I am wondering about the reality behind pod pilot's mortality. Ok they can be killed but they are reborn as it where in a new clone. But is this technology only applicable to when they die in their pods?

Does it apply if say they get shot by their partners? Or run over by a station buggy? I find it all a bit confusing.

regards

Mori

The real value in Capsuleer AD&D insurance comes when capsuleers exit their pods and leave behind the capsule's unique cloning technology. While true that a capsuleer who perishes outside his pod can be resurrected through a process called soft-cloning, true death results if the backup clone is also destroyed in the same event, or prior to it. Additionally, soft-cloning is not instantaneous and the capsuleer will lose all memories and experience accrued since the last backup.

Hmm.. so basically capsuleer can get out of pod, do some bad things inside station, get killed afterwards and then remember nothing about it when the new clone is awakened?

supposedly the groundpounders in DUST 514 will have access to some kind of clonetech (to explain respawns, i suppose) if they can keep their skills, knowledges then i suppose the same will be able to be translated to a pod pilot.

So in that case if they have a nasty accident in-station then they lose nothing either.

From what I understand, the pod carries the neural-mapping technology that takes a "photo" of the pilot's brain activity upon detection of a pod breach. This is then transmitted to their new clone. Without that brain scan, or if the scan is somehow compromised, the clone never receives the data and the pilot's consciousness is destroyed.

Killed outside the pod, the pilot would also die just like anyone else. There are various theories for ways around this, but they are not in practice afaik. There are also "backup" clones for wealthier clients, which have their brain scans updated periodically. When the person dies, their clone is awakened and all memory from the last brain scan until the time of death is lost.

Hope this helps.

The first book, The Empyrean Age, contradicts this. Just look at the story woven around the Merchant (was that his nickname)? He died outside pod often and was re-juiced in a new clone.

Apperently it is VERY expensive to become a pod pilot or you would have had done a service or gain rank with a faction to recieve pod status. Even the rich wouldnt have the isk/resources to buy them pod status.

Dust players will be using another tech which would have a negative effect to the current tech used by pod pilots so i have read somewhere...

I for one accept the fact that i can fly in space knowing that deaths embrace might be welcoming for a brief moment but not permanaut!!!
If im in a station walking about, ill make sure im packing heat and avoid trouble where i go, hiding my pot holes on the back of my head and along my spine. Unless though im in a company of a beauty, if she freaks out well... I wont continue how bad that will end for her ;)

Hmm.. so basically capsuleer can get out of pod, do some bad things inside station, get killed afterwards and then remember nothing about it when the new clone is awakened?

supposedly the groundpounders in DUST 514 will have access to some kind of clonetech (to explain respawns, i suppose) if they can keep their skills, knowledges then i suppose the same will be able to be translated to a pod pilot.

So in that case if they have a nasty accident in-station then they lose nothing either.

As for the OP's question. We only clone when killed from our pods. Clone jumping from a station uses slightly different technology, and is not instantaneous or triggered automatically.

Hmm.. so basically capsuleer can get out of pod, do some bad things inside station, get killed afterwards and then remember nothing about it when the new clone is awakened?

If you had looked at all of the convo you would have Noticed Soft cloning so we can die out of our pods just we loose the memory of it pritty much

More specifically, since a soft clone is basically just a normal clone (as we in IRL understand clones), you would lose all memory between the point of the soft clone being made, and the time you died. There is no way to mimic this in game, of course, because there is no mechanical way for you to die outside of your pod. It's just a way we Silly RPers have got around the idea that we can leave our pods, and therefore be killed in an RP sense, but we would really rather not delete our characters (most of the time).

It's also a bit of an anti-godmoding thing.

John Varley's written some great (pre-EVE) SF around this very concept. Several of the stories in his The Barbie Murders collection revolve around cloning, memory recording and memory loss.

Glasshouse by my old schoolmate Charlie Stross also plays tricks with the concept.

The Broker is a special case and a special individual. It is posited by some that he may be a Sleeper, or a Jovian who has mastered infomorph technology..

He is more akin (I think) to the Caldari who uploaded himself into his own computer, only he seems to have the ability to move between mediums at will. And may have multiple clones active simultaneously. I have often wondered if Sansha has embarked on a similar path..