The First Wreck Was the Ship Doing the Trapping
Whatever Little Red Riding Hole's Eris was holding, it held long enough for the fight to become considerably larger than an interdictor's problem. From a single dictor at 20:34 the engagement escalated through battleships, command ships and assault hulls, and eventually to a capital. It did not stop until 21:30, when an Outfit 418 capsule - a pod, not even a ship - was the last thing on the board. In between, 169 pilots from several wormhole groups committed hulls to a system with no stargates and no easy way to leave once the shooting started.
Twelve and a Half Billion in the Only Capital to Die
One loss towers over the rest. A Lif - the Minmatar force auxiliary, a capital-class repair platform whose entire purpose is keeping other ships alive - was destroyed for 12.5 billion ISK. For a hull that exists to prevent exactly this, it is an expensive way to be reminded that nothing in New Eden is truly unkillable. It was the only capital loss of the engagement, and the fact that one died at all says plenty about how far this escalated from an interdictor getting caught in the opening minute. The next two entries on the value table show what else was on the field: an Apocalypse Navy Issue at 7.3 billion and a Nighthawk command ship at 6.6 billion. That trio, plus the capsules, accounts for well over half of everything destroyed - the remaining seventy-odd wrecks were a long, grinding trickle of cheaper hulls.
Little Red Riding Hole Fought the Whole Room
Little Red Riding Hole are the most interesting line in the data. They finished with 36 kills, more than any other organisation in the system, and 16 losses, which is also among the highest. That is not the profile of a gank. It is the profile of a group standing in the middle of the room swinging while everyone else does the same. Their interdictor opened the fight and their hulls kept appearing on both sides of the ledger for the full fifty-six minutes, which suggests an engagement that went back and forth rather than one that was decided early. Nothing in the record shows a fleet that arrived, cleaned up and left.
Diamond Dogs. Bought Low and Sold High
Diamond Dogs. claimed 21 kills, the second-highest total of the night, and by the evidence of the loss columns paid very little for them - they do not appear among the organisations that lost ships in any significant number. The damage fell elsewhere. Lethal Devotion lost 26 hulls, Shadow Legion X 17, Outfit 418 another 12, with Die Verval contributing three. None of that makes it a massacre. Lethal Devotion and Shadow Legion X each claimed seven kills of their own and Outfit 418 claimed four, so the ships that died were dying while shooting back. They simply were not shooting back profitably. The report also credits Necricia with the highest damage total in the system, which is the sort of line that tends to get remembered by everyone who was on the receiving end of it.
Five and a Half Billion ISK of Empty Pods
Third place on the value table is not a ship at all but a category: 5.5 billion ISK of capsules. Pods die in the same fire that kills the hull, and in a fight this expensive the implants inside them are frequently worth more than the frigate their owner was flying. In wormhole space, a pod loss is also worse than the price tag suggests. Unless a medical clone is parked somewhere convenient, the pilot wakes up a long way from J113712 and the trip back - finding the hole again, or finding a new one - is a different evening's work entirely. With 169 pilots involved and 78 losses, a great many of them spent the rest of the night travelling.
Fifty-Six Minutes, Then Nothing
No structures died. No titans or supercarriers appeared. By one measure, 56.6 billion ISK is a long way short of the hundred billion that would have marked this out as a headline event - a slightly strange verdict on a night when a capital ship was destroyed and seventy-eight pilots lost their hulls. That is the shape of it, though: not one catastrophic loss but a wide, grinding, expensive one, spread across a wormhole address that means nothing to anyone outside the community and everything to the people who were in it. Then the last capsule broke at 21:30, the fight ran out of things to kill, and J113712 went back to being a J-number.
