High-Value Ship Destroyed in a Ten-Pilot Ambush
A costly ship worth 2.5 billion ISK was caught and destroyed in system ID 31000679 after a ten-pilot attack closed in on the target and finished it before it could break free. The fight ran for just under half an hour and left 4.4 billion ISK in losses across two ships.
THE CATCH
What began as a small engagement quickly turned into a sharp and expensive loss for the victim. The most valuable destruction in the fight was a ship identified only as ID 89607, flown by ID 2123098664 of ID 99012572. It was not a routine tackle or a disposable hull: the ship carried an estimated value of 2.5 billion ISK, making it the clear prize of the encounter.
THE CLOSE-IN
The attackers came from ID 99008701, with ten pilots credited on the main loss and 17 participants recorded overall in the engagement. The damage suggests a coordinated hunt rather than a passing skirmish, with multiple pilots from the same ship type piling on until the target failed to hold. The final blow was delivered by ID 2120042333 in a ship identified as ID 24698, ending any chance of escape.
THE PRICE
The destroyed hull accounted for 2.2 billion ISK of the total value, while 331 million ISK appears to have been recovered. Several items were either dropped or lost with the wreck, hinting at a ship fitted tightly enough to matter but not enough to survive the focus of the attack. A second ship was also lost in the same engagement, bringing the total losses to two and pushing the fight’s combined value to 4.4 billion ISK.
THE CONSEQUENCE
For ID 99012572, the loss of a high-value ship in a brief, concentrated fight will likely sting more than the raw numbers alone suggest. For ID 99008701, the result reads as a successful catch: a valuable target isolated, pinned, and broken before support or distance could save it. In New Eden, that kind of loss is never just about one hull — it is about who got the drop, and who paid for being caught in the open.
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