My Little EVE: Capsules Are Magic

"Please be seated, I'm going to take some readings from you. If you check out we can initiate the final step of the Capsuleer process."

I sat on the cold bench, my nerves getting to me. The training regime was supposed to make me hard and stoic, but I knew what the final step was, and with it so near I was beginning to have second thoughts.

"Oh my, you're quite nervous. This should take the edge off dear." I heard a hiss and felt a slight prick of pain as a medical multipen did it's job and flooded my system with nanomachines that neutralized the hormones that were sending me into alarm.

"Thank you."

"Oh so polite," She smiled at me. "Most state funded capsuleers are so callous." I smiled back.

"I'm not state funded. Ishukone Corporation is funding me,"

"Oh, I see that now!" She peered at medical tablet. " I didn't realize you were with one of the big eight."

"That I am, they want me to explore regions showing unusual phenomenon. Wormholes and such."

"How exciting. I wish you the best, but before you can get out there we gotta get you through this. Your scan are giving me the green light."

I gulped, perhaps there was no more adrenaline in my system but I was still dreading what was to come.

"No Capsuleer needs to fear death." I said, the nurse just smiled at me with a glint of sadness in her eyes.

I laid myself onto the table, and the nurse walked over and turned on the burning neural scanner. I felt it looming above my forehead, two circles of light seemingly burning into my skull, it had not even begun. I looked to my left and saw the nurse loading lethal neurotoxins and a paralytic into the injector.

"Lie straight, I'm going to initiate the sequence now." I did as I was told and I felt the line the neurotoxins and paralytic were going to come through link up to my neural interface port on the back of my neck, and then the paralytic was sent in. It washed over my instantly and the machine sprang to life and secured my head into place. The burning scanner primed and read was the last thing I saw. If I felt something I do not remember, the neurotoxin washed over me killing me instantly and the scanner acted in the moment of my death, destroying my brain as it gathered every last piece of each memory that was mine. It sent that information to a neural constructor which began imprint the information onto the blank slate of a brain contained in the clone that was but only two feet behind my now dead body. It's eyes jumped open. My eyes jumped open and the clone vat hissed as the hermetic seal was broken.

I took a wobbly step forward.

"Congratulations, Capsuleer, welcome to the first day of your new life." An agent clapped as she strode over to me. "Let's get you in your pod."