"The best clones are constructed from human cadavers..." from http://www.eveonline.com/background/cloning/clon_02.asp
This got me thinking. After your first death in a pod you are borrowed meat, recycled form biomass, any biomass.
Does that make a capsuleer undead? A Frankenstein's Monster? A Golem?
Make up your own mind, for me all the pilots of New Eden are living on borrowed time in a state of technological post mortem animation. We stride the stars as Gods but are composed of the waste of the universe. Is this why we span the full spectrum of ethics and morals?
What about our souls ? (If you believe in them)
Does the soul come across in the infomorph?
Or does each capsuleer lose and essential part of his/her make up in their first death experience? Might explain why isk and renown are more favoured by the pod pilot class than any other of the social levels of New Eden.
Does this casual attitude towards the death of the body engender the low regard we have for the death of tens, hundreds, even thousands of the men and women who crew our vessels? It is important to remember that when your flying anything larger than a frigate you have living breathing people roaming the hull you are piloting. For the doubters...http://www.eveonline.com/ingameboard.asp?a=topic&threadID=1243933.
When lose your ship the first thing you do is spam warp to a celestial so those lasers, bullets, missiles, and gobs of superheated plasma don't rip your pod apart. A good thing if you make it out, you keep your implants (significant investment for most pilots), save the cost of a new clone, the inconvenience of waking up in a vat far, far away, and if you're like me a whopping migraine. The transfer always gives me a migraine.
When, if ever, do we think of the men and women who died when our ship died? Or those lucky/unlucky enough to survive the death of the ship and cling to life in its crippled hull? Are they press ganged by your opponents, left to suffocate, die of exposure, thirst, or starvation? Or do they end up as red goo covering salvaged components?
How many of our former crew end up as biomass for cloning programs*?
Food for thought...Are we Masters or Monsters of our own destiny?
*"Soylent Green is people!"
