do we still get the free retrofit ships or how does that work now ?

Congratulations on hitting VA. Now you get to wait until they introduce the free 600 day ship token or buy one from the C-store.

Enjoy your time playing PvP and running STF's. Oh and of course Doffing about..

If yiou've been subbed for 600+ days; AND none of your other characters (if you have any) has ecver received a VA1 token previously (IE prior to the F2P client going onto the Live server); then yes, that character should have received a VA1 ship token that lets him choose a VA1 level ship from a small selection of all VA1 ships - IE there are some that are C-Store only, period.)

Wait, what? I thought the VA ship token was rewarded to every single character at 600 days, as long as that character had not previously recieved a token.

this. otherwise the whole concept of 600 day VA tokens is absurd. that would mean almost nobody actually gets it. the only exception that makes sense is if a VA character already had a token and then hits VA - as in that specific character. so as the character didn't get 2 of them

How can a character that is not a VA yet, get a VA token?
I think the only exceptions are those veteran characters, that already received the 250 emblem reward and not hit VA yet. They will miss out...