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Apocalypse Navy Issue Cut Down in a 3B ISK Friendly Fire Disaster in Z-M5A1
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Apocalypse Navy Issue Cut Down in a 3B ISK Friendly Fire Disaster in Z-M5A1

A 3 billion ISK Apocalypse Navy Issue was destroyed in Z-M5A1 in an extraordinary self-inflicted loss, with Dracarys. appearing on both sides of the fight. The ship, flown by Dudley Dew Rite of AWE Corporation, was finished off by LORD DRAGUIL in another Apocalypse Navy Issue, turning a brief 11-pilot engagement into an expensive and deeply awkward outcome for the same alliance.

THE CLOSING MOMENT

The final blow came from LORD DRAGUIL, also flying an Apocalypse Navy Issue, as the target’s costly hull was overwhelmed in a fight that lasted only seconds on the record. What should have been a routine exchange instead ended with a 3B ISK Navy battleship going down under fire from attackers tied to the same alliance, with a Blood Dreadnought also contributing heavy damage to the engagement.

THE SHIP THAT STAYED TOO LONG

The destroyed vessel was no ordinary line ship. An Apocalypse Navy Issue carries real weight even before fittings are counted, and this one was carrying enough expensive hardware to make the loss sting harder: Curator II drones, a Dark Blood Large EMP Smartbomb, and a Capacitor Power Relay II were among the notable items involved in the wreckage. The loss suggests the ship was exposed in a place where it could not survive concentrated attention for long.

A BRIEF, COSTLY CLASH

The engagement involved 11 participants and appears to have been small but violent rather than prolonged. Nine attackers are tied to Dracarys., yet the victim was also Dracarys., making this less a conventional ambush than a disastrous internal or closely linked confrontation. In a fight that already looked lopsided on paper, the presence of capital-grade damage and multiple Navy Issue hulls helped push the outcome rapidly in one direction.

THE PRICE OF CONFUSION

For Dracarys. and AWE Corporation, the damage was immediate and expensive: 1.6B ISK destroyed and 1.3B ISK dropped from the wreck. Even without the broader context of how the confrontation began, the result is clear enough. A high-value battleship was lost, the fittings were stripped, and the encounter ended with one of the fleet’s own ships paying the price.

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Ninety-one minutes. Two thousand four hundred and forty-two pilots. Two hundred and ninety-eight wrecks. And one Apocalypse Navy Issue that cost more on its own than the next three most expensive losses of the fight put together. F-5WYK, out in the nullsec region of Perrigen Falls, spent three quarters of a trillion ISK in an hour and a half. When the shooting stopped, one alliance accounted for very nearly half the wreckage - and nobody had lost a Titan.

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The first confirmed loss in P-ZMZV wasn't a ship. At 13:49 the opening entry on the killboard is a capsule - a pilot's escape pod, logged and destroyed. The last entry, some two and a half hours later, is an Osprey Navy Issue flown for Black Layer Syndicate. In between, the system swallowed 581 losses and roughly 1.77 trillion ISK, and when the shooting finally stopped, one side was still out there sweeping the grid for pods.

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