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Leviathan, 140B ISK, The Initiative on Both Sides in C-N4OD
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Leviathan, 140B ISK, The Initiative on Both Sides in C-N4OD

A Leviathan was destroyed in C-N4OD in Fountain, and the single killmail comes with a recorded value of 140.5B ISK. The pilot who lost it is named as Dark Shines, of The Initiative., and the final blow is credited to FromZeroToHero, also of The Initiative. That is the entire event: one supercapital hull, one record, one very large number.

Alliances involved

  • The Initiative.
140.5B ISK Destroyed
1,119 Pilots Involved
1 Loss

One hull, one enormous invoice

The Leviathan sits among the largest and most expensive warships in New Eden, and this is a loss that reads at that scale on its own. The 140.5B ISK figure belongs to this individual ship, not to a battle total or an aggregate of wrecks, which makes it a single decision with a single price tag. There are no supporting losses recorded alongside it - no escort, no supporting capitals, no follow-up exchange of hulls. Just the Leviathan, gone, in a system in Fountain.

The same flag at both ends of the record

What makes the killmail unusual is its symmetry. The victim organisation and the final-blow organisation are both listed as The Initiative., and the recorded attacker organisation is the same group. The evidence stops there. It is a final-blow credit on one loss, not a statement about who was fighting whom, and nothing in the record establishes intent, orders or allegiances. It simply shows one organisation's name attached to both the ship that was lost and the shot that finished it.

A thousand-odd names on one wreck

The event record carries 1,119 participant IDs, a reminder of how many pilots can be involved in ending one ship in EVE. It also underlines why a loss like this gets told at all: the metal is rare, the value is enormous, and somewhere in that crowd was the pilot who got the last word on a Leviathan.

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