It is with no small amount of sorrow that I must announce the retirement of a player who is literally one of our legends.
The word legend is correct, for you will find him listed in the Hall of Legends under the entry for the Torrent, a machine that he rightly became known as an extremely dangerous opponent with. For those who have been around a while, he is an integral part of the Zeon machine that has been a force to be reckoned with at the higher levels of the game.
However if you look down towards the bottom of his accolades, you will find record of the time that I know Don from, a time before Zeon when he joined the first clan I was a member of, Heroes II.
He was a part of the team that brought the first gold to that family and along with others we and I were promptly promoted to the Heroes main regiment, jumped 3 divisions and against the odds brought home a second gold in the Rise of the Specialists.
From my time as his clan mate, I have two lasting impressions. The first is that he is straight as a die... no shades of grey, all black and white. You certainly know exactly where you are with him.
The second is his opinion on specialists. It is perhaps fitting that the final time we met, and the first time on opposing sides it was in a specialist fight.
My clan mate, my opponent, the target of my potato armed ants, my drinking buddy through long nights. I have no Torrent to name in your honour, but in the war when we last met, I earned another that is perhaps more fitting.
I name my mechs alphabetically, and the last was a 'C'. It is fortuitous that the pattern is not broken. Your name at least shall continue to fight, even though you have hung up your helmet.
Know that in the ranks of my chosen specialist formation you shall have a place, for no other reason than I get to play my final joke on you.
Submitted by David McCallum #701548