One Battleship, Fifty Billion ISK
Amarr battleships are supposed to be the sensible option. Slow, tanky, unglamorous - doctrine hulls a line member can lose without anyone calling a corp meeting. The Apocalypse Navy Issue that died in E-WMT7 was not that. At 50.1 billion ISK it was the single most valuable loss of the engagement, and it comfortably outclassed the capitals around it: an Apostle force auxiliary at 14.1 billion, a Nestor at 12.06 billion, a Typhoon Fleet Issue at 10.67 billion. Faction battleships do not normally trade above force auxiliaries. This one did, by a wide margin. Whatever was bolted into that hull - and the price suggests a great deal was - it turned a battleship loss into the defining number of the fight. Four capital ships died in E-WMT7. The most expensive wreck was not one of them, and it was not close.
It Started With a Flycatcher
The first entry in the record is not a capital. At 15:28 UTC a Flycatcher belonging to Scan Stakan was destroyed - a command destroyer, cheap by the standards of what was coming, and the opening note of a fight that would not end for another two hours and twenty minutes. From there the engagement widened. Capitals were committed and four of them were lost outright, alongside a structure, and the loss count climbed toward 367 hulls across a field of roughly 437 unique pilots. Perrigen Falls is not a quiet corner of nullsec at the best of times, and a system that draws more than four hundred capsuleers does not stay small for long. What began around a support hull became a capital engagement that nobody on either side seemed in a hurry to leave.
Two Hours of Attrition, Not a Blitz
A hundred and forty minutes is a long time to hold a grid. Long enough for reinforcements to arrive, for both sides to reship and re-anchor, for a shooting match to turn into a logistics problem. Long enough, in this case, for 367 ships to die. Fights of this length rarely burn hot from start to finish; they spike when someone commits something they cannot easily replace, then settle into the grim arithmetic of who can keep feeding hulls into the grinder. E-WMT7 followed that shape, and the pilot who came out on top of the damage board when it finally wound down was Alarye, whose output across the engagement outstripped everyone else on the field. For all the ISK on the line, there were no Titans and no supercarriers in the wreckage. This was battleships, capitals and the support hulls that keep them alive - settled the old-fashioned way.
Scan Stakan's Side of the Ledger
Scan Stakan appears on both sides of this report, which tells you most of what you need to know about their day. They finished with 54 kills, the highest of any attacking organisation listed - ahead of Zero Fun Allowed on 30, GreenSwarm on 26, Higher Than Everest on 23 and Incognito Mode on 22. They also finished with 182 losses, by a distance the heaviest of any organisation in the battle. Roughly three and a half hulls lost for every one killed, sustained over more than two hours. On the other side of the ledger the numbers are severe but almost modest by comparison: Heavenly Strategies lost 22 ships, The Ninth Person 15, I.N.K.V.I.Z.I.C.I.A 10 and Zima Corp 9. Whether the 50.1 billion ISK Apocalypse Navy Issue belonged to Scan Stakan or to someone else in the brawl, the evidence does not say. What it does say is that whatever else happened in E-WMT7, one alliance spent the afternoon feeding hulls into a fire and still landed more kills than anyone else on the field.
The Last Wreck Was a Frigate
The final confirmed loss landed at 17:48 UTC: an Atron, the cheapest frigate in the battle, logged to In Lumine Tuo Videbimus Lumen. After two hours and twenty minutes, four capitals, a structure and more than 130 billion ISK, the fighting ended the way long fights usually do - with somebody's throwaway hull being swept up after the real work was already done. A structure died alongside the ships, which suggests the engagement was fought over something worth holding rather than a chance meeting, though the record stops short of saying which. No supercapital was lost on either side. That will be thin comfort to the pilots who undocked into E-WMT7 and did not undock again that day, and thinner still to whoever was sitting in that Apocalypse. New Eden will get over it. Some hangars will take a while longer.
