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Fraternity. and The Initiative. brawl across 243 losses in O-CNPR
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Fraternity. and The Initiative. brawl across 243 losses in O-CNPR

The most expensive single loss recorded in O-CNPR was a Monitor flown by Blurkus TwoInch of The Initiative., valued at about 695.6M ISK, with the final blow credited to Drakkainen Nitj'sefni of Fraternity. That one killmail sits inside a 43-minute fleet fight in the Fade system whose 243 recorded losses add up to roughly 25.4B ISK, with about 489 distinct pilot IDs appearing in the killmails.

Weapons Of Mass Production. Loses a Revelation to The Initiative
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Weapons Of Mass Production. Loses a Revelation to The Initiative

The most expensive single loss recorded in this fight was a Revelation, a capital ship worth about 4.2B ISK, flown by Moeko Yogukawa of Weapons Of Mass Production. It died in P-ZMZV, and the final blow was credited to AchanziA1 of The Initiative. Around that loss sit 620 recorded killmails, roughly 169B ISK of destroyed assets, and 823 distinct pilot IDs appearing in those records, spread from 13:00 to 16:56 UTC across Querious. Four capitals and four structures were among the losses, and the biggest of them all belonged to the side that also did most of the shooting.

Death or Glory Kill a Game Master's 17.8B Vargur in 5E-CMA
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Death or Glory Kill a Game Master's 17.8B Vargur in 5E-CMA

The most expensive single loss in 5E-CMA was a Vargur worth 17.8B ISK, flown by GM Carbon of the Game Masters under the C C P Alliance banner. Kovap, of Death or Glory's Risky eXplosion, was credited with the final blow at 18:53. That wreck sat inside a 68-minute engagement in Wicked Creek whose records show 172 killmails and about 200B ISK destroyed, with one capital among the losses.

KarmaFleet Left 4VY-Y1 on Both Sides of the Kill Feed
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KarmaFleet Left 4VY-Y1 on Both Sides of the Kill Feed

Eighty minutes is not a long time in New Eden. It is long enough for around 2,100 pilots to pack into one Geminate system, for 466 ships to stop existing, and for roughly 80.5 billion ISK to be converted into scrap, salvage and hard lessons. It is also long enough for KarmaFleet to finish the fight with 18 kills and 20 losses - appearing on both sides of the same kill feed, which in a brawl like 4VY-Y1 was less a contradiction than a description of the neighbourhood.

Fuxi Legion Killed 50 Ships in Y-C3EQ and Lost 143 of Its Own
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Fuxi Legion Killed 50 Ships in Y-C3EQ and Lost 143 of Its Own

The first ship to die in Y-C3EQ was a Flycatcher, which is a bad omen if you believe in omens and merely a bad start if you don't. Fuxi Legion lost it at 13:00 UTC - the opening entry on a ledger that would close fifty-three minutes later with 143 of their ships destroyed against 50 kills, a ratio no fleet commander wants framed. By the time the last capsule came apart at 13:54, 367 pilots had fed 340 confirmed losses onto the killboards and 73.78 billion ISK had stopped existing. No structures were involved. No Titans. Just one very crowded piece of space, and a great many people who would rather have been somewhere else by the end of it.

Southern Cross and Evermore Warriors Meet in a Fifteen-Minute Capital Blender
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Southern Cross and Evermore Warriors Meet in a Fifteen-Minute Capital Blender

Eight capital ships died above V2-GZS in fifteen minutes - roughly one every two minutes, in a system in The Kalevala Expanse. The engagement opened at 02:06 with a battlecruiser and closed at 02:20 with a capsule, and in between, 82 pilots destroyed 56.9 billion ISK of hardware that was, for the most part, trying extremely hard not to be there.

Brave Newbies Led HY-RWO's Killboard and Bled 13 Ships
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Brave Newbies Led HY-RWO's Killboard and Bled 13 Ships

At 20:11 UTC a Malediction died in HY-RWO. One hour and forty-five minutes later, at 21:56, another Malediction died in the same system. Between those two interceptors, 245 ships were destroyed, 326 pilots were involved, and roughly 60.6 billion ISK stopped existing. Nobody in the Catch region got a clean two-sided war story out of it.

Diamond Dogs. Traded 25 Kills for 20 Losses in J151530
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Diamond Dogs. Traded 25 Kills for 20 Losses in J151530

At 22:28 UTC the first ship to die in J151530 was a Loki, which is the sort of vessel that normally finds trouble rather than being found by it. The last confirmed loss, at 23:03, was a Capsule - an escape pod - belonging to a pilot from the same alliance, Diamond Dogs. In between, roughly 154 pilots turned a wormhole system into a 36-minute grinder that consumed 86 ships and just over 97 billion ISK, including three capitals. Naming a winner is harder than it sounds.

Diamond Dogs Trade 34 Kills for 34 Losses in a Wormhole
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Diamond Dogs Trade 34 Kills for 34 Losses in a Wormhole

At 01:20 UTC, the first confirmed loss in J151838 was a Gallente Shuttle - the cheapest hull in New Eden, the ship you fly when you have already accepted how the trip ends. Eighty-seven minutes later, the same wormhole had eaten four capital ships, a Phoenix Navy Issue worth more than most pilots' entire hangars, and 111.8 billion ISK of other people's hardware. In hindsight, the shuttle was the cheap part.

Scan Stakan Lost 183 Of F-5WYK's 377 Wrecks
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Scan Stakan Lost 183 Of F-5WYK's 377 Wrecks

F-5WYK took three hours and thirty-nine minutes to finish. When the last capsule popped at 17:49, 377 ships and pods were gone, 458 pilots had passed through the system, and roughly 134 billion ISK had been converted into wreckage and resentment. Almost half of that wreckage belonged to a single group: Scan Stakan, who lost 183 hulls and still found time to kill 56.

Can't park there m8 Notched 85 Kills While ChuangShi Fed P-ZMZV
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Can't park there m8 Notched 85 Kills While ChuangShi Fed P-ZMZV

At 13:49 UTC the first thing to die in P-ZMZV was a capsule. Not a battleship, not a capital, not anything anyone would put in a recruitment advert - just the egg-shaped escape pod a pilot rides after their ship has already failed them. The shooting had clearly begun before anyone thought to start keeping score. Three hours and seven minutes later, the score was 638 confirmed losses and 172.4 billion ISK.

A Titan Died in Low-Sec Amamake. Rattini Tribe Led the Bill.
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A Titan Died in Low-Sec Amamake. Rattini Tribe Led the Bill.

A Titan died in Amamake in the early hours, and it should not have been there at all. Capital ships cannot use stargates; a hull that large only turns up in low security space because somebody decided to bring it. The Avatar was worth 142.7 billion ISK, and it was only the largest entry in a four-hour ledger that finished with 1,712 ships destroyed and 685.6 billion ISK gone.

Eifer's Killboard Refused to Pick a Winner Between Lowlife. and Blackwater
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Eifer's Killboard Refused to Pick a Winner Between Lowlife. and Blackwater

The first thing to die in Eifer was a Blackwater USA Inc. Pilgrim, at 17:00 UTC. The last was an Ares, two hours and six minutes later. In between, 270 ships were destroyed in the Heimatar system - 172 of them capitals - for a total of roughly 1.28 trillion ISK, and the fight pulled off the rare trick of leaving almost every organisation involved on both the kill and the loss side of the ledger. Nobody in Eifer got to keep a clean scoreboard.

Scan Stakan Topped E-WMT7's Killboard From Both Sides
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Scan Stakan Topped E-WMT7's Killboard From Both Sides

The first ship to die in E-WMT7 was a Flycatcher. The last was a Mobile Tractor Unit, three and a half hours later, destroyed while the wreckage of 375 other ships cooled around it. In between, 442 pilots, four capital ships and 156.6 billion ISK went through a single system in Perrigen Falls - and Scan Stakan finished the afternoon with more kills than anyone else, and more losses than anyone else, which is exactly as expensive as it sounds.

Rattini Tribe Left 25 Ships in Raa. x Never Regret x Left 13.
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Rattini Tribe Left 25 Ships in Raa. x Never Regret x Left 13.

The Raa kill log opens at 17:28 with a Retriever - a mining barge, of all things - and closes an hour and forty-two minutes later with a capsule. In between, 187 pilots put 87 ships on the board in a single Devoid system and left roughly 158 billion ISK of wreckage behind them. Twenty-six of those losses were capital-class. None of them were Titans.

ChuangShi Traded 248 Ships for 25 Kills in One Afternoon
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ChuangShi Traded 248 Ships for 25 Kills in One Afternoon

At 13:00 UTC, the first thing to die in V-3U8T was a Capsule - which almost always means somebody's ship had already stopped existing a few seconds earlier. At 16:56, the last confirmed loss was a Mobile Sanguine Harvester belonging to The Northerners: a deployable that somehow outlasted four hours of capital combat and everyone's better judgement. In between, 824 pilots put 620 ships on the killboard and set fire to roughly 168.5 billion ISK in the Querious region.

Prime Directive. and Rattini Tribe Turned Dal Into a Four-Hour Grinder
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Prime Directive. and Rattini Tribe Turned Dal Into a Four-Hour Grinder

The first thing to die in Dal was an Amarr Shuttle - a few thousand ISK of disposable frigate that nobody bothers to insure. That was 16:15 UTC. What followed was a three-hour, forty-minute problem that eventually produced 517 wrecks, fourteen dead capitals, two dead structures and a bill of roughly 193 billion ISK. Dal is a system in Heimatar, and for one afternoon it was the most expensive place in New Eden to be undocked. Roughly 557 pilots took part. 517 losses were logged. On those numbers, the overwhelming majority of people who showed up left something behind.

Diamond Dogs. Dead Even: 34 Kills, 34 Losses in J151838
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Diamond Dogs. Dead Even: 34 Kills, 34 Losses in J151838

The first ship to die in J151838 was a Gallente Shuttle, which is the cheapest hull in New Eden and an unpromising way to open anything at all. The last was a Bifrost. In the eighty-seven minutes between those two wrecks, 79 ships came apart, 88 pilots got pulled into the fight, and 111.8 billion ISK stopped existing - four capitals included. And the corporation that finished with the most kills also finished with the most losses. Nobody in J151838 had a tidy night.

Diamond Dogs. Took 25 Kills in J151530 and Paid With 20 of Its Own
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Diamond Dogs. Took 25 Kills in J151530 and Paid With 20 of Its Own

The first thing to die was a Loki at 22:28. The last thing was a capsule at 23:03. In between, 154 pilots spent thirty-six minutes turning a wormhole system called J151530 into one of the more expensive pieces of real estate in New Eden - roughly 97 billion ISK of losses, three capital ships among them, and a kill ledger so tangled that several of the organisations involved finished the night on both the attacking and the victim lists.

African Atomic. Scrapped a 50 Billion ISK Marshal in Vecamia
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African Atomic. Scrapped a 50 Billion ISK Marshal in Vecamia

The most expensive thing in Vecamia was a battleship. Not a Titan, not a Supercarrier - a Marshal, a CONCORD hull so rare and so costly that losing one alone would count as a bad night. In a forty-eight minute brawl that dragged in 318 pilots and destroyed 132.6 billion ISK, it was the single largest entry on the ledger. By the end of the evening, it was also gone.

Scan Stakan Lost 149 Ships and a 50 Billion ISK Apocalypse
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Scan Stakan Lost 149 Ships and a 50 Billion ISK Apocalypse

By the time the shooting stopped in F-5WYK, 302 ships had been destroyed, four of them capital-class, and 355 pilots had spent two and a half hours grinding each other down. At the top of the wreck list sat a single Apocalypse Navy Issue worth 50.1 billion ISK - more than a third of the 134 billion ISK destroyed in Perrigen Falls that day. It belonged to Scan Stakan, the same alliance that lost 149 ships and killed 53. That ratio tells you most of what you need to know.

Brave Newbies Cashed In as HY-RWO Chewed Through 245 Ships
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Brave Newbies Cashed In as HY-RWO Chewed Through 245 Ships

The first ship to die in HY-RWO was a Malediction. So was the last one. Between those two interceptors - one belonging to Voices of War - Research and Production at 20:11 UTC, the other to Th3 Hav3n at 21:56 - a single system in the Catch region absorbed 245 destroyed ships and a little over 60.5 billion ISK. That is roughly one loss every twenty-six seconds, sustained for an hour and three quarters, with 326 pilots passing through. No capitals. No structures. No timer anyone could claim to be fighting over. Just a lot of people with a lot of ships repeatedly deciding that the next engagement would go better than the last one.

ChuangShi Lose 248 Ships in a Four-Hour V-3U8T Grind
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ChuangShi Lose 248 Ships in a Four-Hour V-3U8T Grind

Four hours, 824 pilots and 168.5 billion ISK: V-3U8T was not a skirmish. When the shooting in Querious finally stopped at 16:56, 620 ships had been destroyed - and 248 of them had belonged to ChuangShi.

Lowlife. and Blackwater Trade 172 Capitals in Eifer's Blender
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Lowlife. and Blackwater Trade 172 Capitals in Eifer's Blender

Somewhere in the wreckage of Eifer lies a Zirnitra - a Triglavian dreadnought whose loss was recorded at 520.4 billion ISK, more than most corporations hold at any one time. It was one of 172 capital ships destroyed in the same system inside a single two-hour window. When the last killmail landed at 19:06, 270 hulls were gone and the bill had reached roughly 1.28 trillion ISK. The most telling detail is on the scoreboard: the same organisations keep appearing on both sides of it.