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A Capsule Recorded at 14B ISK Dies in 9-VO0Q
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A Capsule Recorded at 14B ISK Dies in 9-VO0Q

Capsules are supposed to be the cheap part of losing a ship. In the Fountain system of 9-VO0Q, one came with a recorded value of 14B ISK attached to it, the single largest loss in the engagement, with the final blow credited to Splithorizon of The Initiative.

Alliances involved

  • C C P Alliance
  • The Initiative.
14B ISK Destroyed
5 Pilots Involved
1 Loss

Fourteen billion for a pod

The killmail lists the loss as a Capsule, the small escape craft every pilot leaves behind when their ship breaks up. Its recorded value of 14B ISK puts it well outside what a capsule normally costs, and it stands as the biggest individual loss in this record by a wide margin. The victim is listed as GM Kami of C C P Alliance, and the final blow is credited to Splithorizon of The Initiative. Five pilots appear across the available records, with one confirmed loss between them.

What a single killmail can and cannot say

This is one recorded loss, not the story of a fleet fight. Nothing in the evidence shows what brought the capsule into 9-VO0Q, whether anything was flying alongside it, or whether the shooting continued afterwards. The Initiative appears in the attacker tally and C C P Alliance in the victim tally, and those are final-blow and loss records rather than proof of opposing fleets. What the killmail does confirm is narrower and stranger: somewhere in Fountain, somebody's escape pod turned out to be the most expensive thing on the field.

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