Battle in 46DP-O Ends With 2.9B ISK in Losses

A long-running clash in 46DP-O closed with 115 pilots on the field and 2.9 billion ISK in destruction, as a mixed force involving Goonswarm Federation, Invidia Gloriae Comes, Brave Collective, and allied groups carved through a spread of battlecruisers, cruisers, and fast attack ships.

THE FIGHT TAKES SHAPE

The engagement in 46DP-O stretched from 21:16 to 23:03 EVE time, suggesting a drawn-out fight rather than a brief exchange. What began as a large-scale clash quickly settled into a costly grind, with multiple organisations feeding ships into the same contested space. Brave Collective and Brave United were present alongside Goonswarm Federation, Invidia Gloriae Comes, WrongHole, Critical. Mass., and other allies, giving the battle the feel of a broad coalition collision rather than a tidy one-on-one skirmish.

THE SHIPS LOST

The losses tell the story of a fight that chewed through standard fleet hulls rather than singular flagships. Ravens were the most common casualty, with 26 destroyed, followed by 15 Hecates, 13 Gila hulls, 9 Raven Navy Issues, 9 Drake Navy Issues, and 4 Flycatchers. That mix points to a battle fought across several layers of a fleet, where heavier missile platforms, attack ships, and support hulls all came under pressure at once.

THE COST OF THE BREAK

WrongHole and Critical. Mass., and others absorbed the largest share of the damage, with their losses accounting for nearly the full 2.9B ISK total attributed to the fight. The top recorded destruction in the report also credits WarBeacon as the final blow, underlining that this was a battle report captured at the end of a wider, messy engagement. With 26 ships destroyed and 115 participants involved, the scale suggests neither side could simply disengage cleanly once the fight was committed.

WHY IT MATTERS

This was not the sort of battle that turns on a single spectacular capital loss; instead, it mattered because it shows how quickly a regional fight can become expensive when several groups converge on the same grid. The destruction of so many common fleet hulls, especially Ravens and their navy variants, points to a force that was willing to keep trading until one side began to lose cohesion. In New Eden, that kind of attritional fight can matter as much as any headline-grabbing supercapital kill: it drains replacements, strains logistics, and leaves the surviving side with the burden of proving it can come back for more.

Sources and verification

Based on recorded combat data Narrative based on recorded New Eden activity and archived editorial analysis.

Permalink

CONTINUE EXPLORING

More Stories From New Eden

View all stories →

Nullsec

Scan Stakan Killed 55 Ships and Lost 186 in the Same Fight

E-WMT7 produced 376 killmails, somewhere around 134 billion ISK of wreckage, and one battleship worth more than a force auxiliary, a Nestor and a Typhoon Fleet Issue put together. The number that stings harder is 186. That is how many ships Scan Stakan lost in the same engagement in which they killed 55 - top of the kill list and top of the loss list, in a single three-and-a-half-hour afternoon.

Lowsec

x Never Regret x Takes 40 Kills as Raa Burns 26 Capitals

At 17:28 UTC, a Retriever died in Raa. Retrievers die constantly, and in Devoid that is more or less the job description. This one is only worth mentioning because of what followed it: for the next hundred minutes, a system on the edge of Amarr space turned into a scrapyard, and by the time the last shot landed at 19:10, 87 ships had been destroyed and the bill had reached 157.4 billion ISK. Almost half of that was one Revelation.

Highsec

Rattini Tribe and Prime Directive. Split Dal's 192 Billion ISK Bill

An Amarr Shuttle belonging to G0lden Fleet. died in Dal at 16:15 UTC. That is not normally the opening line of a 192 billion ISK story, but Dal spent the next three hours and forty-one minutes making sure nobody forgot it. By the time the last capsule in the system - belonging to x Never Regret x - came apart at 19:56, 557 pilots had produced 516 confirmed losses, fourteen capital ships had been wrecked, and the Heimatar system had eaten just over 192 billion ISK. That is not a skirmish somebody stumbled into. That is a decision, made over and over, for the better part of four hours.

Nullsec

Brave Newbies Topped Both Sides of the HY-RWO Ledger

The first ship to die in HY-RWO was a Rokh worth 44.7 billion ISK, and it set the tone for everything that came after. Over the following hour, 1,883 pilots fought in the Catch system, 243 ships were destroyed, and around 205 billion ISK was removed from the economy one killmail at a time. Not a single capital ship died. In a fight of that size, the most expensive losses were ordinary battleships, fitted in a way that makes the word 'ordinary' sound absurd.