Capsule Worth 1.9B ISK Destroyed in AD091 Ambush

A Fraternity. capsule carrying implants worth 1.9 billion ISK was destroyed in AD091 in a brief encounter with an unidentified attacker. The loss was total: nothing of note appears to have survived the blast, turning a routine podding into a very expensive ending.

THE CATCH

The fight in AD091 was over almost as soon as it began. A single Fraternity. pilot, j0y Chong of Special law enforcement department, was caught and destroyed by an attacker listed only as Unaligned attackers. The encounter suggests a fast interception rather than a drawn-out engagement, with just two participants recorded and no sign of a wider clash.

THE COSTLY POD

What made the loss stand out was not the hull, but the capsule itself. The pod carried high-grade Crystal implants, including Gamma, Delta and Alpha, alongside a Zainou 'Gnome' Shield Management SM-705 and an Eifyr and Co. 'Alchemist' Neurotoxin Recovery NR-1005. Those implants were destroyed in the attack, pushing the total value of the loss to 1.9 billion ISK.

THE FINAL BLOW

The final strike was credited to an attacker flying an Unstable Abyssal Depths ship, though the source data identifies the pilot only as Unknown attacker. With no additional combatants recorded, the scene appears to have been a sharp, decisive catch rather than an extended hunt. For the victim, there was no recovery window and no apparent escape once the capsule was exposed.

THE AFTERMATH

Even a single pod loss can matter when the implants are this expensive. The destruction of a fully loaded capsule in a quiet-looking local skirmish is a reminder of how quickly years of caution can disappear in New Eden. In AD091, the reward for the hunters was not a ship, but the expensive contents of a capsule that never made it out.

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

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