Mistalitarianism: A form of state coercion that operates through ontological absence rather than visible force—where you are compelled to obey judgments from tribunals the state refuses to prove exist, breaking your grip on reality rather than your bones.
By what authority? We exist in a simulation of justice that is in fact an administrative short-circuit to power.
If end-of-life as a baseliner is the limit of lawful jurisdiction, then Aguard, like the rest of the Capsuleer ‘community’ is literally and figuratively above the law.
The baseliners in their ignorance voted a Capsuleer into office, softened by Roden’s more or less genial term.
I see a world where Capsuleers in good faith with the Federation will have to define justice for their own.
She is not a capsuleer, just like the new Upwell clones are not capsuleers. She can’t even fly a speeder, much less a velator. She has aides do that for her.
Possibly a very very early prototype, but this was reported prior to Upwell and War-Clone tech became publicly available. Roden is a Capsualeer, stands to reason she is also.
Cloning existed before the Jove gave the empires of New Eden the capsule. The evidence lies in the fact that Celes had a week of lost time that comes with needing to update backup clones, where capsuleers scan the brain at the instant of death. https://universe.eveonline.com/scientific-articles/the-capsule-and-the-clone
Unless otherwise stated (like with Mr. Roden), clones are not capsuleers as it is more expensive to become a capsuleer than to have a simple clone backup. We have no evidence that Ms Aguard is a capsuleer.
It’s well-established that high-ranking non-capsuleers have clones. The notable exception, Tibus Heth, specifically had a disease that rendered him ineligible.
It’s a different technology than the transneural burning scanner capsuleers use, which is very high-powered and effectively instant, but also literally turns the scanned brain into mush in the process. Which is fine in a capsule, a pod breach is basically the same as death anyway.
What people like Aguard use is a much slower, but more gentle, scanner, and weekly hospital sessions where they basically spend hours laying in a big scanner to take a backup of their infomorph. If they die, a clone is revived with the latest available backup. They lose any memories that formed since that last backup, and arguably are rather copies than actually the same person, but the effect is essentially immortality anyway. Just far less convenient.
