Vargur Falls in Tight Wormhole Clash as 10 Minutes' Notice Claims the Prize
A 6.5 billion ISK fight in J164338 ended with Kitchen Sinkhole losing a Vargur and a Cenotaph in a brief but costly wormhole clash. The heaviest blow was the Marauder, which drew concentrated fire from eight attackers before finally collapsing under pressure from 10 Minutes' Notice.
THE CATCH
The engagement in J164338 was short by battlefield standards, running for just over three minutes, but it packed enough value to matter. With 18 pilots involved and losses totaling 6.5 billion ISK, the fight suggests a small but deliberate encounter rather than a chance brawl. 10 Minutes' Notice and Kitchen Sinkhole met in a wormhole system where mistakes are often punished quickly, and this one appears to have gone against the defenders.
THE VARGUR DRAWS FIRE
The centerpiece of the fight was xv75’s Vargur from Kitchen Sinkhole’s Dark Venture Corporation, a ship worth 2.6 billion ISK on its own. Eight attackers focused on it, and the damage split shows a hard, sustained push from 10 Minutes' Notice, including heavy pressure from Harbinger Navy Issue hulls and Harbingers alike. LuciusSicciusDentatus landed the final blow in a Harbinger, but the wrecking work had already been done by the group effort around him.
THE BREAK
The Vargur did not simply vanish as a routine loss. Its cargo tells part of the story: large quantities of Barrage L and Hail L were recovered, while other ammunition and nanite paste were left behind in the wreckage. That suggests a ship operating at the edge of a fight, likely prepared for a prolonged exchange that turned sharply against it once 10 Minutes' Notice committed enough firepower to keep it pinned.
THE LOSSES
Kitchen Sinkhole did not lose only a battleship-class prize. A Cenotaph was also destroyed in the same engagement, adding to the sense that the fight slipped from control quickly once the first major ship was caught. For 10 Minutes' Notice, the result is a clear and expensive success: a compact wormhole engagement that produced a high-value destruction and left the other side with little to show for the effort.
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