The ISD Retirees: A new home, but what of those still lost in the wilderness?

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Unless you have been living under a big ol’ chunk of Veldspar, you probably heard those ISD volunteers finally have their own retirement home!

Led by ISD White Shirt (presumably a reference to Viva La Dirt League’s all powerful white shirted manager) the corp currently hold 14 other retired ISD characters.

Now it just so happens though my ongoing dig of old eve data, I came across this rather heartbreaking thread from 2007, in which a host of volunteers gave their final farewells after being let go due to structural changes. Even though this was a long time ago (nearly a decade before I joined), reading it still hit me in the feels, and I could see just how much eve meant to them.

Sadly, back then the practise seems to have simply been to punt ex-ISD characters into the default NPC corps, or just doomheiming them. So I thought I would honour those old Polaris members as Eve tradition dictates…

with a spreadsheet of course!

Though a whopping 831 are currently listed, many likely been missed, particularly among the earliest ISD characters that didn’t have those telltale prefixes in their names. And of course a lot of the accounts currently in Polaris and the other ISD corps are likely inactive; and so the true number of retirees is likely far far higher. But I digress!

So here is to all you wonderful volunteers; who have collectively spent the last quarter of a century (including beta) giving their time, to make sure we have the jollies times… IN SPACE! :clinking_beer_mugs:

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Some good ppl on that list @ISD_Bahamut was a good one

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Wait a second, ISD Bahamut isn’t on ISD wilderness list as they are already in the ISD Retirement Home per the evewho link… unless :open_mouth:

Ilm’s been a silly stargoose and forgot change enable the share option on the Googlesheet :person_facepalming:

Ok it’s fixed now, just pretend that didn’t happen! :grimacing:

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yea i was referring to the retirement home evewho link.. i tried to access yours.. and it made me wait.

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I know sorry. My google doc stills skills are still as rusty as a Minmatar ship!

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…as well as your typing skills. :thinking:

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Now, now @Uriel_the_Flame, this isn’t the thread to dis my, terrible typos! It’s a place to reminisce about the good old days; like when that friendly ISD volunteer taught you how to ride a bike fly a battleship! Or those dope AURORA events you might have participated in!

Speaking of AURORA, seems you have them to thanks for those Tetrimon chaps you now have prowling the space lanes every Crimson Harvest, as they originally came from a set of old storylines the volunteers put together back in the day.

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ISD Dorrim Barstorlode/Bernie Nator needs to be added to the spreadsheet, technically not retired as he’s still listed as a team lead on his profile, but sadly no longer with us, having gone to the great bakery in the sky in May 2023.

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