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Persephone Alleile
Tartarus Covert Operations
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Posted - 2016.11.29 20:39:03 -
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It's interesting to see the different ways we all ended up in the capsuleer program.
My parivaar (a parivaar is communal social group that makes up the basic political unit on my home planet) sponsored my capsuleer application with communal funds. Most of the parivaar's income comes from the export of wooden crafts and goods to the Gallente. The natural materials trend is still going strong in the Federation so they do quite well. Currency is not used in the planetary economy and is mostly used for trade with off-worlders or given to members who have to go off-world, so it wasn't a huge drain to pay for my capsuleer training.
Normally they wouldn't blow such a large amount on one person but this was at the recommendation of Ramjat Idama, a local religious leader who suggested this path to me.
I don't remember the training itself as being too arduous, there was some basic physical and psychological conditioning but most of it was in class material covering the physics of space travel, training on electronic systems and various docking/stargate activation protocols, etc.
Our Alpha brothers and sisters seem to have less thorough training, but they are also approved for far less hardware or skill software. |
Persephone Alleile
Tartarus Covert Operations
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Posted - 2016.11.30 15:46:47 -
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Mizhara Del'thul wrote:The only other explanation is that immediately upon graduation nine out of ten capsuleers went out and had a lobotomy in order to remove every scoop of brain goo not absolutely required to function in a pod.
Synaptic remapping can have some interesting side effect, especially when most capsuleers prioritize all other cognitive functions over those that enable the development of social skills.
I also sometimes wonder if there are other metaphysical causes for some capsuleer behaivour. I've noticed a disturbing trend among Empyreans who seem to believe they are in some kind of simulation or game. |
Persephone Alleile
Tartarus Covert Operations
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Posted - 2016.12.16 16:44:58 -
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Praevus wrote:Persephone Alleile wrote:Mizhara Del'thul wrote:The only other explanation is that immediately upon graduation nine out of ten capsuleers went out and had a lobotomy in order to remove every scoop of brain goo not absolutely required to function in a pod. Synaptic remapping can have some interesting side effect, especially when most capsuleers prioritize all other cognitive functions over those that enable the development of social skills. I also sometimes wonder if there are other metaphysical causes for some capsuleer behaivour. I've noticed a disturbing trend among Empyreans who seem to believe they are in some kind of simulation or game. What makes you think you are not in one? Human brain is easily fooled. Why are you so sure that pod of yours is actually in a ship that goes somewhere, or that there is a pod, or even your physical cloned body, at all? You may as well be an uploaded conscience in a virtual universe, a part of a Sleeper experiment, for example. Knowing their technology, you wouldn't tell the difference.
Agreed. And since you couldn't tell the difference, is there really one? What it comes down to is experiences. The one thing we can be sure is real is the effect our experiences have upon us, so does it matter if the experience is 'real' or virtual?
In such a case is there really much point in engaging with the world as though it is a simulation? Why not submerge yourself into it and accept your experiences as real and learn from them what you can? |
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