Has anyone else noticed... that most of us specifically act fucking clueless to the realities of Eve Online... just because the knowledge we should all have is limited to books and out-of-character experiences?
Look at us. Wrapped up in the trappings of our past lives, our past nations, our past ways. The Amarr capsuleers mostly act Amarr, yay slaves, yay god, yay scripture, yay Jamyl (despite her violating one of Amarr's holiest tenets by merely being alive.) There are a few who differ but most of them can be encapsulated under the "rebel Amarr living among the Minmatar" cliche. Let's be honest, deep down, these are always stories of a white guy going to live with a bunch of black guys.
The Minmatar capsuleers mostly act Minmatar. Raaaargh, we're here for our people! Nevermind that once we rescue them we tend to put them into disease-rife refugee camps, and if any of them happen to still worship the Amarr faith, we'll beat them to death with rocks!
The Caldari. Still sore about that whole "getting kicked off their homeworld" deal. Gotta get that ball of rock back, because it's more important than other rockballs! (I don't think a truly practical civilization, as the Caldari are often painted, would attach sentimental value to a shitty, poorly terraformed planet - if anything, they'd celebrate their ability to settle other worlds as far more important.)
The Gallente. Merely wishing to civilize everyone according to their image. Except their image is hopelessly unprepared for infomorphs and Amarrians and Minmatar and etcetera. They think their way is the best, but their way is just as corrupt and evil as the rest.
We are fully aware, by now, that capsuleers and infomorphs have a terrible interplay, and that we're literally hacking up ghosts from the sleeper civilization in the course of our casual resource gathering. One ran around Jita for a while, and I'm pretty sure it was a sanctioned CCP event.
So my question is this... why isn't everyone freaking out about it? I mean, looking at our world for example, a few people saw strange lights in the skies, and happened to have a camcorder - and from this sprang an entire community of UFO fanatics, hundreds of thousands strong.
What I'm saying is... the Jovians, and their very existence, should be a way bigger deal to everyone. I mean, imagine how today's society would react to the sudden knowledge that there ARE other forms of life out there... except, they're hyper-advanced versions of ourselves, and some of them want to recapture what makes us (and by extension them) tick. They'd freak the fuck out. There'd be entire supermarket tabloids devoted to finding out the secrets of the Jovians.
Thoughts?
(Yes, I'm drunk again.)