No matter how much you beg or how many signatures you get, they will never remove an item that they spent enough production time and money on to push into the game, that's just stupid.

Which were essentially the same thing as Madrugars and Gunnlogis with different stats.

Specialty tanks were simple value changes as a different texture, which takes essentially no time at all if your skinning system is done properly

Time buffing and nerfing? Well I think there was only 1 pass on them, but the time needed to alter numerical values is far less than the time for conceptual design, modeling, skinning, shading, programming, balancing, and initial testing. Why do you claim its unbalanceable? And why do you claim its so useless? I use it quite frequently on my alt and with great success. Would you rather just toss is away because you don't like it anymore? Don't give up so easily.

And you're right, it is a Minmatar sidearm, specifically the Minmatar pistol. Much like the Caldari are getting both a pistol and an SMG in the next release.

And the reason Skirmish 1.0 was removed was because there was a fundamental shift in how they wanted that game mode to operate which required it to be replaced.