A Mobile Observatory, Then Everything Else
The first entry on the record is the Mobile Observatory, a deployable that costs less than a fitted frigate and dies about as quickly. The last entry is a capsule. In between, T6T-BQ generated 1,505 confirmed losses in 208 minutes - and did it without a single Titan or supercarrier on the field. This was a capital fight rather than an apocalypse, and the capitals that did commit were the ones that paid for it. Six hundred and twenty-two unique pilots took part. Seven capital ships were destroyed. One structure was lost. All of it happened inside a single system in The Spire, which for three and a half hours became the only grid that mattered to anyone in it. T6T-BQ is not a name that means much to most of New Eden. By the end of the afternoon it had produced a fight large enough to clear the featured-report threshold outright - a rarer thing than the killboards make it look.
One Loss Every Eight Seconds
Duration tells you what kind of fight this was. A gank is over before the target has finished loading grid. A three-and-a-half-hour brawl is a different animal entirely: it is work. Divide 1,505 losses across 208 minutes and you get a ship destroyed roughly every eight seconds - sustained, without a real pause, for longer than most films run. No single engagement accounts for numbers like that. It means reshipping: dying, waking up in a station, pulling another hull out of the hangar, undocking, flying back, and doing it all again while someone on comms asks for more. Then again. Then again. Attrition fights are rarely settled by a clever manoeuvre. They are settled by whoever still has ships in the hangar, ISK in the wallet and patience left in the tank when everyone else has run out of at least one of the three. Every one of those 1,505 wrecks is somebody who had to decide whether to undock again - and enough of them decided yes to keep the fight running until early evening.
Half the Bill in Four Hulls
Most of the 1,505 losses were small. That is the arithmetic of a grind: frigates, destroyers, cruisers, whatever was closest to hand when a fleet landed. But four entries on the report carry an outsized share of the damage. The single most expensive loss of the fight was a Phoenix. The dreadnought died worth 16.4 billion ISK, which is the sort of number that turns a line member's afternoon into a director's evening. Behind it came two battleships: a Tempest valued at 15.4 billion ISK and a Tempest Fleet Issue at 11.8 billion. Neither is a capital. Both cost more than most capitals, which says plenty about what had been bolted into their low slots and how confident their pilots were feeling beforehand. Then the structure. A Fortizar, destroyed outright, valued at just under 13 billion ISK. Add those four together and you get roughly 57 billion - half the value of the entire engagement, spent on four hulls out of 1,505.
849 Ships From One Alliance
On the ledger, this fight was lopsided. Sons of Black Rise finished with 415 kills, Half Empty with 135, NACHO Battle Pixies with 77 and Higher Than Everest with 63. Scan Stakan, meanwhile, appears on the victim list with 849 losses - more than half of every ship destroyed in T6T-BQ - and on the attacker list with 70 kills of its own. In a fight this size, the lines are rarely clean. That ratio is brutal, and by any economic reading it is a disaster. It is also worth pausing on what 849 losses actually requires: 849 separate occasions on which somebody undocked anyway. Whether that was stubbornness, obligation or a very deep hangar, the result was an alliance that spent the afternoon as the main content of several hundred other pilots' killboards. Behind Scan Stakan, the other losses stack up quickly - Heronically Busted at 57, Tuda Suda Technology at 47, Heavenly Strategies at 40 and just intrest nut at 39. The pilot who finished top of the damage charts across all of it, Avat-areU bouttaDoombussyme tomorro69, had an extremely productive afternoon.
The Last Capsule at 17:10
The last confirmed loss in T6T-BQ was a capsule belonging to Wolframium, at 17:10 UTC. After 208 minutes, 622 pilots and a Fortizar, the system's final entry is a pod - the least glamorous possible full stop, and a fitting one for a fight that was never settled by a single dramatic blow. What is left is the bill. Roughly 114.5 billion ISK destroyed in The Spire, more than half of it tied up in a dreadnought, two battleships and a structure, spread across 1,505 losses that will take some topping this month. A Fortizar that once anchored in T6T-BQ is no longer there. Seven capital crews are shopping for new hulls. An alliance that lost 849 ships has a hangar to refill. The Mobile Observatory at the top of the list, the one that died first, is not even a rounding error on the total. In fights like this, it never is.
