(07-20-2015, 01:40 PM)Hannibal Wrote: Or just imagine yourself bring blown up and your conscious is transmitted to a clone at an npc station
That's a little easier than trying to justify how a pod survived after a combat because that's not possible
What about cap ships? Surely not every crew member simply gets chunked when things take time to explode and ships of that size would have escape pods. Gunboats might go down fast enough that the one or two pods it has could be destroyed in the blast but full-size capitals would probably get 1/2 or 1/4 of the ships/pods off and possibly drop a beacon if the bridge wasn't hit, right?
Especially in non-military/non-fanatic caps where not everyone would be willing to go down with the ship. Though that assumes caps have a multi-person crew, a point that can/has been argued both for and against.
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