Twenty-Five Billion ISK of Battleship
Strip away the noise and 4-07MU's price tag is almost entirely battleship. The Maelstrom line alone comes to 25.8 billion ISK - the single biggest entry on a 67.2 billion ISK invoice - with Ravens close behind at 22.3 billion. Between them, two hull classes account for more than two-thirds of everything destroyed in the system. Nothing bigger was required to do it. No Titans, no dreadnoughts, no supercarriers, no structures cracked open. The largest thing on the field was a battleship, and there were enough of them to rack up 25 billion ISK in a single hull type before the night was done. A Vulture, one of the command ships that keeps a fleet's support running, added another 5.8 billion to the total, and a Scorpion - the ECM battleship nobody enjoys flying into - chipped in 2.7 billion of its own. That list tells you what kind of evening this was: heavy subcapital hulls, fleeted up, dying in bulk, with command support and electronic warfare on the grid to keep it organised. Sixty-seven billion ISK of damage, and not a single capital ship needed to do it.
The Gank That Had a Second Side
The engagement is filed as a gank, and on the surface it looks the part: 200 losses, 912 pilots, and a casualty list with a clear leader in Brave Newbies Inc. at 21 ships. The trouble is the other column. Brave Newbies also appear among the top killers with 12. TEMPLAR. lost ten ships and killed twelve. Baba Yagas lost eight and killed eleven. The New Federation lost eight and killed nine. Four of the five organisations that bled hardest in 4-07MU are simultaneously on the scoreboard for handing out exactly the same treatment, which is not how a gank is supposed to read. Whether those kills landed on each other or on someone else in the scrum isn't something the numbers settle, and it would be careless to claim otherwise. What they do settle is that this was not a one-way street. Somebody in 4-07MU found out the target had friends, and then found out the friends had friends, and by that point the exit was already behind a wall of Maelstroms.
The Graduates Keep the Receipts
One organisation is conspicuously missing from the casualty list. The Graduates top the kill table with sixteen and do not appear anywhere in the top five of the loss column, which makes them the clearest winners of the night on the evidence available. The damage charts point the same direction. Lachdanan ImmO finished as the fight's top damage dealer - the pilot whose guns touched more of that 67 billion ISK of wreckage than anyone else's. That is as much credit as the data supports, and as much as it needs. In a fight this long, this crowded and this expensive, being the group that finished with the fullest kill bag and the lightest loss sheet among the leaders is the entire story. Everyone else was busy buying the same ships twice.
One Wreck Every Thirty-Five Seconds
The fight opened at 19:25 UTC with a Caracal Navy Issue belonging to Next Frontier - a cruiser with no business being the most expensive thing on a nullsec grid, and it wasn't. It was simply the first thing to break. From there the system ground on for 117 minutes. Two hundred ships died in that window, which works out to roughly one loss every thirty-five seconds: not a single dramatic detonation but a steady, exhausting metronome of battleships, command hulls and support being fed in, chewed up and replaced. Nobody took a break, and nobody ran out of ships. The last confirmed loss of the night landed at 21:22 UTC, and it was a capsule belonging to a pilot from Hounds of War. After two hours and sixty-seven billion ISK, 4-07MU had worked its way down from battleships to a pod. It is not often you can watch a whole engagement described by its first and last killmails like that.
What Catch Got for Sixty-Seven Billion
Add it up and the ledger reads 67.2 billion ISK destroyed across 200 ships - no capitals lost, no structures reinforced, nothing strategic toppled. 4-07MU sits in Catch, and Catch has watched this film before: a fight over very little that becomes extraordinarily expensive for everyone who turns up. The consequences are the mundane, expensive kind. Brave Newbies finish with the longest replacement list at 21 hulls. TEMPLAR., Incredible., The New Federation and Baba Yagas all have top-five losses to answer for. The Graduates leave with sixteen killmails and, as far as the record shows, the cheapest night of anyone involved. None of it moved a timer or settled anything about who holds what. It was 912 pilots agreeing to keep going, and 67 billion ISK converted into wreckage in a system most of New Eden would have to look up. That is what nullsec does when neither side wants to be the one who leaves first - and this time, nobody did.
