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Raitaru Reaches the End of the Line in Hakana Ambush
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Raitaru Reaches the End of the Line in Hakana Ambush

A Raitaru worth 3.1 billion ISK was destroyed in Hakana after a 49-pilot strike force closed around it and finished the structure with stealth bombers leading the final push. The loss left Khan's Logistics without a costly Upwell foothold and stripped the citadel of its quantum core, research modules, and fuel in one sharp attack.

THE CATCH

The fight came and went in the same instant on the clock, but the scale behind it was anything but small. A structure belonging to Khan's Logistics was cornered in Hakana by a hostile force identifying itself as The sky is vast but the scram on and cyno is up, with help from pilots flying under A P E X and Ape War III survivors. With 49 participants on the field, the attackers brought enough pressure to make the outcome look inevitable once the net was in place.

THE LAST BLOWS

The final damage came from Lover of Styx in a Purifier, whose torpedoes delivered the finishing strike. The structure had already absorbed heavy punishment from a pack of Hounds before the bombers closed the book on it, with munsking, munsking002 and SnyperAL doing most of the early work. Once the shell cracked, the Raitaru could not hold out long enough to matter.

THE COLLAPSE

When the structure went down, so did much of what made it worth anchoring in the first place. The Upwell Quantum Core was recovered, while research and industrial fittings were destroyed in the blast, including a Standup Research Lab I, a Standup M-Set ME Research Accelerator II and a Standup M-Set Asteroid Ore Grading Processor I. Alongside those losses, 609 Helium Fuel Blocks dropped into the wreckage, underscoring how fully the citadel had been stocked.

WHY IT MATTERS

For Khan's Logistics, the destruction of a 3.1 billion ISK Raitaru is more than a single expensive loss; it is the disappearance of a hardened industrial asset in a place where attackers were willing to commit force and finish the job. The battle also shows a notable level of coordination on the hostile side, with multiple small-wing groups converging to overwhelm the target rather than letting it slip away. In Hakana, the structure did not just die — it was hunted down, pinned in place and erased.

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