Retribution Pilot Lands the Final Blow on 2B ISK Apocalypse Navy Issue in W-4FA9
An Apocalypse Navy Issue worth about 2 billion ISK was destroyed in W-4FA9 after a tight exchange that left The Initiative. with the prize and Insidious. with the wreckage. The final blow went to geek cc flying a Retribution, closing out a fight that involved eight pilots and a cluster of faction battleships around the target.
THE HUNT CLOSES
The loss centred on TL-999 of Insidious., flying an Apocalypse Navy Issue out of Sunset Red Activity Club. What began as a small but dangerous encounter in W-4FA9 appears to have turned into a concentrated attempt to pin down a valuable faction battleship, with six attackers credited around the final destruction and eight pilots involved overall. The target was not a throwaway hull: the ship carried expensive fittings, including Caldari Navy Large Graviton Smartbombs and a Large Micro Jump Drive, underlining how much value was on the line.
THE FIGHT AROUND THE NAVY BATTLESHIP
The battle data suggests the Apocalypse Navy Issue was not alone for long. Several other Insidious. battleships appear in the engagement record, including TL-400, TL-101, Explore-00, and windclimes, all also in Apocalypse Navy Issues and all contributing damage. That points to a close, volatile exchange rather than a clean pick-off, with both sides trading pressure around a ship class built to absorb punishment and punish mistakes in return.
THE FINAL BLOW
When the fight broke, geek cc in a Retribution landed the final strike for The Initiative.'s Cosmic-Wanderers. The small assault frigate delivering the finishing shot tells its own story: the expensive battleship had already been pushed into range of collapse, and a much smaller ship was able to close the account. Of the roughly 2 billion ISK total value tied to the loss, about 1.2 billion ISK was destroyed outright and 817.1 million ISK dropped from the wreck.
WHY IT MATTERS
For Insidious., losing an Apocalypse Navy Issue is more than a single hull gone missing. It represents a painful hit in both material terms and battlefield presence, especially when faction battleships are committed in numbers and still fail to hold the field. For The Initiative., the result is a clean and expensive prize taken in a short engagement, the kind of sharp loss that can shift local momentum and remind everyone in range that even heavily armed battleships can be caught and broken.
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