With Upwell Consortium developing a new (and rather drastic) way of collecting minerals from moons, we as a civilisation must take a moment to consider the implications of this, are the mineral resources in the cluster at such a low level, that we now have to literaly take entire moons apart? ofcourse, moonmining as it is affectionaly called by us indepenent capsuleers, has been a part of immortal life in the outer regions for more then a decade, but not on a scale like this. Whats next? mining entire planets to sustain our way of life?
I ofcourse know that scaling back the consumtion of resourses of a civilisation of many trillions is for all intents and purposes impossible, so what is the next best idea? expansion.
I am not a expert on exploration, so correct me if i am wrong, but new eden does not exist in a intergalactic void or is it? so i wonder why the empires havenât extended the stargate network to stars near the cluster. If only we had the ability to construct stargates.
Any others who have wondered about these kinds of issues?
We still have null security space, that Empires put their eyes on⌠or not yet. I guess when the Empires will decide to take control over that, they will start expanding into new territories and push eggers to âcolonizeâ new worlds, as good CONCORDâs pets, just like modern nullsec alliances do.
Humans in EVE have gotten more dumb than before the wheel was invented on the Old Earth. Pure luck the entire civilization doesnât kill itself accidentally with a spoon while eating Yoghurt. The New Eden cluster will lose connections to sun systems, because when Stargates cease to function people donât know how to fix it. Pressing a button will somehow not magically work. Poor humans. Need to live closer together, need to fight for ressources.
CONCORD and various governmental forces try to visit Curse every so often. It doesnât go well for them. Usually, all it takes is one dedicated Archangel to repel a decent-sized expeditionary force.
Please please, you lot, I am so serious and earnest now. This is not a joke at all. I have been home recently and looked up at the moon circling the planet I grew up on andâplease remember I am a minerâmy heart went a little cold.
Please remember when you are doing this that there are oceans and animals and little children like I was, who will be greatly afflicted if the tides change, because their moon changes, because people pulled great rotty chunks out of them for money.
If you must mine moonsâŚmine the ones around awful planets. Please.
I donât think there will be any battle.
If any Empire decides to attach nullsec system, it would happen this way:
Just CONCORD pulling switch - the system raises security level from -0.something to +0.someting. Gateguns appear. Souvereigny of nullsec alliance drops, Empire souvereignty appears. CONCORDâs wallet becomes thicker from Empire donation.
When nullseccers who âownedâ the system wake up after another drunken orgy, they find out they donât have souvereignty anymore and live now in low security system.
After all, all this so-called nullsec âsouvereigntyâ is nothing more than rent of space from CONCORD, which they can terminate at any moment, of course paying capsuleer alliance back unused part of rent.
First of all, itâs we, whoâve built stargates - we sent huge stargate building ships to other systems and built them. You know, they didnât just appear out of nothing, right? And be sure, that if a stargate will disconnect, best in the cluster scientists, who are Caldari, will light it back in no time, especially since there is already a structure on the other side and you donât neet to build a lot.
Moreover, I myself often get from one system to another without even using stargates. Who needs them, if you have a jump drive and a cyno? Just peasants, maybe~
Wherever we go, we strip our environment of its natural resources and move on. Now, a small percentage of us are immortal, and can continue to do this for eternity.
At some point, those resources are going to run out. Thatâs when life will get really interesting.
No more than pseudo-immortal, though. We still die. We just mostly have backups in place, or die where we can be immediately scanned into another body.
Our immortalityâs an illusion, like âcontrol.â And kind of for the same reason.
(Resource-wise, weâre pretty dependent on biomass, too.)
But then you need to maintain the automation. I mean, I replaced as many things as I could on my ships but even replacing personnel with drones I still need drone technicians to maintain the drones.