Sam Albertek
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Posted - 2006.01.16 08:56:00 -
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Ok, lets put it this way
The ship has a crew. Like someone said, we're going under the assumption that we place a value on human life.
Has anyone thought of ancient Japanese society? if a samurai told you to kill yourself, you had to listen, or the samuari would kill you and think nothing of it. If you were rude to samurai you died. Thats what the crewmen are, the regular citizens, who must blindly obey everything told to them by the pod pilot, the samurai.
Given the fact that the gallente are a democratic race, and democraties veiw people as equal, dont forget that the crew members can have clones.
Now, for the idea of us all being hairless people in pods. The pod is connected to our brains. the pod can send any information into our brain, making it appear to each of our senses that we are on the bridge of a ship. the pod is hardwired into the ships control, so the pod knows whats going on. the crewmembers can only see the pod, but get orders and know what to do.
so yes, we are hairless people in pods. but we can choose to have the pod give us a bridge to look at. or it can personify the ship, bonding our mind and the ship, so that our brain runs as if it IS the ship, and does everything by itself. so thats how we have or dont have crews. whether our pod shows us a brige or makes us the ship.
As for leaving the pod, we obviously do. it would get very lame being stuck in goo all the time. so, when we dock, our pod ejects and goes into a compartment for it. the goo is drained, the covering is released, and the pilot can put some clothes on. then he can leave the pod and see the real world. then the pilot goes back into the pod, and gets covered in the protection, plugged in, and put back in the ship. or the pilot can stay in the pod (boring) and tell the crew what to do.
Also during idle time, the pilot can leave his pod, and because of this there is a small plug still in the neural jack in the pilots neck, communicating with the ship. so all of these debates are just based on what the pilot prefers
each pilot has the same crew all the time. the crew doesnt need to eject into a pod, the pod just needs to have each of the crewmembers DNA, so that once the pod enters the station, the crew members are cloned. if the pod is destroyed, a backup of each crew members DNA is stored at the station where your clone is at. most of us forgot that this is in the future, and a lot of things are possible.
anyways, i hope this can be a compromise for all these debates. if it isnt, dont say i didnt try.
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