Running for CSM Interview with Kshal Aideron - Oct 1st 2025

Kshal Aideron for CSM20 - Getting Players to Undock

o7 pilots,

I’m Kshal Aideron, founder of EVE Rookies and the new CEO of Wormlife.

Over my 5.5 years of playing Eve, I’ve focused on building stronger communities. Even before founding Eve Rookies, I was active across Eve’s online spaces encouraging players to undock and join the new player roams I FC’d.

Today, EVE Rookies is 4500 players strong and standing up 100+ fleets a month while helping over a thousand players a year experience content in every corner of New Eden.

That brings me to CSM20. My campaign boils down to one mission:

“Getting players to undock.”

Let’s face it. If players don’t undock ships, there’s no content. If there’s no content, we’re all going to be in the safety of our hangers spinning our ships.

Look, Null will always have representation on the CSM. At least half of the 12 seats will go to block-backed players, and that makes sense! Null has the largest population and needs voices for CCP’s vision of that space.

But what happens when CCP decides to touch areas of the game nobody from Null has played since starting in EVE? Or haven’t touched for over a decade? That’s where lack of perspective becomes a problem for the rest of New Eden.

That’s where I come in. I get players to undock.

Through EVE Rookies (and now Wormlife), I help shape and maintain a fleet schedule of 100+ fleets a month. I partner with smaller groups so they are able to undock more often. I even work with individuals who come in to learn the content so they can turn around and build content for other communities (i.e. incursions in null sec).

So while my expertise over the past 5 years is the new player experience, as well as building strong communities, I also bring something broader. The general player experience.

I talk to players across highsec, lowsec, wormholes, markets and even Pochven and null and do my best to bring their voices forward to be heard....