# A timeline of the oldest player corporation in the game

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**Created:** [July 20, 2026, 3:47am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/a-timeline-of-the-oldest-player-corporation-in-the-game/515069 "2026-07-20T03:47:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![RVAMitchell](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/rvamitchell/32/403744_2.png) [@RVAMitchell](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/RVAMitchell)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2026, 3:47am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/a-timeline-of-the-oldest-player-corporation-in-the-game/515069/1 "2026-07-20T03:47:02Z")

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Mercurialis Inc. was founded on October 28, 2002, during EVE’s closed beta, before the official launch. As far as we know, and as far as the Guinness World Records Gamer’s Edition 2008 knew when it listed us as EVE Online’s Oldest Player Corporation, that makes us the oldest active corp in New Eden.

I’ve spent the last few months putting together a full timeline of those 24 years, and it’s finally live:

> **[Mercurialis Inc. - Corp History](https://www.mercurialisinc.com/history.html)**
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> More than twenty years of Mercurialis Inc. history: from EVE Online's 2002 beta to today's largest nullsec battles. Wars, alliances, kills, and the pilots who lived it.

It’s pieced together from old forum posts, DOTLAN records, killboards, and screenshots people never deleted, so it’s incomplete by nature and still growing. If you flew against us, alongside us, or just remember something from one of these eras, I’d genuinely like to hear it, corrections and old media included.

Reach out if you wanna fly together sometime! See you in space!

 ![20200823-Primae-Strat-Guide-Pg2](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/original/4X/3/a/7/3a77f45e1ed6986038914fcdc0241cb095684bb1.jpeg)

 ![20200823-Primae-Strat-Guide-Pg3](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/original/4X/a/f/1/af18302bed61e5ac91ca2953237bae2e234f5ff7.jpeg)

 ![20200823-Primae-Strat-Guide-Cover](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/original/4X/9/1/9/919adaa979a9e2ed38049605cbdacb817e352894.jpeg)

 ![2008-Guinessbookofworldrecords](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/original/4X/6/a/4/6a43613877066676d6868042582ad84f012ba5b1.jpeg)

 ![2008-World-Record-Mention](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/original/4X/b/3/1/b31b871cf945bc2efa1db174959d4373467b71d5.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![Arthur\_Aihaken](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/arthur_aihaken/32/504104_2.png) [@Arthur\_Aihaken](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Arthur_Aihaken)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2026, 3:54am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/a-timeline-of-the-oldest-player-corporation-in-the-game/515069/2 "2026-07-20T03:54:00Z")

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Kudos on 24+ years!

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**Author:** ![Thomus](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/thomus/32/505559_2.png) [@Thomus](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Thomus)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2026, 9:02am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/a-timeline-of-the-oldest-player-corporation-in-the-game/515069/3 "2026-07-20T09:02:57Z")

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A corp full of wonderful people and a place to calm home.

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/original/3X/4/1/41ec4921cbaca7a6f9ea556e7cc20018461eae5e.png) [@system](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2026, 9:03am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/a-timeline-of-the-oldest-player-corporation-in-the-game/515069/4 "2026-10-18T09:03:14Z")

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