The First Entry Is a Mining Barge
Whatever the plan for Raa was, it did not begin with a dreadnought. The first confirmed loss belongs to Prime Directive.'s Retriever, an ore ship that has no business being the opening line of a capital engagement. The log doesn't say what it was doing there, and it doesn't have to. What matters is that 86 more hulls followed it onto the pile. Raa sits in Devoid, and on this evening it hosted something considerably larger than a mining op. The fighting ran from 17:28 to 19:10 UTC - 102 minutes, long enough for the first wave of wrecks to be looted while the last wave was still exploding. It drew 187 unique pilots, produced one structure kill and 26 capital losses, and finished with a bill of about 158.3 billion ISK. Nobody brings that much hardware to a system without meaning to.
Seventy-Five Billion of It Was Revelations
For a fight this size, the damage was remarkably concentrated. Four hull types account for the overwhelming majority of the destruction. The Revelation, the Amarr dreadnought that forms the backbone of most capital lines, dominates the loss ledger at roughly 75.4 billion ISK. Behind it comes the Apostle, a capital-class support ship whose entire job is keeping other capitals alive, at around 25.9 billion - losing those is its own kind of signal, since they are normally the ships kept furthest from trouble. Then the Zirnitra, the Triglavian dreadnought, at about 13.6 billion, and the Revelation Navy Issue at 12.3 billion. Add those four together and you get around 127 billion ISK - close to four fifths of everything destroyed in Raa - sitting in a single category of ship. In a fight with this many capitals on the board, what did not happen is almost as notable: no Titans, no supercarriers, no escalation into the losses that take years to replace. On the damage board, Meravin is credited with more damage across the engagement than anyone else.
Both Scoreboards Got Used
On the numbers, one side had the better evening. x Never Regret x finished with 40 kills against 13 losses - roughly a three-to-one exchange. Rattini Tribe finished with 10 kills against 25 losses. Both organisations also appear on both sides of the ledger, which is the surest sign of a genuine two-way brawl rather than a one-sided gank. Ships were dying in both directions, just not at the same rate, and a 102-minute fight means plenty of pilots had time to undock a second time and improve nobody's arithmetic. The supporting cast reads like a fair cross-section of the neighbourhood. African Atomic., DRONE REBORN and the 24th Imperial Crusade all put kills on the board. On the receiving end, Minmatar Fleet Academy lost nine ships, Every Little Helps. lost six, and WHITE H0RSE lost five - the last of which was a capsule at 19:10, making WHITE H0RSE the final entry in the Raa log.
A Hundred and Two Minutes, One Structure, No Titans
Duration does as much work here as the ISK figure. A hundred and two minutes is not a hot drop, and it is not a gank that starts and ends inside a single siege cycle. It is long enough to lose a dreadnought, reship, and come back - which is exactly the kind of fight that produces 26 capital losses instead of three or four. Somewhere inside that window, a structure also died. The data does not name it, only confirms it is gone, which leaves one more piece of Raa that will need replacing and one more thing for the locals to argue about. And throughout all of it, the fight stayed at the capital line. Dreadnoughts, force auxiliaries, faction variants and pods did all the dying. Whether that was restraint, a decision, or simply nobody having a bigger ship nearby, the result was the same: an expensive evening that stopped short of becoming a catastrophic one.
The Bill for Raa
158.3 billion ISK, spread across 87 wrecks and 187 pilots in a Devoid backwater over the course of an afternoon. That money does not come back quickly. Twenty-six capitals is not a figure most groups replace inside a week. It is the kind of loss that empties hangars, delays the next deployment, and gets discussed at length by people who were not there. One side gets a battle report, the other gets a shopping list, and everyone watching gets a reason to check how many spare hulls are actually sitting in their hangar. The Raa log runs from a mining barge to a capsule: a Retriever at 17:28, an empty pod at 19:10. In between, for 102 minutes, Devoid was a very expensive place to be.
