3 months of missing VO and I would be ready to return too :)
We have new Capitol ship Captains in TGFT since you to a break in playing.
In the Forum there is a contest to win up to 50M credits. Here is a link.
http://forum.tgft.org/forum/topic_show.pl?tid=9805 The Developers and some players have recently hosted events, (I picked up a VO Developer participation token, its in Pelatus!).
6 people are running for council, with the voting sometime this week. We have only 3 open seats. This is an example of the good guild participation we are enjoying.
Guild queening on Fridays is still going on and doing well.
I think you should hurry back and get you some if this fun! :D
GA