Nightmouse, you have fail, you just said it was irrelevant and then asked the same question, you want to know how long a nomad lives, start a new thread.
Anyway, how about a range of lifespans:
combat pilot: 25-35
transport pilot: 50-70
cap captain: 50-70
liberty citizen: 90-120
bretonian citizen: 80-100
kusari citizen: 100-120
rheinland citizen: 70-90
border world citizen: 70-90
edgeworld citizen: 50-80 (not including the outlier that are the outcasts)
outcasts citizen: 100-150
I actually think dieing in space has little effect on the overall life expectancy, because the amount of people you actually see in space is a small percentage of the total population. Also, don't forget that when a ship blows up, the pilot often survives (escape pods anyone?)
Because generally it's quite scary to get blown up:laugh:
If they die, explain the use of the pods to me then, seems like the point of those is not to die when your ship gets blown to bits.
Alright, back to a little more seriousness perhaps, the escape pod is a good point, however I really dont think it is 100% life-saving. Wouldn't particularly evil enemies blow up their enemies escape pods or capture them for slavery? Wouldn't the less evil enemies capture them and jail them, I mean how many pilots in Sirius do you think would simply let the person who was trying to kill them go freely. (or do escape pods have cloaking technology?)
Not really, but I imagine that certain criminal groups would rather ask for a ransom, especially those who are only in it for the money (Rogues namely).
I agree, they'd probably kill or jail Bounty Hunters and perhaps police and navy, but I doubt they'd kill civilians who are a lot more valuable alive.
EDIT: they could trade captured police and navy pilots for imprisoned criminals