Proteus Cut Down in J150341 Wormhole Ambush
A 2.4 billion ISK Proteus was caught and destroyed in J150341, where Absolute Will appears to have sprung a tight ambush on a lone Mercenaires Sans Frontieres. cruiser. The loss left behind a stripped and battered field, with the final blow landing from a Curse after the target had already been worked over by multiple attackers.
THE CATCH
The engagement in J150341 was brief, but it was costly. Takeda Shindo’s Proteus, flying for Mercenaires Sans Frontieres. and Diamond Dogs., ended the fight as wreckage after Absolute Will committed at least four pilots to the kill. With seven participants recorded overall, the encounter suggests a small but focused wormhole clash rather than a passing skirmish.
THE PRESSURE BUILDS
Absolute Will’s line-up mixed hard-hitting pressure with control ships, with Curse hulls doing much of the work and a Legion also on grid. One of the more striking details is the amount of ammunition and operational supplies scattered through the loss: charges, probes, and repair paste all point to a ship that was being used in the kind of space where being caught can turn expensive very quickly.
THE FINISH
The final blow came from Orion Crabs in a Curse, but the damage had already been spread across several attackers. women1, also in a Proteus, put out the heaviest recorded damage, while Dio Za World and Salendis Dayllem added their own pressure before the target went down. The result was a decisive takedown rather than a drawn-out chase — once the Proteus was pinned, the attackers finished the job cleanly.
THE COST
At 2.4 billion ISK, the destroyed Proteus was far from a routine loss. The wreck left 1.7 billion ISK destroyed outright, with nearly 690 million ISK recovered from the field, but the larger story is the vulnerability of an expensive strategic cruiser when a small gang is already in position to trap it. In wormhole space, that kind of mistake can end a day’s operations in a single engagement.
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