My own parents are safe and sound. Though in the case of others who have lost their parents, a variety of factors could come into play, and any number of them could work together. Some may be increasingly motivated by their sorry lot in life to become something greater, rise above their circumstances and overcome the hand fate dealt them. Others may see it as simply worth a short because they have no remaining attachments, as has been mentioned above, and yet still there may well be alterations to the brain in response to this sort of trauma that increases compatibility. There is much room for research and survey.
Though while on the subject of family, can anyone tell me what the deal is with the Kado’s? There’s like… over a dozen Caldari capsuleers with that last name. Is there actually a whole extended family who are all capsule compatible?
Both of my parents are still alive.
Maybe orphans like that with cloning you can be your own parent.
I think maybe the Caldari and Minmatar have more orphans among them.
And whether your parents are making you look bad depends more on what they do while they are alive.
both my parents are alive, my wife, sevala, has only her father remaining, her mother died during the kyonoke crisis.
and our daughter obviously have both her parents alive.
Both my parents are dead, one of them funny enough at the hands of a capsuleer flying for the TLF, but this was after I’d already somewhat reach maturity of age. Certainly it motivated me to undertake capsuleer training when it came up as a possibility, but I’m not sure I’d class myself as an orphan in the same sense as those here who’ve lost their parents at a much younger age than I…
Not to skew your data set, Ms. Sharisa, but I don’t have a definitive answer. My parents raised me quite to my satisfaction, and we continued co-habitating into my adulthood. I worked their connections to secure a sponsorship for the STI capsuleer program, with their blessing. I had a fortunate childhood.
In YC116, their team won a contract for stellar research aboard an exploration vessel. Shortly after embarking in Scalding Pass, the ship went MIA. I’ve tried for years making inquiries with CAD and DED officials, but records related to the ship’s CISC are sealed, even to next-of-kin. All I know is that it was a capsuleer-led project.
To address your question: I had the benefit of parents, but if they’re still alive, I don’t know.
My mother is still alive and serves as a deacon in my family’s holdings. My father was called back to God before I’d even become old enough to formally forswear my allegiance, but given his profession and position, I wouldn’t say it came as a shock to anyone. My uncle took over raising me and I grew up in what I’d like to consider a warm and loving family.
I believe being an orphan is just one particular case. In general, people don’t off themselves for their clones to roam space as pseudo-immortal warship controlling interfaces because they had too good and proper life.
We all had something terrible happened in our life so we weren’t the “happy bunch” in the first place. Those who have happy good lives are still there, planetside, with their mothers and fathers, enjoying flowers and birds.
I do remember time when I had both parents and bitterness of losing one. And I do still have one parent alive, though, as in your case, it’s not death of a parent made me a pilot, something else has happened.
Of course, having a proper good family could have helped you bear through the problems and stay afloat without becoming an egger. But I don’t think that your parent will make you look bad in any way, or much different from the rest of us. As I said, we all have our problems, and being orphaned is just a particular case.
Or they manage a life with moments of bloodthirsty mayhem, lust and excess with a quiet contemplation and here and now moments with their loved ones by the river laying on a net and a fire.
Everything has a time, some just cultivate a diverse garden instead of an extractivist monoculture.
Well, my father was killed due to his beliefs as a diplomat, and my mother is relatively distant though I try to keep in touch. My sister d-died to one of my experiments in our youth… yeah. Try having that on a resume. The rest of my family was exiled/killed for their opposition to the “Gallente Idealism” during the end of the Caldari-Gallente War. Yep… n-not a so happy start though I remember meditating with my mentor by the reflecting waters of the nearest pond in my youth as it brought me much inner-joy and happiness.
I became a capsuleer to find Ida, to find myself amongst the stars and, maybe, the truth about everything.After reading Dr. Skylec’s thesis, I am imp-pressed. I have a PhD in Psychology, and that conclusion that Dr. Sky Seolec is possible but not sound completely by her lack of population though she does explain that this because of her funding and others’ compliance for information. There being a link, or at least association, between the two brings up that those with trauma MAY have a the likeli-i-ihood to have a better connection to capsule compatibility. I could be that those with that level of trauma could have a different brain function and pattern of our neurons as that our brains are mapped out like a civilization. More impactful events in that civilization tends to be more… impactful to those people than another that were not impacted, either as much or at all. Sometimes more than our animalistic instincts. Nature vs. Nurture though I digress also.
A scaring, traumatic memory will leave a mountainous impression upon a child’s memory than, say… the amount of sand within the sandbox or s-something though it may, as some say that joyful memories are better in ways for brain function. They would be correct, but it’s just that traumatic memories are more raw and chaotic. One is not grounded to any specific moral system, and they can be molded into the perfect being. Yet, this can also be the down fall, too, as something that is chaotic will not stay in a particular form of thought as we all are chaotic beings, taking in the purest of Free Will. Those with those really joyful memories that hold as much effect on the mind as the traumatic ones tend to stay grounded in tradition and won’t jump on dangerous chances that could ruin one’s life, but these are the most driven in my opinion. Nature (instincts) vs. Nurture (life teachings or experience). This is why they do extensive and elaborate mental testing and stressing. To see if you have the compatibility to the capsuleer technology and the emotional and mental trigger itself.
In short, no. Your parents are not making you look bad. In fact, they actually helped you become a capsuleer, either for better or for worse. Either way, be thankful for what you have as some have already stated, friend.
I cannot speak for others, but I know that in the period which I was reawakened, the era of the State’s fledgling attempts to meld the clone and the pod technologies together, security had been prioritized as one of the topmost concerns. Candidates such as myself were selected both in part due to our natural abilities and lack of attachments due to our orphaned state.
We would keep the secrets of the State and avenge our lost families.
When I arrived in Luminaire at the dawn of the Capsuleer Era I had no way of knowing then what devastation I would in turn inflict upon the universe. I can only surmise that it was advantageous to all the empires to lean heavily toward this method.
Plausible deniability in the face of failed experimentation, immortal god-kin with only a connection to the empires from whence they came.
Pompous arrogance in the supposition that a creation void of society’s natural community would only adhere to the path laid before them.
It doesn’t matter. Capsuleers have a way of gathering to form their own families… putting piece together in the often violent ways they know how, or go mad with their attempts.
In the interests of expanding your data set, I will confirm that my parents are living as of last word, and that a certain level of trauma was inflicted on me, though nothing so dramatic as living in a…
A crater? Why a crater?