THE CATCH
The fight in K-8SQS was over almost as soon as it began, but the damage was unmistakable. Quackers Duckington’s Cenotaph became the centrepiece of a sharp interception that left little room for recovery once the target was found. With only eight participants tied to the engagement and a total value of 1.5 billion ISK at stake, this was the kind of encounter where a single exposed hull could decide the whole outcome.
THE STRIKE
Ragequit Cancel Sub appears to have brought a compact, focused force to bear, with three attackers directly tied to the final destruction. De BuG’s Sleipnir delivered the killing damage, while Xenon Aspirse in an Orthrus and Victor Jacobus in a Heretic added pressure as the target was boxed in. The mix suggests a hunt built around speed and control rather than brute force, leaving the Cenotaph with too little space to recover or disengage.
THE COST
The loss was not just the hull itself. A large share of the Cenotaph’s fitted weaponry and ammunition was destroyed with it, including stacks of Barrage M, Hail M, Mjolnir Rage Heavy Assault Missiles, and SCARAB Breacher Pod M charges. The ship’s destruction accounted for 1.3 billion ISK of the total, with only 170.2 million ISK recovered as dropped value, turning the encounter into a heavy and very immediate expense for Insidious.
THE AFTERMATH
For Insidious. and its pilot, the loss of a Cenotaph in hostile space is the sort of setback that can sting well beyond the price tag. For the attackers, it was a clean prize taken by a small group that appears to have caught its target at exactly the wrong moment. In K-8SQS, the brief clash ended with the hunter’s pressure rewarded and the expensive hull left to burn.
