
Arcos Vandymion
The Advent of Faith Standing United.
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Posted - 2013.09.29 06:35:00 -
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Ishtanchuk Fazmarai wrote:Daelmaron Fyresong wrote:Stitcher wrote:pilots have access to expensive cybernetics, expensive weapons, expensive armour and gear, and if it comes to that, can afford to pay for an elite bodyguard. The pilot themselves may or may not be a dangerous combatant, but the two ex-megacorporate "Personnel Affairs Agents" with DUST implants in their heads and augmented muscles who are following them at a discrete distance in nice and anonymous, but capacious suits?
Bear in mind, in real life there is such a thing as armoured clothing, to be worn by politicians. It's good enough to stop a 9mm handgun at point blank range. and in the EVE world, we know dropsuits have shield emitters, maybe you can buy more discreet ones that operate under clothing.
So the scenario is: you attack the capsuleer. With their heightened cybernetic reflexes, they dodge the attack, or with their expensive armoured executive clothing and shield emitter belt they are spared the worst of it. An instant later their bodyguard have drawn scrambler pistols and you are now a microwave dinner. The capsuleer pays any fines and expenses to the station management and loses the miniscule cost in a cunning tax return the next time they sell a shipment of missile launchers. Your corpse is thrown in the biomass vats and used to fertilise the stations' hydroponics bay. If you think about it this is probably the most accurate. The fact that capsuleers are intimidating is almost entirely because of their massive amounts of wealth and lets face it, if you know that the guy you are talking to just docked a dreadnought in the hangar because you watched his ship come in and dock whilst dreaming of owning one yourself and roaming the stars you probably would not want to harm him anyway. Not just because there is likely a bodyguard that is/was a DUST soldier or ex-megacorp agent that would have you dead before you could move an inch if they suspected you meant harm to their employer who is paying them copious amounts of money that is legitimately just chump change for him/her but because you would just have the awe factor that they can command such massive machines of war and death. Frankly, my dear, if I had to kill you, I would use your elite DUST cyberwarrior bodyguard to do the job...  There is no impregnable security. Defenders must succeed 100% of the time, whereas agressors just need to succeed 1 chance in any random number. You can make the number high or very high and thus the chance low or very low, but anyway that time is going to come and agressors will win. The best defense is that nobody wants to attack you. And capsuleers are notoriously inept at that. 
Shadowrun anyone? ^^ "Never make a deal with a Dragon, er capsuleer..."
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