The Initiative Kills a C C P Alliance Capsule in 9-VO0Q

The killmail from 9-VO0Q in Fountain lists exactly one loss, and it is the smallest thing a pilot can be flying: a Capsule. GM Rex of C C P Alliance was the pilot in it, and Don Adi of The Initiative is credited with the final blow. Four participants appear in the event's records. No ships, no capitals and no structures accompany the loss.

Alliances involved

C C P Alliance
The Initiative.

      14B ISK
      Destroyed
    

4 Pilots Involved

1 Loss

An Empty Mail With One Interesting Name On It

Strip away the ISK field and there is almost nothing here - a pod, a system in Fountain, and a single recorded loss. The value attached to a capsule entry should be read as a number on a killmail about a capsule, not as the price of a ship, because no ship was lost in this event at all. What the mail does carry is a victim name and a final-blow name, and those are the parts worth reporting.

What Four Names Do Not Explain

The record supplies no top damage dealer and no account of what happened before the capsule was destroyed, so there is no honest way to describe the fight leading up to it. It also does not establish that The Initiative was operating in force in 9-VO0Q, or that anything else died nearby. One capsule, four characters in the records, one credited final blow - that is the whole of the evidence, and it is all this kill supports.

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