The dropships on overview is analogous to the market issue. Because we don't see toothpaste on the market, means there's no dental hygiene in Eve Online universe. We all have wooden teeth!
Needless to say. The Sansha Slaves say there are dropships. As do the other NPC's. And my character doesn't use wooden dentures. Certain allowances are given for limitations on implementable game features.
The issue at hand, here, however, is that there are physical capabilities a capsuleer has, mainly from the legal status and monetary worth. Some folks roleplay cybernetic augmentation to increase these physical capabilities. The capsuleer also flies spaceships, which extends their abilities to intestellar combat and commerce.
Fun fact. You cannot roleplay more skillpoints or starship assets than you actually own.
Abstracting this further. You create a character in Eve Online. This character is, factually, a capsuleer. When you click through the character creation process, there's no option for 'non-capsuleer'.
The Devs, acting as DM for the game, have the ability to make characters with realistic corporate histories for their NPC's. This enables them to generate honest-to-goodness non-capsuleers, or capsuleer NPC military commanders, for the live events or other storylines. They don't use a character creation process that affirmatively assigns the role of 'capsuleer' to the character.
Thus, we're left with a simple truth. The characters behind the political parties are capsuleers. Now, are they sitting Senators? or are they simply capsuleer supporters of those parties? As the initial thread indicates, they are allegedly explicit political operatives working on behalf of significant Senate parties.
That creates a paradox that cannot be resolved in character. It breaks immersion.
Unless, of course, you call them frauds in character, as a form of roleplay to isolate a possible breach in security protocol or an effort by a hostile faction to false-flag incite strife and struggle.
That in no way is saying the roleplay is wrong. But it merely might not be the kind of roleplay the creators of these characters might expect.
And who can judge then?
