Or the pod could be like a fancy escape pod/the captain’s battle station. I think a bridge would be cooler. The captain’s chair could have all of the same hookups and essentially be the pod that extracts the Captain upon ship destruction. I really like eve but I think the whole pod thing is cheesy, ships are team environments and even if there was a mental hook up like that you still cant multitask with your wet ware as a human. especially for capital ships that are monstrosities. in short you still need thumbs to run a ship. so I agree with you on that.