So if the transfer of a clones conscious is done electronically, wouldn't an EMP immediately after a clones death fry it?

Is there a limit to distance for the transfer?

EMP weaponry is common in EvE, as is shielding against it.

Moreover, the tech behind Clone soldiers does not originate with any of the four empires...

That's an interesting question I'd like to know too. So far, I have seen no sign that there is a max/min transfer distance.

It could also be some type of pseudo death. You could starve a merc until they died, only to have the re spawn with the feeling of hunger still with them. Then you'd just repeat that torture until they were nothing. Or you could have some injury that leaves the merc in a coma. They're not dead, so they don't come back into a new body, and their mind is gone so even a 'fresh brain' wouldn't do anything. Just my two cents

Personally, I'd love to make a story about the hardships of war when you're immortal, especially torture. If your body and mind will never forget the psychological pain inflicted on it, you would live out eternity in a daze at best and in a nightmare at worse. Your immortality would be rendered mute with torture

And people wonder why the immortal pilots and soldiers are considered inhuman.

Is that a reference to the capacity of merc to figure out how to inflict death (essentially) on someone who is truly immortal?
Or is that statement meant to highlight that the traumas of war really do change immortal humans into something else?

This is a very "For who the Bell Tolls" moment.

Do we as immortal clones lose any part of our humanity from the deaths of others? Are we shielded from that change (To some extent) by virtue of the fact that the bell can't ever toll for us?

Death does make a human for what he is, he only has one life.

There are however that extraordinary human who as some people would say be a better world had death not visited him. Unfortunately fate is picky and not everyone has a chance at the immortality enjoyed by the empyreans or elysians. I would say the 'sense of death' is dulled to the immortals as how one goes blind and deaf with age. They just quit caring about either at that point and go about as 'normal' as possible without that sense being available to them anymore. This greatly alters their habits to the point many no longer consider them a part of humanity but as something else because of the disconnect and alien lack of sense is in the uncanny valley.

Before you is a human, down to the every detail it is indistinguishable, but you know there is something wrong, something creepy about them and that is what disturbs most normal people about the capsuleers and mercenaries.