Moving this here to not derail Alicia’s thread.
I’m using the normal safety cut-outs in the pod. I’ve experienced combat in… near as I can tell… every major category of ship smaller than a titan—wait, and Rorquals and Orcas, haven’t gotten in a fight flying those… did get into one in an unarmed Porpoise once, but hey, I lived. Or… well, no, the other me lived, but you know what I mean. Anyway… every one of those ships was designed so the pod didn’t drive the pilot mad with agony in the middle of a sustained fight.
Because it would. Hell, it still almost does, but mostly that’s just the see-sawing of sensations as the incoming fire gets overlaid by the automatic repair systems… or, if you’re even luckier, remote repair systems.
If you were taking the sensations of a dreadnought gang pounding on you for over an hour without filter, you’d go insane. Heck, when you experience the sensation of your skin soaking up 300,000 gigajoules of Keepstar doomsday1, you’d instantly go catatonic. It’d be like getting hit in the head with a hammer.
And that’s to say nothing about how screwed the empires would be without those filters. Can you imagine the kind of lawsuit fodder navy capsuleers would have for workplace traumas intentionally and knowingly inflicted on them by their superiors, even in the Empire? Hyldýpund [autotrans: void, chasm, abyss], what kind of maniacs do you think the Big Four have in their fleets? Can you imagine how crippled the Fed would be if they were doing that to their own capsuleers? Because they couldn’t keep it a secret. Not even for half a decade, let alone two.
Well, considering that camera drone footage is, y’know, also not part of the burn scanner (the previous you is dead already, floating out there in the wreckage, so the scanner’s already finished—yes, I’ve seen those, too), here’s an easy way to avoid having to deal with those images:
Don’t look at the feed. Leave strict instructions with your medical bay to not give you that ridiculous and pointless video feed. Because no, I’m not particularly ready to ‘dismiss’ those images… I just don’t look at them, just like I don’t collect other peoples’ corpses. Both habits strike me as… a bit unhinged, and excessively morbid.
1. And yes, I survived a doomsday. I’ve survived them on three occasions. This is the one from the keepstar! I hope never to have to go through it again. But I promise, you don’t get anywhere near the full force of it.