Thirteen Forty-Two, and Then Three and a Half Hours of It
The classification says capital battle, and technically it is one: seven capitals were destroyed over the course of the engagement. But no supercapitals were lost. Nobody's titan woke up in T6T-BQ, and no single arrival ended the argument. What happened instead was slower and considerably more expensive. A battle that runs 208 minutes with 1,505 confirmed losses is not a fight so much as a grinder with a killboard attached. That works out at roughly seven ships destroyed every minute, sustained, for the better part of an afternoon. Long enough for people to dock, reship, get back, die again, and repeat the process several times over. The opening kill was a piece of deployable infrastructure. The closing kill was a pod. Neither of those is where the money went.
Four Kills, Nearly Half the Bill
Of the 1,505 losses recorded in T6T-BQ, four accounted for roughly 57 billion ISK - a shade under half the engagement's entire value. A Phoenix dreadnought at 16.4 billion. A Tempest at 15.4 billion. A Fortizar structure at almost 13 billion. A Tempest Fleet Issue at 11.8 billion. None of those hulls is worth those numbers on its own. A Tempest Fleet Issue does not cost 11.8 billion ISK to build; it costs that much when the modules, rigs and fittings bolted to it are worth several times the hull, and someone has decided that the fight justifies the risk. Whoever lost the straight Tempest made the same calculation at an even higher price. The Phoenix, a capital built around one enormous gun, is the clearest statement of intent in the whole dataset: you do not commit that hull to a system you intend to leave in a hurry. Now do the arithmetic the other way. Strip out those four kills and the remaining 1,501 losses average a little under 39 million ISK each. That is frigate and cruiser country, with a steady stream of capsules mixed in. The expensive losses were the punctuation. The cheap ones were the sentence.
Seven Capitals, One Citadel, and No Way Back
The Fortizar is the loss with the longest tail. A Fortizar is a large player-owned citadel - somewhere to stage from, dock in and keep things you would rather not lose. Removing one from a system is not a matter of a quick strike; it takes a force willing to sit on grid long enough to finish the job while everything else in the system is shooting back at it. T6T-BQ's Fortizar did not survive the afternoon, and its 12.99 billion ISK valuation is only part of the price of losing it. The capitals tell the same story from a different angle. Seven capital hulls were destroyed across the engagement, and at least one of them was the Phoenix - a dreadnought that committed to the fight and did not come out the other side. Committing capitals is a bet. Committing them into a system that is already producing hundreds of losses an hour is a bet with a very specific kind of hangover attached. The other 1,498 losses were made of smaller, cheaper decisions, repeated over and over by people who had clearly decided that this particular system was worth another ship.
849 of Those Losses Belonged to One Alliance
The destruction was not distributed. Scan Stakan finished the engagement with 849 losses - more than half of everything destroyed in T6T-BQ, and a figure that dwarfs everyone else on the victim side. Heronically Busted lost 57. Tuda Suda Technology lost 47. Heavenly Strategies lost 40. just intrest nut lost 39. Here is the part that matters: Scan Stakan also appears on the other list, with 70 kills of its own. Losing 849 ships while still accounting for 70 enemy losses is not the profile of a group that folded and went home. It is the profile of a group that kept undocking into arithmetic that was not going to improve. Across 622 unique pilots and 1,505 losses, that is an average of 2.4 ships destroyed per participant. Some of those pilots undocked twice. Some undoubtedly undocked twenty times. The killboard does not record how many of them were flying the same fit again by the end because it was the cheapest thing in the hangar.
The Ledger, and the Pod at 17:10
On the other side of the exchange, Sons of Black Rise finished with 415 kills, Half Empty with 135, NACHO Battle Pixies with 77 and Higher Than Everest with 63 - the shape of a fight where one side's losses massively outweighed the other's, sustained for hours. Merging both ledgers leaves the overwhelming majority of the wreckage in a relatively small number of systems' worth of hangars. The engagement's top damage dealer was Avat-areU bouttaDoombussyme tomorro69, whose name is doing a lot of work in a system that generated 1,505 killmails. The last entry of the day belongs to Wolframium. A capsule, at 17:10 UTC - the least glamorous possible ending to a 114.5 billion ISK engagement, and the most honest one. Between the Mobile Observatory that opened the afternoon and that pod that closed it, T6T-BQ absorbed something close to 7.2 losses a minute for three and a half hours. A Fortizar is gone from The Spire. Seven capitals are gone with it. And 849 pilots' worth of losses sit under a single alliance's ticker, along with the 70 kills they managed to take with them.
