Entertainment.

And if anyone maintains some level of defiance that the Lore is everything you could ever wish for in a story - jump onto Tranq and go take a look at 'The Monolith' which currently is at 1AU away from planet V moon V in the Dead End system.

There is also an identical one elsewhere...but it jumps around a bit, like house of pain.

The description of the Monolith remains the same as it's always been "It's full of stars".

So, you got CCP referencing another science fiction story inside of their science fiction story - and even allowed it into the evelopedia here.

AK

Entertainment.

And if anyone maintains some level of defiance that the Lore is everything you could ever wish for in a story - jump onto Tranq and go take a look at 'The Monolith' which currently is at 1AU away from planet V moon V in the Dead End system.

There is also an identical one elsewhere...but it jumps around a bit, like house of pain.

The description of the Monolith remains the same as it's always been "It's full of stars".

So, you got CCP referencing another science fiction story inside of their science fiction story - and even allowed it into the evelopedia here.

AK

Nah, the Lore uses the terms 'build' and 'construct'; not 'transport' and yes, they were built and were needed, which is why the sistas of EVE have got the original gate with "EVE" written on it.

It isn't a riddle; there is nothing enigmatic about it at all - take a step back and look at the big picture:

Someone wrote the Lore to work with the design of the game, not to work with logical reasoning.

It is not logical. It doesn't make sense. It is not supposed to make sense. It is not supposed to be logical.

The original screenshots of this game had blue-tooth headsets as futuristic methods of communication. Go figure, and please stop attempting to defend something so utterly flawed and accept it for what it is:

Entertainment.

And if anyone maintains some level of defiance that the Lore is everything you could ever wish for in a story - jump onto Tranq and go take a look at 'The Monolith' which currently is at 1AU away from planet V moon V in the Dead End system.

There is also an identical one elsewhere...but it jumps around a bit, like house of pain.

The description of the Monolith remains the same as it's always been "It's full of stars".

So, you got CCP referencing another science fiction story inside of their science fiction story - and even allowed it into the evelopedia here.

AK

I hope you are not labouring under the erroneous assumption that real life history is logical and makes sense

I'm sure there are lots of places that the whole pod pilot thing could take a character, and I've explored that a little bit, but I don't want my main character to be restricted to a capsule during what are surely the most interesting parts of the story.

Why would the most interesting aspects of a capsuleer story be inside a pod?

I was suggesting that being in a space ship in space could be the most interesting part of the story. And during that interesting part of the story I don't want to confine my lead character to a pod.

Not all capsuleers have a blood-lust for violence ....

... I guess I refuse to believe the future of the human race will only have capsuleers who want to destroy stuff, when the majority of pilots run missions ...

While your entire post was great, this part stuck out (yes, I am taking your statements out of context, but this is what stuck with me). Mostly because, I don't follow how you can say that not all capsuleers have a blood-lust, then go on to talk about the missioners.

I sometimes think that EVE has a problem with scale. Just can't really buy the fact that the Crew pods are too small for the overview if mine, which can't be way too bigger than theirs, isn't. Not only that, but i happen to believe that one, ten or one hundred escape pods may bail out unoticed, but not the thousands that bigger ships have.

Again on scale, i cannot see how a single pod like mine, when put side to side with, say, a cruiser, could correspond to, at least, one half of the number of passengers CCP tells that it can accomodate. Well, they could have explained the lack of pods in the overview with gameplay reasons, and not lore ones.

Thoughts on that?

I sometimes think that EVE has a problem with scale.
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Thoughts on that?

...you might also want to check out the entry on Bellisario's Maxim...

"The Wetgrave" would seem to imply that it is "possible" to leave the pod in space. Though the ship would need the redundant control systems to allow ships to operate without a capsuleer. Whether these systems are present in Capsuleer production ships isn't clarified, that I know of..
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You should, they have so much shocking info!

Like, plot holes? General inconsistencies? flawed logic? bad grammar, syntax?

Or worst of all;

A complete lack of EVE Lexicon and / or any attempt at phonological assimilation between the 5 races?

AK

Okay, so tell me, which ones are those inconsistencies and plot holes? I foresee great "collisions" like the previous guy saying "oh but this is IMPOSSIBLE, nothing in-game hinted that the sleepers could be part of the Jove empire!!".

I was under the impression that Capsuleer-piloted ships had no crew. That due to the connections in the pod, they essentially were the ship, and didn't require anyone else.

If I am wrong, please correct me, as I'm planning some Eve fiction. Thanks.

They sign up because they can make more aboard a ship on a short tour than they can the rest of their natural lives at regular salaries.

History has no shortage of people willing to risk life and limb just at the mere possibility of becoming wealthy.

We have to imagine capsuleer payouts to crew as substantial, not to mention insurance policies to the families of deceased crews. There's more than enough money involved for ships to be constantly crewed by willing individuals.

I always assumed that there is no crew present on any other ship other than carriers, unless you actually choose to keep people. Reason being: to have any kind of crew on a ship which is inevitably going to be destroyed would be INSANELY expensive. So the only crew are the people which you purchase off the market. Carriers specifically because they have fighters which do have people to pilot them. The other reason i think this way, is that when doing missions our ships are vastly superior to the staffed ships, and the justification for our superior power is the connection between captain and ship. A staffed ship will take longer to react and does not work as fluently as capsuleers. This results in far poorer accuracy, lock time, speed, and tank. So the reason we never see any interaction between a crew is because there is non.