless of your race, everyone hates you. You're a dirty, subversive, unpredictable thorn in side of all four cosmic empires. Amarr, Caldari, Gallente, and Minmatar together only have two methods for dealing with you:

ISK or bullets. And they switch between these methods often.

Make sense?

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.

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?

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?

Then aren't we the superior?

Yeah, I wanna know as well.

Lore is yummy to me.

You're an Immortal Merc. Regardless of your race, everyone hates you. You're a dirty, subversive, unpredictable thorn in side of all four cosmic empires. Amarr, Caldari, Gallente, and Minmatar together only have two methods for dealing with you:

ISK or bullets. And they switch between these methods often.

Make sense?

But it's not like we are criminals right?

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?)

Thanks for fixing what I messed up with the quote thing lol


While this is a fantastic explaination I think u may be wrong about the capsuleers dieing permanently out of pod.
Because I believe how it works is the knowledge is downloaded somewhere and stored but each clone can only hold so much knowledge before you need to update it. This means that an exact replica of your personality is on a computer somewhere waiting to be applied to the next clone. However if you learnedly to much before updating your clone that excess knowlgdge would be left out off the clone.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that they wouldn't die even when not in pod just their knowledge they gain would not be uploaded into their clone while out of pod.