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Checkcheckit
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Posted - 2010.03.25 17:09:00 -
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Thanks for this beautiful chronical Abraxas, especially something so calming in a time of personal spiritual trials. 
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HeliosGal
Caldari
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Posted - 2010.03.26 05:21:00 -
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very calming
Signature - CCP what this game needs is more variance in PVE aspects and a little bit less PVP focus, more content more varied level 1-4 missions more than just 10 per faction high sec low sec and 00 |
Phelony MPulse
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Posted - 2010.03.26 21:12:00 -
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I found the pacing excellent, the implications subtly stated but the sense of need and loss almost palpable. The final stanza on acceptance of identity and loss of identity is really well written, just enough that you have to re read it, just as I am sure you did and others have done. A rounded short story without the need for padding or exposition.
Short story writing really is an art and one sometimes sadly beeing lost to us, this is a lovely example.
Kudos.
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ghostfall
Amarr
New Hanseatic Holdings
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Posted - 2010.03.27 03:17:00 -
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Edited by: ghostfall on 27/03/2010 03:17:35
I dont know why but i found this enviroment very relaxed. i have always enjoyd manual labour their is a satisfaction to be ataind, the mine's on the other hand dont sound so fun.
Is there any chance that maybe all these short stories will be released in a book, i want to print them off and have them bound but sadly our binding dept. has been out sourced so making a book my self is no longer a option.
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Typhado3
Minmatar
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Posted - 2010.03.30 05:35:00 -
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Edited by: Typhado3 on 30/03/2010 05:38:15
very nice chron, made my ride to uni much more enjoyable.
One thing I was wondering though was if this community is related to the community mentioned in the play at fanfest "the silver twin".
Another thing that has been on my mind a lot lately is where do capsuleers come from? One thing we hear very little about is the creation or history of capsuleers, or at least I havn't been able to find much on it. What little I know is we come from somewhere in new eden get trained as capsuleers in schools hope to avoid a fate like the jovian wet grave and if we do we graduate and join the ranks of capsuleers leaving everything from our life before that behind us.
Is it just incredibly common for people to abandon all friends and family after they become a pod pilot? or are we nobodies picked out of society because we showed some sign of being able to control a pod (medichlorine count  ).
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Kenetheris
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Posted - 2010.03.31 19:37:00 -
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 Originally by: Typhado3
Edited by: Typhado3 on 30/03/2010 05:38:15
Another thing that has been on my mind a lot lately is where do capsuleers come from? One thing we hear very little about is the creation or history of capsuleers, or at least I havn't been able to find much on it. What little I know is we come from somewhere in new eden get trained as capsuleers in schools hope to avoid a fate like the jovian wet grave and if we do we graduate and join the ranks of capsuleers leaving everything from our life before that behind us.
Is it just incredibly common for people to abandon all friends and family after they become a pod pilot? or are we nobodies picked out of society because we showed some sign of being able to control a pod (medichlorine count ).
Afaik the school part is all. You apply to become a capsuleer get accepted and train for it. Pre capsuleer wealth might have something to do with it but than imo with a profession like this where personal talents and power (as in willpower and all that not social or other) matters so much people from all walks of the universe have a chance, you can be as wealthy as you want but if you are weak willed and die from the rigging or get mindlocked it wont matter.
Ofcourse just like irl being wealthy with a lot of influence can help to lets say, put your place forward during the application process but it ends there as the training is the same and skipping it or slacking will get you killed.
I haven't seen anything that mentions training time or failure rate but i guess that it's pretty steep.
Considering a capsuleers power the amount currently active is pretty high, on the other hand compared to the scale of the (current) EVE universe its still pretty small.
I don't think that all capsuleers cut ties after they get into business. If i would be a capsuleer irl i would defo use my wealth to help out my family and friends from my "previous" life.
I doubt that there is a magical quality in play that makes you the "chosen one" though.
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Trabber Shir
Caldari
5I Incorporated
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Posted - 2010.04.06 16:01:00 -
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Originally by: Typhado3
Edited by: Typhado3 on 30/03/2010 05:38:15
Another thing that has been on my mind a lot lately is where do capsuleers come from? One thing we hear very little about is the creation or history of capsuleers, or at least I havn't been able to find much on it. What little I know is we come from somewhere in new eden get trained as capsuleers in schools hope to avoid a fate like the jovian wet grave and if we do we graduate and join the ranks of capsuleers leaving everything from our life before that behind us.
Is it just incredibly common for people to abandon all friends and family after they become a pod pilot? or are we nobodies picked out of society because we showed some sign of being able to control a pod (medichlorine count ).
As far as I can remember, the only place in the prime fiction where the selection of capsuleer trainees is discussed is in the Emperian Age novel where it says Heth joined the regular military because he was rejected from capsuleer training due to a genetic affinity for mind lock, or something like that. Which implies it is a lot like military recruiting, but a gene test is part of the physical exam. However, that would seem to apply to navy capsuleers like the Gallente pair followed in the Emperian Age novel, not to us freelancers with questionable loyalty and our own ships.
Oh, yea, there was also Jamyl making that pilot a capsuleer at the end of the novel, but that was an extreme case that tells us nothing about how a typical capsuleer comes becomes a capsuleer.
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